Dave White
When One Man Dies
(Open Road, April 2025)
Itās been four years since Jackson Donne went from cop to private investigator, so heās seen his share of trouble in New Brunswick, New Jersey. And he doesnāt like it when it hits too close to homeāor, in this case, too close to the Olde Towne Tavern, Donneās home-away-from-home. His drinking buddy, Gerry Figuroa, gets killed right outside the bar in a hit-and-run. Just when Donne is looking for a fresh start by returning to college at twenty-eight years old, heās drawn back into the game. All this while investigating a suspected cheating husband.
Donne soon discovers that Gerry was not the man he thought he knew. Instead, heās someone whose secrets will bring down a world of pain on his friends and relatives. And when Donne realizes that both of his cases have dangerous underworld connections, heās about to be launched into a world of violence . . .
Praise for When One Man Dies
ā[A] remarkable debut novel. . . . White manages the neat trick of respecting the genreās traditions while daring to nudge it toward something new and unexpected.ā āLaura Lippman,Ā New York Timesābestselling author
āA terrific novel, a unique and artful blend of the PI and the Police Procedural in a plot as nicely tangled and sexually violent as a cat fight.ā āJames Crumley, Dashiell Hammett Awardāwinning author
āWhite has written a PI novel that is both traditional and fresh, one of the few new talents to join this much-plowed field with something interesting and original to say.ā āChicago Sun-Times
āDerringer Awardāwinner Whiteās engrossing, evocative debut novel will grab most readers from its opening sentences.ā āPublishers WeeklyĀ (starred review)
Dave White is the Derringer Awardāwinning author of six novels including the Jackson Donne series.Ā His short story āClosureā won the Derringer Award for Best Short Mystery Story. His standalone thriller Witness to Death wasĀ named one of the Best Books of the Year by theĀ Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. He lives in New Jersey.