Order of David Housewright Books
David Housewright is an American author of crime fiction. He writes the Mac McKenzie and Holland Taylor series. He grew up in St. Paul, Minnesota. In high school, he edited the high school newspaper, but was fired for an editorial against the Vietnam War. He received his degree in Journalism from the University of St. Thomas. Before becoming a novelist, Housewright worked as a copywriter for several advertising agencies in the Twin Cities. He also worked as a journalist reporting for the Minneapolis Tribune, Albert Lea Evening Tribune, Grand Forks Herald and more. He lives with his wife and fellow writer Renee Marie Valois in Roseville, Minnesota.
David Housewright became a published novelist in 1995 with the novel Penance, which introduced his Holland Taylor character and went on to win the Edgar Award for Best First Novel in 1996 and was shortlisted for a Shamus Award. Below is a list of David Housewright’s books in order of when they were originally released:
Publication Order of Holland Taylor Books
| Penance | (1995) |    |
| Practice to Deceive | (1997) | |
| Dearly Departed | (1999) | |
| Darkness, Sing Me a Song | (2018) | |
| First, Kill the Lawyers | (2019) | |
Publication Order of Mac McKenzie Books
| A Hard Ticket Home | (2004) | |
| Tin City | (2005) | |
| Pretty Girl Gone | (2006) | |
| Dead Boyfriends | (2007) | |
| Madman on a Drum | (2008) | |
| Jelly's Gold | (2009) | |
| The Taking of Libbie, SD | (2010) | |
| Highway 61 | (2011) | |
| Curse of the Jade Lily | (2012) | |
| The Last Kind Word | (2013) | |
| The Devil May Care | (2014) | |
| Unidentified Woman #15 | (2015) | |
| Stealing the Countess | (2016) | |
| What the Dead Leave Behind | (2017) | |
| Like to Die | (2018) | |
| Dead Man's Mistress | (2019) | |
| From the Grave | (2020) | |
| What Doesn't Kill Us | (2021) | |
| Something Wicked | (2022) | |
| In a Hard Wind | (2023) | |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
| The Devil and the Diva | (2012) | |
| Finders Keepers | (2012) | |
Publication Order of Grifter's Song Books
| The Concrete Smile | (2019) | |
| People Like Us | (2019) | |
| The Whale | (2019) | |
| The Movie Makers | (2019) | |
| Lost in Middle America | (2019) | |
| Come the Apocalypse | (2019) | |
| Losing Streak | (2019) | |
| Gone Dead on You | (2020) | |
| Upgrade | (2020) | |
| The Money Block | (2020) | |
| The Sound of Breaking Bones | (2020) | |
| Still Life with Suitcase | (2020) | |
| Down Comes the Night | (2020) | |
| The Reckoner | (2021) | |
| The Rule of Thirds | (2021) | |
| The Down and Out | (2021) | |
| Travel Money | (2021) | |
| Rocky Mountain Lie | (2021) | |
| Open Up Your Heart | (2021) | |
| Ride Like Hell | (2021) | |
| The Alpha Whisperer | (2021) | |
| Dracula Wine | (2021) | |
| Diamond Dogs | (2022) | |
| Dusty and Bent | (2022) | |
| Concrete and Cocaine | (2022) | |
| The Low White Plain | (2022) | |
| Dangerous to Know | (2022) | |
| Madam Tomahawk | (2023) | |
| Outfoxed | (2023) | |
| Somewhere Outside Salvation | (2023) | |
Publication Order of Anthologies
| Twin Cities Noir | (2006) | |
| Resort to Murder | (2007) | |
| Once Upon a Crime: An Anthology of Murder, Mayhem and Suspense | (2009) | |
| Writes of Spring | (2012) | |
Note: The Devil and the Diva was co-authored with Renee Valois.
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David Housewright Synopsis: In the standalone novel Finders Keepers by David Housewright, James Richard McNulty is coming off his parents getting a divorce. That’s not all that’s wrong with his life, though. His grades are falling, bullies are coming after him, he may get kicked off the basketball team and his kinda/sorta girlfriend thinks there may be something wrong with him. That is, until he finds a suitcase full of money and there he believes he has found the answer to all of his problems. Or has he?
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