Pete Hautman

Pete Hautman is a National award-winning American author of young adult, mystery, realistic fiction, thriller, juvenile, children's books, and middle-grade novels. He is best known for writing the novel Godless, which has helped him to win many prestigious awards. The list of book series written by Hautman includes The Klaatu Diskos series, Denn Doyle series, Joe Crow series, Bloodwater Mysteries, and Flinkwater series.

The best place to start is the Joe Crow series, the earliest of Pete Hautman's multi-book series: it opens with Drawing Dead (1993) and runs to 5 books across 1993–1999, ending with Mrs. Million (1999). Pete Hautman's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.

Pete Hautman has 162 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1993 and 2025. 140 of them belong to 7 named series — the largest being the Joe Crow series with 5 books — and 22 are standalone titles, collections or anthologies.

Read each series in publication order — the numbered entries in each series follow the year each book first appeared. Pete Hautman's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Joe Crow (1993–1999, 5 books), Denn Doyle (1998–2007, 2 books) and Minnesota Byways (2005–2011, 4 books), plus 3 more.

This guide splits Pete Hautman's 162 books into 7 named series and 22 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Joe Crow (5 books, 1993–1999); Minnesota Byways (4 books, 2005–2011); Bloodwater Mysteries (3 books, 2006–2008); The Klaatu Diskos (3 books, 2012–2014); Denn Doyle (2 books, 1998–2007), plus 2 further series.