Dave Lager

Dave Lager is the award-winning author of the Ro Delahanty Thriller/ Suspense Series. Ro’s Handle is the first Ro Delahanty novel; Hear Evil is number two; the third is Loses; the fourth is Secrets Never End; the fifth is Sniper’s Day. Book six, Revelations, was released in the spring of 2024. And he is busy writing number seven, Mourning Dove, with a projected 2025 publication.

Ro’s Handle, Hear Evil, Losses, and Secrets Never End won First Place in the Thriller / Suspense Series category at the 2023 Chanticleer International Book Awards (CIBA) competition. Sniper’s Day was a finalist for Best Thriller / Suspense Novel.

Dave’s career includes newspaper reporter and magazine editor and publisher, and free-lance marketing / public relations consultant. Under his own name – Dave Ramacitti – he has previously published non-fiction books and manuals for the small business market.

Now in his eighth decade, he is supposedly retired, except Ro won’t leave him alone, demanding that her story be told. He has been married to his best friend for more than 30 years and has three grown stepchildren and seven step-grandchildren. He lives next to the Mississippi River in Rock Island, Illinois, along with a grumpy cat and a Yorkie mix that’s 80% cute and 20% brat.