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'''Dave White''' (born 1979) is a [[Derringer Award]]-winning mystery author and educator. White, an eighth grade teacher for the [[Clifton Public Schools|Clifton, NJ Public School district]], has written two novels featuring former [[New Brunswick, New Jersey]] police detective turned [[private investigator]] Jackson Donne. The novels take place in locations around northern [[New Jersey]]. White grew up in [[Clifton, New Jersey]].<ref name="jj">{{cite news | last=Theodore | first=Jeff | work=[[The Jersey Journal]] | title=Keeping tabs on Jersey's 'Evil' | date=[[2008-08-04]]}}</ref> He attended [[Rutgers University]] and received his [[Master of Arts in Teaching|MAT]] from [[Montclair State University]]<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.montclair.edu/news/article.php?ArticleID=2408 | title=The Write Stuff: Alumni Authors | publisher=[[Montclair State University]] | accessdate=2008-08-04}}</ref>

White's two novels follow the characters established in his 2002 [[short story]] "Closure," which won the Derringer Award for Best Short Mystery Story the following year.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.thrillingdetective.com/trivia/triv233.html#2003 | title=Derringer Awards | publisher=The Short Mystery Fiction Society | accessdate=2008-08-06}}</ref> ''[[Publisher's Weekly]]'' has given both novels starred reviews calling ''When One Man Dies'' an "engrossing, evocative debut novel"<ref>{{cite news | work=[[Publisher's Weekly]] | title=Fiction | date=[[2007-07-09]] | url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6457559.html}}</ref> and writing that his second novel "fulfills the promise of his debut."<ref>{{cite news | work=[[Publisher's Weekly]] | title=Fiction Reviews: Week of 4/28/2008 | date=[[2008-04-28]] | url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6554733.html}}</ref> Roland Person writes in his ''Library Journal'' review that "his first novel is awkwardly written and marred by contradictions and improbable events."<ref>{{cite news | work=[[Library Journal]] | title=Mystery | date=[[2007-08-15]] | url=http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6466060.html}}</ref>

[http://www.davewhitenovels.com/ Author's website]

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