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  • Bibliography:
    18 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    October 2001
  • Latest Book:
    June 2022
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Full Series List in Order

A Lorenzo Madrid Mystery

1 - Danger in Unlikely Places (May-2015)
2 - A Dangerous Assignment (May-2016)
3 - Danger by the Sea (May-2017)
4 - Dangerous Decisiones (Jul-2018)

A Thomas Martindale Mystery

1 - Murder at Yaquina Head (Oct-2001)
2 - Dead Whales Tell No Tales (Mar-2003)
3 - Lights, Camera-- Murder (Jul-2004)
4 - Murder Below Zero (May-2005)
5 - Searching for Murder (Aug-2006)
6 - Descent into Madness (Aug-2007)
7 - Yaquina White (Jul-2008)
8 - Murder in E-Flat Major (May-2010)
9 - Murder in the Steens (May-2012)

Warrior Chronicles

1 - Joshua: The Ultimate Warrior (Apr-2013)
2 - The Guardians of the Promise (Nov-2013)
3 - The Sacred Knight (Jan-2017)

Book List in Order: 18 titles



  • Thomas Martindale, a journalism professor, is enjoying the first day of his summer vacation on the Oregon coast. He has brought with him the active curiosity and investigative abilities that often get him into situations most people would ignore. Whe...



  • It is 1987 and college professor Thomas Martindale is teaching a summer writing seminar at the university's marine center on the rugged Oregon coast. A marine biologist dies under bizarre circumstances and his assistant, Tom's former lover, is arrest...



  • The high stakes game of university recruiting and a scandal involving athletes form the centerpiece of Ron Lovell’s new Thomas Martindale mystery, "Lights, Camera … Murder." Martindale is acting as the liaison between the university and a video p...



  • In his latest adventure, professor and sometime amateur sleuth Thomas Martindale leaves campus to sign on as a science writer for a research expedition to the Arctic for a change of pace from the often mundane world of the university. The work is ...



  • As has often happened to Thomas Martindale in the past, the routine events of everyday life can suddenly become very complicated. Take commencement, that most moving and rewarding event of the year on any campus. He is enjoying the ceremony as the...



  • Before he does anything else, amateur sleuth and college professor Thomas Martindale must get out of jail and clear his name. In the process, he has to find the real killer of a close friend and stop the fiendish plans of her former husband, a bio...



  • Thomas Martindale returns to the Yaquina Head lighthouse to begin his seventh adventure. The white of the title is cocaine and his accidental involvement with a drug gang causes him to have to flee Oregon. With the help of a friend in the Coast Guard...



  • The world of classical music, incriminating fingerprints, and a Federal justice system gone wrong ensnare Thomas Martindale in one of the most difficult situations ever. In a story that takes the college professor/amateur sleuth from the scene of ...



  • The southeast corner of Oregon is dry, flat, and, in certain areas, spectacularly beautiful. It probably has as many cows, sheep, and horses as people. The southeast corner of Oregon is not the usual place where a former investigative reporter tur...






  • Joshua: The Ultimate Warrior is a modern day action adventure story about a 4 year old boy that was abandoned and found by a Chinese Secret Agent who was in hiding here in the United States after he avenged his family's murder by eliminating the most...



  • THE GUARDIANS OF THE PROMISE is the sequel to Joshua: The Ultimate Warrior. Join Joshua: the Ultimate Warrior as he returns with the blessings of the Guardians and the assistance of their newest addition to embark on another epic mission to find the ...



  • Because of his involvement in breaking up a drug gang, Oregon attorney Lorenzo Madrid has become a marked man. The surviving members of that gang, led by Esteban Perez, want revenge. In fact, they may be trying to kill him. The experience of being...



  • A semester of teaching immigration law at the UCLA Law School has given Oregon attorney Lorenzo Madrid the change of scene he desperately needed. Gone were the PTSD symptoms brought on by a number of run-ins with members of a drug gang. Gone were ...



  • After 70 years, the vision of one of history's most insidious madmen was ready to fulfill its delusional destiny. The mystery surrounding the demise of the leader of the Third Reich and its resurrection was now manifesting in a far more demonic plot ...



  • As he is setting up a law practice in a small town Oregon, Lorenzo Madrid is faced with two vexing cases. In one, he must get a young politician out of a mental clinic where his unscrupulous stepmother had him committed so she can gain control of ...



  • Although Oregon Attorney Lorenzo Madrid was at first reluctant to take care of Tito, an orphan brought to this country illegally, he grows to love the little boy. That love turns into an obligation when the woman who took the boy leaves him in Lorenz...



  • Although Oregon Attorney Lorenzo Madrid was at first reluctant to take care of Tito, an orphan brought to this country illegally, he grows to love the little boy. That love turns into an obligation when the woman who took the boy leaves him in Lorenz...



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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Ron Lovell has published 18 books.

Ron Lovell does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Dangerous Decision?s, was published in June 2022.

The first book by Ron Lovell, Murder at Yaquina Head, was published in October 2001.

Yes. Ron Lovell has 3 series.