Order of Gary Phillips Books
Gary Phillips is an American author and community activist. He is best known for the Ivan Monk series and the Martha Chainey series. Phillips writes noir standalone novels and has also edited many anthologies.
In addition to his work as a writer, Phillips also served as a senior story editor on the FX television show Snowfall. The show was based in South Central Los Angeles where the author himself grew up. Gary has also written comics and short stories throughout his career.
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Publication Order of Bass Reeves Frontier Marshal Books
| Bass Reeves Frontier Marshal, Volume 1 | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Bass Reeves Frontier Marshal, Volume 2 | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Bass Reeves Frontier Marshal, Volume 3 | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Legends of the West | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Bass Reeves Frontier Marshal, Volume 4 | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Batman Graphic Novels Books
(with Christa Faust, Ed Brubaker, Jeph Loeb, Frank Miller)
| AbsoluteYear One | (1988) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Haunted Knight | (1996) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Long Halloween | (1997) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Batman Hush | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Killing Joke | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Man Who Laughs | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Essex Man Books
| 10 Seconds To Death | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Grifter's Song Books
Publication Order of Guns + Tacos Books
| Tacos de Cazuela con Smith & Wesson | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Three Brisket Tacos and a Sig Sauer | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| A Gyro and a Glock | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Three Chalupas, Rice, Soda…and a Kimber .45 | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Some Churros and El Burro | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| A Beretta, Burritos and Bears | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Burritos & Bullets | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Jalapeño Poppers and a Flare Gun | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Four Shrimp Tacos and a Walther P38 | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| A Taco, A T-Bird, A Beretta and One Furious Night | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Sopa and a Streetsweeper | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Dos Tacos Guatemaltecos y Una Pistola Casera | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Two More Tacos, a Beretta .32, and a Pink Butterfly | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Two Tamales, One Tokarev, and a Lifetime of Broken Promises | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Chimichangas and a Couple of Glocks | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Refried Beans and a Snub-Nosed .44 | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Two Steak Taco Combos and a Pair of Sig Sauers | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| A Smith & Wesson with a Side of Chorizo | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Two Tofu Tacos, a Taurus TX22, a Taycan, and a Ton of Trouble | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Two Black Bean and Shrimp Quesadillas, and a Pink Ruger LCP | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| A Handful of Chicles and a Custom Nine | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Two Shrimp Tacos and a .22 Ruger | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Nachos, a Stun Gun, and a Wedding Ring | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| No Food, No Drink, Just the Gun | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Harry Ingram Books
| One-Shot Harry | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Ash Dark as Night | (2024) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Ivan Monk Books
| Violent Spring | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Perdition, U.S.A. | (1996) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Bad Night Is Falling | (1998) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Only the Wicked | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Monkology | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Martha Chainey Books
| High Hand | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Shooter's Point | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Perpetrators | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Matthew Henson Books
| Matthew Henson and the Ice Temple of Harlem | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Noir Nation Books
| International Crime Fiction No. 1 | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| International Crime Fiction No. 2 | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| International Crime Fiction No. 3 The India Issue | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| International Crime Fiction No. 4: The Canada Issue | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Outspoken Authors Books
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
| The Jook | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Bangers | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Midnight Mover | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Freedom's Fight | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Underbelly | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Warlord of Willow Ridge | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Anti-Gravity Steal | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Extractors | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
| The Sleeping Detective | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Blazin’ on Broadway | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Collections
| Treacherous | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| 3 the Hard Way | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Unvarnished Gary Phillips: A Mondo Pulp Collection | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Graphic Novels
| High Rollers | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Rinse Vol. 1 | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Angeltown: The Nate Hollis Investigations | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Astonishing Heroes: Shades of Justice | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of PM's Outspoken Authors Books
Publication Order of Anthologies
| The Shamus Game | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 2 | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Mighty Johns | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| ...And Some of Them Are Dead | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Show Business is Murder | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Full House | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Politics Noir | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Darker Mask | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Once Upon a Crime: An Anthology of Murder, Mayhem and Suspense | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Phoenix Noir | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Orange County Noir | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Send My Love and a Molotov Cocktail! | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Shaken: Stories for Japan | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| PULP INK | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| In Pursuit of Spenser | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Blood & Tacos #1 | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Black Pulp | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Blood & Tacos: The Beginning | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Gary Phillips' Hollis P.I. | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Asian Pulp | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Bass Reeves Frontier Marshal, Volume 1 | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Crime Plus Music | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Crimespree Magazine #64 | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| 44 Caliber Funk | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Bass Reeves Frontier Marshal, Volume 2 | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| International Crime Fiction No. 6: The Jazz Issue | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Obama Inheritance | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Passport to Murder | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| 18 Wheels of Science Fiction | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Bass Reeves Frontier Marshal, Volume 3 | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Gary Phillips' Hollis for Hire | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Black Pulp II | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Star Noir | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Guns + Tacos Vol. 1 | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Faking of the President | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Low Down Dirty Vote: Volume II: Every stolen vote is a crime | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Stop the World: Snapshots from a Pandemic | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Jukes & Tonks: Crime Fiction Inspired by Music in the Dark and Suspect Choices | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Eviction of Hope | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Crime Hits Home | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| South Central Noir | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Witnesses for the Dead | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
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Matthew Henson and the Ice Temple of Harlem takes place at the end of the Roaring 20s in Harlem. Henson gets a job from a spiritual leader named Daddy Paradise to retrieve his adult daughter who had been kidnapped. He does his job, but then finds himself having to protect himself and her until her father can deliver a speech at a mass rally. The job will put him up against a notorious gangster and the famous inventor Nikola Tesla. Henson will find himself in a race against the clock to save people’s lives as a powerful meteor fragment that he brought back from the Artic years ago is wanted by evil, powerful people.
One-Shot Harry takes place in Los Angeles in 1963 as Harry Ingram has returned from war and taken work as a new photographer and process server. Racial tensions are high at the time and he takes a risk every time he photographs a crime scene. He heads out after a crash one night when he recognizes the vehicle as belonging to an old Army buddy. The LAPD says the crime is an accident, but Ingram isn’t buying it and decides to play detective. Harry will head into the seamy underbelly of LA in hopes of finding justice.