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  • Bibliography:
    17 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    April 1987
  • Latest Book:
    June 2022
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Full Series List in Order

A Rep and Melissa Pennyworth Mystery

1 - Screenscam (Oct-2001)
2 - Unforced Error (Apr-2004)
3 - Putting Lipstick on a Pig (Aug-2006)
4 - Shoot the Lawyer Twice (Oct-2008)
5 - Service Dress Blues (Sep-2009)

A Richard Michaelson Mystery

1 - Washington Deceased (Sep-1990)
2 - Faithfully Executed (Feb-1992)
3 - Corruptly Procured (Mar-1994)
4 - Worst Case Scenario (Oct-1996)
5 - Collateral Damage (Jun-1999)

Thomas & Sandrine Cadette Curry

1 - Badger Game (Jun-1989)
2 - Fielder's Choice (May-1991)
3 - Act of Faith (Jan-1993)

Book List in Order: 17 titles





  • Ex-lawyer Thomas Andrew Curry and Sandrine Cadette--romatic sparring partners and occasional sleuths--go into action when an avant-garde painting and their painter-client's lawsuit against a rival lead to murder, in a mystery set in 1962 New York...



  • For some it is an "honor cottage." For United States Senator Desmond Gardner it's a minimum security federal prison that he and Sweet Tony Martinelli now call home. Unlike Gardner, Martinelli's rap sheet smacks more of crime in the streets than crime...




  • When the rumor that a recently executed prisoner was already dead before he received his lethal injection threatens the President's reelection, Richard Michaelson conducts a secret investigation and discovers connections between the Pentagon, a Japan...



  • When the witty, sophisticated New York couple Thomas and Sandrine Curry accompany their friend Theodore Furst on a trip to Burundi in 1963, their plans for a leisurely photo safari give way to diplomatic intrigue, romantic complications, and murder.A...



  • The Cold War may be over, but retired foreign service officer Richard Michaelson is finding Washington, D.C., anything but peaceful.At a government reception in the Library of Congress, a sudden explosion lands Michaelson in the hospital and allows a...



  • Foreign Service veteran Richard Michaelson knows that it is often better to talk to secretaries than big wigs in the political jungles of Washington, DC. But when one such ambitious young secretary turns up dead in a locked hotel room, Michaelson sud...



  • A dead body in a locked room in a affluent Virginia country house. Nine people present in the house. No confessions and no witnesses. And now a very important document has gone missing -- a document that might relate to a CIA scandal in the recent pa...







  • Rep Pennyworth faces the client from hell. She is Charlotte Buchanan, author of And Done to Others' Harm, a mystery of no particular merit. Charlotte contends the 1997 novel is the basis for the 1999 film Contemplation of Death. She wants to sue. Rep...



  • "A modern-day Nick and Nora, the quick-witted Rep and the literature-loving Melissa trade sophisticated quips that may make readers wish they had paid more attention in English class. Good fun." -- BooklistIntellectual property attorneys, romance pub...



  • The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers, or at least one. . . . Vance Hayes died late one night when his snowmobile broke through thin ice near the Wisconsin Dells. The cold-hearted, hard-headed lawyer is unmourned by clients, colleagues, o...



  • "Bowen's powers of invention are so florid and his satirical touch so bright, most readers won't care who gets carted off to jail." -- Kirkus ReviewsWhen a frat boy finds himself on trial in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, for piracy on the high seas, Lawyer R...



  • "A winning pair of protagonists." -- BooklistRep Pennyworth, a trademark and copyright lawyer, has loyally followed his wife Melissa to Milwaukee in her quest for an assistant professorship in English Literature at UWM. On the night before the 2008 A...



  • When shadowy gray market hustler and aspiring crony capitalist Jerzy Schroeder is murdered while Josie Kendall is hitting him up for a million dollars to help him cash in on alternative energy funding, the police suspect her of adultery and her husba...




Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Michael Bowen has published 17 books.

Michael Bowen does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Viewfinder, was published in June 2022.

The first book by Michael Bowen, Can't Miss, was published in April 1987.

Yes. Michael Bowen has 3 series.