Joseph Hansen

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  • Bibliography:
    38 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1970
  • Latest Book:
    March 2022
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Full Series List in Order

A Dave Brandstetter Mystery

1 - Fadeout (1970)
2 - Death Claims (1973)
3 - Troublemaker (Sep-1975)
4 - The Man Everybody Was Afraid Of (1978)
5 - Skinflick (1979)
6 - Gravedigger (1982)
7 - Nightwork (Mar-1984)
8 - The Little Dog Laughed (1986)
9 - Early Graves (Nov-1987)
10 - Obedience (Nov-1988)
11 - The Boy Who Was Buried This Morning (Jun-1990)
12 - A Country of Old Men (Apr-1991)

Book List in Order: 38 titles

  • Fadeout

    • / Police Procedural
    • Buy Buy
    A Dave Brandstetter Mystery - 1

    It was a situation insurance companies call "specific peril." Singer Fox Olson's white convertible had been found smashed in an arroyo. It looked as if, on a night of storm, he had missed a narrow wooden bridge and had plunged to his death. Then wher...

  • Death Claims

    • / Law Enforcement
    • Buy Buy
    A Dave Brandstetter Mystery - 2

    CELEBRATING 50 YEARS OF DAVE BRANDSTETTERDeath claims investigator Dave Brandstetter enters a world thespians and booksellers as he uncovers the true story behind the death of a rare book dealer in this noir-spun masterpiece of California crime ficti...

  • Troublemaker

    A Dave Brandstetter Mystery - 3

    Love and money are the easy motives in the death of a California beachfront nightclub owner, but death claims investigator Dave Brandstetter is certain of one thing: the case is going to be far from easy and the police have it all wrong.   Rick...

  • The Man Everybody Was Afraid Of

    • / Law Enforcement
    • Buy Buy
    A Dave Brandstetter Mystery - 4

    CELEBRATING 50 YEARS OF DAVE BRANDSTETTERThe murder of a conservative police chief in a fishing village north of Los Angeles sends death claims investigator Dave Brandstetter into the no-man's land between cops and activists in this brilliantly plott...

  • Dog and Other Stories

  • Skinflick

    • / Law Enforcement
    • Buy Buy
    A Dave Brandstetter Mystery - 5

    CELEBRATING 50 YEARS OF DAVE BRANDSTETTERDeath claims investigator Dave Brandstetter navigates the opposing realms of evangelical Christianity and the porn business while tracking a lost girl in late 1970s Los Angeles. Lon Tooker certainly fits the p...

  • A Smile in His Lifetime

    Powerful and affecting in its honesty, A Smile in His Lifetime traces Whit Miller's course from the bewildering break-up of a marriage he never understood, through a series of homosexual relationships, to a kind of resolution....

  • Gravedigger

    • / Law Enforcement
    • Buy Buy
    A Dave Brandstetter Mystery - 6

    CELEBRATING 50 YEARS OF DAVE BRANDSTETTERA cult leader named Azrael perpetrates a brutal mass murder and afterwards a slimy lawyer is trying to claim the life insurance policy for his missing daughter; it's the early '80s in Los Angeles and private i...

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  • Job's Year

  • Nightwork

    A Dave Brandstetter Mystery - 7

    In a remote spot outside L.A., a giant truck suddenly plunges in flames off a mountain road at midnight. It looks like and accident, but it isn't. Someone had fastened a bomb under the truck, killing owner-driver, Paul Myers, who was insured for a hu...

  • Pretty Boy Dead

    Scorned by his famiy, defeated by society, Steve was at a major crossroads in his life. His marriage had gone sour, his hopes as a playwright dashed. Confused and friendless, Steve turned to pretty boy Coy Randol for love and support. But then Coy wa...

  • Steps Going Down

  • The Little Dog Laughed

    • / Law Enforcement
    • Buy Buy
    A Dave Brandstetter Mystery - 8

    While investigating a suicide, Dave Brandstetter discovers a dead reporter's final scoop. Journalist Adam Streeter covered some of the most dangerous stories of the last quarter century, ranging from Cambodia to Siberia and anywhere troubled in betwe...

  • Brandstetter and Other Stories

  • Early Graves

    A Dave Brandstetter Mystery - 9

    The brutality of the AIDS epidemic and a nation's growing homophobia set the stage for a serial killer targeting gay men in Los Angeles -- and Dave Brandstetter finds himself in the killer's path. Dave Brandstetter's afternoon does not begin well: hi...

  • Bohannon's Book

  • Obedience

    A Dave Brandstetter Mystery - 10

    With retirement just out of reach, Dave Brandstetter investigates the killing of a Vietnamese immigrant.As an insurance investigator, Dave Brandstetter has spent his life unraveling suspicious deaths. Now, well into middle age, he has decided to reti...

  • The Boy Who Was Buried This Morning

    A Dave Brandstetter Mystery - 11

    While investigating a suicide, Dave Brandstetter discovers a dead reporter's final scoop. Journalist Adam Streeter covered some of the most dangerous stories of the last quarter century, ranging from Cambodia to Siberia and anywhere troubled in betwe...



  • A Country of Old Men

    A Dave Brandstetter Mystery - 12

    Dave Brandstetter’s best days are behind him, but for the sake of a frightened child, Dave takes on his very last case. The wear and tear of a life spent pursuing the truth into harm’s way is catching up with Dave. In fact, it has already caught ...

  • Bohannon's Country

    From the author of the acclaimed Dave Brandstetter series and winner of the Private Eye Writers of America Lifetime Achievement Award comes a superb new collection of mysteries. Fascinating crime fighter Hack Bohannon roams along the central Californ...

  • Living Upstairs

    Joseph Hansen has been praised by The New York Times as "one of the best we have" and by the Boston Globe as among "our finest writers." Known for his bestselling Dave Brandstetter series, Hansen here tells a richly atmospheric story of a young homos...

  • Jack of Hearts

    Befriending a group of colorful individuals who run the college newspaper, seventeen-year-old Nathan Reed pursues his dream of becoming a writer, until he discovers the emotional penalties of growing up and expressing his sexuality. 12,000 first prin...

  • Widower's Walk

    in The Night Awakens

    The crowned Queen of Suspense, #1 New York Times bestselling author Mary Higgins Clark, has no peer in the realm of stylish, sophisticated thrillers -- brilliant, breathtaking tales that delve into the deepest affairs of the heart, the darkest crimes...

  • Blood, Snow, and Classic Cars

  • Bohannon's Women

  • Zombie Rush 4

    The morning after… -hair of the dog- as people used to say after an all-night binge, prayin’ to the porcelain gods was the one Lisa enjoyed saying back in the day. Back in the days when someone could afford to lose consciousness without fears of ...

  • Zombie Rush

    The morning after… -hair of the dog- as people used to say after an all-night binge, prayin’ to the porcelain gods was the one Lisa enjoyed saying back in the day. Back in the days when someone could afford to lose consciousness without fears of...

  • Cataclysm

    Where legends are made The cataclysm broke the world, tectonic plates shifting for several millennia before forming new lands. Humanity and all life reduced to its barest minimum, some dying a slow agonizing death of starvation in a barren yet violen...



  • Gone To Dog

    The age of plenty is dead. Wars and rumors of wars-from economic collapse to cult driven genocide. Flesh eating cannibals were blamed but no one really knew the truth, no one really wanted to know the truth. Where there was once life and hope there i...

  • Splinter

    Cold Spring is a sleepy little town that had known its share of heartache. A school shooting, a murdered cop were just a few things that marred the nature of this little community. Nestled between foot hills of granite and a chain of lakes this pictu...

  • Then Came the Red Horse

    It was a new day for Officer Lisa Reynolds, a new job, and a whole new life for the woman who had dedicated herself to law enforcement. If only the New had ended there. What came next brought the world to its knees in a way no one but the most deprav...

  • Rampage Of The Red Horse

    The entity War had chosen well, Lisa Reynolds fought the only way she knew how...to win. Her message spread far and wide, spreading knowledge on how to fight and survive this scourge that was destroying humanity. Those who could, flocked to her banne...

  • The Thunder Of War

    Reminders of the dying world wander the streets as rotting meat, no goals or purpose, no conscious thought. An incessant need to feed, their only reason to exist, it was all they were, a cruel joke played by Conquest to make War's task more difficult...

  • Paetro's Journey

    A lot had changed for me, since I came to the little town of Stoney Brook. My cover was blown, and I was no longer an agent for the Eastern Confedracy, the giant dogs had followed me here and started chewing up the town's folk and all sorts of other ...

  • Upon A Pale Horse

    Famine took to it's task, spending over a century, to suck the life and soul from the earth.Yet humans still warred and killed each other, the presence of the servant War, becoming nothing but an excuse for people to excise their demons upon one anot...

  • Cutbank Path

    • / General Fiction
    • Buy Buy

    Jack of Hearts and Living Upstairs (Lambda Award, 1993) chronicled the times of young writer-to-be Nathan Reed in the early 1940s. In The Cutbank Path, it¿s 1952, and Nathan, bright, talented, funny, but not too smart about life, is living happily w...

  • The Man Everyone Was Afraid Of

    • / Mystery
    • Buy Buy

    In the small town of La Caleta, Dave Brandstetter investigates the murder of a very unpopular cop.

    When Ben Orton's head is found bludgeoned by a heavy flower pot, the people of La Caleta are stunned--not because their police chief has been ...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Joseph Hansen has published 38 books.

Joseph Hansen does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Upon A Pale Horse, was published in March 2022.

The first book by Joseph Hansen, Fadeout, was published in January 1970.

Yes. Joseph Hansen has 1 series.
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