Pete Hautman

Author of Godless

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About the Author

Pete Hautman has written many novels for adults, including Doohickey, as well as the teen novels Hole in the Sky, Stone Cold, and Mr. Was, which was nominated for an Edgar Award by the Mystery Writers of America. He divides his time between the Twin Cities of Minnesota and the shores of Lake Pepin show more in southwestern Wisconsin show less

Includes the names: Pete Hautman, Peter Hautman

Disambiguation Notice:

Writes children’s books under the name Peter Murray (2).

Image credit: Photo by Linda Poverman

Series

The Klaatu Diskos

The Bloodwater Mysteries

Joe Crow

Works by Pete Hautman

Popular Recent

Godless (2004) 873 copies

Rash (2006) 606 copies

Invisible (2005) 480 copies

Sweetblood (2003) 417 copies

The Obsidian Blade (2012) 298 copies

Slider (2017) 231 copies

Blank Confession (2010) 207 copies

The Big Crunch (2011) 201 copies

Mr. Was (1996) 179 copies

Snatched (2006) 145 copies

Hole in the Sky (2001) 127 copies

All-in (2007) 124 copies

How To Steal A Car (2009) 122 copies

Eden West (2015) 116 copies

The Cydonian Pyramid (2013) 116 copies

Otherwood (2018) 92 copies

What Boys Really Want (2012) 73 copies

The Mortal Nuts (1996) 68 copies

The Klaatu Terminus (2014) 62 copies

Drawing Dead (1993) 56 copies

The Bloodwater Mysteries: Skullduggery (2007) 50 copies

The Prop: A Novel (2006) 48 copies

Short Money (1995) 44 copies

Mrs. Million (1999) 44 copies

No Limit (2005) 40 copies

The Bloodwater Mysteries: Doppelganger (2008) 38 copies

Ring Game (1997) 37 copies

Rag Man (2001) 36 copies

The Flinkwater Factor (The Flinkwater Chronicles) (2015) 36 copies

Stone Cold (1998) 32 copies

Full House (2007) — Editor; Contributor — 31 copies

Doohickey : A Novel (2002) 28 copies

Road Tripped (2019) 22 copies

The Rat Queen (2022) 15 copies

The Forgetting Machine (The Flinkwater Chronicles) (2016) 10 copies

The Bloodwater Mysteries: Doppelganger (Bloodwater Mysteries) 8 copies

Feeling Lucky (1999) 2 copies

Bad Beat, with Joe Crow's Rules for Poker and Life (1998) 2 copies

Was Jungs wollen: Roman (German Edition) (2013) 1 copy

Was Jungs wollen 1 copy

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Associated Works

Twin Cities Noir (2006) — Contributor — 86 copies

On The Edge: Stories At The Brink (2000) — Contributor — 62 copies

Irreconcilable Differences (1999) — Contributor — 33 copies

Politics Noir: Dark Tales from the Corridors of Power (2008) — Contributor — 14 copies

Once Upon a Crime: An Anthology of Murder, Mayhem, and Suspense (2009) — Contributor — 13 copies

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Common Knowledge

Legal name: Hautman, Peter Murray
Other names: Murray, Peter (pen name)
Birthdate: 1952-09-29
Gender: male
Nationality: USA
Birthplace: Berkeley, California, USA
Places of residence: St. Louis Park, Minnesota, USA
Education: University of Minnesota
Minneapolis College of Art and Design
Disambiguation notice: Writes children’s books under the name Peter Murray (2).

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Reviews

Godless (National Book Award for Young People's… by Pete Hautman

As a National Book Award winner I thought I'd be in for a good read. And it started that way, but it fizzled before its conclusion. It feels like the book version of kids using a low-level curse word...they get that thrill that comes with going against expectations, but there's no harm really done. I think that's how they'd feel reading this book too.

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Sean191 | 37 other reviews | Apr 7, 2024 |

Otherwood by Pete Hautman

This was well plotted, but I didn’t find the characters that likable and struggled with the concept of how truth effects reality.

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cspiwak | 18 other reviews | Mar 6, 2024 |

Drawing Dead by Pete Hautman

When Lawrence Block, the grand poobah of American crime fiction, praises you in a blurb for your book jacket, you know you've done something right, as Pete Hautman has here. A hell of a story, very well written. What more can a reader ask for?

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Mark_Feltskog | 2 other reviews | Dec 23, 2023 |

The Cydonian Pyramid (Klaatu Diskos #2) by Pete Hautman

FROM AMAZON: More than half a millennium in the future, in the shadow of the looming Cydonian Pyramid, a pampered girl named Lah Lia has been raised for one purpose: to be sacrificed through one of the mysterious diskos that hover over the pyramid’s top. But just as she is about to be killed, a strange boy appears from the diskos, providing a cover of chaos that allows her to escape and launching her on a time-spinning journey in which her fate is irreversibly linked to his.The second book in the Klaatu Diskos trilogy, The Cydonian Pyramid continues the story of the enigmatic girl who changed Tucker Feye’s life, returning listeners to the terrifying, thrilling, and elusive worlds found in the diskos.… (more)

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