About
Richard Eaves is an author whose career spans 50-plus years. During that time, he has published more than 700 children's books that are still being used by schools and educational systems around the world.
More recently, Mr. Eaves has focused on historical fiction with a series of novels set during the Cold War. His latest book (published in 2026), A RAINY DAY IN DALLAS, re-imagines the Kennedy assassination and what might have happened if JFK had survived.
Another new novel, published in 2025, is titled INSANITY: The Jack Ruby Trial. This book answers the lingering question, "Why did Jack Ruby shoot Lee Harvey Oswald?" And did that discovery lead to the death of journalist Dorothy Kilgallen?
A second new novel published by Mr. Eaves in 2025 is UNBREAKABLE: The Venona Project and the Rosenberg Case. It's a gripping spy story about the linguist who broke the Russian spy codes that sent Julius and Ethel Rosenberg to the electric chair.
In 2024, Mr. Eaves ventured into science-fiction with EVE & STEVEN: The Experiment, about an alien-human hybrid who has to produce an offspring with the evil grandson of Charles Manson in an effort to breed evil out of mankind.
Earlier this decade, Mr. Eaves co-wrote four novels with fellow author Mark Pittman. They are: The Girl Who Shot JFK; The Girl Who Came Calling; The Girl With Something to Hide.
Mr. Eaves, who now lives in Houston, grew up in Dallas and was an eye-witness to the Kennedy assassination in Dealey Plaza in 1963. His spy novels use that event as the backdrop for the amazing stories that have spun from it.
Featured Work
A RAINY DAY IN DALLAS: How John F. Kennedy Survived---and the World Did Not
November 22, 1963. The rain will not stop. Under a low ceiling of gray clouds, president John F. Kennedy rides through Dallas sealed beneath a plexiglass bubble top. On the sixth floor of the Texas School Depository, Lee Harvey Oswald waits. The route is set. The rifle is steady. But distortion and doubt intervene. The shot that would have shattered a nation is never fired. America exhales. But survival has consequences.
In Washington, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover studies a different weapon: dirty secrets. The name Ellen Rometsch resurfaces, carrying whispers capable of wounding a presidency more deeply than any bullet.
A Rainy Day in Dallas is a gripping alternate-history thriller about chance, power, and the fragile seconds on which history turns. Sometimes the course of a nation changes not by what happened---but by what almost does.
Other Works
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INSANITY: The Jack Ruby Trial
2025
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UNBREAKABLE: The Venona Project and the Rosenberg Case
2025
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EVE & STEVEN: The Experiment
2024
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COLD HEART
2024
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THE RAPHAEL CONSPIRACY
2023
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THE GIRL WITH SOMETHING TO HIDE - A Cold War Spy Novel
2022
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THE GIRL WHO CAME CALLING - A Cold War Spy Novel
2020
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THE GIRL WHO SHOT JFK - A Cold War Spy Novel
2019
