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Michael Bracken

Genres: Mystery

New and upcoming books

February 2025

Coyote Run
(Chop Shop Crime, book 8)

April 2025

Trouble in Texas
(Metroplex Mysteries, book 4)

Michael Bracken's books for adults only

Novels

   Canvas Bleeding (2002)
   Deadly Campaign (2003)
   Psi Cops (2003)
   All White Girls (2014)

Collections

   Bad Girls (2000)
   Yesterday in Blood and Bone (2005)
   Bad Boys (2013) (with others)
   A Wink and a Smile (2018) (with others)
   Crimeucopia - Great Googly Moo! (2024) (with others)

Novellas and Short Stories

   Unbridled Love (2010)
   Glass Houses (2010)
   Dreams Unborn (2010)
   Lesser of Two Evils (2010)
   Pick (2010)
   Memories Dying (2011)
   Chalkers (2011)

Anthologies edited

   Fedora (2001)
   Hardbroiled (2003)
   Fedora II (2003)
   Small Crimes (2004)
   Fedora III (2004)
   The Eyes of Texas: Private Eyes from the Panhandle to the Piney Woods (2019)
   Seascape (2019) (with William Ade, Christine Bagley, Dames of Detection, Peter W J Hayes, Adam Meyer, Alan Orloff, Shawn Reilly Simmons, Janet Raye Stevens and Gabriel Valjan)
   Jukes & Tonks (2021) (with Gary Phillips)
   Prohibition Peepers (2023)
   Murder, Neat (2024) (with Barb Goffman)
   Private Dicks and Disco Balls (2024)
   Scattered, Smothered, Covered & Chunked (2024) (with Stacy Woodson)
   Janie's Got a Gun (2024)

Anthology series

Mickey Finn
   1. Mickey Finn Vol. 1 (2020)
   2. Mickey Finn Vol. 2 (2021)
   3. Mickey Finn Vol. 3 (2022)
   4. Mickey Finn Vol. 4 (2023)
   5. Mickey Finn Vol. 5 (2024)

Groovy Gumshoes
1. Groovy Gumshoes (2022)
2. More Groovy Gumshoes (2023)

Series contributed to

Guns + Tacos
2. Three Brisket Tacos and a Sig Sauer (2019)
8. Jalapeno Poppers and a Flare Gun (2020) (with Trey R Barker)

Black Cat Weekly Mystery
Little Spring (2022)

Chop Shop Crime
   8. Coyote Run (2025)
   Chop Shop Season 1 Vol. 1 (2024)
   Chop Shop Season 1 Vol. 2 (2024)

Metroplex Mysteries
3. Notorious in North Texas (2024)
4. Trouble in Texas (2025)

Omnibus editions show

Books containing stories by Michael Bracken

In Too Deep (2025)
Crime Stories Inspired by the Songs of Genesis
edited by
Adam Meyer

Black Cat Weekly #179 (2025)
(Black Cat Weekly, book 179)

Scattered, Smothered, Covered & Chunked (2024)
Crime Fiction Inspired by Waffle House
edited by
Michael Bracken and Stacy Woodson

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Award nominations

	2022 Shamus Award for Best PI Short Story (nominee) : Disposable Women
	2022 Edgar Award for Best Short Story (nominee) : Blindsided

Michael Bracken recommends

Fadeaway Joe (2023)
Hugh Lessig
"Hugh Lessig's Fadeaway Joe is a sucker punch to the gut, a story that demands your attention and propels you through unexpected twists to a thrilling conclusion. It's not to be missed!"

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