Dana E Donovan: 13 books

Book 1 in the Detective Marcella mysteries: A group of individuals proficient in the psychic academia of clairvoyance, mental telepathy and bilocation, working to understand life’s most unusual secrets soon realize that even their abilities of mind over matter can't save them from the blade of the surgeon stalker.

In book 11 of the Detective Marcella mystery series, a simple burglary escalates into murder when a witness turns up dead at the circus. With few leads and ample suspects, it’s all Tony can do to solve the case before the circus jumps. Complicating matters is Lilith, who suspects something nefarious...

Alex Payne would do anything to bring his wife back from the depths of her watery grave. But when a voodoo mambo offers her help, he soon realizes that turning back the tides of life comes not without its repercussions. Word count 80,290 Excerpt: The unglamorous side of a town’s underbelly...

Book 2 in the Detective Marcella mysteries: Pride, paranoia and paranormal forces all conspire to derail Detective Marcella’s investigation into a series of suspicious suicides in New Castle, Massachusetts. In this sequel to The Witch’s Ladder, Marcella learns that because of the ties that bind their pasts, every potential victim is also a possible suspect.

In this, book 3 of the Detective Marcella Mysteries, circumstances surrounding an unexplained spike in deaths among homeless men has Tony suspecting paranormal forces are again at work in the town of New Castle. But things get complicated when his investigation is stifled by his hopeless infatuation...

Book 4 in the Detective Marcella mysteries, shines a light on one of America’s darkest hours when a simple accusation could get a girl hanged. But as Lilith learns, history is always pending, and the art of witch hunting never dies.

Book 5 in the Detective Marcella mystery series finds our detectives investigating the murder of an ex-con paroled from prison eighteen years after pulling off a daring armored car heist and absconding with six million dollars in cash. Now for the unlikely group of suspects in his murder, the question is not who killed Rene Landau; the question is what did he do with the money?

The body count continues to rise in book six of the Detective Marcella series, as the boys of the Second Precinct investigate the theft of a pharmaceutical compound designed to synthesize the very essence of life. Complicating matters for Tony is the obsessive attraction he develops for Ursula, following a coven ceremony where things get more personal than he anticipated.

Plenty is a strange place and not what it seems. There is a dirty little secret there, which no one talks about, and what roams around in the tunnels below the streets, no one dares mention. Johnny Beckman knows that certain crimes can get a man in trouble wherever he goes. What he doesn't know is that in the town of Plenty, none is more serious than that of being too skinny.

Book 10 in the Detective Marcella mysteries: The safe is impregnable, the diamonds exceptional and the owners dysfunctional. So how is it that a twenty million dollar fortune could disappear so easily? For the boys of the Second Precinct, the answer is simple. Unfortunately, proving it is not. Book 10 in the Detective Marcella Witch's series.

Book 7 in the Detective Marcella mystery series. When Tony calls on the witches’ coven for help in finding a missing girl, he learns that his reluctance to participate in a ritual with Lilith may have cost him the chance of finding her alive

Book 8 in the Detective Marcella mystery series finds Tony spearheading a rescue mission to save the kidnapped Leona Diaz. The problem is, to do it, he’ll have to travel to an alternate universe where the laws of physics take a back seat to the unpredictability of a quasi-dimensional reality.

Book 9 in the Detective Marcella mystery series: The Guardians of Four, keepers of Earth’s elements and the prime essentials of witchcraft, are disappearing under strange circumstances. Have they succumbed to a prophetical reality, or merely perpetrated the best internet hoax in recent memory? Either...