Michael Bracken

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  • Bibliography:
    76 Books
  • First Book:
    June 1994
  • Latest Book:
    February 2024
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Book List in Order: 76 titles

  • Deadly Campaign

    DEADLY CAMPAIGN / Covering City Hall during an election year was all the excitement reporter Dan Fox needed -- until he discovered Alderman Bill Franklin's bullet-ridden body. / Who killed the alderman? Why did they do it? Fox wants the story. Everyo...

  • Just in Time for Love

    His father writes confessions and jokes, and the biggest joke of all is his name - Justin Tyme. But Jay, as he prefers to be called, hasn't had much to laugh about in the years since his mother died. His father retreats into an alcohol-hazed world of...

  • Bad Girls

    When a French secret service operative is murdered on a lonely Alpine highway, a womanizing CIA agent must find the killer and terminate ... with Extreme Prejudice. Back in the states, the same agent discovers ... The Only Good Red. Three years after...

  • Tequila Sunrise

    Private-Eye Nathaniel Rose has seen it all--from dead strippers to exploding Mustangs to blackmailing lovers. After a brief tour of Korea and ten years as a cop, Rose now walks the dark side of the street, handling cases in St. Louis, Missouri. Wheth...

  • All White Girls

    They're dying in the fleshpits in the Windy City. They're all white girls. One young woman is missing. Another is dead. They were drawn to the Windy City like moths to a flame, but the city's bright lights can't illuminate every dark corner. Hidden i...

  • Fedora

    This ain’t your Mama’s anthology and these tales ain’t for the faint-hearted. These are raw, gritty stories exploring the dark abyss of men’s souls.

    With the sound of gunfire ringing in their ears and the stench of blood on their clothes, ...

  • Canvas Bleeding

    tales of natural and supernatural noir Whether real or imagined, natural or supernatural, the horrors in these macabre tales of lost love, quiet desperation. These are dark, dark tales -- of lost love, of quiet desperation; painful memories that will...

  • PSI Cops

    PSI COPS / Geeks and freaks. / That's what Detective Sergeant Tony Carvelli thinks of Psi Cops until he's faced with a sadistic serial killer who leaves no evidence behind. / In a near-future St. Louis, after sexually-transmitted diseases have been e...

  • Hardbroiled

    Fourteen delicious private eye tales guaranteed to whet your appetite for detection. Wining, dining, and death. Fast living and fine dining combine to present today's private eyes with culinary crimes suitable for even the most refined palate. The ...



  • Fedora II

    This still ain't your Mama's anthology. Whether they crawl up from the gutters or stroll down from the mansions, the private eyes and tough guys in these stories make the mean streets meaner and the dark alleys darker. While some stories punch you fu...

  • Small Crimes

    Whether committed with good intentions or bad, every small crime has consequences. What goes around comes around in Neil Schofield's "Chainmail." An apple a day keeps the father away in Paula J. Matter's "Not Too Far From the Tree." Charity begins at...

  • Fedora III

    This ain't never gonna be your Mama's anthology. Like a sucker punch with a fistful of quarters, these stories will knock you off your feet. From cold freezers to hot fires, the private eyes and tough guys between these covers travel through the blac...

  • News Flash

    When a local television news anchor hires Waco, Texas private eye Morris Ronald Boyette to follow her husband, he thinks he's taking on a run-of-the-mill cheating-spouse case. Instead, he gets a harsh lesson in how aging unfairly impacts working wome...

  • Unbridled Love

    Melissa Grant, the 25-year-old owner of a tack shop, is disgusted with the way the new riding instructor at Rocking Horse Stables treats her classmates during their first lesson, and her attempt to confront him is thwarted when she bursts into his ap...

  • Dark Desires: Love That's Out of This World

  • Memories Dying

    Young police officer Mike Morelli expected a routine night shift in the northern California coastal town where he had lived his entire life. Then Patrick Bates, chairman of the Baker High School class of 1974 reunion committee, returned to town. Woul...

  • Chalkers

    When eleven men return to their college alma mater for homecoming forty years after graduation, do they dare reveal the long-held secret that binds them to one another?A work of short crime from our Fingerprints line....

  • Lost Soul

    Ashlyn Ann Williams is a rebellious young lady. She is flirtatious and lavished with attention by men. She agonizes every day, but her parents ignore her pain. Her choice of poison is alcohol. Once she is forced to overcome the death of her best f...

  • Microchick



  • Cougars and Jackals: Experience comes with age

  • Cougar and Kitten

  • April Showers

  • Paddle Boy

  • Restored to Love

  • One Knight With The Swordsmith's Daughter

  • The Princess And The Swineherd

  • Malice Domestic

    The Malice Domestic anthology series returns with a new take on mysteries in the Agatha Christie tradition -- original tales with a devilish bent! Included are:Rita Owen · IntroductionLeah Bailey · A Killer in the FamilyPaula Gail Benson · Reputat...

  • Arroyo

    in Malice Domestic 13: Mystery Most Geographical

  • Tough

    TOUGH. These are not your mother's crime stories. Collecting established writers as well as newcomers to the indie scene, Tough aims to bring readers excellent stories in a dynamite package. This anthology contains 14 hardcore pieces from some of the...



  • Closing Cases

  • Fissile Material

  • Three Brisket Tacos and a Sig Sauer

    Joseph Joey D Garrett owes everything to his Aunt Sylvia, including a stint in the Stateville Correctional Center. When he's released, Joey returns to the only life he knows, and he soon becomes an instrumental part of his aunt's plan to rob four ban...

  • Tough 2

    Tough 2 is an anthology of short stories authored by Michael Bracken, Alec Cizak, S.A. Cosby, Evelyn DeShane, Tia J'anae, Nick Kolakowski, Preston Lang, Matt Mattilla, Chris McGinley, Thomas Pluck, C.A. Rowland, Rob McClure Smith, William R. Soldan, ...

  • The Eyes of Texas

    Texas has it all, from bustling big cities to sleepy small towns, and law enforcement alone can’t solve every crime. That’s where private eyes come in. They take the cases law enforcement can’t -- or won’t. Private eyes may walk the mean stre...

  • Guns + Tacos Vol. 1

    There’s a taco truck in Chicago known among a certain segment of the population for its daily specials. Late at night and during the wee hours of the morning, it isn’t the food selection that attracts customers, it’s the illegal weapons availab...

  • Guns + Tacos Vol. 2

    There’s a taco truck in Chicago known among a certain segment of the population for its daily specials. Late at night and during the wee hours of the morning, it isn’t the food selection that attracts customers, it’s the illegal weapons availab...

  • Black Cat Mystery Magazine #6

    The sixth issue of Black Cat Mystery Magazine presented a stellar lineup of new stories, plus a classic reprint. Included in this issue are: NEW STORIES: SEVEN CARD JOKER HIGH, by Trey R. Barker THE LOSER, by Robert Guffey BLEST BE THE TIE THAT BINDS...

  • Bouquet of Love

  • Cyan



  • Firm Foundation

  • Game Day

  • Goth Girl

  • Jalapeno Poppers and a Flare Gun

    Carl Ember has just been released from prison and is eager to reunite with Kate Vinson, his former lover and the daughter of his former boss. There's just one thing preventing him—paperwork stolen from Alderman Sonny Vinson's safe during a bur...

  • Mardi Gras Memories

  • Old MacDonald Had a Farm

  • Pink Vibrator

  • The Shaft

  • Snow Job

  • Under the Big Top



  • Guns + Tacos Vol. 3

    There's a taco truck in Chicago known among a certain segment of the population for its daily specials. Late at night and during the wee hours of the morning, it isn't the food selection that attracts customers, it's the illegal weapons available wit...

  • Mickey Finn Vol. 1

    Mickey Finn: 21st Century Noir is a crime-fiction cocktail that will knock readers into a literary stupor. Contributors push hard against the boundaries of crime fiction, driving their work into places short crime fiction doesn't often go, into a wor...

  • Guns + Tacos Vol. 4

    There's a taco truck in Chicago known among a certain segment of the population for its daily specials. Late at night and during the wee hours of the morning, it isn't the food selection that attracts customers, it's the illegal weapons available wit...

  • Blindsided

  • DISPOSABLE WOMEN

    • / Private Investigator
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  • Jukes & Tonks

    Whether their cover bands play Willie Dixon or Willie Nelson, juke joints and honky-tonks appeal to hard-working men and women looking for a good time. Offering hot music, cheap food, and generous amounts of liquor, jukes and tonks are often a commun...

  • Mr. Sugarman Visits the Bookmobile

    Every Tuesday when the bookmobile visits Quarryville, Texas, Graham Sugarman checks out five books. Five hefty books. When the librarian is murdered and the bookmobile stops visiting Quarryville, Mr. Sugarman’s well-ordered life is turned topsy-tur...

  • Remission

    A lawyer, who once specialized in mediation, gave up his practice when his wife died of cancer. Now he occasionally does favors for friends and the people at McGinty’s, the bar where he spends many of his waking hours. Stella Carter wants something...

  • Mickey Finn Vol. 2

    Mickey Finn: 21st Century Noir, Volume 2, the second entry of the hard-hitting anthology series, is a crime-fiction cocktail that will again knock readers into a literary stupor. Contributors push hard against the boundaries of crime fiction, driving...

  • Guns + Tacos Vol. 5

    There's a taco truck in Chicago known among a certain segment of the population for its daily specials. Late at night and during the wee hours of the morning, it isn't the food selection that attracts customers, it's the illegal weapons available wit...

  • Guns + Tacos Vol. 6

    There's a taco truck in Chicago known among a certain segment of the population for its daily specials. Late at night and during the wee hours of the morning, it isn't the food selection that attracts customers, it's the illegal weapons available wit...

  • Groovy Gumshoes

    The Sixties were a time of great cultural upheaval, when long-established social norms were challenged and everything changed: from music to fashion to social mores. And the Leave It to Beaver households in Middle America didn't know what to make...

  • Little Spring

    Renovating the long-unoccupied Canterbrem home is just the project Shelby Paulson needs after her marriage ends. As she breathes new life into the house, she discovers things about the home’s previous owner that change her life as well....

  • Mickey Finn Vol. 3

    Mickey Finn: 21st Century Noir, Volume 3, the third entry of the hard-hitting anthology series, is another crime-fiction cocktail that will again knock readers into a literary stupor. Contributors push hard against the boundaries of crime fiction, dr...

  • All-American Male

  • More Groovy Gumshoes

    The Sixties were a time of great cultural upheaval, when long-established social norms were challenged and everything changed: from music to fashion to social mores. And the Leave It to Beaver households in Middle America didn't know what to make of ...

  • Queer Bait

  • Prohibition Peepers

    The 18th Amendment created prohibition-a noble experiment that banned the manufacture, transportation, and sale of intoxicating liquors-and gave rise to criminal activity associated with bootlegging, gang violence, and more. During the 1920s and earl...

  • Sporting Wood

  • Mickey Finn: 21st Century Noir, Volume 4

    Mickey Finn: 21st Century Noir, Volume 4, the fourth entry of the hard-hitting anthology series, is another crime-fiction cocktail that will again knock readers into a literary stupor. Contributors push hard against the boundaries of crime fiction, d...

  • Murder, Neat

    Whether they drink whiskey or wine, crime fiction writers can often be found indulging in their favorite libations at all manner of drinking establishments (especially the hotel bar at most mystery conventions!). So, what better way to recognize this...

  • Black Coffee

    • / Mystery
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    Twenty-three noir stories of crime and desperation. Featuring, Michael BrackenKenneth Gwin, Michael Chandos, Warren Bull, Peter H. Denton, JoAnne Lucas, Karen Gough, J.J. Lamb, Craig Faustus Buck, Patricia Dusenbury, Herschel Cozine, Diane A. Hadoc, ...

  • I Slept With My Sister's Husband

    • / General Fiction
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  • I Was A Topless Waitress

    • / Erotica
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  • My Lover's Secret

    • / Contemporary Romance
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    When Adrienne Miller’s writers’ group invites Mark Davenport—a handsome, successful mystery writer—to give a presentation, recently divorced Adrienne begins a whirlwind romance. Then she learns Mark’s dark secret and fin...

  • The Secret Lives Of Teachers

    • / Contemporary Romance
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  • Yesterday in Blood and Bone

    • / Mystery
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    Derringer Award winning short story writer Michael Bracken returns with another impressive collection of hardboiled crime fiction, including his new novella, "Yesterday in Blood and Bone."

    When veteran newspaper reporter Benjamin "Bucky" Weaver a...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Michael Bracken has published 76 books.

Michael Bracken does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Murder, Neat, was published in February 2024.

The first book by Michael Bracken, Deadly Campaign, was published in June 1994.

No. Michael Bracken does not write books in series.
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