Kiki Swinson

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  • Bibliography:
    70 Books (9 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 2000
  • Latest Book:
    October 2025
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About the Author

Born and raised in Portsmouth, Virginia, Kiki Swinson discovered her flair for writing after completing her first novel entitled "Mad Shambles," while serving a five year sentence at a federal prison for "being the wifey" of a known drug dealer. This charge is known as "knowing of and/or about a criminal-enterprise."

Full Series List in Order

Alayna Curry

1 - Burning Season (May-2023)
2 - Where There's Smoke (Apr-2024)

The Black Market

1 - The Black Market (Dec-2018)
2 - The Safe House (Jun-2019)
3 - Property of the State (Feb-2020)

The Candy Shop

1 - The Candy Shop (Feb-2007)
2 - The Candy Shop 2 (Feb-2014)

Cheaper to Keep Her

1 - Cheaper to Keep Her (Feb-2011)
2 - Cheaper to Keep Her Part 2: The Saga Continues (Jul-2011)
3 - More Money More Problems (Jan-2012)
4 - America's Most Wanted (Jan-2013)
5 - Cheaper to Keep Her Part 5: In Witness Protection (May-2014)
8 - The Hunt Is on (Sep-2018)

Green Eye Bandit

1 - Green Eye Bandit (Aug-2012)
2 - Green Eye Bandit Part 2 (Jan-2014)

New York's Finest

1 - New York's Finest (Oct-2011)
2 - Internationally Known (Sep-2012)
3 - I'm Forever (Apr-2013)
3 - I'm New York's Finest (Feb-2018)
4 - New York's Finest to the Death (Mar-2018)

Suckers 4-Candy

1 - Suckers 4-Candy (Jan-2013)

Wife Extraordinaire

1 - Wife Extraordinaire (Feb-2011)
2 - Wife Extraordinaire Returns (Jan-2012)
3 - Wife Extraordinaire Reloaded (Nov-2014)
4 - Who's Wife Extraordinaire Now (Oct-2017)

Wifey

1 - Wifey (Dec-2004)
2 - Still Wifey Material (Nov-2008)
3 - I'm Still Wifey (Jan-2009)
4 - Life After Wifey (Mar-2009)
5 - Wifey 4 Life (Oct-2010)

Book List in Order: 70 titles

  • Mad Shambles

    Delyah, Almirah and Lisa are best friends with problems in their personal lives just like everyone around them. But somehow they find ways to comfort each other even when it seems like there's no end to their drama....

  • Wifey

    Wifey - 1

    Essence® bestselling author KiKi Swinson offers up a scandalous street lit tale--and shows that no one else stands a chance when wifey runs the hustle. From the looks of things, Kira's got it all. She owns a profitable hair salon and is livin' the ...

  • The Candy Shop

    The Candy Shop - 1

    Having no regards for people, their property and even her own life, Faith Simmons has done everything from selling off her life’s fortune, to selling her body, and stealing, all because of her sweet addiction for The Candy Shop. Looking back ten ye...

  • A Sticky Situation

    At 34, the beautiful Maxine Shaw thrives in her current position as a federal parole officer. Known throughout countless federal correctional facilities for violating and sending parolees from her caseload back to prison, she's the most surprised whe...

  • Keeping My Enemies Close

    in Sleeping With The Enemy

    Wahida Clark and Kiki Swinson are two mistresses who have the street lit genre on lock. -- The RAWSISTAZ Reviewers 

    Enemy in My Bed Wahida Clark

    Kreesha can't control her dangerous feelings for Reign -- a brother who's married, just ou...

  • Still Wifey Material

    Wifey - 2

    Kira is back and needs to make up for lost time. After deciding to leave the Witness Protection Program she gets disturbing news that Quincy an old flame, Rhonda her business partner, Sunshine an old rival, and her grandmother were all murdered. Kira...

  • I'm Still Wifey

    Wifey - 3

    Essence® bestselling author Kiki Swinson shows how far one woman will go when her back is up against the wall... Life in the 'hood sure isn't easy, but Kira can handle it. With her playah drug-lord husband Ricky behind bars serving federal time, al...

  • Life After Wifey

    Wifey - 4

    Nikki Simpson's goin' to have to use everything Wifey taught her about the streets if she wants to survive... Nikki's got some chilling information that can put a lot of dangerous people behind bars for life--including her new boyfriend Syncere. Ni...

  • Playing Dirty

    Essence® bestselling author Kiki Swinson keeps it coming with a gritty, new drama about one cunning sistah playing a very dangerous game with the law. Playing dirty is a skill that Yoshi Lomax has perfected. By bribing cops and officials, sleeping ...



  • Notorious

    After the drama in Playing Dirty, Yoshi Lomax is on the run, but trouble follows her wherever she goes... When things get too hot in Miami, criminal lawyer Yoshi figures she'll be safe if she goes home to Norfolk, Virginia, for a little while. But...

  • Still Candy Shopping

    Faith Simmons checks into a rehab but quickly checks out after she receives bad news from her ex-husband. Back on the streets she will run into a new breed of sharks and her life will hang in the balance once again....

  • Wifey 4 Life

    Wifey - 5

    Kira's quiet life in the islands is interrupted when she's called back to Virginia to attend her cousin Nikki's funeral. Reluctantly, Kira plans a short, incognito trip to do just that. However, her plans are derailed when news of her arrival spreads...

  • The Ultimate Heist

    in Heist

    Accustomed to a life of luxury, Shannon Marshall is devastated to lose everything after her husband, Todd, is sent to prison for gun running. So when Todd plans the ultimate stickup from behind bars, Shannon's ready to put her neck on the line. But s...

  • Wife Extraordinaire

    Wife Extraordinaire - 1

    Trice Davis and her husband Troy love a challenge--and they love the idea of winning $10,000 even more. So when Troy signs them up for the reality show Trading Wives--a knock-off of Wife Swap--Trice is nervous but willing. She's not thrilled about li...

  • Cheaper to Keep Her

    Cheaper to Keep Her - 1

    “Kiki captures the heat of the streets.”
    -- Wahida Clark
     
    The night Duke Carrington walked into the Magic City strip club in Portsmouth, Virginia, Lynise Washington was working her usual bartending shift. But there was nothing rout...

  • Cheaper to Keep Her Part 2: The Saga Continues

    Cheaper to Keep Her - 2

    After a spree of revenge against her ex-lover, Duke Carrington, and her former best friend, Diamond, Lynise Washington is out of jail—under one condition. She’s agreed to help homicide detectives bring Duke down. But now that she’s ...

  • New York's Finest

    New York's Finest - 1

    Hailing from the streets of New York, Naomi Foxx worked as a flight attendant for America's Airways for five years. Throughout her years of travels Naomi has seen the world and been in the company of some very wealthy and powerful men. Because of her...

  • Shamelessly Rich

    in Lifestyles of the Rich and Shameless

    Exclusive parties, high-end rides, designer everything--for Virginia Beach heiress Megan Rich, it's just an ordinary day. And one taste of Eric Chambers' thug loving has her spending like crazy to keep him primed, hot, 'n ready. But when her parents ...

  • More Money More Problems

    Cheaper to Keep Her - 3

    In the aftermath of a bloody spree of revenge, Lynise Washington agrees to leave Virginia with her new man, Bishop, a hot, money-making gangsta. Lynise knows she's not Bishop's main woman, but she's cool with that. She believes he's the only one who ...



  • Wife Extraordinaire Returns

    Wife Extraordinaire - 2

    Trice O'neal and Charlene traded husbands to receive $10,000 but the plans to get their payoff turned upside down and Trice ended up in the hospital. Now she's back home with Troy but her heart is still with Leon. Troy doesn't know this but Trice wan...

  • Who's Notorious Now

  • Green Eye Bandit

    Green Eye Bandit - 1

    Tina Martin also know as Green Eyes never caught a break in life until she got hired as a housekeeper at one of the most lavish hotels in Atlantic City. Recruiting her cousin Shelby Martin, to be her partner in crime the two found a lucrative hustle ...

  • Internationally Known

    New York's Finest - 2

    Naomi Foxx was New York's Finest until she got knee deep in her brother Reggie's illegal enterprise. Now on the run with her new man Damian, she's doesn't know where to turn. But when her brother Reggie calls on her to come to his rescue, Naomi knows...

  • Murder was the Case

    In the third book of the riveting Playing Dirty/Notorious series, defense attorney Yoshi Lomax finds herself caught up in a ruthless power struggle that could end on the other side of the bars.Using her keen skills to outsmart her opponents has never...

  • I Need a Gangsta

    in A Gangster and a Gentleman

    Melody Goldman isn't about to let her rich, cheating, ungrateful husband walk out and leave her with nothing. Fortunately, ex-con Scotty Harris has no problem disposing of her problems in exchange for plenty of cold, hard cash and hot, hard sexing. B...

  • America's Most Wanted

    Cheaper to Keep Her - 4

    Lynise thought she would live happily ever after when she went to Bishop's hometown in New Jersey, but her time there was not a happy one at all. Once she sees Bishop for who he really was, she knows she must get away from him before she ends up like...

  • Suckers 4-Candy

    Suckers 4-Candy - 1

    In (part one), of the Suckers 4- Candy e-book series is a story about how the street life tore a family apart. Find out how Ben made his living on the street. And in the midst of it all, how he lost someone every close to him. Find out who it was....

  • I'm Forever

    New York's Finest - 3

    It took a lot of manpower and machinery to rescue Reggie from the clutches of Miguel Chavez and his henchmen but Naomi, Damian and Foxx made it happen. Unfortunately, they are not out of the wood yet. They still have the Feds to watch out for. And...

  • The Most Wanted Diamonds

    in Most Wanted (Dafina)

    Gigi Costner needs four million dollars she doesn't have and time she hasn't got. Her ex-con ex-lover swears to make her pay for the multimillion-dollar stash of diamonds she stole as she ditched him for a new life as a suburban wife. With time runni...



  • Ericka Kane

  • Green Eye Bandit Part 2

    Green Eye Bandit - 2

    Tina Martin was taken into custody after a double homicide had taken place at her apartment. After several failed attempts to rat out the guys who committed the murders, Tina was released from jail. Tina felt that by ratting the guys out they would...

  • The Candy Shop 2

    in Still Candy Shopping
    The Candy Shop - 2

    After two years on the streets, Faith Simmons desperately misses her young daughter and the good life she once had. Ready to fight for what she's lost, Faith gets herself admitted to a drug rehab program. Finally, she's hopeful about the future--unti...

  • Cheaper to Keep Her Part 5: In Witness Protection

    Cheaper to Keep Her - 5

    It’s do -- or die brutal -- for Lynise Washington. With her vicious gangsta ex, Bishop, closing in, she’s busting out of the FBI’s safe house no matter what. But when she’s promptly betrayed by two Bureau agents, she nearly winds up in the gr...

  • Wifey's Next Deadly Hustle

    Kira is getting pulled in more murders. It seems like everywhere she turns someone else comes up dead. Now that she's aware that harm is lurking around the next corner she starts equipping herself with an arsenal of manpower. But will that manpower h...

  • Wifey's Next Hustle

    After the near-death situation Kira put herself in plus the lost of a person she loved dearly, she left her hometown for good, gave up being wifey, and got herself a new hustle. (THIS IS THE FULL LENGTH VERSION)....

  • Cheaper to Keep Her part 3

    With all the bloodshed from people close to her, Lynise thought it was best to leave Virginia with Bishop until the dusk settles. He took her to his hometown in Newark, New Jersey and set her up in a nice apartment off Mount Prospect.Everything is ru...

  • Cheaper to Keep Her part 4

    Lynise Carter is back for another round of revenge in Cheaper to Keep Her part 4. Too bad, Bishop isn't on her side this time around. Lynise is alone and everyone around her knows it. So as she tries to recuperate after an almost fatal gunshot wou...

  • Wifey's Next Come Up

    Kira is trying to keep herself level headed after murdering her father in cold blood. She's having problems with sleeping at night because she can't get the gruesome images of her father out of her head. To add to her list of problems, Dylan's right ...

  • Special Delivery

    in Fistful of Benjamins

    Mail carrier Gabriella Vasquez is making stacks of sweet paper from the innocent-looking packages she delivers on her route. And that much cocaine can buy a lot of the sweet life--and even more of her sexy partner Eduardo's undivided attention. But w...



  • Wife Extraordinaire Reloaded

    Wife Extraordinaire - 3

    Charlene thought she had it made after she skipped town with $50,000 in cash and her son Leon Jr. riding shotgun. But half way into her travels she and her little boy are abducted at gunpoint. When she finds out who's behind her abduction, she has ...

  • The Last Heist

    in Heist 2

    Shannon Mitchell gambled that betraying her husband's biggest heist ever was her way out of the game for good. Losing that bet put her in lockdown--and at the top of Todd Mitchell's revenge-fueled hit list. Now she'll work every seductive move and le...

  • His Rebound Bitch part 2

    Kim Weeks eliminated her first target now she's on to the next. So while she's plotting her next victim's demise her best friend Mariah will need some help eliminated a threat of her own. While more bodies are dropping like flies, Kim maybe getting i...

  • His Rebound Bitch

    Kim Weeks is no ordinary ex-wife. She's the type that will take you for everything you have and then destroy the women that started the divorce proceedings. In the end, she will not be the only one on the losing team! (Full-length Version)...

  • The Score

    She's bright, beautiful--and a criminal at heart. A Virginia Beach street hustler turned identity theft mastermind, Lauren Kelly's always had a taste for the finer things--Chanel, Prada, Amex Black Cards--and Matt Connors, her lover and accomplice...

  • Devil in Sheep's Clothing

    in Schemes

    Karlie Houston hasn't seen a raise in forever, but the payday loan office she manages is raking in the cash. So why not get what she's rightfully owed by masterminding a heist? Once her lover Sidney's boys hit all the company's locations at one time,...

  • The Mark

    A master thief's ultimate payday delivers the deadliest game of all… Two for the money. . . Identity thief Lauren Kelly thought she was safe. The millions she stole from her double-crossing accomplice and ex-lover Matt Connors bought a quiet u...

  • Wifey's Next Twisted Fate

    Between the betrayals, lies, and relentless body drops, everything is on the line in national bestselling author and urban lit superstar Kiki Swinson’s explosive new series set in South Beach and featuring the gritty, fierce, unforgettable Kira...

  • Stay Scheming

    in Dirty Tricks

    Karlie Houston is broke, betrayed -- and running from a bounty on her head. Turns out the real owners of the payday loan office she ripped off weren't cool with her idea of employment bennies. With her lover and friends gone, she's forced to take ref...

  • Who's Wife Extraordinaire Now

    Wife Extraordinaire - 4

    Kira has just lost her fiancé Damian in a gun battle, so she's found herself on the run with Damian's right hand man Nick. The cops are looking for them both. With little money on hand, their odds of remaining free are zero to none. What will happen...



  • Fistful of Benjamins

    National bestselling authors Kiki Swinson and De’nesha Diamond light it up with two devious tales of players, hustles -- and running out of time… Special Delivery KIKI SWINSON Mail carrier Gabriella Vasquez is making stacks of sweet paper f...

  • Ericka Kane Part 1

    Ericka Kane is the daughter of a multi-millionaire. She never knew what kind of business her father was into until her best friend Tia Cassidy came up missing. Her loyalty to her father will change in the blink of an eye after dead bodies start poppi...

  • I'm New York's Finest

    New York's Finest - 3

    Naomi Foxx isn't your typical flight attendant for America's Airlines, she's also a drug smuggling mule. Money is great but all of that will come crashing down on her wants the DEA gets wind of her operation....

  • New York's Finest to the Death

    New York's Finest - 4

    Naomi and Damian are battling to stay alive while they're on the run. With her brother Reggie running around like a loose cannon, everything is suddenly falling apart around them. And she knows that if she wants to stay off the radar, she and Damian ...

  • Dead on Arrival

    Kiki Swinson’s “tension-packed” (Library Journal) and “unrelenting” (Publishers Weekly), bestselling novels deliver startling twists, unforgettable characters -- and a stark, unforgettable portrait of life in the South. Now she detonates an...

  • Wifey's Next Sticky Situation

    Gritty, fierce, and unforgettable, Kira, the infamous heroine of urban lit superstar Kiki Swinson’s bestselling Wifey novels has survived violence, betrayal, and near-death to fight another day—but as she battles relentless inner demons, ...

  • The Hunt Is on

    Cheaper to Keep Her - 8

  • Heist 2

    The Last Heist by KIKI SWINSON Shannon Marshall gambled that betraying her husband’s biggest heist ever was her way out of the game for good. Losing that bet put her in lockdown -- and at the top of Todd Marshall’s revenge-fueled hit list. Now ...

  • The Black Market

    The Black Market - 1

    Kiki Swinson’s bestselling novels burn with extraordinary characters, triple-down twists -- and a raw portrait of Southern life only she can deliver. Now she turns up the heat as a young woman cashes in on a sure thing -- only to find some addictio...

  • The Safe House

    The Black Market - 2

    Kiki Swinson’s novels sizzle with brutally unpredictable characters, breakneck plotting -- and a uniquely gritty portrait of Southern life. Now she breaks all the rules as a young woman with two targets on her back tries to keep those she loves -- ...

  • Behind Closed Doors

    Behind Closed Doors illustrates a vivid picture of Evelyn Epstein, the wife of a millionaire that’s plagued with emotional and mental abuse from her drug-addicted daughter, and just recently, her cheating husband and his mistress that happens to co...

  • Property of the State

    The Black Market - 3

    Kiki Swinson’s novels crackle with breakneck triple-twists, no-limits characters, and an unforgettably brutal portrayal of Southern life. Now she shatters all expectations as a young woman serving time must survive a prisoner-abuse conspiracy . . ....

  • Nine Lives

    in Bad Behavior (Dafina)

    Wild-card Aiden. Dead-shot Ava. Efficient, fast, and brutal, this notorious brother-sister hit team grew up abused, unwanted--and in lethal tune with each other. Killing nine targets in ten days will be their biggest score yet. But as Ava sets up the...

  • The Deadline

    National bestselling author Kiki Swinson always ups the ante with shocking twists, relentless characters, and a hard-edged portrait of Southern living -- and dying. Now all bets are off as a newbie journalist desperate for the spotlight plunges into ...

  • Public Enemy #1

    National bestselling author and urban lit superstar Kiki Swinson amps up the action and suspense with unpredictable characters, breakneck twists, and a gut-punch portrait of Southern surviving -- and dying. Now the odds are straight-up killer when am...

  • Playing with Fire

    In this page-turning, fast-paced prequel, national bestselling author and urban lit superstar Kiki Swinson takes readers on a high-octane ride to the youthful beginnings of wild-card lawyer Yoshi Lomax, first introduced in Swinson’s classics Playin...

  • Playing Their Games

    In this this page-turning spin-off prequel to the Playing Dirty and Notorious duology, national bestselling author Kiki Swinson burns up the page with calculating characters, ingenious plot twists, and a ruthless depiction of Southern conniving, risi...

  • Burning Season

    Alayna Curry - 1

    National bestselling author Kiki Swinson's novels set it off with killer plot twists, merciless characters -- and an unsparing portrayal of Southern struggling, lying, betraying . . . and dying. Now everything is on the line as a female firefighter d...

  • Where There's Smoke

    Alayna Curry - 2

    In her nationally-bestselling novels, Kiki Swinson ignites an unforgettable portrait of Dirty South scheming, greed, desire--and brutal dead ends. Now the stakes have never been more lethal as a compromised female firefighter starts burning down her ...

  • Amber Alert

    An explosive portrait of Dirty South revenge, triple-dealing, and crimes of passion as a suburban mom’s high-end criminal past comes back to haunt her, endangering her children -- and propelling her into a high-stakes game she remembers all too wel...

  • Hunting Ava

    In an unforgettable portrait of Southern scheming, greed, and brutality a high-end criminal turned suburban mom in hiding must fight against the dangerous fallout from her corrupt past and escape an calculated enemy hell-bent on revenge. She was once...

Award-Winning Books by Kiki Swinson

Wifey
2005 Street Literature Book Award Medal (Slbam) -- Fiction


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Kiki Swinson has published 70 books.

The next book by Kiki Swinson, Hunting Ava, will be published in October 2025.

The first book by Kiki Swinson, Mad Shambles, was published in January 2000.

Yes. Kiki Swinson has 9 series.
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