Dean L. Hovey

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  • Bibliography:
    36 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    October 2000
  • Latest Book:
    September 2024
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Full Series List in Order

Doug Fletcher

1 - Stolen Past (Jun-2019)
2 - Washed Away (Aug-2019)
3 - Dead in the Water (Oct-2019)
4 - Death In Shifting Sands (Jan-2020)
5 - Devil's Fall (Apr-2020)
6 - Prairie Menace (Nov-2020)
7 - Down River (Feb-2021)
8 - Burnt Evidence (Apr-2021)
9 - Gator Bait (Sep-2021)
10 - Grave Survey (Jan-2022)
11 - Dead End Trail (Aug-2022)
12 - The Last Rodeo (Jan-2023)
13 - Peril in Paradise (May-2023)
14 - Western Justice (Jan-2024)
15 - Strung out to Die (Jul-2024)

A Pine County Mystery

1 - Hooker (Jun-2002)
2 - Unforgettable (Feb-2010)
3 - Whistling Sousa (Oct-2013)
3 - Undeveloped (Nov-2014)
4 - The Deacon's Demise (Nov-2015)
5 - Family Trees (Apr-2017)
7 - Killer Secrets (Jul-2020)
8 - Deadly Mixture (Aug-2021)
9 - Fatal Business (Jul-2022)
10 - Taxed to Death (Apr-2023)

A Whistling Pines Mystery

1 - Whistling Pines (May-2012)
2 - Whistling Sousa (Oct-2013)
3 - Whistling Wings (Aug-2018)
4 - Whistling Up A Ghost (Oct-2020)
5 - Whistling Pirates (Mar-2021)
6 - Whistling Bake Off (May-2022)
7 - Whistling Artist (Sep-2022)
8 - Whistling Fireman (Oct-2023)

Book List in Order: 36 titles

  • Where Evil Hides

    Somewhere in rural Pine County Minnesota, a man of evil hides by day and stalks his female victims at night. His gruesome acts of rape and murder point to a demented personality, yet his ability to elude the police shows the man to be of high intelli...

  • Hooker

    A Pine County Mystery - 1

    A murder mystery, set in rural Minnesota. Protagonist Dan Williams, Undersheriff of Pine County, must solve the case of a missing woman who has apparently been operating a "disorderly house" involving prominent citizens of the area, including a state...

  • Unforgettable

    A Pine County Mystery - 2

    When a skeleton is found in the trunk of a long abandoned car, a thirty year-old missing persons investigation is reopened by the Pine County Sheriff's Department. The original investigator, now near retirement, takes the lead as he tries to find clo...

  • Whistling Pines

    A Whistling Pines Mystery - 1

    When Axel Olson is found murdered in his Whistling Pines senior apartment, no one is surprised and there is no shortage of suspects or motives. Axel's claim of being a war hero comes quickly into question, and his shady money making schemes are excee...

  • Whistling Sousa

    A Pine County Mystery - 3
    A Whistling Pines Mystery - 2

    This is a light-hearted cozy set in Whistling Pines, a senior assisted-living facility. When Peter Rogers, the recreation director is asked to fill in for the director of the Two Harbors City Band there's no way he could anticipate that one of the ba...

  • Undeveloped

    A Pine County Mystery - 3

    A 1998 cold case is revived when undeveloped photos are discovered in a garage-sale camera. A photo of a missing man, obviously taken the night he disappeared leads Sergeant Floyd Swenson, of the Pine County Sheriff's Department, through an investiga...

  • The Deacon's Demise

    A Pine County Mystery - 4

    The car explosion that kills a pillar-of-the-community church deacon shakes the normally quiet small community of Pine Brook, Minnesota, especially Pine County sheriff's deputy Floyd Swenson. A Minnesota BCA agent, shares news of a nearby child abduc...

  • Family Trees

    A Pine County Mystery - 5

    Northeastern Minnesota Book Award winner! On her sixteenth birthday Margaret Lane is put on a train to Pine County after graduation from the Minnesota State School. Her work as an indentured servant at the Tuxedo Inn leads to an encounter with gangst...

  • Whistling Wings

    A Whistling Pines Mystery - 3

    When longtime Whistling Pines resident Alf Palluzzo learns about a missing family treasure, he remembers the gold coins his parents squirreled away when he was young. He asks everyone for help as he tries to figure out the arcane clue to where they a...



  • Stolen Past

    Doug Fletcher - 1

    Doug Fletcher, a retired Minnesota detective, relocates to Arizona and a quiet life as a part-time National Park Service ranger. His plans change abruptly when a suspicious fall at a national monument plunges him into the world of stolen antiquities,...

  • Washed Away

    Doug Fletcher - 2

    A Park Service backpacking trip turns deadly when hikers are caught in a steep canyon during a flash flood. Three hikers are swept away, but a rescue team recovers four bodies.

    Park Service Investigator Doug Fletcher teams up with rangers Jil...

  • Dead in the Water

    Doug Fletcher - 3

    Park Service Investigator Doug Fletcher moves to Padre Island National Seashore to investigate hazardous waste dumping during the Hurricane Harvey clean up.While orienting himself to Texas and the waste dumping investigation, Doug and his rookie part...

  • Death In Shifting Sands

    Doug Fletcher - 4

    Hurricane Harvey lashed North Padre Island National Seashore exposing tons of silver coins lost since three Spanish Galleons sank in 1554. News about the coins, located in a Park Service archaeological protection area, goes viral on internet treas...

  • Devil's Fall

    Doug Fletcher - 5

    Doug Fletcher's Thanksgiving vacation is interrupted by a phone call from his Texas U.S. Park Service superintendent. A Wyoming coroner determines that a climber's fall from Devils Tower isn't the accident it first appeared to be.Doug is thrown into ...

  • Killer Secrets

    A Pine County Mystery - 7

    As alcohol lubricates the conversation at a 30th high school reunion, Judy Bloom lets slip that she had an intimate relationship with a teacher while she was a student. More revelations follow, along with the news that the teacher kept a video camera...

  • Whistling Up A Ghost

    A Whistling Pines Mystery - 4

    Peter and Jenny Rogers return from their honeymoon to a pile of wedding presents including the deed to an old house. They open presents from the residents of Whistling Pines Senior Care Center ranging from thoughtful, to thrift shop purchases, and "w...

  • Prairie Menace

    Doug Fletcher - 6

    Doug and Jill Fletcher are dispatched to the Black Hills when a missing camper's mutilated body is discovered in a remote part of Wind Cave National Park. Jill searches remote portions of Wind Cave for the victim's missing companion while Doug tries ...

  • Down River

    Doug Fletcher - 7

    A honeymoon couple disappear while canoeing the St. Croix River. With visiting VIPs due in days and quick searches revealing no sign of the missing couple, U.S. Park Service Investigators Doug and Jill Fletcher are dispatched to the scene. The Fletch...

  • Whistling Pirates

    A Whistling Pines Mystery - 5

    Excitement runs high in the Whistling Pines Retirement community as the first annual Two Harbors Buccaneer Days celebration approaches. The city asks local fraternal clubs and the city band to move their summer events to the weekend of the festival. ...



  • Burnt Evidence

    Doug Fletcher - 8

    A 911 call cut off mid-scream and a melted cellphone in a circle of burned grass hint at an alien abduction in Effigy Mounds National Monument. Doug Fletcher's cop intuition makes him reluctant to accept the investigative assignment. Jill Fletcher's ...

  • Deadly Mixture

    A Pine County Mystery - 8

    Ted Palmquist’s mother finds him in a pool of blood on the bathroom floor and calls an ambulance. Violently ill after a night with his high school friends, Ted’s incoherent rants in the ER mention Tammi, who’s been missing for six m...

  • Gator Bait

    Doug Fletcher - 9

    It's evident from their first meeting that Doug and Jill Fletcher's investigative assistance was not requested and isn't appreciated. The Everglades National Park Superintendent is quite happy to leave the apparent alligator attack as just that, an u...

  • Grave Survey

    Doug Fletcher - 10

    Doug and Jill Fletcher's Florida Gulf Coast vacation is interrupted when they're dispatched to investigate the disappearance of a survey team in Big Cypress National Preserve. The suspect list grows with each interview, bringing into question the mot...

  • Whistling Bake Off

    A Whistling Pines Mystery - 6

    A celebrity chef brings his world-famous cooking show to Two Harbors for a special broadcast. The news quickly spreads that the show is looking for ethnic recipes, the winning submissions to be prepared during the live broadcast. The residents of Whi...

  • Fatal Business

    A Pine County Mystery - 9

    When Roger Bartlett doesn't return from his deer stand at sunset, his friends go looking for him. Failing to find him overnight, a broader search starts the next morning, led by the Pine County Sheriff's Department. Sgt. C.J. Jensen discovers footpri...

  • Dead End Trail

    Doug Fletcher - 11

    When a local rancher's body is discovered in Tuzigoot National Monument, Doug and Jill Fletcher are dispatched to investigate the suspicious death. Horseshoe prints where the body was found point the investigation toward the dozens of local ranches a...

  • Whistling Artist

    A Whistling Pines Mystery - 7

    After Deborah Evenson's death, her paintings are gathered for a retrospective showing at a Duluth art museum. During the opening night gala, the museum discovers that two of the paintings, previously displayed separately, were created as a dipt...

  • The Last Rodeo

    Doug Fletcher - 12

    A champion barrel racer disappears from her trailer on the eve of the Black Hills Roundup. Two hundred miles away, female remains are discovered at the Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument. Doug and Jill Fletcher, assigned to investigate the ...

  • Taxed to Death

    A Pine County Mystery - 10

    A body is found alongside a pickup that's smashed into the Pine County History Museum. A day later, the county tax assessor has an apparent case of food poisoning during a horse show. A girl is missing from school and the rental house she shares with...



  • Peril in Paradise

    Doug Fletcher - 13

    US Park Service investigators Doug and Jill Fletcher are dispatched to Hawaii when the bodies of two hikers are discovered near the Kīlauea volcano. Initially reluctant to accept the assignment, Doug becomes intrigued when he learns that the investi...

  • Bad Omen: Nunavut

    Summoned from his comfortable Toronto college life, Christopher Pokaik returns to visit the grandfather who raised him. Surprised by the evolving culture of the newly created Nunavut Territory, he's befriended by an Inuit RCMP Special Constable who h...

  • Whistling Fireman

    A Whistling Pines Mystery - 8

    When Hagstrom's bait store burns down, arson rumors fly among the residents of Whistling Pines senior living facility. When Peter Rogers, the recreation director speaks with residents he discovers there have been numerous suspicious business fir...

  • Western Justice

    Doug Fletcher - 14

    When human remains are found at the Vore Buffalo Jump, the short-staffed local sheriff's department requests assistance from Park Service Investigators Doug and Jill Fletcher. ATV tracks lead the investigators to the victim's boots and a hunting blin...

  • Conflict of Interest

    When the body of a missing cheerleader is found in a ditch, the local police turn the investigation over to the Pine County sheriff's department, fearing that the girl's relationship with the son of a local politician could compromise their objectivi...

  • Strung out to Die

    Doug Fletcher - 15

    Ranger Grace Watanabe discovers fellow Ranger Erik (Red) Petersen's dead body tangled in the barbed wire at the Manzanar National Historic Site entrance. The local sheriff's department quickly decides the death is related to a Mexican cartel who use ...

  • Whistling Wedding

    A Piano donated to Whistling Pines Senior Residence hides a dusty wooden puzzle box. The discovery leads to stories, rumor, and speculation about the piano's owner and her unusual death. Recreation director, Peter Rogers, and the overly helpful senio...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Dean L. Hovey has published 36 books.

Dean L. Hovey does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Whistling Wedding, was published in September 2024.

The first book by Dean L. Hovey, Where Evil Hides, was published in October 2000.

Yes. Dean L. Hovey has 3 series.
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