Daniel Doeden Books
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From TouchPoint Press
RECKONINGS (YA/New Adult)
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First Place Winner: Next Generation Indie Book Awards - Young Adult/New Adult Fiction
Finalist: The WILLA Literary Award - Young Adult Fiction​
Living with her single mom in tiny La Via, Arizona, sixteen year-old Etta Baker has grown up independent and headstrong – and definitely too smart for her own good. It’s just after WWII and evil men are expanding drug trafficking across the West. Her mother’s new boyfriend is one of them. When he kills Etta’s mother and disappears, Etta is determined to bring him to justice and impulsively tracks down her mother’s long-lost older brother to enlist his aid.
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On horseback, they track the murderer and his gang through the wilderness of The Sierra Crest, where the beauty of the landscape quickly gives way to deadly violence, both natural and manmade.
The journey forges unexpected family bonds between them, forces Etta to re-examine her sense of self, and requires her to do what she never could have imagined in order to save both their lives.
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In Paperback and Digital
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From Gale/Cengage Five Star Mystery
LEVERAGE (crime fiction thriller)
Onetime Mob enforcer Frank Falco rose through the ranks to become the Chicago Mob’s top lawyer, but when he lost his license for jury tampering, the Mob no longer wanted him.
Now, he’s scraping by as a private dick and trying to get his life together. It isn’t going well: he’s behind in child support, he’s losing touch with his teen-age daughter, his girlfriend is growing distant, and his ex-wife is dating a state prosecutor who will do anything to get him out of her life.
All of this pales however when his former capo summons him to find his estranged stepdaughter who has disappeared with the Mob’s books, making Falco an offer he can’t refuse - “You either find my kid, or lose your own”.
Falco is soon on a collision course with enemies old and new: his capo’s ex-wife and Falco’s former lover; a giant hitman with a deadly grudge; a vicious loan shark; and a host of rival mobsters who want the books even more than he does. Suddenly, it’s just like the old days - kill or be killed. Lucky for Falco, he hasn’t forgotten his old skills. Published in hardcover by Gale/Cengage's Five Star imprint.
THE CRUX ANSATA (noir suspense fiction)
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/books/1103104524?type=eBook
A cynical private eye, a beautiful and dangerous woman, a violent English thug, and a team of Arab criminals – it’s the perfect recipe for trouble.
And that’s what Chicago PI Joe Killan finds, as he searches for an ancient cross of gold and precious jewels, a search that leaves five men dead and Killan caught in a crossfire between modern Islamic extremism and old-fashioned American greed.
A unique blend of unsettling fact and exciting fiction, The Crux Ansata is a fresh take on the detective genre, a smart and sexy update to a classic plot, finely tuned for today's readers. Available at https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/crux-ansata-dan-doeden/1103104524
