David Daniel

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  • Bibliography:
    18 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1985
  • Latest Book:
    January 2023
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Full Series List in Order

An Alex Rasmussen Mystery

1 - The Heaven Stone (Oct-1994)
2 - The Skelly Man (Sep-1995)
3 - Goofy Foot (Feb-2004)
4 - The Marble Kite (Apr-2005)

Book List in Order: 18 titles

  • Ark

    When one of its agents disappears while investigating rumors about the location of Noah's Ark, a U.S. government agency called "the firm" sends Vietnam veteran Jeff Rivers to look for missing archaeologist Bruce Hansman and for Hansman's daughter Eve...

  • The Tuesday Man

  • The Heaven Stone

    An Alex Rasmussen Mystery - 1

    Winner of the 1993 PWA/St. Martin's Press Best First Private Eye Novel contest, The Heaven Stone introduces a fresh voice in author David Daniel and a likable new protagonist in Alex Rasmussen, ex-cop turned private investigator, who is drawn into th...

  • The Skelly Man

    An Alex Rasmussen Mystery - 2

    Rasmussen is trying to find out who is sending threatening letters to fading TV talk-show host Jerry Corbin, a Lowell native who is returning to his hometown to premier the new show he hopes will resuscitate his career. Alex has a surfeit of suspects...

  • Murder at the Baseball Hall of Fame

    Ex-cop Frank Branco is an appealing Boston-based PI and a big baseball fan. Winning a radio station contest sends him to Cooperstown for the annual induction ceremonies at the Baseball Hall of Fame. At an outdoor reception, a car careens down the law...

  • White Rabbit

    The Sixties -- San Francisco, Haight-Ashbury, the Summer of Love. It's a wistful memory for some, and it brings envious sighs for those too late to experience it. David Daniel vividly recreates that world and its legends in White Rabbit - and then in...

  • Goofy Foot

    An Alex Rasmussen Mystery - 3

    In Goofy Foot, private investigator Alex Rasmussen, embarking on a rather routine search for a missing teenager, finds himself in cold water that couldn't be hotter, as the simple task balloons into murderous surfers and a heart-stopping search for a...

  • The Marble Kite

    An Alex Rasmussen Mystery - 4

    Private investigator Alex Rasmussen has loved carnivals since he was a boy, and what better way to enjoy one as a grown man than with a lovely woman at his side? As he and his date stroll along the midway, playing games of chance, the soft September ...

  • Reunion

    When Tom Knowles returns to the Massachusetts town where he grew up to help sell the family house and move his widowed mother, he finds his high school class is having its thirtieth reunion. Without much interest, he attends, and finds his boyhood fr...



  • Six off 66

    David Daniel's knack for mystery shines in these stories that are marked most by what details are left unwritten. Each piece is masterfully crafted, stunningly clear as it wanders off to end in defiance of expectation, but not of experience. In 'Coll...

  • Coffin Dust

    In the vein of Richard Matheson's Shock collections and Stephen King's Night Shift, Coffin Dust culls twenty plus of David Daniel's short stories from the magazines where they first appeared. Varied in style and tone, these tales all possess, in the ...

  • The Sense of Fear

    Reality slides into madness in these eleven tales from some of New England’s finest storytellers. Feel your heartbeat quicken as your senses drift to dark places: the howls of horror, terrifying visions, a hint of mystery in the air, and the bitter...

  • Inflections and Innuendos

    David Daniel is a beachcomber, and these stories are the small, unexpected treasures he has found in the tidal coves of the imagination and put on display for our delight. A young boy's crush on his lonely aunt, a machine that apparently has no other...

  • Three A.M. Wake-Up Call

    DEATH IS ON THE LINE. In THREE A.M. WAKE-UP CALL, the third installment of the Terror Project series, death comes calling in unexpected ways. CHEW TOYS by Nick Cato When “Son of Sam” killer David Berkowitz was arrested in the summer of 1977, he t...

  • City Of Dead Dreams

    In order to take out the preacher, the people he offended by proposing to buy their shares had to ply the services of a foreign gang to do their dirty works untraced. Lady Isak will do anything for the right price, so it was easier for her to accept ...

  • 4: 25 Am

  • Beach Town: Stories

    Shift whistles at the soap factory and the shipyard, along with the changing tides, mark the rhythms of life in the beach town. This is a world of fast food, double dates, and Saturday morning haircuts at the barber shop-a world as seemingly uncompli...

  • October 21st

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    The book 'October 21st' consist of 21 stories told in October when Jack was released from prison. The book has its settings in Akwa-Cross, with myriads of faceless characters whose lives and daily activities reflect on the different societal ills and...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

David Daniel has published 18 books.

David Daniel does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Beach Town: Stories, was published in January 2023.

The first book by David Daniel, Ark, was published in January 1985.

Yes. David Daniel has 1 series.
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