Daniel Woodrell

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  • Bibliography:
    11 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1986
  • Latest Book:
    September 2013
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Full Series List in Order

Rene Shade

1 - Under the Bright Lights (1986)
2 - Muscle for the Wing (1988)
3 - The Ones You Do (1988)

Book List in Order: 11 titles

  • Under the Bright Lights

    Rene Shade - 1

    First published in 1986, the author's first crime novel sends Rene Shade, a police detective in Louisiana's bayou country, to investigate a murder involving a racist hit man, a pornography merchant, shady politicians, and small-time criminals. Reprin...

  • Woe to Live on

    Set in the border states of Kansas and Missouri, Woe to Live On explores the nature of lawlessness and violence, friendship and loyalty, through the eyes of young recruit Jake Roedel. Where he and his fellow First Kansas Irregulars go, no one is safe...

  • Muscle for the Wing

    Rene Shade - 2

  • The Ones You Do

    Rene Shade - 3

  • Give Us a Kiss

    "My imagination is always skulking about in a wrong place." And now Doyle Redmond, thirty-five-year-old nowhere writer, has crossed the line between imagination and real live trouble. On the lam in his soon-to-be ex-wife's Volvo, he's running a famil...

  • Tomato Red

    In Tomato Red, Woodrell brings together a trio of ill-starred hustlers headed down a road paved with schemes, scams, botched chances, and broken dreams. In the small Ozark town of West Table, MO, where you're born is what you are. And if it happen...

  • Ride With the Devil

    Riding with the First Kansas Irregulars during the Civil War, Jake Roedel has committed his share of atrocities, but when he spares the life of two men during a raid, he peaks the ire of his comrades and becomes a target of their wrath. Reprint. Movi...

  • Death of Sweet Mister

    Shug Akins is a lonely, overweight thirteen-year-old boy. His mother, Glenda, is the one person who loves him -- she calls him Sweet Mister and attempts to boost his confidence and give him hope for his future. Shuggie's purported father, Red, is a b...

  • Winter's Bone

    Meet Ree Dolly -- not since Mattie Ross stormed her way through Arkansas in True Grit has a young girl so fiercely defended her loved ones. Sixteen-year-old Ree Dolly has grown up in the harsh poverty of the Ozarks and belongs to a large extended fam...



  • The Outlaw Album: Stories

    Daniel Woodrell is able to lend uncanny logic to harsh, even criminal behavior in this wrenching collection of stories. Desperation-both material and psychological--motivates his characters. A husband cruelly avenges the killing of his wife's pet; an...

  • The Maid's Version

    A deadly dance hall fire and its impact over several generations. Alma DeGeer Dunahew, the mother of three young boys, works as the maid for a prominent citizen and his family in West Table, Missouri. Her husband is mostly absent, and, in 1929, he...

Award-Winning Books by Daniel Woodrell

Tomato Red
1999 PEN Literary Award -- Fiction


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Daniel Woodrell has published 11 books.

Daniel Woodrell does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Maid's Version, was published in September 2013.

The first book by Daniel Woodrell, Under the Bright Lights, was published in January 1986.

Yes. Daniel Woodrell has 1 series.
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