David A. Poulsen

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  • Bibliography:
    20 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    May 1996
  • Latest Book:
    March 2025
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Full Series List in Order

Lawrence High Yearbook

Cowboy Cool (Aug-2008)
Jeremy's Song (Aug-2008)

The Salt & Pepper Chronicles

1 - The Vampire's Visit (Oct-1996)
2 - Hunk Machine (Oct-1997)
3 - No Time Like the Past (May-2007)
4 - The Book of Vampire (May-2007)
6 - Shivers and Shakes (May-2009)

Book List in Order: 20 titles

  • Billy and the Bearman

    A dramatic turn of events unites twelve-year-old Billy Gavin and seventeen-year-old John "Bearman" Redell, two boys from seemingly different backgrounds who discover that they in fact have a great deal in common - they are both runaways. Together, al...

  • The Vampire's Visit

    The Salt & Pepper Chronicles - 1

    Salt and Pepper are a team. Their vacation together in London takes a turn when they notice every window in the manor is garlanded with garlic - except theirs. Sure enough, a teenage vampire shows up that night, but asking for their help? When they r...

  • Hunk Machine

    The Salt & Pepper Chronicles - 2

    Sleuths Christine "Salt" Bellamy and Pepper McKenzie are embroiled in yet another mystery when a Hollywood movie company comes to town. But the producer and his assistant act more like gangsters than film moguls. And the stars! They appear to be hypn...

  • The Book of Vampire

    The Salt & Pepper Chronicles - 4

    In The Book of Vampire, the vampire gang war is still raging and when the "good guys" discover that their sacred book has been stolen , they appeal to Salt and Pepper to help them get it back. The bad guys have hidden the book in a place that no vamp...

  • No Time Like the Past

    The Salt & Pepper Chronicles - 3

    Salt and Pepper win first place in an essay competition and win an awesome prize --  a trip to an archaeological dig in New Mexico. Before the teenaged duo leave home, they learn that one of the site's archeologists has mysteriously disappeared. It...

  • Last Sam's Cage

    Life’s not going so good for Eddie Slater. At 15, he’s already been labeled a young offender. He’s got an abusive stepfather. He’s a runaway. And now, he’s living in a zoo  -- a real zoo, but it still feels safer than home. At the zoo, Ed...

  • The Prisoners and the Paintings

    Salt Bellamy and Pepper McKenzie (with Salt's little brother Hal in tow) have braved vampires, robots, and cave-dwellers -- and in Book 5 of this lively series, the two friends make their most incredible discovery yet: Hal is a talented artist! Whe...

  • Blind Date

    Curt Tomlinson has everything going for him. His hockey career is in high gear; he drives a very cool car, and his best friend has lined him up with a blind date. But the rugged defenseman gets a surprise he finds out that Judy, his blind date, is ac...

  • Wild Thing

    Lawrence High is the city's sports school, full of jocks and W. T. Zahara doesn't fit in. With his long hair and sandals, he's nowhere near a jock. In fact, W. T. is in a rock band. But when danger threatens Lawrence, both in the schoolyard and on t...



  • Cowboy Cool

    Lawrence High Yearbook

    Computer nerd Alex Lyndon and bullrider Kelly Parker are about as different from one another as two people can be. Yet they somehow manage to become both friends and business partners. But the bonds of friendship become strained when Alex learns of K...

  • Jeremy's Song

    Lawrence High Yearbook

    Brad Murray is a talented first baseman for the Lawrence Cowboys baseball team. At Lawrence, sports are the biggest thing going, and being a musician is the furthest thing from the minds of most students. Jeremy van Pelt is an exceptional violinist, ...

  • Numbers

    #1 Calgary Herald BestsellerJust when Andy starts to feel like he finally belongs, can he stand up to the person he trusted the most? Andy Crockett doesn’t fit in at his new school -- not with the goths, not with the jocks, and certainly not with...

  • Shivers and Shakes

    The Salt & Pepper Chronicles - 6

    It was the brochure that got them into it. When Salt and Pepper’s school play is chosen to be performed at an international festival in Scotland, the dynamic duo immediately start looking for ways to occupy their free time. For once, Salt is convin...

  • Old Man

    A trip with his estranged father changes Nate forever. Commended for the Popular Paperback Young Adults Pick, 2014 and short-listed for the Forest of Reading - White Pine Award for Fiction, 2014 Just as summer vacation is about to arrive, Nate Huffm...

  • Serpents Rising

    A private investigator and a journalist take on a ruthless gang in Calgary to rescue a runaway and find justice for themselves. In 2005, journalist Adam Cullen’s wife, Donna, is killed by an arsonist. In desperation after police, fire department, a...

  • And Then the Sky Exploded

    2018 Red Maple Award -- Shortlisted • High Plains Book Award -- Shortlisted, Young Adult categoryWhen Christian learns his great-grandfather helped build the A-bombs dropped on Japan, he wants to make amends … somehow. While attending the fun...

  • Dead Air

    A Calgary Herald Bestseller!
    There’s no such thing as bad press …

    Ex-cop turned private detective Mike Cobb is hired as the personal bodyguard of right-wing radio celebrity Buckley-Rand Larmer, who has been receiving a string of v...

  • Last Song Sung

    A musical cold case has Cullen and Cobb back on the beat.

    On February 28, 1965, a young singer named Ellie Foster stepped into the alley behind The Depression, a Calgary folk club where she shared the bill with Joni Anderson, later to becom...

  • The Dark Won't Wait

    Dom's life revolves around cars and baseball until a chance connection to a high school audition hands him a major role in a psychological thriller. This would be exciting enough, except that real life begins to shadow the script in a very creepy way...



  • The Man Called Teacher

    • / Historical
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    One man. One town. One almost forgotten crime. When the stranger who has answered the ad for the teaching position at Kecking Horse School climbs down from the stage on a sleepy Montana afternoon, things are about to change. With Virgil Watt, cowboy,...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

David A. Poulsen has published 20 books.

The next book by David A. Poulsen, The Dark Won't Wait, will be published in March 2025.

The first book by David A. Poulsen, Billy and the Bearman, was published in May 1996.

Yes. David A. Poulsen has 2 series.
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