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Michael Bracken

Genres: Mystery

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December 2025

The Best Private Eye Stories of the Year 2025

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 (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)
   Sleuths Just Wanna Have Fun (2025)
   The Best Private Eye Stories of the Year 2025 (2025) (with Matt Coyle)

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)

Malice Domestic
18. Mystery Most Devious (2024) (with John Gregory Betancourt and Carla Coupe)
19. Mystery Most Humorous (2025) (with others)

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

The Vigilante Crime Pulp Fiction Anthology (2025)
edited by
Matthew Louis and Philip M Smith

Lunatic Fringe (2025)
(Inspired by anthologies)
edited by
J Alan Hartman

Gag Me With a Spoon (2025)
Crime Fiction Inspired by the Music of the '80s
(Inspired by anthologies)
edited by
J Alan Hartman

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Award nominations

	2025 Anthony Award for Best Anthology or Collection (nominee) : Scattered, Smothered, Covered & Chunked: Crime Fiction Inspired by Waffle House
	2025 Anthony Award for Best Anthology or Collection (nominee) : Murder, Neat: A SleuthSayers Anthology
	2022 Shamus Award for Best PI Short Story (nominee) : Disposable Women
	2022 Edgar Award for Best Short Story (nominee) : Blindsided
	2020 Anthony Award for Best Anthology or Collection (nominee) : The Eyes of Texas: Private Eyes from the Panhandle to the Piney Woods

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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