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  • Bibliography:
    12 Books
  • First Book:
    October 1991
  • Latest Book:
    May 2020
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Book List in Order: 12 titles



  • As Manuel Torres' trial for attempted burglary approaches, Torres plans his escape, a juror views the trial in relation to his uneventful life, a courthouse guard awaits the trial with bitterness, and an elevator operator anticipates the violence the...



  • Paul Finley Mysteries Book Six Private investigator Paul Finley receives a packet of old police reports from a former colleague. Most of the reports describe cases that have been squashed or sidetracked for power interests. O...



  • The Man Who Hated History is a suspense novel that borrows from both whodunnit and psychological mystery genres to fashion a political whowuzitdunto. French police inspector Robert Frenaud, as meticulous about his image of middle-class respectability...



  • Father James Mahan has made his peace with not feeling any fervid calling for the priesthood he has embraced. What he has not made his peace with is the nagging sense that he is a mediocre man. A dying mentor, an elusive woman, and a thief call his s...



  • The Fantasy League Murders When private investigator Paul Finley is hired to find a missing teenager who turns up dead, he comes up against the powers-that-be in a rich Long Island community who have a problem distinguishing sex and murder from their...



  • Private detective Paul Finley is back, though he's not sure he wants to be. Losing no time after his adventures in The Fantasy League Murders and The Bolivian Sailor, he is hired by a seemingly ordinary academic for one task: to find the client's old...



  • A newly arrived Bolivian seaman is found murdered in a Manhattan roach hotel. An address book on the body lists three American contacts, one of whom is private investigator Paul Finley. The trouble is, Finley has never heard of th...



  • Paul Finley Mysteries Book OneWhen private investigator Paul Finley is hired to find a missing teenager who turns up dead, he comes up against the powers-that-be in an affluent Long Island community who have a problem distinguishing sex and murd...



  • All the Aliens in the Neighborhood is a collection of stories centering around men and women in a middle-class Brooklyn neighborhood who take one extra look at themselves and their neighbors and are shaken by how blithely they had been coasting along...






  • Private investigator Paul Finley travels to an upstate New York town with his father-in-law at the urgent request of one of the latter’s former students. They come up against not only two murders and a fatal fire, but a government-sponsored project...



  • How to Make it YoursHumankind has spent centuries searching for ways to resolve its existential malaise and sense of futility. We have rushed to one organized corpus of thought after another-from philosophy to numerology to astrology and beyond-in ou...



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    An old-timer visits New York City for a team reunion, but someone takes him out at the ballgame in this sharp-witted PI mystery. Widowed ex-cop and PI Paul Finley still sticks close to his father-in-law -- a bond rooted more in shared grief than shar...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Donald Dewey has published 12 books.

Donald Dewey does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Franchisement, was published in May 2020.

The first book by Donald Dewey, Reasonable Doubts, was published in October 1991.

No. Donald Dewey does not write books in series.