Dave White Books In Order

Jackson Donne Books In Publication Order

  1. When One Man Dies (2007)
  2. The Evil That Men Do (2008)
  3. Not Even Past (2015)
  4. An Empty Hell (2016)
  5. Blind to Sin (2017)

Pete Fernandez/Jackson Donne Books In Publication Order

  1. Shallow Grave (2017)

Short Stories/Novellas In Publication Order

  1. Witness to Death (2011)

Non-Fiction Books In Publication Order

  1. Exile in Guyville (2006)

Anthologies In Publication Order

  1. Terminal Damage (2010)
  2. Collateral Damage (2011)
  3. Dead Ends (2017)

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Dave White Books Overview

When One Man Dies

A hit and run. Simple as that. And suddenly harmless old Gerry Figuroa is lying dead on the asphalt. New Jersey cop turned private investigator Jackson Donne sure as hell doesn t want to investigate his drinking buddy’s death, but he s made a promise that leaves him no choice.

And before long, he s drawing uncomfortably close to a murderer.

Meanwhile, an apparently routine divorce case takes a dangerous turn, and sinister connections to Gerry s death start to emerge. Just when it seems things can t get any worse, Donne learns that a bitter old enemy is mixed up in the whole mess. Bill Martin, his ex Narcotics Department partner, has secrets to expose that could reopen the still aching wounds of Donne s past. Permanently.

Donne would like nothing better than to crawl back into a bottle and forget he ever heard Gerry Figuroa s name, but it s too late for that. Now he s in way too deep, tangled up in a plot whose tendrils reach far into his town s past and his own.

The Evil That Men Do

Even generations later, you can’t escape…
The Evil That Men Do. Stripped of his private investigator’s license and slumming it as a night security guard at a Jersey storage facility, Jackson Donne thinks he s finally hit rock bottom. Then the bottom really falls out: The sister he hasn t seen in years shows up, needing help. Turns out Donne s Alzheimer s stricken mother has begun hinting at long buried family secrets from her hospital bed, suggesting a sinister even murderous past. Meanwhile, Donne s relatives are suddenly being greeted by blackmail, car bombs, and bullets to the back of the skull. All Donne wants is to disappear preferably into a nice frosty pint glass but he soon realizes that his only chance at saving his family, and himself, is by solving a mystery more than sixty years old. Now he needs to figure out how a hit man, crooked cops, corrupt politics, a kidnapping, and the city of Bayonne all fit together. He ll discover that old family secrets still have the power to kill in this razor sharp PI story that makes classic noir new again.

Exile in Guyville

Here’s the diary of a man who in mid life found himself uprooted and dumped into West Hollywood, an unfamiliar place not exactly known for stability. White explores his neighborhood ? ‘queens: 6 percent; cranky 70 year old Russians who give you the evil eye when you walk past: 2 percent; blonde girls with big, round, hard fakeys who think Jennifer Anniston just got lucky: 10 percent; miscellaneous cool kids, hustlers, and actual crazy people: 5 percent.’

White gets gigs as a freelance writer, goes to the grocery store where his Russian neighbors ask him questions because they think he’s from the old country; and encounters Sara Gilbert at the Laundromat, Leonard Maltin at the movies, and Ben Affleck driving a Rolls Royce so ridiculously conspicuous he might as well be driving Chitty Chitty, Bang Bang.

What began as weekly diaries emailed to out of state family and friends evolved into a blog called ‘Dave White Knows’ and in 2003 became a monthly column in Instinct called ‘Exile in Guyville.’ Alyson Books now presents White’s blogs in expanded form with loads of new material that will be even more irritating to the Instinct readers who didn’t like his column. ‘They requested more fashion and skin care features in its place, which makes me kind of proud.’

Dave White is a freelance journalist specializing in music. His reviews and features have been seen in E! Online, IFILM, LA Weekly, Dallas Observer, Instinct, The Advocate, Glue, Cybersocket, Total Movie, Unzipped, and Frontiers. White lives in West Hollywood with his boyfriend, the Morocco Mole, and is locally esteemed as the ‘King of Pancakes.’

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