Giacomo Giammatteo

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  • Bibliography:
    36 Books (5 Series)
  • First Book:
    April 2012
  • Latest Book:
    November 2023
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Full Series List in Order

Blood Flows South

1 - A Bullet for Carlos (Oct-2012)
1.5 - Finding Family (Jul-2013)
2 - A Bullet From Dominic (Jun-2014)
3 - A Hard Life: The Story of Tip Denton (Dec-2017)

Friendship & Honor

1 - Murder Takes Time (Apr-2012)
2 - Murder Has Consequences (May-2013)
3 - Murder Takes Patience (Sep-2014)
4 - Murder Is Invisible (Dec-2017)
5 - Memories For Sale (Mar-2018)

A Gino Cataldi Mystery

1 - Necessary Decisions (Dec-2013)
2 - Old Wounds (Sep-2016)
3 - Promises Kept (Oct-2016)
4 - Premeditated (Dec-2017)

Life on the Farm for Kids

1 - Shinobi Goes To School (Jun-2017)
2 - Fiona Get's Caught (Jul-2017)
3 - Coco Gets a Donut (Jul-2017)
4 - Squeak Gets a Home (Jun-2017)
5 - Biscotti Saves Punch (Mar-2018)

Rules of Vengeance

1 - Light of Lights (Jun-2017)
2 - Undeniable Vengeance (Sep-2017)
3 - A Promise of Vengeance (Dec-2017)

Book List in Order: 36 titles

  • Murder Takes Time

    Friendship & Honor - 1

    A string of brutal murders has bodies piling up in Brooklyn, and Detective Frankie Donovan knows what is going on. Clues left at the crime scenes point to someone from the old neighborhood, and that isn't good.Frankie has taken two oaths in his life ...

  • A Bullet for Carlos

    Blood Flows South - 1

    Detective Connie Giannelli's life has been torn apart several times. First when her mother died and then years later when she found out her Uncle Dominic was in the mob. Her life is about to be shredded again, and this time it could destroy her.Conni...

  • Murder Has Consequences

    Friendship & Honor - 2

    For a select few people, friendship lasts forever. Nicky Fusco and Frankie Donovan were friends like that, but that was years ago. Now Frankie’s a detective in Brooklyn’s Homicide department, and Nicky is a reformed hit man. But when Frankie gets...

  • Finding Family

    Blood Flows South - 1.5

    Dominic Mangini wanted what all 8-year-old boys want -- time to laugh and play, loving parents, and enough food on the table. But in war-ravaged Sicily, food was scarce, and his parents were as scarred as the land. His father said they must move to A...

  • Necessary Decisions

    A Gino Cataldi Mystery - 1

    Gino Cataldi is a man hanging on by a thread. Cancer took his wife, and drugs put his son in rehab. The only thing he has left is his badge. When a teenage girl is kidnapped it brings back nightmares from the worst case he ever worked -- the one...

  • A Bullet From Dominic

    Blood Flows South - 2

    Detective Connie Gianelli is a broken woman, and she doesn’t have the will to start again. While recovering in Brooklyn, she gets a call from her old partner about a new case in Texas. Combined with the pressure from her uncle, it’s enough to con...

  • Murder Takes Patience

    Friendship & Honor - 3

    A maniac killer -- “Mr. Clean” -- is on the loose in Brooklyn, and he’s targeting couples in the midst of making love. He finds them in hotel rooms, in their apartments, and even in the park. What he does to the victims is unspeakable, but afte...

  • Old Wounds

    A Gino Cataldi Mystery - 2

    Gino Cataldi loved three things: his wife, his son, and his job as a cop. Cancer took his wife. Drugs have his son. And Gino is pulling desk duty, suspected of killing a drug dealer.Every night he dreams of a chance to make things right. That chance ...

  • Promises Kept

    A Gino Cataldi Mystery - 3

    Lisa Benz was brilliant, street smart, and full of potential. She could have had any job she wanted, but she decided to join the police force. She didn’t join to carry on a family tradition, or to fulfill a lifelong dream. She didn’t join to impr...



  • The Joshua Citadel

    Time -- the not too distant future -- Post Apocalypse.Place -- a world not unlike our own.The tale I tell is one of woe: a war that has lasted for centuries; a war where the casualties numbered in the billions, if not more; a war that could have been...

  • A Hard Life

    George Denton was a good kid, young, enthusiastic and full of life. All he wanted was a mother who loved him and treated him right; instead, he got Holly.Holly was a waitress at an all-night diner. To save money, she used to take George to work with ...

  • Lie and Lay

    Do you tell your dog to lay down or lie down? How do you respond to the question of "How are you?" Do you say *good* or *well?*If these questions confuse you, imagine how tough it is for your kids. Don't worry about it anymore. Let Queen Shinobi teac...

  • Light of Lights

    Rules of Vengeance - 1

    The seven worlds of Nelstar are in turmoil. War has devastated the largest cities, and the most powerful of the demigods are locked in a fierce battle. As casualties mount, Antar, the strongest of the Lights, makes a decision to use weapons that have...

  • Shinobi Goes To School

    Life on the Farm for Kids - 1

  • Squeak Gets a Home

    Life on the Farm for Kids - 4

    The sanctuary’s doors were always open, so when a couple called to say they could no longer keep their potbelly pig and asked if we would take it, we said sure.We weren’t prepared, though, for what she brought with her....

  • Coco Gets a Donut

    Life on the Farm for Kids - 3

    “She’s got two days,” Animal Control told my wife. “After that, we have to shoot her.” My wife was upset. How was she going to catch a pig who was living in the woods in two days? Faced with a seemingly impossible task, my wife began to pla...

  • Fiona Get's Caught

    Life on the Farm for Kids - 2

    Fiona lived her life in the woods, living wild, deep in the forest outside of Houston. Things went fine for years, then she had babies, then she was mercilessly hunted.This is the true story of how Fiona went from living in the wild to living on the ...

  • Undeniable Vengeance

    Rules of Vengeance - 2

    The Sethian Shield is weakening -- one of the Banished Ones has already escaped. Was it a flaw in the Shield's design or something more sinister? And more importantly, will any more of them escape?Rahg learns he needs to travel to a foreign land to c...

  • A Hard Life: The Story of Tip Denton

    Blood Flows South - 3

    George Denton was a good kid, young, enthusiastic and full of life. All he wanted was a mother who loved him and treated him right; instead, he got Holly.Holly was a waitress at an all-night diner. To save money, she used to take George to work with ...



  • Murder Is Invisible

    Friendship & Honor - 4

    What do you do when logic tells you to do one thing, but your heart tells you to do another? That’s the problem Nicky Fusco is facing when Rosa’s friend is kidnapped, and she asks him to help. Then Rosa brings home a video that shows he...

  • Premeditated

    A Gino Cataldi Mystery - 4

    After being married for 25 years, I realized that I no longer wanted to be married. What should I do?The simple answer was file for divorce, but life was seldom that simple and mine certainly wasn’t. There was the house to consider, two cars, the j...

  • A Promise of Vengeance

    Rules of Vengeance - 3

    The seven worlds of Neltsar are in turmoil. War has devastated the largest cities and killed millions of people. Now, one hundred of the strongest warriors -- beings with incomprehensible power -- have been banished to the Forsaken Lands. After wande...

  • The Joshua Citadel, The Last Battle

    Time -- the not too distant future -- Post Apocalypse.Place -- a world not unlike our own.The tale I tell is one of woe: a war that has lasted for centuries; a war where the casualties numbered in the billions, if not more; a war that could hav...

  • Life on the Farm for Kids

    The school needed a pig and they needed one badly. Finally, someone told them about Queen Shinobi and they called to arrange a visit. Queen Shinobi was asked to participate in a kiss-the-pig contest with the principal.This is her story. The story of ...

  • Life on the Farm for Kids, Volume III

    “She’s got two days,” Animal Control told my wife. “After that, we have to shoot her.”My wife was upset. How was she going to catch a pig who was living in the woods in two days?Faced with a seemingly impossible task, my wife began to plan....

  • Biscotti Saves Punch

    Life on the Farm for Kids - 5

    Biscotti is the sweetest dog on the sanctuary, but Punch, the pig, doesn’t think so. According to Punch, Biscotti is mean and bites.Then one day, something happens to make Punch change his mind. Read on to find out how Biscotti saved Punch....

  • Memories For Sale

    Friendship & Honor - 5

    The setting is Washington, D.C., in the year 2030. A surge in crime has many people worried, including the president.The crime statistics mirror the sales of a new technology product. Now everyone is wondering if there is a correlation and, more impo...

  • Adalina and the Five Tiny Bears

    There is nothing more magnificent than the imagination of a child. The Adventures of Adalina consists of stories of one such child -- Adalina. From tiny bears, to underwater bears, to foxes that haunt the night, Adalina challenges them all. Read on a...

  • Consummate Vengeance

    The Sethian Shield continues to weaken, and although Lukaan is still imprisoned, it seems inevitable that he'll get out. And once he does … Rahg and Darstan must find a way to prevent him from escaping, but they have become mortal enemies after wha...



  • The Ranger

    It’s been 20 years since the killer known as The Ranger has preyed the streets of Houston, but now he’s back, and bodies are falling.The Ranger is suspected of killing Tip’s mother, but he was never caught. Now it’s up to Tip ...

  • Murder Is Immaculate

    Nicky Fusco has tried living a clean and responsible life, but now a string of murders in Wilmington has local detectives looking at Nicky's past life, and he is the prime suspect.Faced with the possibility of prison, Nicky decides to solve the crime...

  • Vengeance Is Mine

    In this final book of the Rules of Vengeance series, Rahg and Darstan must find some way to defeat Anciara, though the challenge seems impossible. After a failed attempt, using all the resources they have, they decide a trip to Nelstar is in order, w...

  • A Dead Witness Is No Witness

    Gino and Ribs are investigating what appears to be a routine drug murder when things get out of hand. A prominent citizen is killed, then a priest, and those killings are followed by more drug murders. After the priest's murder, the Chief of Detectiv...

  • I Remember Philadelphia

    Early in his career, Gino Cataldi worked a kidnapping case in Philadelphia. By all accounts, it was a success—he brought the girl home alive. But reality told a different story. She had been beaten and raped, and she was scarred for life.Gino d...

  • The Good Book

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  • Murder Is a Promise

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    No matter what kind of promise you make -- it’s a promise. If you don’t plan on keeping it, don’t make it. In book five of the Friendship & Honor series, Nicky goes to Brooklyn for a wedding. While he's there, Frankie has some trouble, and Nick...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Giacomo Giammatteo has published 36 books.

Giacomo Giammatteo does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, I Remember Philadelphia, was published in November 2023.

The first book by Giacomo Giammatteo, Murder Takes Time, was published in April 2012.

Yes. Giacomo Giammatteo has 5 series.
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