Books by Ken Howard

Art Class is an easy-to-use manual covering everything the beginner needs to know to get started: the basics of drawing, oil, and watercolor painting, composition, and perspective. It is brimming with dozens of exercises and step-by-step projects designed to encourage readers to build skills and develop the kind of artistic confidence that comes only through practice. Authoritative, thorough, and creative in approach, Art Class is an indispensable guide to the basics of producing successful works of art.

A selection of stories set in the American West includes "Grab, Root and Growl" by Gary McCarthy, "Death Hires These Guns!" by Gordon D. Shirreffs, "The Road to Hell" by Matt Braun, and "Where the Wind Blows Free" by Bill Gulick. Readers include David Birney, Ken Howard, and Arte Johnson.

This epic adventure will take you back to the Old West - 1830 in the Rocky Mountains. Packed with Northwest-wilderness period detail, it's the story of Josiah Paddock and Titus "Scratch" Bass. Paddock is a young man coming of age while running from the law, and Bass is a grizzled old mountain man who befriends Paddock and teaches him how to survive in this rugged country. Read by actor Ken Howard, star of TV's The White Shadow, this historical novel is rich and unforgettable.

At work in the South of France for the magazine Decorating Quarterly, photographer Andre Kelly stumbles upon a plumber loading a Cezanne into his truck and sets off on the trail of the culinary delights of France in pursuit of a wicked art scam. Simultaneous.

A practical guide to the four fundamental disciplines of painting and drawing discusses composition, light, color, contour, and anatomy, and includes exercises and step-by-step projects.

This volume is designed to address the specific needs of artists working in four different subject areas: portrait and figure drawing, still life, and landscape painting. The manual provides the beginner with everything required to make a sound start. It is brimming with step-by-step projects designed to encourage readers to build skills and develop tile kind of artistic confidence that comes only through practice. Authoritative, thorough, and creative in approach, The Complete Artist is an indispensable guide for those seeking greater expertise in their chosen style of artistic expression.

Powerful, glamorous television journalist Mary Carelli is charged with the murder of famed novelist Mark Ransom. However, she pleads self-defense against rape. Christopher Paget, Mary's attorney (and former lover), prepares to shock the courtroom with revelations about Ransom's past as a twisted sexual predator. But as the trial unfolds, Paget is in for some surprises of his own. He learns that Mary may not be telling the whole truth about the rape, and may well have a secret motive for murder. Meanwhile, newly disclosed tapes of Ransom force Mary to confront ugly secrets about her own past, including testimony at Congressional hearings 15 years earlier that led to her stardom and helped Paget bring down the President.

Lieutenant Davenport's sanity was nearly shattered by two murder investigations. Now her faces something worse...Two killers. One hideously scarred. The other strikingly handsome, a master manipulator fascinated with all aspects of death. The dark mirror of Davenport's soul...

This is the case that will bring Davenport back to life. Or push him over the edge.

One night in San Francisco, a man is found dead of an apparent suicide, although evidence points to a possible murder. Investigators discover that the man was involved in a vicious custody battle with his ex-wife over their young daughter, a battle that included extortion threats and allegations of sexual abuse. His estranged wife's new lover, prominent defense attorney Christopher Paget, is charged with murder, setting off a sensational trial filled with new revelations. But they are overshadowed by what threatens to remain hidden: in the little girl's tangled loyalties, in the defendant's damning refusal to testify on his own behalf, and in the details of a childhood trauma that haunts his lover's adult life.

Read by Ken Howard. A stunning new courtroom drama from the author of the nationwide bestsellers Final Judgment, Silent Witness, and Degree of Guilt.In San Francisco, a dead man discovered amid evidence that might confirm suicide but strongly suggests murder. An investigation that uncovers the viscous custody fight he waged with his estranged wife over their young daughter: his extorting threats, his accusations of sexual abuse of the child. A grand-jury indictment for murder handed down to his estranged wifes new lover, a high-profile defense attorney. A trial, sensational from the very start: the attorney-turned-defendants motives for murder made clear in the courtroom and in the out-for-blood press - his alibi so quickly dismantled that even his son begins to doubt him. Finally, the revelations in the courtroom overshadowed by what threatens to remain hidden: in the little girls tangled loyalties, in the defendants damning refusal to testify on his own behalf, and in the details of a childhood trauma that haunts his lover's adult life.…

From master crime writer Joseph Wambaugh, the acclaimed author of such classics as The Onion Field and The Choirboys, comes the extraordinary true story of a firefighter who may have been, according to U.S. government profilers, "the most prolific American arsonist of the twentieth century."

John Orr rose through the ranks of the Glendale Fire Department to become fire captain and one of southern California's best-known and respected arson investigators. But while Orr busted a string of petty arsonists, there was one serial criminal he could not track down. Homes, retail stores during business hours, fields of dry brush in stifling summer heat -- little was safe from the fire lover's obsession to see them burn.

But after years of terror and destruction, the Fire lover finally left behind a precious clue that helped investigators discover his true identity, to the shock and disbelief of the firefighting community.

After receiving a small inheritance, teacher Rob McDaniels heads to law school, goes to work for a powerful law firm, and marries the daughter of the senior partner--leaving behind his hometown sweetheart--as his idealism is gradually transformed by greed, ambition, and dishonesty.

Called upon to handle the rape-murder case of the base commander's daughter, undercover military detective Paul Brenner discovers that the woman had led a bizarre double life.

Identical twins Dominick and Thomas Birdsey were born in the waning moments of 1949 and the opening minutes of 1950. Now at 40, Dominick's entire life has been compromised and constricted by anger and fear, by the paranoid schizophrenic twin brother he both loves and resents, and by the past they shared with their adoptive father, Ray, a spit-and polish ex-Navy man, and their long-suffering mother, Concettina. The brothers' relationship undergoes the ultimate test when Thomas commits an unthinkable act that threatens the tenuous balance of both his and Dominick's lives. Wally Lamb's long awaited follow-up to the critically acclaimed novel She's Come Undone is narrated by Tony Award-winning actor Ken Howard.

See the light as never before! Renowned painter Ken Howard offer an invaluable class in creating lighting and color effects from a bright day on the beach to a rainy day in Venice to the inside of an atelier. See how to choose mix a palette, heighten the natural look of your setting and work outdoor themes and inspirations. Drawing, watercolors and offs covered -- so your work can blaze with golden sunshine shimmer reflections dancing on water and reveal shadowy nooks. A Selecting F & W's North Light Book Club.

William Lasko is a self-made millionaire with an eye for wealth and influence, and a talent for using both to get what he wants. Now the Economic Crimes Commission wants to bring down the corrupt, untouchable Lasko. It falls to U. S. Attorney Christopher Paget to play by the book and nail Lasko without embarrassing the White House. But Lasko makes his own rules, and eliminating enemies is his golden one.

Self-made millionaire William Lasko has an eye for wealth and the ear of the President and a talent for using both to get whatever he wants. But the Economic Crimes Commission wants to bring the corrupt, untouchable Lasko down, and they enlist the services of straightlaced U.S. Attorney Christopher Paget to do it. Paget has to walk a tightrope, gathering enough evidence to nail Lasko without alienating the White House, knowing full well that men like Lasko make their own rules - including the elimination of enemies like him.

Movie producer Sy Spencer, one of the premier summer residents of the Hamptons, Long Island's oh-so-fashionable beach resort for everyone who is anyone, has hosted his last power clambake, thanks to whoever shot him dead beside his oceanfront pool.

Heading the investigation is Hamptons native Steve Brady. His prime suspect is Sy's ex-wife Bonnie, a strangely appealing and energetic woman both in and out of bed. As the case against Bonnie builds, so does Brady's obsession with her. Before long, he's laying the case and his career on the line for her, ignoring all the rules, all the evidence, and all common sense.

Sarah Whittaker enlists Matthew Hope to help free her from a mental institution. She claims she was the victim of a conspiracy between her mother and two psychiatrists, but as Hope delves deeper into her case, he discovers that Sarah's career as a stripper prompted some murky attachments.

When the three men who raped Jessica Leeds are found murdered and mutilated attorney Matthew Hope finds himself defending her husband, Stephen, a man whom witnesses place at the murder scene.

Hardboiled Army investigator Paul Brenner delves into the past to investigate the alleged murder of a lieutenant who was killed in Vietnam during the Tet Offensive.

Attorney Victor Carl, the tough-talking star of the best-selling Hostile Witness travels from the streets of Philadelphia to the jungles of Belize to unearth the secrets of a powerful dynasty. Simultaneous.

Presents twenty yoga routines that mothers can perform, from the last trimester of pregnancy through a baby's first year, furnishing step-by-step instructions and photographs that guide readers through prenatal yoga, special poses for women who have had c-sections, fun yoga moves for babies, breathing exercises, and stretching, strengthening, and relaxing poses. Original.