Harry Connolly

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  • Bibliography:
    20 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    October 2009
  • Latest Book:
    November 2022
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Full Series List in Order

A Twenty Palaces Novel

1 - Child of Fire (Oct-2009)
2 - Game of Cages (Sep-2010)
3 - Circle of Enemies (Sep-2011)

Book List in Order: 20 titles

  • Child of Fire

    A Twenty Palaces Novel - 1

    Ray Lilly is living on borrowed time. He's the driver for Annalise Powliss, a high-ranking member of the Twenty Palace Society, a group of sorcerers devoted to hunting down and executing rogue magicians. But because Ray betrayed her once, Annalise is...

  • Game of Cages

    A Twenty Palaces Novel - 2

    A SECRET HIGH-STAKES AUCTION As a wealthy few gather to bid on a predator capable of destroying all life on earth, the sorcerers of the Twenty Palace Society mobilize to stop them. Caught up in the scramble is Ray Lilly, the lowest of the low in t...

  • Another Man's Burden

    Short Story. The city of Pald was once, briefly, a free human city, but it is free no longer. Still, vestiges of the culture taught by the city's mysterious founder still linger, especially the mania for sword play and dueling. On one particular afte...

  • The Blood Cord

    Short Story. The human city of Pald was once, briefly, free, but it is free no longer. Magic of all kinds is outlawed, and people live by their wits, connections, and honor. Fat Willug is a man with a secret that too many people know. When he is kidn...

  • The Bone Orchid

  • Soldiers of a Dying God

    Novelette. Tindehall is the last human city in the world, and soon it will be empty ruins. The powerful Digger peoples have been waging a long-distance war against the human race, and within a few short years their genocide will be complete.But the R...

  • Bad Little Girls Die Horrible Deaths

    This short fiction collection from PW Book of the Year author Harry Connolly combines reprints from magazines and anthologies along with new, previously unpublished fiction, including the TWENTY PALACES novelette "The Hand Made Mask." Prai...

  • Circle of Enemies

    A Twenty Palaces Novel - 3

    Former car thief Ray Lilly is now the expendable grunt of a sorcerer responsible for destroying extradimensional predators summoned to our world by power-hungry magicians. Luckily, Ray has some magic of his own, and so far it's kept him alive. But wh...

  • Twenty Palaces

    When Ray Lilly was 13 years old, a handgun accident landed his best friend, Jon Burrows, in a wheelchair and turned Ray into a runaway and petty criminal. Fifteen years later, Ray returns home after a stint in prison; he’s determined to go straight...



  • Lord of Reavers

    Novelette:Alleg and his bandits have a comfortable gig: some intimidation, a little fighting, and they manage a comfortable living. They aren’t getting rich, but it’s better than working.Then they take in a new recruit, a talented thief and kille...

  • King Khan

    THIS TOWN'S GOING APE! Professor Khan, learned ape, has traveled through time, fought psychic dinosaurs and shark-men, visited Atlantis, and battled across the sands of Mars. He's seen it all- - until an arrow shooting out of the sky sends him to the...

  • Bad Little Girls Die Horrible Deaths And Other Tales of Dark Fantasy

    This short fiction collection from PW Book of the Year author Harry Connolly combines reprints from magazines and anthologies along with new, previously unpublished fiction, including the TWENTY PALACES novelette “The Hand Made Mask.” Praise for...

  • The Way Into Chaos

    BOOK ONE OF THE GREAT WAY: The city of Peradain is the heart of an empire built with steel, spears,and a monopoly on magic… until, in a single day, it falls, overthrown by a swarm of supernatural creatures of incredible power and ferocity. Neither ...

  • The Way Into Magic

    BOOK TWO OF THE GREAT WAY: Having lost the prince to the madness of The Blessing, Tejohn and Cazia are the only people who know of his plan to retrieve a secret spell that might, just might, turn the tide of battle against the grunts. But Tejohn’s ...

  • A Key, an Egg, an Unfortunate Remark

    A MYSTERIOUS KILLING After years of waging a secret war against the supernatural, Marley Jacobs put away her wooden stakes and silver bullets, then turned her back on violence. She declared Seattle, her city, a safe zone for everyone, living and unde...

  • The Way Into Darkness

    BOOK THREE OF THE GREAT WAY: What was once the Peradaini Empire is now a wasted landscape of burned, empty cities and abandoned farmlands. The Blessing, now more numerous than ever, continues to spread across the continent, driving refugees to the du...

  • The Twisted Path

    Ray Lilly has been summoned to the headquarters of the Twenty Palace Society to answer one question: How has he managed to survive mission after mission fighting alongside his boss, Annalise? He doesn't have the power of a full peer of the society. H...

  • One Man

    One Cursed City. Two Dead Gods. Ten Thousand Murderers and Thieves. One Orphaned Girl.As a child, Kyrioc was groomed to be the head of one of the most powerful noble families in Koh-Salash, a city built inside the skeletons of two murdered gods. Kyri...

  • The Iron Gate

    Stormy Bay is a dying town nestled against an eerily placid ocean, and Ray Lilly is trapped in it. He can barely remember his name let alone his mission for the Twenty Palace society. Worse, he realizes that for some time now he's been living as a pu...



  • The Flood Circle

    The three original spellbooks, source of all magic in the world, have been found, and Ray Lilly has already acquired one. Now he and Annalise are on a historic mission to get the other two and they're ready to kill anyone who gets in their way.If the...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Harry Connolly has published 20 books.

Harry Connolly does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Flood Circle, was published in November 2022.

The first book by Harry Connolly, Child of Fire, was published in October 2009.

Yes. Harry Connolly has 1 series.
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