James Scott Bell

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  • Bibliography:
    44 Books (5 Series)
  • First Book:
    February 1995
  • Latest Book:
    September 2023
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Full Series List in Order

Force of Habit

1 - Force of Habit (May-2012)
2 - And Then There Were Nuns (Feb-2013)
3 - Force of Habit 3 (Jan-2014)

Mallory Caine, Zombie-At-Law

1 - Pay Me In Flesh (Mar-2019)
2 - The Year of Eating Dangerously (Mar-2019)
3 - I Ate The Sheriff (Mar-2019)

A Mike Romeo Thriller

1 - Romeo's Rules (Nov-2015)
2 - Romeo's Way (Jun-2016)
3 - Romeo's Hammer (May-2017)
4 - Romeo's Fight (Jan-2019)
5 - Romeo's Stand (Jun-2020)
6 - Romeo's Town (Aug-2021)
7 - Romeo's Rage (Oct-2022)
8 - Romeo's Justice (Sep-2023)

The Trials of Kit Shannon

1 - A Greater Glory (Feb-2003)
2 - Higher Justice (Sep-2003)
3 - A Certain Truth (Jun-2004)
4 - City of Angels (Dec-2014)
5 - Angels Flight (Jan-2015)

Ty Buchanan

1 - Try Dying (Nov-2007)
2 - Try Darkness (Aug-2008)
3 - Try Fear (Jul-2009)

Book List in Order: 44 titles

  • The Darwin Conspiracy: The Confessions of Sir Max Busby

    Years after convincing himself that fabled manuscripts by Sir Max Busby, which identified flaws in Darwinism, were nonexistent, James Scott Bell repudiates an inaccurate editorial on origins and is astonished when his letter brings the Busby manuscri...

  • Circumstantial Evidence

    From back cover: Tracy shepherd is a young widow with two small children, working as a deputy district attorney in Los Angeles. When she gets her first murder case, a gang related killing of a Hollywood producer, she wonders if she is up to the task....

  • Final Witness

    A cold-blooded killer is destroying all who oppose him. Will there be a final witness to the truth?Young, idealistic law clerk Rachel Ybarra has just been handed a career-making opportunity--helping in the prosecution of an infamous leader of the Rus...

  • Blind Justice

    When a childhood friend is accused of murder, disgraced criminal lawyer Jake Denney struggles to overcome his alcoholism and renew his career in order to defend his client against the evil forces that threaten to destroy them both. Original. 17,500 f...

  • The Nephilim Seed

    WHAT IS THE SECRET OF THE NEPHILIM SEED? When lawyer Janice Ramsey’s young daughter is kidnapped in broad daylight, the Chicago police consider it just another case. But for Janice it soon becomes much more. When a bounty hunter with a dark past t...

  • Deadlock

    DEADLOCK is a novel about the impact of the Supreme Court today … and about imminent, real-life choices that will shape both its future and that of our nation. She is a Supreme Court Justice. She is an atheist. And she is about to encounter ...

  • A Greater Glory

    The Trials of Kit Shannon - 1

    Her calling to pursue justice in its purest form to the very best of her ability. The realm of law has long been in the hands of men, but Kit Shannon is determined to forge her way and represent truth-for those who most desperately need it. Her city ...

  • Higher Justice

    The Trials of Kit Shannon - 2

    Kit Shannon takes on the case of a woman whose young son is tragically killed on a turn-of-the-century Los Angeles trolley. She soon finds herself up against a powerful coalition of railroad men and politicians--all of whom seem to have something to ...

  • Breach of Promise

    When Maddie is born, self-obsessed actor Mark Gillen becomes a changed man. Caring for their daughter while his wife takes a major film job, he's crushed by news of Paula's infidelity. Now she's demanding a divorce---and custody of Maddie! Will Mark'...



  • A Certain Truth

    The Trials of Kit Shannon - 3

    Trials of Kit Shannon book 3. Journeying aboard an ocean liner with her new husband, Kit Shannon is contacted by a desperate woman who fears something terrible is about to happen to her. When the young woman’s husband turns up dead, she becomes a s...

  • Glimpses of Paradise

    Two high school kids in small town Nebraska have their dreams. Zee, a minister's daughter, wants to be a movie star. Doyle, the son of a wealthy lawyer, is expected to follow in his father’s footsteps and practice law. But World War I explodes and ...

  • Sins Of The Fathers

    A parent’s worst nightmare. A lawyer’s biggest challenge. A young boy’s life on the line. The unimaginable has happened. A thirteen-year-old boy has fired a rifle into a baseball game, killing several of the kids on the field. Parents are dev...

  • Presumed Guilty

    Murder, betrayal, and a trial that feeds a media frenzy. Can one woman stand against the forces that threaten to tear her family apart? Pastor Ron Hamilton's star is rising. His church is 8,000 strong and thriving. His good looks and charisma mak...

  • No Legal Grounds

    How far will a man go to protect his family? Attorney Sam Trask will go farther than he ever dreamed, even in his worst nightmare. Because his worst nightmare is about to come true... At age forty-seven, attorney Sam Trask finally seems to have h...

  • Try Dying

    Ty Buchanan - 1

    Life is good for Ty Buchanan. He’s in his prime and on track to be a partner in a successful LA law firm, he has a beautiful fiancée he loves and good friends. In a matter of seconds, he will lose them all. A freak occurrence on an LA freew...

  • The Whole Truth

    At the age of five, Steve Conroy saw his seven-year-old brother kidnapped from the very bedroom they shared. His brother was never found. And the guilt of his silence that night has all but destroyed Steve's life. Now thirty years old with a failin...

  • Try Darkness

    Ty Buchanan - 2

    Dispensing free legal advice from his "office" at the local coffee bar, attorney Ty Buchanan agrees to help a soon-to-be evicted mother with a 6-year-old daughter. But when the mystery woman turns up dead, the case moves from the courts to the street...

  • Deceived

    She thinks she knows who she is and what she wants, but when the web gets terribly tangled, is her game of deception a clever lie or a deadly trap? Two bodies in an isolated canyon on the edge of L.A. One with saddlebags filled with diamonds. T...

  • Try Fear

    Ty Buchanan - 3

    For Ty Buchanan, defending a suspected drunk driver named Carl Richess seems routine enough. But when his client ends up dead, an apparent suicide, there's nothing routine about it. Because the cops suspect it's murder, and arrest Eric Richess, Carl'...



  • Watch Your Back

    Like your suspense lean and mean? From the master of "heart-whamming" thrillers (Publishers Weekly) comes a collection of suspense full of the twists and shocks James Scott Bell is known for.In the title novella, "Watch Your Back," hotshot IT guy Cam...

  • One More Lie

    International Thriller Awards Finalist! From a "master of suspense" (Library Journal) and the writer of "heart-whamming" fiction (Publishers Weekly) comes more page-turning thrills.In the full-length novella, One More Lie, high flying divorce attorn...

  • Force of Habit

    Force of Habit - 1

    She's back...and the punks in L.A. are about to get knuckled under!

    Sister Justicia Marie, the rogue nun who burst into action in FORCE OF HABIT, is back with a vengeance. Determined to love her enemies by kicking their butts, Sister J is get...

  • Don't Leave Me

    When they came for him, it was time to run. When they came for his brother, it was time to fight...Chuck Samson needs to heal. A former Navy chaplain who served with a Marine unit in Afghanistan, he's come home to take care of his adult, autistic bro...

  • And Then There Were Nuns

    Force of Habit - 2

    She's back...and the punks in L.A. are about to get knuckled under!

    Sister Justicia Marie, the rogue nun who burst into action in FORCE OF HABIT, is back with a vengeance. Determined to love her enemies by kicking their butts, Sister J is get...

  • Force of Habit 3

    Force of Habit - 3

    Sister Justicia Marie is just a nun trying to make L.A. a little bit safer. So why are so many people out to get her?

    Sister J, and her young charge Sister Xuan, have started a new order, The Sisters of Perpetual Justice. Now they're running...

  • City of Angels

    The Trials of Kit Shannon - 4

    The courtrooms of 1903 Los Angeles are a man’s world""until Kit Shannon arrives With shoulders squared and dreams set high, Kit Shannon arrives in Los Angeles feeling a special calling to the law. Yet under the care of her socialite aunt, Kit q...

  • Angels Flight

    The Trials of Kit Shannon - 5

    Nothing had prepared her for the hostility of a city gripped by prejudice . . . With her first trial a dramatic success, Kit Shannon steps out from the protective and guiding hand of her mentor and begins her own law practice. When she is drawn to th...

  • Romeo's Rules

    A Mike Romeo Thriller - 1

    If you want to stay alive, you better know the rules . . .

    Natalia Mayne said, “What's the first rule?”

    “Fear nothing,” I said.

    “You have any more?”

    “Do unto them before they do unto you.”

    “Re...

  • Romeo's Way

    A Mike Romeo Thriller - 2

    There's a way that's right and a way that's deadly. Then there's Romeo's way. “I don’t want anybody bleeding to death, okay?” I said. “I think your problem is education. There’s just no discipline anymore. You have to know there are consequ...



  • Romeo's Hammer

    A Mike Romeo Thriller - 3

    She was beautiful and naked and dying...

    Mike Romeo finds her in the fog, on the beach, staggering around like a drunk. But it's not alcohol that's in her -- it's poison.

    After getting this mysterious woman to the hospital, Romeo figures that...

  • Framed

    It's not every day you bleed to death...Things have started to turn around for Jonathan Curtis. He's out of jail and staying clean. When a car restoration job shows up, it's right in Jonathan's wheelhouse. This could be the first step in his dream of...

  • Your Son Is Alive

    Fifteen years ago their son was taken. Now somebody says they can have him back.

    Dylan and Erin Reeve have lived with a gaping emotional wound ever since their five-year-old son, Kyle, was kidnapped in broad daylight.

    And never found.

    Though t...

  • Romeo's Fight

    A Mike Romeo Thriller - 4

    So you're Mike Romeo. You don't look so tough.All Romeo wanted was to chill by the pool and talk to Zane Donahue, the man who'd summoned him. But trouble walked up to ruin a good day. When Romeo's around somebody's always spoiling for a fight. Dispat...

  • I Ate The Sheriff

    Mallory Caine, Zombie-At-Law - 3

    Justice. It's what's for dinner. What's worse than killing a cop? Eating him afterwards. Which is exactly what happened to a Los Angeles County sheriff in the office of one noted Los Angeles lawyer. Now Mallory Caine, zombie at law, faces the toughes...

  • Pay Me In Flesh

    Mallory Caine, Zombie-At-Law - 1

    Hungry for justice . . . and brains! Meet Mallory Caine. Attorney at law. Zombie at large. She's not like those Living Dead losers you see in the movies. She doesn't slobber, drool, or lurch. She's smart, stylish, and sexy. Sure, she's a zombie and a...

  • The Year of Eating Dangerously

    Mallory Caine, Zombie-At-Law - 2

    The dead shall rise ... and approach the bench! As a lawyer, Mallory Caine considers it her duty to defend the innocent. As a flesh-eating zombie, she knows how to take a bit out of crime. So when a scared ten-year-old boy asks for her help-claiming ...

  • Plotman to the Rescue

    Help! My plot drags, sags, and has no heart!This looks like a job for Plotman!Yes, solving your plot problems is why the superhero of story came to Earth. His mission? To give practical, easy-to-apply answers to the most vexing plot questions writers...

  • Last Call

    His face did not twitch. In fact, its normally ruddy tones had disappeared. Now there was a dull grayness to the skin. His lips were the color of old plums.Which was when the first chill winds of disquiet blew inside her. Pinky?Nothing.She grabbed hi...

  • Romeo's Stand

    A Mike Romeo Thriller - 5

    We were an hour from Vegas when the plane began to shake.Something is rotten in the little town of Dillard, NV. And Mike Romeo is right in the middle of it.After the plane he's on has to land in the desert, Romeo tries to check on the woman who was s...



  • Long Lost

    From International Thriller Writers Award winner James Scott Bell Lawyer Steve Conroy has one last chance to overcome the past that has haunted him for twenty-five years. But he'll learn that the present can be darker than any nightmare he's ever had...

  • Romeo's Town

    A Mike Romeo Thriller - 6

    L.A. is Romeo's town. Keep off the grass. When 16-year-old Clint Cunningham is arrested for selling drugs at an elite private school, his mother hires lawyer Ira Rosen and Mike Romeo. It should be a simple case. But nothing is simple in lockdown Los ...

  • Romeo's Rage

    A Mike Romeo Thriller - 7

    They tried to kill Romeo, but didn't finish the job. Now his rage is about to rain down...Mike Romeo is helping a reformed gang member protect a girl rescued from a sex trafficking ring. When the girl is kidnapped, Romeo sets out to find her-and plun...

  • Can't Stop Me

    How far will a man go to protect his family? For lawyer Sam Trask, it is farther than he ever thought possible, even in his worst nightmare. Because his worst nightmare is about to come true. At age forty-seven, attorney Sam Trask finally seems to ha...

  • Romeo's Justice

    A Mike Romeo Thriller - 8

    I drove away tired. Tired of the road rage guys, the bar fight guys. There's always more of them. History is about one thing, and has been ever since hunter clubbed gatherer and took his berries. Conquest.It's always been about beating the other guys...

Award-Winning Books by James Scott Bell

Final Witness
2000 Christy Award -- Suspense
Romeo's Way
2017 Thriller Award -- E-Book Original


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

James Scott Bell has published 44 books.

James Scott Bell does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Romeo's Justice, was published in September 2023.

The first book by James Scott Bell, The Darwin Conspiracy: The Confessions of Sir Max Busby, was published in February 1995.

Yes. James Scott Bell has 5 series.
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