Richard Powell

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  • Bibliography:
    36 Books (6 Series)
  • First Book:
    March 1997
  • Latest Book:
    May 2023
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Full Series List in Order

An Arab and Andy Blake Mystery

All Over But the Shooting (Aug-2012)
And Hope to Die (Aug-2012)
Lay that Pistol Down (Aug-2012)
Don't Catch Me (Sep-2012)
Shoot If You Must (Sep-2012)

Bridge Club

1 - Old Age and Treachery (Dec-2017)
2 - Harvesting The Angels (Jul-2018)
3 - Little Lucifer (Nov-2018)

Devil's Playground

1 - Pact with the Devil (Apr-2020)
2 - Pandora's Legacy (Jun-2021)

Jergen County

1 - Murder Club (Jul-2017)

Pirates of Barataria

1 - A Rescue In Time (Oct-2019)

Tigers on the Road

1 - Journey To Destiny (Feb-2020)
2 - To So Few (Jul-2020)

Book List in Order: 36 titles

  • The Bell Witch

    A witness to the only documented incident in which a spirit is credited with killing a human being, Richard Powell relates to his daughter the macabre tale of the Bell Witch that haunted the Bell family of Robertson County....

  • Say It with Bullets

    Hard Case Crime - 18

    Bill Wayne told his beautiful tour guide that he took the bus trip through the West to relax. But who can relax with dead bodies turning up at every stop? From Cheyenne to Salt Lake City, from Reno to Yosemite, Bill's secretly on a mission to dis...

  • Rode Hard and Put Away Wet

  • A Shot in the Dark & Shell Game

  • Pioneer, Go Home!

    This 50th anniversary edition restores Richard Powell s uproarious 1959 New York Times bestselling novel and includes a new preface by the author. Pioneer, Go Home! ranks among the most entertaining of Powell s 19 published novels. Originally release...

  • Oasis

    The tragic accident of a young mother and the abduction of a prostitute to a secret island leads to the discovery of a network of highly secret medical operations including a baby factory involved with human cloning and a group of highly profitable p...

  • The Philadelphian

    This 1957 national bestseller by the late Richard Powell, a seventh-generation Philadelphian, was touted by its publisher as a “shocking exposé” of Philadelphia and Main Line society. The novel was released to rave reviews and became the 1959 Os...

  • Shark River

    Perhaps only a temporary separation from Arab and Andy? For this, along the Kelland peace-at-any-price-hero formula tells of Pete Cameron's attempts to learn the truth about the loss of his father's resort at Redfish Bay. But supersmart, impetuous Jo...

  • Shell Game

    Bill Stuart is vacationing in Florida, collecting shells, when one evening he stumbles upon a beautiful young woman hiding under a fishing pier on a deserted beach. Undaunted by her cock-eyed story, he offers her a lift into town. Valerie agrees if s...



  • A Shot in the Dark

    Johnny Edwards is fishing when he gets Tony’s letter from Cuba. Tony is in trouble and urgently needs Johnny down in Havana. But Johnny stalls -- ashamed to admit to his former war buddy that he has been living a life of indifferent ease and indulg...

  • All Over But the Shooting

    An Arab and Andy Blake Mystery

    Fifteen minutes after Arab Blake joined her husband Andy in Washington, she managed to get him conked into insensibility. And the moment he rose from the sidewalk he found himself entangled in a spine-tingling spyhunt!The trail led to the strange hou...

  • And Hope to Die

    An Arab and Andy Blake Mystery

    ''When my wife Arabella and I decided to take our summer vacation in Florida, I dreamed of lying under a coconut palm sipping a cool drink while Arab lovingly fanned a breeze my way. I have had dreams of that type before and something always goes wro...

  • Lay that Pistol Down

    An Arab and Andy Blake Mystery

    Andy Blake is no sooner married to Arab that he realizes his home is not a love nest but an arsenal. True, the fragile, blonde Arabella had won prizes only in shotgun contests, but she didn’t discriminate against rifles and pistols. As Andy wistful...

  • Don't Catch Me

    An Arab and Andy Blake Mystery

    Antique dealer Andy Blake and his sharpshooting wife Arab stumble across a faux antique chair - and end up tangling with Nazi-obsessed millionaire, a gregarious gunman, a rival antique dealer, and bombshell blonde....

  • False Colors

    What you’re starting to read now is called a jacket blurb. Its purpose is to tell you enough about the book to steam you up into reading it. Jacket blurbs are usually written by publishers, and sometimes they fib a little about how wonderful the bo...

  • Shoot If You Must

    An Arab and Andy Blake Mystery

    Andy Blake’s idea of a pleasant evening was to stretch out in a deck chair, wriggle his feet into a pair of old slippers, and sip an old-fashioned. For this recipe he had, unfortunately, one too many ingredients: his wife, Arab.Arab’s idea of fun...

  • Murder Club

    Jergen County - 1

    “For us, murder is a hobby,” the writer’s group president informs the detectives as they arrive. “We look forward to seeing real police procedure.” A prominent author dies under suspicious circumstances at a mystery writer’s retreat.The d...

  • The GINGERBREAD MAN

    JORDAN AND URICH NOW HUNT THE MAN WHO MURDERED JORDAN'S DAUGHTER!A SERIAL KILLER CALLING HIMSELF THE GINGERBREAD MAN TARGETS TEENAGE PROSTITUTES IN MEMPHIS. TO FACILITATE THEIR INVESTIGATION, MEMPHIS POLICE KEEP DETAILS OF HIS KILLINGS FROM THE PUBLI...

  • Lawrence Island

    Follow the lives of the victims, the criminals and the detectives trying to solve mysterious abductions of young vulnerable women.A story of illegal human cloning, drug manufacture and use by a global conglomerate. A multi-threaded crime st...



  • Old Age and Treachery

    Bridge Club - 1

    NOT ALL CRIME FIGHTERS WEAR MASKS AND CAPES. THEY MIGHT BE THE ORDINARY FOLKS NEXT DOOR!BORED WITH RETIREMENT, FORMER DETECTIVE BILL DOOLIN SEEKS FRESH CHALLENGES IN HIS LIFE. HE GETS THAT AND MORE WHILE HELPING A FRIEND VICTIMIZED BY AN INTERNET SCA...

  • Harvesting The Angels

    Bridge Club - 2

    A CHILD'S KIDNAPPING IN HONG KONG EXPOSES A WORLD MORE TERRIFYING THAN YOU CAN IMAGINE! BASED ON TRUE EVENTS!HONG KONG POLICE DETECTIVE WILLIAM LAU'S INFANT DAUGHTER FALLS INTO THE HANDS OF CHILD LAUNDERS. THESE BABY BROKERS FORGE A NEW IDENTITY FOR ...

  • JERGEN COUNTY WAR

    AN UNEASY ALLIANCE BETWEEN THE DIXIE MAFIA AND A GULF COAST GANG ERUPTS IN VIOLENCE!The Biloxi Crowns need a place away from the coast to produce drugs. The Dixie Mafia owns the sites and the political influence the Crowns need. A raid on the county'...

  • Deadly Discovery

    A MURDER MYSTERY! GOVERNMENT CONSPIRACY! WHAT IS NOT TO LOVE ABOUT THIS BOOK!AS PEACE RETURNS TO JERGEN COUNTY, ROY FIRES UP HIS RE-ELECTION CAMPAIGN, JORDAN BREAKS OUT HIS FISHING GEAR AND URICH PLANS HER WEDDING. THE ONLY PERSON DISTURBING THE PEAC...

  • Little Lucifer

    Bridge Club - 3

    THE HUNT FOR A SERIAL KILLER EXPOSES MASSIVE GOVERNMENT CORRUPTION!A BRUTAL MURDER OCCURS IN MEMPHIS NEAR FRANKLIN CITY'S LIMITS. BUT ALL IS QUIET IN THE CITY ITSELF AS FRANKLIN CITY CELEBRATES INDEPENDENCE DAY. UNTIL AMONG THE FESTIVAL CROWD WENDY C...

  • TRUTH LIES & TROLLS

    Evil forces lurk on the internet. Besides the scammers and thieves are the Trolls. They harass, steal, and bully individuals, and entire countries leaving chaos in their wake. Trolls drive George Parker's granddaughter to self-destruction while a Tro...

  • A Rescue In Time

    Pirates of Barataria - 1

    MIXING VOODOO AND QUANTUM MECHANICS IS NO LAUGHING MATTER. OR IS IT? COME FIND OUT!While retrieving their treasure cache Jean and Pierre Lafitte enter a mysterious fog on the Mississippi. Frightened by the fog, their cook, a student of Marie Laveau, ...

  • Journey To Destiny

    Tigers on the Road - 1

    A ROWSING ROMANTIC ADVENTURE UNFOLDS AS FOUR YOUNG AMERICANS JOIN THE GREATEST GENERATION'S VANGUARD.In early 1941 a brutal Japanese invasion sweeps through China. America has yet to enter the second world war but aids the embattled Chinese. Four you...

  • Pact with the Devil

    Devil's Playground - 1

    FROM THE SMOLDERING ASHES OF POST WAR GERMANY, A NEW DEADLY CONFLICT EMERGES! IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR'S LAST DAYS, CAPTAIN JAMES ROSS COMMANDS A RIFLE COMPANY. WHILE JUSTINE ROTHSTEIN LEADS A BAND OF PARTISANS HUNTING NAZIS. THEY JOIN FORCES TO LIBER...

  • To So Few

    Tigers on the Road - 2

    In the dark opening days of the Second World War, Japan marches unhindered through China and Southeast Asia. They decimate the American Fleet at Pearl Harbor. Grind the Philippines and the remaining American territories in the South Pacific beneath t...



  • Sins Of The Fathers

    AS REAL AS TODAY'S HEADLINESA gruesome crucifixion on the courthouse lawn kicks off chaos in Jergen County. As Jordan and his team discover four similar killings in the United States, the FBI steps in. The Federal case links the killings to a notorio...

  • Pandora's Legacy

    Devil's Playground - 2

    HERE'S WHAT READERS AROUND THE WORLD SAY ABOUT PACT WITH THE DEVIL. THE DEVIL'S PLAYGROUND SERIES, BOOK 1;Meticulously researched and well put together, this book puts you in the headspace of its character's lives and times.Frankly, I had to put it d...

  • The Missing Prisoner

    Saskatchewan, late summer 1947, Mike Bodnar, Canadian WWII veteran was riding the rails to avoid his old life. Captured at the ill fated raid on Dieppe in 1942. Damaged after spending 3 years in German POW camps. Near the tracks, Mike finds the body ...

  • What God Abandoned

    THE JAPANESE TIDAL WAVE SWEEPS THROUGH SOUTHEAST ASIAFreed from their colonial masters, Thailand, Indo-China, and Malaysia welcome the Japanese invaders with open arms. Once Burma falls, only India stands between them and the oil-rich Middle East. No...

  • The Machiavellian

    Andrew and mum Tracy rent a two-bedroom flat in the historic city of Bristol. Since the tragic accident with his father, Tracy has never remarried. Andrew struggled with the idea of being abducted by aliens. Years later, after attending cookery at co...

  • The Hummingbird Effect

    Derrick was destined to fall through society's cracks from the beginning. Derrick was one of the many 1980s working-class latch-key kids from yet another dysfunctional home. By the time Derrick was 15 years old, he was homeless, living on the streets...

  • DEAD MAN'S CHEST

    Threatened by a worldwide pandemic, what would a time traveler do? How do you keep yourself and the ones you love away from the danger? Find a time when the threat doesn't exist.On returning from his perilous journey to the Nineteenth Century, Jean L...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Richard Powell has published 36 books.

Richard Powell does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, DEAD MAN'S CHEST, was published in May 2023.

The first book by Richard Powell, The Bell Witch, was published in March 1997.

Yes. Richard Powell has 6 series.
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