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  • Bibliography:
    16 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    February 2014
  • Latest Book:
    May 2024
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Full Series List in Order

A Jack McCoul Caper

1 - A Boatload (Feb-2014)
2 - Bad Karma (May-2015)
3 - Baby Blue (May-2020)

A Nick Drake Novel

1 - The Sorrow Hand (Jul-2018)
2 - The Pity Heart (Jan-2019)
3 - The Shaming Eyes (Jul-2019)
4 - The Whisper Soul (Mar-2020)
5 - The Nowhere Bones (Dec-2020)
6 - The Forever Feet (Jan-2022)
7 - The Demon Skin (Feb-2023)
8 - The Broken Blood (May-2024)

Book List in Order: 16 titles



  • Tart, quick, and hip mystery series set in San Francisco…Jack McCoul is not your typical private investigator.

    When con artist turned private investigator Jack McCoul marries a smart, sexy, and sustainability-minded yoga instructor, he vows t...



  • Pure Unadulterated Fun Mystery...Jack McCoul is "not" your typical private investigator.

    "Filled with dishy one liners. A proficient detective story that keeps the plot turning. Should earn the series a bevy of new fans." - "Kirkus Reviews"

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  • Winner of the Selena McDonald Kennedy Fiction Award. Includes Gallopers, which was awarded the Arts & Letters Prize for Fiction.Meet the men and women who dwell on the far side of the California Dream: a war vet who rustles cactus near Palm Springs, ...



  • Sorrowful and funny tales of longing from the winner of the Arts & Letters Prize for Fiction. Adroit, wistful, and nuanced says Kirkus Reviews. Brims with humanity and humor.Moving from the heartbreaking to the humorous and back again, Dwight Hol...



  • For Vietnam veteran turned wildlife ranger Nick Drake, the war at home proves just as deadly. A contemporary western thriller.Harney County, Oregon, 1968: Nick Drake has a chest full of medals and enough demons to fill a duffle bag. He’s been train...



  • Nick Drake returns in the thrilling sequel to The Sorrow Hand. A contemporary western.
    As war continues to rage in Vietnam, a former soldier seeks redemption as a game warden in a quiet land. But when a fighter pilot mysteriously plummets onto on...



  • Nick Drake is back! A contemporary western thriller.It's 1969 and spring finally comes to the lonesome Oregon high desert after an especially bitter winter, but for every new beginning, something old must give way. Someone is poisoning wild horses...



  • Trouble doubles down on wildlife ranger Nick Drake.In the latest novel in the highly acclaimed contemporary western thriller series, a mysterious Native American pleads with Nick Drake to find her missing six-year-old twins. At the same time, an arso...






  • A whole lotta shakin' is going on in the quirky and page-turning mystery series featuring Jack McCoul, an ex-con artist who solves murders. Loaded with one liners. Keeps the plot turning. - Kirkus Reviews As earthquakes threaten California, recoverin...



  • The third time is a charm! Jack McCoul is back in the latest installment of the fast, surprising, and witty mystery series featuring a former con man who solves murders.Loaded with one liners. Keeps the plot turning. - Kirkus ReviewsEl Niño brin...



  • Living is hard on the high lonesome, but dying is easy. When two of Nick Drake's oldest Paiute friends disappear during a robbery of ancient relics that leads to a double murder, his race to find them puts him on a collision course with an obsessed k...



  • Hollywood comes to the High Lonesome to make a Western, but not all the showdowns and bodies that fall are make-believe.Nick Drake confronts a double-feature of murder and mysticism when Sheriff Pudge Warbler enlists him to catch a killer among the m...



  • Thrilling whitewater adventure, an ancient demon, a sexy new boss, trouble at home, and murder combine in this spellbinding new installment of Arts & Letters Fiction Prize winner Dwight Holing's Nick Drake mystery series.When US Fish & Wildlife Range...



  • Nature and noir combine in a spellbinding new standalone murder mystery by Dwight Holing, author of the bestselling Nick Drake series.An Indigenous girl from the Amazon named Blue Macaw mysteriously disappears after oil drillers invade her ancestral ...



  • Wildlife rangers Nick Drake and Loq take separate paths, but both lead to action, murder, and mystery in a thrilling and emotionally charged chapter in this bestselling series.When his sister goes on the run with a charismatic Indian rights activist ...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Dwight Holing has published 16 books.

Dwight Holing does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Broken Blood, was published in May 2024.

The first book by Dwight Holing, A Boatload, was published in February 2014.

Yes. Dwight Holing has 2 series.