Christopher Newman

Author Information
Christopher Newman's Latest Book

Newest Release

  • Bibliography:
    35 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    September 1986
  • Latest Book:
    December 2019
  • Author Rating:
  • Share:

Full Series List in Order

A Lt. Joe Dante Novel

1 - Midtown South (Sep-1986)
2 - Sixth Precinct (Aug-1987)
3 - Knock-Off (Feb-1989)
4 - Midtown North (Apr-1991)
5 - 19th Precinct (Mar-1992)
6 - Precinct Command (Jun-1993)
7 - Dead End Game (Jul-1994)
8 - Killer (Jan-1997)
9 - Hit and Run (Dec-1997)

Book List in Order: 35 titles

  • Midtown South

    A Lt. Joe Dante Novel - 1

    The rich, the poor, and the evil take on two New York cops in a gripping novel that rips the city wide open. THE KILLER. The leather-clad owner of a fancy townhouse that looks like a porn parlor, a very wealthy man with one devastating obsessio...

  • Sixth Precinct

    A Lt. Joe Dante Novel - 2

    "Newman really knows the territory."
    WIlliam Caunitz
    Author of ONE POLICE PLAZA
    A millionaire art collector is hacked to death with a kitchen knife, his precioous paintings slashed to bits; a fat-cat neurosurgeon is slapped with a killer mal...

  • Manana Man

    Jack Terranova is hired to kill a big-time politico in Columbia but accidentally kills two C.I.A. men on his trail and finds himself on a path that leads him to a nest of Columbian drug dealers and Nicaraguan arms dealers hiding out in Silicon Valley...

  • Knock-Off

    A Lt. Joe Dante Novel - 3

    The designer of the trend-setting new sportswear line of the Close Apparel label is found bludgeoned to death in the corporate offices. Missing items point to a piracy ring that could cost the company plenty. Still, Detective Joe Dante wonders whethe...

  • Backfire

    In 1963, a beautiful young girl dies in the middle of an abortion on a cold table in a motel room. The cover-up is quick, quiet and -- for almost thirty years -- worth every penny. Now it's 1991. At the dawn of a presidential campaign, the old secret...

  • Midtown North

    A Lt. Joe Dante Novel - 4

    A big shot cop from Internal Affairs is found dead in a Hell's Kitchen alley. The official report says the shooter was a local lowlife, but Detective Joe Dante knows that the cops from Internal Affairs have more enemies on the Force than off it. Was ...

  • 19th Precinct

    A Lt. Joe Dante Novel - 5

    "Tough, gritty suspenseful...Newman is one of the best in the business."
    William J. Caunitz
    Author of EXCEPTIONAL CLEARANCE
    A ruthless IRA terrorist is loose on the streets of New York City. A C.E.O. and his mistress are killed execution-sty...

  • Precinct Command

    A Lt. Joe Dante Novel - 6

    Even cynical New York City is rocked by the brutal murder of Congresswoman Cora Davis. An outspoken advocate of warning labels on rock music, she is censored forever when she's bludgeoned and strangled in a Manhattan hotel room. Lt. Joe Dante's prime...

  • Dead End Game

    A Lt. Joe Dante Novel - 7

    Suspecting foul play when a major-league pitcher is found dead of a drug overdose just before the last game of the playoffs, Detective Lieutenant Joe Dante and his partner, Jumbo Richardson, wonder who would profit from a Yankees victory. Reprint....



  • Killer

    A Lt. Joe Dante Novel - 8

    When maverick New York detective Joe Dante is ambushed in the middle of the street out of revenge, the lieutenant begins his hunt for killer who had come after him, following a trail of dead bodies closer to his quarry--and a shattering betrayal. Ori...

  • The Devil's Own

  • Hit and Run

    A Lt. Joe Dante Novel - 9

    Detective Joe Dante lives in a downtown loft and hangs with an uptown crowd.  A cop who doesn't act, talk, or play like other cops, Dante's got Brooklyn-bred street smarts and a half-finished Ph.D. dissertation on his bookshelf.  But when a man i...

  • Clean American Fun

    This is old-fashioned story-telling at its best. Interesting and involving tales from some of the masters of mysteries.-Michael Connelly, author of Blood WorkThree thousand acres next to Branson, Missouri, is a gold mine to the wealthy and eccentric...

  • Jen's Tale

    Is love enough to save us?Jennifer Allen is not who she seems to be. Her friends, family, and neighbors all think they know the twenty-six year old automobile engineer, but they couldn’t be more wrong.Jen isn’t even human. Sent by her government ...

  • The Scandalous Tale of Agnes Biggenbotten

  • Deviant Ark

  • The Redemption of a Scoundrel

  • The Curse of Albrecht Manor

  • The Devil His Due

    Thomas Belmont has run out of time. The con artist who led his satanic cult merely for sex, has become a true disciple of the Fallen One. His new master has given him a job; kill Noah Ravenswood. Noah, awaiting the birth of his first child, is clu...



  • Get In the Spirit Baby

  • The Hound of Doom

    Another adventurous tale of Occult Investigator Noah Ravenswood and his associate Dr. Sarah Bookings. Trained since birth to battle the fiends of the dark, Noah accepts the task to uncover the truth and discover who's to blame before more of Niles...

  • Of Blood and Politics

    This prequel to Uprising traces the first outbreaks that slowly appear in an all too realistic near future U.S.A. As the public becomes aware of zombies rising, the powers that be are trying to suppress the truth and "quarantine" what they've...

  • Return to Albrecht Manor

    Noah Ravenswood gets a call from a man he never thought he'd hear from again, Max Albrecht. His father, Baron Markus Albrecht, has died but more importantly, hasn't passed to the afterlife. Max suspects his foul deceased sister Elsa has...

  • Tales from The Uprising

    Explore the horrific future of the living dead in these tales set in the world of Christopher Newman's UPRISING. This collection of seven ghoulish tales of terror will walk you with the living and the dead, from the very beginning of the Zombie Up...

  • A Terrible Tryst Of Fate

  • Those Dangerous Times

    Part 3 of the Ravenswood series,a bloodthirsty ghost targets a set of ex-Marines for a death in Grenada years before. Running for his life, George Dabrowski reaches out to his old squad, including Noah Ravenswood, practicing wizard/occultist. But...

  • Uprising

    Imagine a world when you go into the DMV to renew your license, you are asked to choose your Undead Clause? No means termination upon reanimation. Yes means when you reanimate you are taken to a factory and are prepared for the Reanimated Working...

  • L.O.V.E. (THE LEGION OF VALIANT ENFORCERS)

  • The Swashbuckling Yarn of Milady Vixen



  • BLUE EXISTENCE

  • An Unconventional Affair

  • Arcanum Academia

  • RED LUST

  • When She Was Good...

  • Pillage

    Christopher Newman, best-selling author of the Lt. Joe Dante novels, is back with an exciting new series that will keep you on the edge of your seat. Meet Sean Malloy, a former FBI profiler hired by the Department of Defense to investigate violent cr...

Award-Winning Books by Christopher Newman

Clean American Fun
1999 Audies -- Innovation Excellence


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Christopher Newman has published 35 books.

Christopher Newman does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Pillage, was published in December 2019.

The first book by Christopher Newman, Midtown South, was published in September 1986.

Yes. Christopher Newman has 1 series.
Author Series
RomanceFDB
Top Authors in Police Procedural
No ads, please...

$20 / year

FictionDB Premium Membership

Subscribe