James Scott Bell Books In Order – Complete List

James Scott Bell is an American bestselling and award-winning author best known for his Ty Buchanan legal thriller series, the Mike Romero series, the Shannon Saga / The Trials of Kit Shannon, Ty Buchanan, and several other series and standalone novels.

Under the pen name K. Bennett, he writes another legal thriller series called Mallory Caine, which has an interesting twist. Mallory is also a zombie.

Here are the James Scott Bell books in order for all his written works.

The Trials of Kit Shannon Books in Publication Order

the first three books were co-written with Tracie Peterson

1. City of Angels, 2001
2. Angels Flight, 2001
3. Angel of Mercy, 2001
4. A Greater Glory, 2003
5. A Higher Justice, 2003
6. A Certain Truth, 2004

Ty Buchanan Books in Publication Order

1. Try Dying, 2007
2. Try Darkness, 2008
3. Try Fear, 2009

Mallory Caine, Zombie at Law Books in Publication Order

originally written as K. Bennett

1. Pay Me in Flesh, 2011
2. The Year of Eating Dangerously, 2012
3. I Ate the Sheriff, 2012

Irish Jimmy Gallagher Books in Publication Order

novella series

1. Iron Hands, 2011
2. King Crush, 2012
3. Fight City, 2013
4. Sucker Punched, 2014

Force of Habit Books in Publication Order

1. Force of Habit, 2013
2. And Then There Were Nuns, 2013
3. Nun The Wiser, 2014
4. The Nun Also Rises, 2016
5. Hot Cross Nuns, 2019

Mike Romeo Books in Publication Order

1. Romeo’s Rules, 2015
2. Romeo’s Way, 2016
3. Romeo’s Hammer, 2017
4. Romeo’s Fight, 2019
5. Romeo’s Stand, 2020
6. Romeo’s Town, 2021
7. Romeo’s Rage, 2022
8. Romeo’s Justice, 2023

Standalone Novels Books in Publication Order

• The Night Carl Sagan Stepped on My Cat, 1988
• Circumstantial Evidence, 1997
• Final Witness, 1999
• The Darwin Conspiracy, 2000
• Blind Justice, 2000
• The Nephilim Seed, 2001
• Deadlock, 2002
• Breach of Promise, 2004
• Sins of the Fathers, 2005
• Glimpses Of Paradise: A Novel of the 1920s, 2005
• Presumed Guilty, 2006
• No Legal Grounds, 2007
• The Whole Truth, 2008
• Don’t Leave Me, 2013
• Your Son Is Alive, 2018
• Last Call, 2020
• Long Lost, 2020
• Rationality, 2021
• No More Lies, 2022 (aka Deceived)
• Can’t Stop Me, 2023

Novellas and Short Stories in Publication Order

• No Laughing Matter, 2011
• Autumnal, 2012
• Golden, 2014
• John Wayne’s Revenge, 2017
• Framed, 2018
• My Father’s Birthday, 2019
• I See Things Deeply, 2020
• Shoes, 2022

Short Story Collections in Publication Order

• Watch Your Back, 2011
• One More Lie, 2011
• Trouble is My Beat, 2022

Anthologies in Publication Order

• The Storytellers’ Collection: Tales of Faraway Places, 2000
• Fresh Kills, Tales from the Kill Zone, 2010
• The Mystery Writers: Interviews and Advice, 2012
• Rebirth: Havok Season One, 2019
• Vice & Virtue: Havok Season Eight, 2023

Non-Fiction Books in Publication Order

James Scott Bell Biography

James Scott Bell was born in 1954 as a third-generation native of Los Angeles, where he also grew up surrounded by books. After reading The Hardy Boys and various Classics Illustrated comics especially about heroes like Robin Hood and Zorro and Tarzan, he wanted to become a writer as well.

This love for writing was further instilled in him by his high school English teacher, Mrs. Bruce, who constantly encouraged him by telling him he had writing talent.

After graduating from Taft High School, he went to the University of California, Santa Barbara where he started playing basketball while studying writing and pursuing a degree in Film. In his senior college years, he won an award for a screenplay he wrote while he studied writing under Raymond Carver, one of America’s most honored writers.

However, this particular workshop pushed him away from writing for the next ten years or so because he now believed he had no talent for writing at all.

Upon graduating with honors from the University of Southern California Law Center, he moved to New York to write pieces for the theater. Soon after he got cast in an Othello piece, which started his temporary actor career. During this time he also featured in several TV commercials.

James Scott Bell met his wife while in New York. As she was an actress, he decided that it was time he quit that particular job, as one actor in the family was more than enough.

He next attended and graduated from the law school at the University of Southern California Law. After graduation, he started working as a litigator at a major law firm in Los Angeles, however, he didn’t stay long, only one year, before opening his own law firm.

As a writing instructor, James Scott Bell taught writing at Pepperdine University as well as during writing seminars around the world, including the US, Australia, New Zealand, UK, and Canada. He was also a fiction columnist for Writer’s Digest.

After he ended his trial law career, as a former trial lawyer, James Scott Bell switched gears and started writing books – novels, his passion for writing taking up all his time. He now has several thrillers published, including his popular Ty Buchanan legal thriller series, as well as the Kit Shannon a historical legal thriller series set in courtrooms of 1903 Los Angeles.

The first three books in the series (which are also called the Kit Shannon Saga books) were co-authored with Tracie Peterson, while the last three novels were written solely by him. he now writes and speaks full time.

Over the years he has written over 300 articles and several books revolving around the legal profession. His non-fiction books on writing are also very popular and he has inspired many new authors over the years with titles like The Art of War for Writers: Fiction Writing Strategies, Tactics, and Exercises and Write Your Novel From the Middle: A New Approach for Plotters, Pantsers and Everyone in Between.

In addition, he also wrote a non-fiction book on search and seizure law, which has since become a recognized source frequently used by California lawyers and judges.

James Scott Bell Awards and Nominations

• Romeo’s Way received the ITW Award (International Thriller Award) for Best E-Book Original in 2017
• The author is a winner of the Christy Award for Excellence in Inspirational Fiction