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  • Bibliography:
    18 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1994
  • Latest Book:
    February 2025
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Full Series List in Order

A Carol Ann Gibson Mystery

1 - One Must Wait (Jan-1998)
2 - Where to Choose (Feb-1999)
3 - The Step Between (Mar-2000)
4 - Paradise Interrupted (Feb-2001)

A Gianna Maglione Mystery

1 - Keeping Secrets (Jan-1994)
2 - Night Songs (Jan-1995)
3 - Love Notes (Feb-2002)
4 - Darkness Descending (Jan-2005)

A Phil Rodriguez Mystery

1 - Two Graves Dug (Jul-2005)
2 - A Murder Too Close (Nov-2008)

Book List in Order: 18 titles



  • Someone is killing closeted gays and lesbians in our nation's capital! Hate crime? Or just plain murder? Investigative reporter Mimi Patterson wants to know and thinks the public should know, too. She won't let anything or anyone keep her from uncove...



  • From one alley to the next in the seamy underside of our nation's capitol, the city's top reporter, Mimi Patterson investigates the virtual disappearance of two prostitutes her sources on a potentially huge stroy. Her partner, Lt. Gianna Maglione, he...



  • ONE WASHINGTON ATTORNEY IS ABOUT TO DISCOVER THE DANGEROUS LIES AND DEADLY TRUTHS ABOUT HER HUSBAND'S MURDER Savvy, shrewd, and smart enough to recognize the thin line between law and justice, Carole Ann Gibson is a heavyweight in Washington, D.C....



  • Carole Ann Gibson: She used to uphold the law. Now she fights for justice.

    Life isn't fair, but former D.C. Lawyer Carole Ann Gibson believes it should be just. A year ago, catching her husband's killer strained her faith in the legal system t...



  • No matter how hard she tries to live the quiet life, trouble has a way of grabbing Carole Ann Gibson by the throat -- and this time all her famous intuition and raw courage might not be enough to save her.In the heartbreaking aftermath of her husband...



  • She's first G in GGI: Gibson, Graham International, the investigative and security company founded by ex-criminal defense attorney Carole Ann Gibson and ex-DC homicide detective Jacob Graham. It didn't take long for the DC-based company to earn a rep...



  • We live in a youth-oriented culture--and nobody knows that better than a 50+year old woman looking for love. Despite all the commercials featuring silver haired characters, film and television still cast 30-year old women as the love interests of 60-...



  • In this intriguing and sophisticated fourth novel of the Mimi/Gianna Mysteries, Mickelbury is masterful in her exploration of the underground lives of the AGs and Doms, the downlow brothas and the hidden world in which they live. Mimi Patterson, the ...



  • Phil Rodriquez is the newest of the New York City private eyes. The Lower East Side is his turf, and the people who live their lives and ply their trades in the narrow tip of Manhattan are his clients. He is a native New Yorker and an ex-cop, but his...






  • While searching for a missing Indian teen, private investigators Phil and Yolanda uncover a corrupt operation involving multiple cases of arson, false reports to the Department of Homeland Security, and a sex slave ring....



  • This interracial, intergenerational saga of love, land and loss is told from the disparate perspectives of Ruth Thatcher, who is Black, and Jonas Thatcher, who is White, and spans nearly a century. The story begins in 1917 when Ruth and Jonas are far...



  • They are young, and not so young. They live in big cities and in small towns. They work hard at hard jobs, and are retired from working hard jobs. They have lived lives from which they derived strength and joy, and they have lived lives completely de...



  • Police Lieutenant Gianna Maglione heads up the DC Police Department’s Hate Crimes Unit. She investigates those who espouse and perpetrate acts of hatred. She hunts them down and infiltrates their habitats, and then she finds out where they live and...



  • In this stunning departure from her mystery writing, Penny Mickelbury’s collection of stories God’s Will and Other Lies, attends to the lives of Black women, mostly aging and elderly, all determined to face life with strength and grace.A nearly b...



  • In 1856 Philadelphia, runaway slave Genie Oliver uses her dress shop as a front for her work with the Underground Railroad; and reluctant heiress Abby Read runs a rooming house not just because she hates the life of the idle rich society woman, but b...



  •  The Gianna Maglione/Mimi Patterson Mystery Series Continues.Police Lieutenant Gianna Maglione, a newly-minted Captain, is still recovering from a life-threatening gunshot injury as she finds herself and her Hate Crimes Unit assigned a new boss,...



  • Award-winning author and journalist Penny Mickelbury returns to pre-Civil War Philadelphia to continue the powerful saga of Genie Oliver and Abigail Read.In 1857 the US Supreme Court ruled that Blacks were not -- and could never be citizens. Black li...



  • Award-winning author Penny Mickelbury takes readers on a beautiful and complicated journey through Harlem in 1953. This captivating story is passionate and alive, teeming with the contradictory joy and pain of Black life in America. World War II ende...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Penny Mickelbury has published 18 books.

The next book by Penny Mickelbury, Payback, will be published in February 2025.

The first book by Penny Mickelbury, Keeping Secrets, was published in January 1994.

Yes. Penny Mickelbury has 3 series.