Authors: Christopher Newman.
Mass Market Paperback, 10 pages
Publisher: Fawcett
Publication Date: 1987-08-12


Reviews :

    "Newman really knows the territory."
WIlliam Caunitz
Author of ONE POLICE PLAZA
A millionaire art collector is hacked to death with a kitchen knife, his precioous paintings slashed to bits; a fat-cat neurosurgeon is slapped with a killer malpractice suit that could ruin his marriage, his practice, and his torrid affair with a cokehead. Brilliant detective Joe Dante, formerly of Midtown South, now assigned to the sixth precinct, is tracking down the killer, when an even more baffling murder forces him to question everything and everyone he knows.......

Authors: Christopher Newman.
Mass Market Paperback, pages
Publisher: Fawcett
Publication Date: 1991-03-31


Reviews :

    A big shot cop from Internal Affairs is found dead in a Hell's Kitchen alley. The official report says the shooter was a local lowlife, but Detective Joe Dante knows that the cops from Internal Affairs have more enemies on the Force than off it. Was the cop murdered by one of his own? As Dante presses his investigation, the department closes ranks, and soon Dante must put his own life on the line to stop the killer from striking again . . ....

Authors: Christopher Newman.
Mass Market Paperback, 295 pages
Publisher: Fawcett
Publication Date: 1986-07-12


Reviews :

    The rich, the poor, and the evil take on two New York cops in a gripping novel that rips the city wide open....

Authors: Christopher Newman.
Mass Market Paperback, pages
Publisher: Fawcett
Publication Date: 1989-02-28


Reviews :

    The designer of the trend-setting new sportswear line of the Close Apparel label is found bludgeoned to death in the corporate offices. Missing items point to a piracy ring that could cost the company plenty. Still, Detective Joe Dante wonders whether cheap off-the-rack knock-offs are worth killing for. An arrogant U.S. Treasury Agent shows up and steps all over Dante's case. A beautiful model is targeted for death. For Joe Dante, there's a lot more at stake than the new fall line . . ....

Authors: Christopher Newman.
Paperback, 10 pages
Publisher: Berkley
Publication Date: 1995-02-01


Reviews :

    Suspecting foul play when a major-league pitcher is found dead of a drug overdose just before the last game of the playoffs, Detective Lieutenant Joe Dante and his partner, Jumbo Richardson, wonder who would profit from a Yankees victory. Reprint. PW. ...

Authors: Christopher Newman.
Mass Market Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Dell
Publication Date: 1996-12-02


Reviews :

    When maverick New York detective Joe Dante is ambushed in the middle of the street out of revenge, the lieutenant begins his hunt for killer who had come after him, following a trail of dead bodies closer to his quarry--and a shattering betrayal. ...

Authors: Christopher Newman.
Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Dell
Publication Date: 1997-12-01


Reviews :

    Detective Joe Dante lives in a downtown loft and hangs with an uptown crowd.  A cop who doesn't act, talk, or play like other cops, Dante's got Brooklyn-bred street smarts and a half-finished Ph.D. dissertation on his bookshelf.  But when a man is struck down by a car outside a posh Manhattan hotel, Dante is plunged into a world like no other he's ever seen.

The victim was a corporate executive.  The killer was a hit-and-run driver.  And when Dante and his team investigate the accident, they find a billion-dollar stock-market deal and the tracks of a Wall Street financier gone missing from his Sutton Place co-op.

Now Dante is putting together the jagged pieces of a puzzle of sex, money, ambition, and high-tech fraud.  It's a hunt that will take him from the pinnacle of high finance to Manhattan's meanest streets.  Because Detective Joe Dante is chasing a man who has a thirty-eight-million-dollar motive for murder--multiple murder--and the cunning to get away wit...

Authors: Christopher Newman.
Mass Market Paperback, pages
Publisher: Fawcett
Publication Date: 1993-04-24


Reviews :

    "Newmanis oneof the best in the business."
William J. Caunitz
Author of EXCEPTIONAL CLEARANCE
Even cynical New York City is rocked by the brutal murder of Congresswoman Cora Davis. Lt. Joe Dante's only suspect are the last two people to see Davis alive: the lead singer in the rock megaband Crucifixion and the wife of a right-wing Southern senator. As Dante is caught up in a tangle of hypocrisy and intrigue, angry NYPD brass are breathing down his neck, and he's up to his chin in blackmail, sex scandals, cover-ups and new bodies. If he doesn't crack this case, his badge is on the line--but trapping his vicious prey means putting himself in the line of fire.......

Authors: Christopher Newman.
Audio Cassette, pages
Publisher: Random House Audio
Publication Date: 1998-05-19


Reviews :

    Edgar Award-winning editor Otto Penzler presents
Sounds Like Murder
Original, unabridged mysteries available on audio

1 cassette / 110 minutes
Unabridged
Read by Darrell Larson

"This is old-fashioned story-telling at its best.  Interesting and involving tales from some of the masters of mysteries."
-Michael Connelly, author of Blood Work


Three thousand acres next to Branson, Missouri, is a gold mine to the wealthy and eccentric Sir Reginald Hollister.  "Clean American Fun" could be the biggest theme park north of Disneyland.  There's one catch: when a woman is found murdered, all eyes and evidence point to Hollister.  But when two secret service agents arrive on the scene, suddenly politicians, actors, and an irreverent revered all have reason to dispense with "Clean American Fun."

Other titles in the SOUNDS LIKE MURDER series include:
Driving Lessons by Ed McBain
The Case of the Scottish Tragedy by June Thompson
The Poster Boy by Stephen Solomita
The Sedgemoor Stranger by Peter Lovesey
A Tale About a Tiger by S.J. Rozan...

    Christopher Newman's short mystery Clean American Fun mixes greed, corruption, lust, and murder to create an interestingly wicked plot set smack dab in the middle of the American heartland. This down-home setting suits the everyman's voice of narrator and actor Darrel Larson just fine as he calmly spins Newman's murderous tale.

The story begins as a ruthless English billionaire starts buying up property around Branson, Missouri, stepping on a lot of toes in the process. The local folks don't like this interloper one bit, and when the evidence in a particularly nasty murder points to the town's new and unwelcome neighbor, they like him even less. "The crime of which Hollister stood accused was heinous no matter how you sliced it: Amber Billingsley, a senior-to-be at Branson High, was found nude in a culvert near Table Rock Dam. Dead by strangulation." Before long, the media, politicos, and clergy stir things up, and it takes some serious sleuthing to uncover the whole sordid truth.

Larson uses his voice to its fullest, giving a satisfactory performance. He sometimes struggles with some of the character's accents, but since Newman has thrown everyone from a backwater Bubba to a British aristocrat into his melting pot of a cast, few narrators wouldn't. (Running time: two hours, one cassette) --George Laney...

Authors: Christopher Newman.
Mass Market Paperback, pages
Publisher: Fawcett
Publication Date: 1990-01-29


Reviews :

    In 1963, a beautiful young girl dies in the middle of an abortion on a cold table in a motel room. The cover-up is quick, quiet and -- for almost thirty years -- worth every penny. Now it's 1991. At the dawn of a presidential campaign, the old secret suddenly surfaces. To one man it means enormous profit. To a second man it means a lethal mystery. When the stakes are high, there are no loyalties and no rules -- even for top-level U.S. government agents. Especially for them....