Al Lamanda

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  • Bibliography:
    35 Books (4 Series)
  • First Book:
    March 2008
  • Latest Book:
    June 2024
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Full Series List in Order

Checkmate

1 - Checkmate (Sep-2012)
2 - Lollypops (Sep-2012)

Homeless

1 - Walking Homeless (Feb-2010)
2 - Running Homeless (Aug-2011)

A John Bekker Mystery

1 - Sunset (Jun-2012)
2 - Sunrise (Aug-2013)
3 - First Light (Jul-2014)
4 - This Side of Midnight (Jul-2015)
5 - With Six You Get Wally (Oct-2016)
6 - Who Killed Joe Italiano? (Sep-2018)
7 - For Better or Worse (Nov-2019)

A Lee Gavin Novel

1 - Brother Can You Spare A Dime (Sep-2012)
2 - The cat's in the Cradle (Sep-2012)
3 - Dodos (Dec-2012)

Book List in Order: 35 titles

  • Dunston Falls

    Isolated during a severe winter storm in 1959, the small community of Dunston Falls in northern Maine is completely cut off from the rest of the state. When town residents begin to experience strange occurrences such as unexplained migraines and hall...

  • Walking Homeless

    Homeless - 1

    John Tibbets is a homeless, amnesia victim, living a quiet life of desolation in a Manhattan shelter. One night, he saves the life of a policeman and becomes the toast of the town. John’s fame is short-lived, however, when a group of mysterious men...

  • Running Homeless

    Homeless - 2

    John Tibbets, the homeless anti-hero from Walking Homeless, returns with a vengeance. Still plagued with amnesia, Tibbets awakens in the desert canyons of New Mexico after killing a half-dozen drug lords and several FBI agents for reasons he can't re...

  • Sunset

    A John Bekker Mystery - 1

    Police Detective John Bekker had it all: a beautiful wife, a five-year old daughter and a job he loved...but all of that changed in the blink of an eye. Assigned to a special task force investigating organized crime, Bekker got a little too close to ...

  • Apocalypse Then

    The zombie apocalypse comes to the old west when in 1879, a US Marshal travels from Wyoming to Montana to search for a missing federal agent. The Marshal and his posse get far more than they bargained for when instead of finding the missing agent the...

  • The Inheritance

    A dying mob boss skips over his son and leaves his fortune to his daughter, a Catholic Nun assigned to Central Africa. After his death, the nun, Jenna Costello, flies to New York City to hear the terms of her father’s will. To her shock and the chu...

  • Ride To Nowhere

    Brooklyn mobster Jack Saccani has reached an impasse in his life. He wants to retire from organized crime and start a new life with his girlfriend Miranda Lopez. The obstacle in his way is his uncle Joey Falco, head of the local mob who has a final r...

  • World War Zero

    After the Invasion at Normandy Beach in June of 1944, Allied intelligence reports indicated a desperate push by the German Army to turn the tide of the war. Reports of a new chemical weapon developed by German scientists could be unleashed if not sto...

  • Brother Can You Spare A Dime

    A Lee Gavin Novel - 1

    The exploits of an inept and hard luck band of New York City criminals. Led by master thief Lee Gavin and his trusty sidekick Ian Nelson, the group sets out to steal the set of nine 1894S dimes, the most valuable dimes in the world worth fifteen mill...



  • The cat's in the Cradle

    A Lee Gavin Novel - 2

    Lee Gavin and his traveling band of ne’er-do-well’s are back with a new caper to pull. Hired by a famous writer to steal an unpublished manuscript from its unknown author so he can claim it as his own, the band sees it as a simple job for easy mo...

  • Checkmate

    Checkmate - 1

    Former US Marine, sometimes private investigator, oftentimes hit man for hire, Kellerman is as hard core as they come. Peppered into his life, Kellerman’s closest friend from the Corps and sometimes backup man is gay, his business associate is a Cu...

  • The Harbor

    Harbor Island is a sleepy little island town off the coast of Maine. When an old man dies, his eighty year old secret is revealed and the power of Satan is unleashed upon the island. Slowly, the power of the anti-Christ spreads throughout the island,...

  • Jack

    Jack is a little boy with a big secret. He’s a true telekinetic. Guarded by the US Secret Service round the clock, Jack lives alone with his mother Jennifer in a secret location known only to a few. So it was thought. A leak puts Jack and Jennifer,...

  • Lightning

    War has been declared…on comedy.After decades of being under federal surveillance, mob boss Victor Grant finally figured out a way to beat them at their own game and hold a mob meeting in private. He arranges a Caribbean cruise, where, in internati...

  • Local Hero

    Imagine waking up in a hospital on a small tourist island off the coast of southern Maine. You have no knowledge of the boating accident that claimed two lives and almost your own. In fact, you not only don’t remember the accident, you remember not...

  • Lollypops

    Checkmate - 2

    Former US Marine, sometimes private investigator, oftentimes hit man for hire, Kellerman is as hard core as they come. Peppered into his life, Kellerman’s closest friend from the Corps and sometimes backup man is gay, his business associate is a Cu...

  • Messenger

    Sinner or Saint? That’s the question on everyone’s mind that comes in contact with the mysterious stranger and lives to talk about it. The stranger is a killing machine who appears to pick his victims at random, but really uses a very select proc...

  • Santino the Great

  • Just Another Day In The Life

    It’s an all out mob war in The Bronx.When seven million dollars disappears from a Las Vegas casino, the number one suspect is a mid-level Vegas mobster named Anthony. The problem is Anthony has vanished without a trace along with the money.Casino o...



  • Second Chance

    Michael DeSousa, the anti-hero of Just Another Day In The Life, returns with a vengeance in Second Chance. After losing Caroline, his childhood sweetheart from The Bronx, Michael returns to Vegas and is once again at the beck and call of his mobster ...

  • Express Riders

    Express Riders is an exciting, shoot’em up tale set in the old west.In 1885, Walter Burke and his two partners are forced to make their living as bounty hunters as a means to secure the financing necessary to buy the cattle ranch they’ve always d...

  • Dodos

    A Lee Gavin Novel - 3

    Lee Gavin and his band of ne’er-do-wells return with a new caper in Dodos. When the egg of the extinct Dodo bird is uncovered on a remote island the scientific word goes mad for the discovery. So mad in fact that two competing teams of scientists c...

  • Sunrise

    A John Bekker Mystery - 2

    John Bekker, the downtrodden hero of Sunset -- EgarAward Finalist for Best Novel -- returns to face his greatest challenge yet ... When Bekker's old friend and state prosecutor Carly Simms wakes up next to a murdered young man in a motel room after a...

  • First Light

    A John Bekker Mystery - 3

    John Bekker returns in First Light to face the toughest challenge of his career. Hired by a man dying of cancer to locate the baby girl he gave up for adoption forty years ago, Bekker discovers the baby wasn't adopted but sold to a New York couple...

  • This Side of Midnight

    A John Bekker Mystery - 4

    John Bekker is called back to action when his close friend Sheriff Jane Morgan seeks his help with a perplexing mystery. Norman Felton, a resident of Midnight Island, drove his car to the mainland county high school and, in an out-of-control rage,...

  • With Six You Get Wally

    A John Bekker Mystery - 5

    Wally Sample is a degenerate gambler who owes money to every major casino and loan sharks everywhere. He is also the youngest heir to the Sample Iced Tea Corporation and upon his fortieth birthday, if he can prove to the courts that he is cured of hi...

  • Who Killed Joe Italiano?

    A John Bekker Mystery - 6

    On a much needed vacation with his daughter Regan and close friend Oz in Puerto Rico, John Bekker finds his vacation cut short when, on a hot night, he can't sleep and takes some fresh air on the balcony of his hotel room. Bekker's hotel is directly ...

  • For Better or Worse

    A John Bekker Mystery - 7

    John Bekker is finally enjoying life in semi-retirement. His relationship with his daughter is better than ever after moving into their new home, his close friend Oz is on the mend from a recent minor heart attack, and Bekker's romance with Sherif...

  • City of Darkness

    Four years after the end of World War II, former Army Ranger Eli Rico is back to work as a Homicide Detective in the city of New York.Rico's world is a bleak and dark place as he suffers from emotional scars from the war that influence his every day ...



  • Once Upon a Time on 9/11

    After the death of his wife, homicide lieutenant Rollie Finch retired from the New York City Police Department to raise his three daughters in Queens, New York. Now as a private investigator, Rollie's cases are mostly for defense lawyers. He earns a ...

  • The Case of the Missing Fan Dancer

    Wally Sample-John Bekker's overzealous and often confused friend, and heir to the Sample Iced Tea Company-returns to ask for Bekker's help one more time...At a company bachelor part, Wally meets and falls in love with a stripper named Barbara 'Bubble...

  • Rollie and the Missing Six

    Rollie Finch, the retired NYC homicide detective and present-day private investigator, returns in a new mystery...As a widowed, middle-aged father of three teenage daughters, Rollie Finch must be very selective in the cases he chooses to work. When h...

  • The Big Woods 1853-1873

    The Big Woods traces the history of the Boyd Family beginning in the 1850s, through the Civil War and ending in 1871. It is a fast-paced, action and adventure western, laced with history, humor, family and love....

  • Welcome to Smoky Point

    Suspended for one year from her position as homicide investigator for the Rhode Island State Police for issuing an OUI to a powerful congressman who demands a public apology, Claire Evergreen is not content to sit around collecting unemployment for t...

  • Beyond the Big Woods

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Al Lamanda has published 35 books.

Al Lamanda does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Beyond the Big Woods, was published in June 2024.

The first book by Al Lamanda, Dunston Falls, was published in March 2008.

Yes. Al Lamanda has 4 series.
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