Bruce Kimmel

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  • Bibliography:
    21 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    June 2002
  • Latest Book:
    October 2023
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Full Series List in Order

An Adriana Hofstetter Mystery

Murder at the Grove (Jul-2008)
Murder at the Hollywood Historical Society (Aug-2009)
Murder at the Masquers (May-2011)

Book List in Order: 21 titles

  • Benjamin Kritzer

    Watch the book trailer for Benjamin Kritzer >>Meet nine-year-old Benjamin Kritzer. Growing up in 1950s Los Angeles, Benjamin believes that his parents are Martians, his brother is psychotic, and that hes being followed by Bad Men. He loves movi...

  • Kritzerland

    Ten-year-old Benjamin Kritzer is back. Having survived his Martian parents (thus far), having survived a broken heart (when the nine-year-old love of his life, Susan Pomeroy, moved to Canada), and having survived the Bad Men, Benjamin has a whole ...

  • Kritzer Time

    Benjamin Kritzer is thirteen and ready to take on the world. But is the world ready for Benjamin Kritzer? In Benjamin Kritzer and Kritzerland, Benjamin has gone from adolescence to young adulthood, managing to survive his Martian family, Bad Men, a b...

  • Writer's Block

    They say that trying out a new musical can be murder.  It doesnt help that the show has a terrible second act, that the author has writers block, that most of the company cant stand the composer/lyricist, that the shows bombastic producer is thr...

  • Rewind

    Jonathan Goldman has a problem.  Hes just been ousted from the company he created.  A one hit wonder singer/songwriter and now successful record producer, his life is suddenly thrown into complete and utter turmoil.  His former busines...

  • How to Write a Dirty Book and Other Stories

    How To Write A Dirty Book and Other Stories is Bruce Kimmels first collection of short fiction. In these wonderful and evocative tales youll find the warmth, humor, and emotion of his acclaimed Benjamin Kritzer trilogy (Benjamin Kritzer, Kritzerland...

  • Murder at Hollywood High

    Teenager Adriana Hofstetter is quite possibly one of a kind. She hates all things nowincluding MySpace, cell phones, and anything trendyand she has no use for partying, getting wasted or being stupid. She dresses in clothes from her favorite decadest...

  • Murder at the Grove

    An Adriana Hofstetter Mystery

    Advance praise for Murder at The Grove Fans of mysteries, especially West Coast-centric mysteries, rejoice! The irrepressible and irresistible teenage sleuth Adriana Hofstetter is back, with funny-snarky attitude, 40s wardrobe, hippy-dip but caring ...

  • Murder at the Hollywood Historical Society

    An Adriana Hofstetter Mystery

    Just when you thought it was safe to enjoy Christmas Vacation, fifteen-year-old Adriana Hofstetter is back with another case to solve. She and her mother are volunteers at the Hollywood Historical Society, a group of Hollywood old-timers and preserva...



  • Murder at the Masquers

    An Adriana Hofstetter Mystery

    Adriana Hofstetter is back! She has just turned sixteen. To celebrate that occasion, she is writing a story for her journalism class on the unsolved 1966 murder of a highly-thought-of-but-vicious acting teacher. Said teacher is found quite dead after...

  • Murder at the School Musical

     Adriana Hofstetter is back and still marching to the beat of her own sixteen-year-old band. When Hollywood High School puts on a production of The Music Man, Adriana is there doing a story for the school paper. But when Bethany Miller, a studen...

  • Red Gold

    Here is the story of young Jeremiah Goldberg, a 10-year-old in the burg of Stillwater, California in 1880, a boomtown with mystery, murder, and intrigue at its core. For Jeremiah and his trusty pals, Rachel Burgoyne and Fong Lee, there's adventure to...

  • Murder at the Hollywood Division

    Adriana Hofstetter, the sixteen-year-old intrepid journalism student, returns in a crackerjack new mystery, her sixth adventure, Murder at the Hollywood Division.

    When a police detective is shot four times while sitting in his car in a Hollywood ...

  • Patrick Bronstein Presents

    Patrick Bronstein Presents. For over fifty years, Patrick Bronstein produced movies in virtually every genre, yet few remember those films. When author Paul Khanna contacts him to write a book about his life in movies, his response is "You want to wr...

  • Thrill Ride

    1957. What if Walt Disney wanted a timetravel ride for his recently opened Disneyland, a peek into a city of the future and what it might hold -- a thrilling ride. What if he had an Imagineer he felt could come up with what that future might hold ...

  • Gee

    Gee is the story of a headstrong, wilful, and most peculiar girl who navigates her way from the early years of the twentieth century through nine decades of living. Its a life filled with the history of those decades and a life filled with everyth...

  • Murder at the Magic Castle

    She's back! For her seventeenth birthday, crack high school journalist/sleuth Adriana Hofstetter is taken to the Magic Castle, a mansion of magic, where she, her BFF Billy, and her mom, Margaret, delight in the feats of prestidigitation, from a...

  • Some Days Are Murder

    1975. Los Angeles. For Harry Stearns, former literary agent turned private detective and now happily retired, old habits die hard. He spends his days going to his office on the Sunset Strip, reading the trades, lunching at the nearby Hamburger Hamlet...

  • 'Tis the Season to Be Murdered

    In Some Days Are Murder, Harry, former literary agent turned private investigator, comes out of retirement to solve the murder of a former client. Now, six months later, a larger-than-life movie producer has asked Harry to look into a blackmail attem...



  • Kritzer World

    It's been twenty years since we left Benjamin Kritzer having just graduated high school in Kritzer Time (which followed Benjamin Kritzer and Kritzerland). Now, Benjamin is back, picking up where Kritzer Time left off, as he begins the next three year...

  • Preview Harvey

    • / General Fiction
    • Buy Buy

    Once upon a time there were Major Studio Previews. They were highly kept secrets and the people attending wouldn't know what the preview was. Sometimes you'd get a winner and sometimes you'd get a stinker - it was the luck of the draw. Harvey Minton,...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Bruce Kimmel has published 21 books.

Bruce Kimmel does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Kritzer World, was published in October 2023.

The first book by Bruce Kimmel, Benjamin Kritzer, was published in June 2002.

Yes. Bruce Kimmel has 1 series.
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