William Heffernan Book & Series List

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19 Books (2 Series)
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February 1980
Latest Book:

April 2017
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Complete Book List

Full Series List in Order

A Dead Detective Novel

1 - The Dead Detective (Oct-2010)
2 - The Scientology Murders (Apr-2017)

A Paul Devlin Mystery

1 - Ritual (Mar-1989)
2 - Blood Rose (Mar-1991)
3 - Scarred (Dec-1993)
4 - Tarnished Blue (Apr-1995)
5 - Winter's Gold (Jan-1997)
6 - Red Angel (Dec-2000)
7 - Unholy Order (Jan-2002)

Book List in Order: 19 titles

Broderick
- Feb-1980
- / General Fiction
Broderick, a New York cop with a reputation for toughness, is stalked by a petty crook, falls in love with an uptown woman, momentarily enters the world of the rich, and learns that he is being double-crossed and manipulated by the city's power broke...

Caging the Raven
- Sep-1981
- / Suspense

The Corsican
- Jul-1983
- / General Fiction
In a novel that moves from Nazi-occupied France to contemporary Saigon, Pierre Sartene, grandson of the ruler of a financial empire founded on crime, searches for the man--a betrayer of the Sartene organization--who murdered his father...

Acts of Contrition
- Nov-1986
- / General Fiction
Taut and grittily realistic, this explosive novel of deceit and revenge weaves a suspenseful tale of a man who built his career on his ability to cover up the past, and of the woman who made it her business to expose it. From the author of The Corsic...

Ritual
- Mar-1989
- / Law Enforcement
A Paul Devlin Mystery - 1

Blood Rose
- Mar-1991
- / Law Enforcement
A Paul Devlin Mystery - 2

Former New York City Detective Paul Devlin seeks safety in his new job as chief of police of a small Vermont town and finds a murder case hitting close to home when a serial killer targets the woman he loves. Reprint....

Corsican Honor
- Aug-1992
- / Suspense
When Ernst Ludwig, one of the world's most feared terrorists, comes to Marseilles on a mission of terror, it is up to CIA agent Alex Moran to stop Ludwig, but the explosive situation becomes further complicated by the involvement of the Corcican Mafi...

Scarred
- Dec-1993
- / Law Enforcement
A Paul Devlin Mystery - 3

Detective Paul Devlin comes out of early retirement to match wits with a vicious serial killer who first disfigures and then, after allowing them to suffer months of agony, brutally murders his victims. By the author of Blood Rose. Original....

Tarnished Blue
- Apr-1995
- / Police Procedural
A Paul Devlin Mystery - 4

Paul Devlin, Inspector of Detectives for the mayor of New York City, probes the murder of a police captain, a hero cop rumored to be gay, and uncovers a deadly conspiracy of sex, blackmail, and death leading to the highest levels of government. Origi...

Winter's Gold
- Jan-1997
- / Police Procedural
A Paul Devlin Mystery - 5

New York Police Detective Paul Devlin investigates the alleged suicide of a famous socialite at her ex-husband's apartment, a case that takes him from the glamourous lives of the glittering elite to the dark evil of the criminal underworld. Reprint....

The Dinosaur Club
- Jun-1997
- / Suspense
Jack Fallon's life is being downsized. His wife of twenty-four years is dumping him, and the only company he's ever worked for is about to do the same....The head honchos at Waters Cable have implemented a "workforce imbalance correction," which incl...

Cityside
- Jul-1999
- / Suspense
"Funny, sad, clever, original, heartwarming, timely, and terrific . . . A must-read."� -- Nelson DeMille"Highly recommended . . . Heffernan is masterly in -examining the scruples of corporate downsizing with a discerning eye and levity in his cauldro...

Red Angel
- Dec-2000
- / Police Procedural
A Paul Devlin Mystery - 6

Anyone who brings grief to the people NYPD detective Paul Devlin loves is going to have to pay. That's why he's accompanying Adrianna Mendez, the lady of his heart, to Cuba, where Adrianna's aunt Maria has met with a serious "accident." A great hero ...

Beulah Hill
- Feb-2001
- / Suspense
A novel of rare literary distinction, an erotic thriller combined with a true mystery, and a look back at a little-known part of the American societal patchwork -- Beulah Hill, by bestselling author William Heffernan, is a brilliant and deeply origin...

Unholy Order
- Jan-2002
- / Law Enforcement
A Paul Devlin Mystery - 7

The leader of an elite squad of NYPD homicide detectives, maverick man-hunter Paul Devlin returns in an electrifying novel of suspense that plumbs terrible secrets hidden in the untouchable world of the righteous. UNHOLY ORDER No evil is more fri...

A Time Gone By
- Aug-2003
- / Suspense
Spanning the years from 1945 to 1975, A Time Gone By is rich in atmosphere and ripe with the kind of white-hot, hardboiled sexuality that distinguished the classic detective novels of authors like Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett, and the noir f...

The Dead Detective
- Oct-2010
- / Mystery
A Dead Detective Novel - 1

Harry Doyle was murdered as a ten-year-old child and brought back to life by two Tampa cops. Twenty years later he has dedicated his life to putting killers behind bars as a homicide detective who has the unwanted ability to hear the postmortem whisp...

When Johnny Came Marching Home
- Oct-2012
- / Historical Mystery
When Johnny Came Marching Home is a mystery, a love story, and William Heffernan's best book to date. The novel tells the story of three boys who grow up in rural Vermont in a seemingly indestructible friendship, then see their lives ruined as they g...

The Scientology Murders
- Apr-2017
- / Police Procedural
A Dead Detective Novel - 2

A series of murders in Florida have left the police force baffled and Detective Harry Doyle's much-loved adoptive father seriously wounded. As his investigation becomes personal, Doyle--known to his peers as the Dead Detective--finds he must penetrat...