Richard Hoyt

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  • Bibliography:
    25 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    August 1980
  • Latest Book:
    December 2013
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Full Series List in Order

James Burlane

1 - Trotsky's Run (Sep-1982)
2 - Head of State (Sep-1985)
3 - The Dragon Portfolio (Nov-1986)
4 - Siege (Jul-1987)
5 - Marimba (Jul-1992)
6 - Red Card (Aug-1995)
7 - Japanese Game (Feb-1995)
8 - Tyger! Tyger! (Apr-1996)

A John Denson Mystery

1 - Decoys (Aug-1980)
2 - 30 For a Harry (Aug-1981)
3 - The Siskiyou Two-Step (May-1983)
4 - Fish Story (Mar-1985)
5 - Whoo? (Nov-1991)
6 - Bigfoot (Jan-1993)
7 - Snake Eyes (Dec-1995)
8 - The Weatherman's Daughters (Jul-2003)
9 - Pony Girls (May-2004)

Book List in Order: 25 titles

  • Decoys

    A John Denson Mystery - 1

    John Denson is a private eye for the eighties, the world's first soft-boiled sleuth. He washes down his raw vegetables with screw-top wine, refuses to pack a rod, is a pigeon for a beautiful woman with a problem, and lives by the honor code of detect...

  • 30 For a Harry

    A John Denson Mystery - 2

    When John Denson is hired by a faltering newspaper to uncover the 'Harry' (a reporter using inside information for extortion) on its staff, he discovers that blackmail is only a small part of a labyrinthine scheme of international corruption and brut...

  • The Manna Enzyme

  • Trotsky's Run

    James Burlane - 1

    When the famous British traitor Kim Philby contacts a U.S. Agent in Moscow claiming to have important information, the CIA is cautiously interested. Their counterintelligence director Ara Schott, normally a desk man, goes along to Yalta to talk to Ph...

  • The Siskiyou Two-Step

    A John Denson Mystery - 3

    John Denson, private investigator, goes to Oregon's North Umpqua River to fish trout but, instead finds himself caught up in a net of international intelligence agents and academics. It all starts when the naked body of a girl with a bullet hole betw...

  • Cool Runnings

  • Fish Story

    A John Denson Mystery - 4

    Denson is involved in an Indian salmon-fishing-territory case that suddenly flares into murder and sawed-up bodies......

  • Head of State

    James Burlane - 2

    Isaak Ginsburg, an unknown Russian poet, is sent to a Siberian labor camp. After his release he pretends to be a model citizen and rises to become the state's most celebrated poet. Enlisting the aid of dissident Estonians, the beautiful wife of a Rus...

  • The Dragon Portfolio

    James Burlane - 3

    In China...the reds are out to hit American capital markets for half a billion dollars.... Ella Nidech, American spy on the rise, and James Burlane, the CIA-s very best man of action...turn out to be the hottest new team to do battle...with others...



  • Siege

    James Burlane - 4

    SIEGE is a welcome find, the characters cleverly drawn . . . It is cynical, humorous, violent, and Byzantine. In other words., it admirably reflects the current world state of affairs. —Baltimore Sun A PIECE OF THE ROCKGibraltar-there's no way...

  • Darwin's Secret

    This is a wild, picaresque adventure story of a riverboat trip deep into the heart of the Amazon basin. When the exotic riverboat Barco Igaranha casts off from Belem, her passengers cannot possibly imagine what awaits them on the river. Nicholas Boda...

  • Whoo?

    A John Denson Mystery - 5

    When private eye John Denson travels to Washington State to clear a client of a small-time marijuana charge, he finds himself in the midst of a turf war between the mighty logging industry and the imperiled spotted owl. When a spotted owl is found mu...

  • Marimba

    James Burlane - 5

    James Burlane, ex-CIA and now working freelance for a high level government investigative committee, is on the surface the ultimate marimbeiro, a wild-haired, wok-toting adventurer with only a backpack to his name...Hoyt...knows the political intrica...

  • Bigfoot

    A John Denson Mystery - 6

    Northwest detective John Denson and his partner, Indian shaman Willie Prettybird, on the trail of the legendary Sasquatch. Denson and Prettybird are hired to guide Russian primatologist Sonja Popoleyev up the slopes of Mt. St. Helens on her quest to ...

  • Japanese Game

    James Burlane - 7

    The American government is about to get tough with Japan regarding unequal trade practices and infractions on American patents. Soon, though, word reaches Washington that Linda Shive, the 21-year-old daughter of the vice president, has been abducted ...

  • Red Card

    James Burlane - 6

    At the first U.S.-hosted World Cup, a package is delivered to German team manager Jens Steiner. Inside, Steiner finds one red and two yellow cards. Hours later, two of the team's hottest players are killed. Steiner realizes that in soccer the cards r...

  • Snake Eyes

    A John Denson Mystery - 7

    Trouble is piling up for cattle rancher Monty Hook. An outbreak of infectious anthrax forces him to slaughter hundreds of steers. His ranch is crawling with state police investigating the death of one of their own on Hook's land. Worse, the cattle ap...

  • Tyger! Tyger!

    James Burlane - 8

    In the forests of the world, the mighty tiger is rapidly disappearing, hunted for its bones which are a traditional ingredient in homeopathic medicines. James Burlane, former CIA agent, is called in to break up a ruthless smuggling ring which is syst...

  • Blood of Patriots

    Terrorists storm into the crowded House of Representatives and open fire. Within minutes, more than a hundred members of Congress and staff lie wounded, dead, or dying on the floor of the nerve center of American democracy. The nation is shocked, the...



  • Vivienne

    February 1968. The Chinese New Year. The Tet Offensive. Vietcong ambush American units all across South Vietnam. Meanwhile, back home, reporter Jim Quint covers the escalating antiwar protests, writing stories the brand him a coward and a traitor in...

  • Old Soldiers Sometimes Lie

    ON NOVEMBER 14. 1947, General Douglas MacArthur met in private with Emperor Hirohito. They spoke for ninety minutes. To this day, there is not official record of what was discussed…. Over five decades ago, MacArthur permitted General Yamashita Tom...

  • The Weatherman's Daughters

    A John Denson Mystery - 8

    Driving back to his cabin in northwest Oregon, Denson is caught in a freakish shower of live salmon, the fish being sucked from the adjacent Columbia River by a giant waterspout. Amid this deluge, he discovers a young woman with a bullet hole in her ...

  • Pony Girls

    A John Denson Mystery - 9

    Strange doings: European jumping horses have died mysteriously. Now prime Spanish mustang stallions are being killed all over the West. John Denson and Willie Sees the Night are retained to find the horse killers. Denson prefers logic, and the shaman...

  • Sonja's Run

    At the 1852 Christmas party hosted by Tsar Nicholas I, the plucky half-Chinese, half-Russian poet Sonja Sankova decks Peter "Colonel Cut" Koslov, who is infamous for his necklace of ears taken from serfs and Jews. In London that same night, American ...

  • Crow's Mind

    THE AUTHOR OF THE CRITICALLY-ACCLAIMED JOHN DENSON PACIFIC NORTHWEST MYSTERIES INTRODUCES JAKE HIPP, A MODERN-DAY HENRY DAVID THOREAU AS SLEUTH, AND HIS AMERICAN INDIAN PARTNER WILLOW BLACKWING. JAKE AND WILLOW PURSUE A GIRL WITH THE SAME ZEAL THAT D...

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Richard Hoyt has published 25 books.

Richard Hoyt does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Crow's Mind, was published in December 2013.

The first book by Richard Hoyt, Decoys, was published in August 1980.

Yes. Richard Hoyt has 2 series.
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