Dave Jackson: 56 books

DERAILED Another engaging page-turner in the Windy City Neighbors series Forced to give up his hard-earned retirement, Harry Bentley goes back to work as a K-9 detective, receiving a bizarre undercover assignment that sends him across the country by train. Things suddenly go awry when...

When Living Together in a World Falling Apart was first published in 1974, tensions in society—an unpopular war, racial divisions, fearful economics, the seeming futility of “success,” and widespread alienation—were not addressed in most churches. Racism still thrived, worship meant three...

Historical fiction about great Christian heroes. Introducing Sheldon Jackson. As Adam Christian graduates from the famous Sitka Industrial and Training School, he dreams of one day becoming famous—like Dr. Sheldon Jackson, who started the school. The last thing Adam wants to do is...

FORTY to LIFE Urban suspense on the streets! by Dave Jackson Just one shot, and Ray became a KILLER! Provoked by his gang leader into shooting an innocent guy, Ray now faces a forty-year sentence in Chicago’s infamous prison system. As far as he is concerned, it might as well be...

Historical fiction about great Christian heroes. Introducing Harriet Tubman. Living as a slave with her family on an old Maryland plantation in 1853, twelve-year-old Rosebud Jackson had been helping her mother with the cooking for the Big House as long as she could remember. Rosebud’s...

POUND FOOLISH Greg Singer coordinates consumer sports shows for powerboats, four wheelers, snowmobiles, and jet skis—macho toys for outdoor men like himself. But the job puts tremendous stress on his marriage with Nicole, who for the first time notices the handsome lawyer at the end of the...

SNOWMAGEDDON, Book 5 in the Windy City Neighbors series, takes us back to the Bentley household as Estelle crusades for a group home to move onto their block in hopes that her mentally challenged son can become one of the residents. But the tenuous relationships the Bentleys have developed since they...

Lucy Tucker has been on the streets of Chicago for 50 years. Why won’t she come home? Fifteen-year-old Cindy worked long days beside her migrant worker family in Michigan’s sugar beet fields in the early 1940s—the “war years”—until she met a dashing young man from a traveling carnival,...

Historical fiction about great Christian heroes. Introducing George Muller. By the time Curly Roddy was twelve years old, he’d already survived six years as a homeless orphan on the cruel streets of London in the 1870s. He slept in dustbins and ate orange peels when he could find...

These stories of 15 Anabaptist martyrs represent thousands of men and women who witnessed to their faith with their lives during the sixteenth century. These accounts are based the court records, letters, and personal diaries compiled in MARTYRS MIRROR by Thieleman J. van Braght and first...

Historical fiction about great Christian heroes. Introducing John Bunyan. Twelve-year-old Richard Winslow learns firsthand just how dangerous London of 1660 can be when his father is arrested for treason and imprisoned in the Tower of London. Worried about the rest of the family’s...

Historical fiction about great Christian heroes. Introducing William Seymour. Jerry Newman doesn’t mean to keep getting into trouble—it just sort of happens. But when a practical joke goes wrong, burning down a church in his small east Texas town, Jerry’s widowed mother quickly...

Historical fiction about great Christian heroes. Introducing Dwight L. Moody. Fourteen-year-old Casey Watkins wants nothing more than to escape his family’s dreary, bare-bones life in the Philadelphia of 1893. When he learns of an opening in Adam Forepaugh’s Circus, it seems like...

Historical fiction about great Christian heroes. Introducing Charles Loring Brace. For Kip O'Reilly, life on the streets doesn't seem all that bad. At least he and the other rovers have each other, and that's more than enough to keep them happy--well, as long as they can steal to survive....