Winner of the Oxbow Award for Short Fiction.

“Spoils of War.” Louis L’Amour Western Magazine.

“The Devil and Bill Doolin.” Cactus Country.

The Sixth Rider (reprint, 1994) ISBN 8-2.

Indiana Jones and the Philosopher’s Stone (1995) ISBN 6-0.

Indiana Jones and the Dinosaur Eggs (1996) ISBN 3-6.

Indiana Jones and the Hollow Earth (1997) ISBN 5-2.

Indiana Jones and the Secret of the Sphinx (1999) ISBN 7-9.

Jesse: A Novel of the Outlaw Jesse James (1999) ISBN 8-8.

A Breed Apart: A Novel of Wild Bill Hickok (2006) ISBN 7-2.

The Sixth Rider 20th Anniversary Edition.

Of Grave Concern: An Ophelia Wylde Paranormal Mystery (2013) ISBN 978-0-7582-8193-7.

The Spirit Is Willing: An Ophelia Wylde Paranormal Mystery (2014) ISBN 978-0-7582-8195-1.

Giving Up the Ghost: An Ophelia Wylde Paranormal Mystery (2015) ISBN 978-0-7582-8197-5.

Most of McCoy’s novels are set in Missouri or Kansas, and major themes include alienation, redemption, complicated family and personal relationships, and the legacy of violence in American culture.

McCoy was the investigative reporter for The Joplin Globe in southwest Missouri and won first-place awards from the Associated Press Managing Editors and the Missouri Press Association for his reporting on unsolved murders, serial killers, and hate groups in the Ozarks. In 1986, he traveled to Japan on a grant to report, in words and photos, the story of the aging survivors of the atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. McCoy began his career in journalism in 1980 as a police reporter for The Pittsburg (Kansas) Morning Sun.

from Pittsburg State University and an M.A. He attended Baxter Springs High School, has a B.A. Born in Baxter Springs, Kansas, McCoy is the son of Carl McCoy (1924–1997) and Mary Carter (1927–1986).

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