Visiting Brooklyn is a contemporary novel set in Washington DC, St. Louis, Missouri, New York City, and the Long Island Hamptons. It involves a disgraced political consultant and lobbyist, Patrick Connor, who escapes to St. Louis to avoid a nationwide scandal he helped create in DC. Right out of today's headlines, the scandal revolves around an outed gay member of congress and a string of bad luck on Patrick's part. While in St. Louis, he meets a Russian doctor, Lilya Ivanova, who is doing post graduate work at Washington University in the area of medical business practices. They begin an...

Bar Whores is a collection of eight short stories that take place from the early 60's through the present. Ken Kielty sets his stories in places ranging from the Catskill Mountains to a nudist resort in the Florida Everglades. His edgy style and feelings for his characters come through on every page. Three of these stories, The Mediterranean, Doc's Bar and The Butt Crack Bar are being developed into a three short film anthology. Other works by Ken include a novel, Visiting Brooklyn and a horror-comedy screenplay, One of Me. Kielty lives in St. Charles, Missouri with his wife, Cindy, and two...