
Tim Downs
Author · 18 books
Tim Downs is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Indiana University. After graduation in 1976 he created a comic strip, Downstown, which was syndicated by Universal Press Syndicate (Calvin & Hobbes, Doonesbury, The Far Side) from 1980 to 1986. His cartooning has appeared in more than a hundred daily newspapers worldwide. Tim has written seven mystery/suspense novels: Shoofly Pie, Chop Shop, PlagueMaker, Head Game, First the Dead, Less than Dead, and Ends of the Earth. PlagueMaker was awarded the Christy Award for the best CBA mystery/suspense novel of 2006, and Less than Dead was a finalist for the 2009 Christian Book Award in suspense fiction. Tim lives in Cary, North Carolina, with his wife Joy. They have three grown children.
Series
Books
Marriage Special Package- 2 books- Five Love Languages/Fight Fair
2003

The Bug Man 3-in-1
2011

Finding Common Ground
How to Communicate with those Outside the Christian Community…While We Still Can.
1999

The Seven Conflicts
Resolving the Most Common Disagreements in Marriage
2003

Ends of the Earth
A Bug Man Novel
2009

One of Us Must Be Crazy…and I'm Pretty Sure It's You
Making Sense of the Differences That Divide Us
2010

Plague Maker
2006

Less than Dead
2008
Like Flies to a Corpse
2001

Chop Shop
2004

The Bug Man Collection
First the Dead, Less than Dead, Ends of the Earth, and Nick of Time
2015

Nick of Time
2011

Fight Fair
Winning at Conflict without Losing at Love
2003

Head Game
2007

First the Dead
2008

Shoofly Pie
2003

Shoofly Pie & Chop Shop
2 Bugman Novels in 1
2009

Wonders Never Cease
2010