Dan O'Brien

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  • Bibliography:
    24 Books
  • First Book:
    May 1988
  • Latest Book:
    November 2020
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Book List in Order: 24 titles

  • Spirit of the Hills

    The lives of three rugged individualist--Tom McVay, Bill Egan, and Katie Running--become dramatically intertwined as events collide in this novel of murder and revenge set in the Black Hills of South Dakota...

  • Eminent Domain

  • In the Center of the Nation

    When a mining company discovers gold near the Badlands, South Dakota bank president Larry Sorenson moves to secure ownership of four cattle ranches that control access to the gold, beginning a feud between ranchers and developers...

  • Brendan Prairie

    Once a great falconer and environmentalist, Malone has entered middle age a broken man, devoid of the passion and promise of his youth. And now the developers are threatening to build condominiums on his beloved Brendan prairie....

  • The Contract Surgeon

    Winner of the Western Heritage Award, this beautifully crafted historical novel from one of the West’s most popular writers tells the true story of the friendship between Valentine McGillycuddy, a young doctor plucked from his prestigious medical c...

  • The Indian Agent

    A healer with a conscience and a mission, Valentine McGillycuddy has lived among the Lakota Sioux -- mending their wounds, delivering their children -- and had once called the great warrior chief Crazy Horse "friend." Now, with his frail, beautiful w...

  • Hanz Kreiger: Sojourner in the Time of Plague: Book 1

    Hanz Kreiger is not even fifteen years old, and death surrounds him at the Manor House at which he works as an indentured servant in Amsterdam. The maid, two stable boys, an ambassador to the court, and the cook have all just died.

    It's the end of...

  • Stolen Horses

    McDermot, Nebraska, is a pleasant, scenic western cattle town situated in the Pawnee River valley -- just the place for people seeking refuge from their hectic city lives. It is also just the place for those who have made their homes on this haunting...

  • Bitten

    A predator stalks a cold northern Minnesotan town. There is talk of wolves walking on two legs and attacking people in the deep woods. Lauren Westlake, resourceful and determined F.B.I Agent, has found a connection between the strange murders in the ...



  • Cerulean Dreams

    Orion, the last city of men. Deep within the desert, a secret lay waiting. Young women found dead in the street. A corporation that controls the sleep of a populace that never sees the light of day. Alexander Marlowe seeks to unravel the mysteries of...

  • The Journey

    The Frozen Man. The Translucent Man. The Burning Man. The Wicker Man. The guide known only as the Crossroads, together these are the signposts and totems of the world that the being called the Lonely inhabits. Seeking out the meaning of his journey, ...

  • Deviance of Time

    Re-released for its 10th anniversary, Dan O'Brien presents the first novel in a sweeping series that will subsume all categories of genre fiction before it draws to a close. Reminiscent of the crusading stories of the past, Deviance of Time introduce...

  • The End of the World Playlist

    The world as we knew it had ended. Deep in the mountains of the west coast, six men survived. In the town of River’s Bend, these six friends continued on with their lives as zombies inherited the Earth. As they navigated the world that had been lef...

  • The Twins of Devonshire and the Curse of the Widow

    A plague has covered the land, a single word on the lips of the frightened masses: the Widow. Washing a wave of terror over the countryside and then disappearing like a thief in the night, the Widow holds a kingdom in the palm of her hand. The eyes o...

  • The Path of the Fallen

    Set against the backdrop of the tundra and a world desperate for hope, the journey of a young man, E'Malkai, will come to define a realm that has been broken by an evil that does not sleep. A bitter betrayal, and the inception of a war that will cons...

  • Juxtaposition

    STORIES INCLUDED IN THIS COLLECTION Cerulean Dreams: Orion, the last city of men. Deep within the desert, a secret lay waiting. Young women found dead in the street. A corporation that controls the sleep of a populace that never sees the light of day...

  • Water

    The next installment in the B-Sides series follows a father and son living out a quiet life in northern Arizona. A strange occurrence at the border, and a series of events that turns the world upside down, plunges society into a spiral from which it ...

  • A Very Dystopian Holiday Reader

    A collection of short fiction. Mondays with Mephistopheles: 9 amâ€"â€"Rhys: Abraham Rogers has an unusual psychotherapy practice: monsters. This first installment is a session with Rhys, the IT vampire who can’t quite connect with the modern world ...

  • The Body of an American



  • Conspirators of the Lost Sock Army and the Loose Change Collection Agency

    You’re never too old to have one more adventure Brought to life by Steve Ferchaud’s vibrant drawings, this story for all ages by Dan O’Brien lets us know that it is never too late to have one more adventure....

  • Drained

    A frightening new case. A mysterious journal. The beginning of the end. Lauren Westlake has left behind the horrors of northern Minnesota to investigate a strange package with a cryptic return address. Crossing the country to the city by the bay, Lau...

  • Sixth Prime

    2.3.5.7.11.13. A war brews as a galaxy struggles to maintain a peace treaty signed in haste. The Commonwealth boasts sprawling cities built upon slums. The Sovereignty has placed the yoke of industry upon its citizens. Sixteen men and women are conne...

  • The House in Scarsdale

  • The Angel in the Trees and Other Monologues

Award-Winning Books by Dan O'Brien

Spirit of the Hills
1988 SPUR Award -- Medicine Pipe Bearer (First Novel)


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Dan O'Brien has published 24 books.

Dan O'Brien does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Angel in the Trees and Other Monologues, was published in November 2020.

The first book by Dan O'Brien, Spirit of the Hills, was published in May 1988.

No. Dan O'Brien does not write books in series.
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