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  • Bibliography:
    13 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    May 1991
  • Latest Book:
    April 2023
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Full Series List in Order

A Pete Hacker Mystery

1 - Death Is a Two-Stroke Penalty (May-1991)
2 - Death from the Ladies' Tee (Jun-1992)
3 - Death at the Member-Guest (May-2006)
4 - Death in a Green Jacket (May-2007)
5 - Death from the Claret Jug (Jul-2018)
6 - An Open Case of Death (Nov-2019)
7 - P.G.A. Spells Death (Aug-2020)

A Swamp Yankee Mystery

0.5 - Rum Row (Sep-2022)
1 - Glitter Girl (Feb-2022)
2 - Cold Secrets (May-2022)
3 - Rainbow's End (Oct-2022)
4 - Family Affairs (Apr-2023)

Book List in Order: 13 titles



  • Death Stalks The Fairways Behind the scenes of the Carolinas Open, golf writer Pete Hacker is confronted with the death of an up-and-coming star. Was his death an accident? Or was it murder? A drug-dealing caddie, a desperate golf groupie and a stra...



  • Who Said Girls Always Play Nice? Intrepid golf reporter Pete Hacker agrees to cover an LPGA event as a favor to an old friend, but when he arrives in Miami, he finds an organization that appears to be run as the private fiefdom of Wynnona Big Win Sti...



  • A Deadly Round of Golf! Hacker is back in an exciting new mystery. Invited to play in a buddy's weekend Member-Guest tournament, golf writer Pete Hacker encounters the president of the Shuttlecock Club, a strange, tantrum-throwing cheat. And when the...



  • A ripping good yarn in the hands of a master storyteller...this could be more exciting than the back nine on Sunday A body is buried in a bunker three weeks before the start of the Masters golf tournament. When intrepid golf writer Pete Hacker begin...



  • Hacker's back and the Royal & Ancient will never be the same!
    There's trouble afoot in the Auld Grey Toon when golf writer Hacker and the world of golf arrive in St. Andrews for the playing of the Open Championship.
    Before the tournament be...



  • Hacker's back as the US Open heads to bucolic Pebble Beach. But change is in the air: newly married, newly laid off, Hacker finds the celebrity owners of the Lodge at Pebble Beach locked in a corporate succession battle. And when a young assistant...



  • If it bleeds…it leads!Golf writer Hacker is now TV golf broadcaster Hacker with a sweet new gig on a national network. He has to learn the ins and outs of televising golf, and how to deal with the hyper-intense executive producer and director, Ben ...



  • SCOTLAND, 1805The clan chief wants to remove the people living in the Highland glens and straths, replacing them with thousands of black-face Cheviot sheep and a few herders. The people of the glens, who have lived there peacefully for hundreds of ye...



  • Gus Haddock has just been appointed chief of police in the town of Little Penwick, RI, replacing his father, who is now in jail. The state’s Attorney General, who sent the elder Haddock away, has appointed a new Special Master to keep tabs on G...






  • Julius Haddock is mad as hell and he's gonna do something about it!In Glitter Girl, Book One of the Swamp Yankee mysteries, Julius Haddock, the former chief of police of Little Penwick, Rhode Island, was in jail, thanks to a corrupt District Attorney...



  • It's 1924 and Rhode Island is Dry. And hating it.Prohibition was never popular in the state that refused to ratify the 18th Amendment banning the sale and use of alcoholic beverages. As the Ocean State, lots of Rhode Islanders found work as rum runne...



  • She's Baa-a-ack! With more headaches for Chief Gus HaddockIn Book 1 of the Swamp Yankee Mysteries, the 'Glitter Girl' Janine Stone created all kinds of trouble for Chief of Police Gus Haddock in Little Penwick, Rhode Island: the smallest town in the ...



  • From Suspect to Sleuth!When Rhode Island Attorney General Preston Knox is brutally murdered in his home,just weeks before getting elected Governor, the state police immediately pull in JuliusHaddock for questioning.After all, Julius, the now-retired ...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

James Y. Bartlett has published 13 books.

James Y. Bartlett does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Family Affairs, was published in April 2023.

The first book by James Y. Bartlett, Death Is a Two-Stroke Penalty, was published in May 1991.

Yes. James Y. Bartlett has 2 series.