Stephen J. Cannell

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  • Bibliography:
    18 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    June 1995
  • Latest Book:
    December 2011
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About the Author

In his thirty-five-year career, Emmy Award-winning writer Stephen J. Cannell has created more than forty television series. Among his hits are The Rockford Files, Silk Stalkings, The A-Team, 21 Jump Street, Hunter, Renegade, Wiseguy, and The Commish. He has also penned the bestsellers, The Plan, Final Victim, Riding The Snake, The Devil's Workshop, King Con, The Tin Collectors, The Viking Funeral, Runaway Heart, Hollywood Tough, Vertical Coffin, Cold Hit, and White Sister. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife and children.

Full Series List in Order

PI Jack Wirta

Runaway Heart (Jul-2003)

A Shane Scully Novel

1 - The Tin Collectors (Dec-2000)
2 - The Viking Funeral (Jan-2002)
3 - Hollywood Tough (Jan-2003)
4 - Vertical Coffin (Jan-2004)
5 - Cold Hit (Aug-2005)
6 - White Sister (Aug-2006)
7 - Three Shirt Deal (Jan-2008)
8 - On the Grind (Jan-2009)
9 - The Pallbearers (Mar-2010)
10 - The Prostitutes' Ball (Oct-2010)
11 - Vigilante (Dec-2011)

Book List in Order: 18 titles

  • The Plan

    THE PLAN It was twenty years in the devising. Its time is now. The wrong power already owns the airwaves. And the White House is the next step. The selling of a president is an assignment that could salvage TV producer Ryan Bolt's damaged li...

  • Final Victim

    One death is never enough... A genius, hairless, seven-foot-tall psychopath, Leonard Land is many people wired into the cyber-subculture of Satanism and Death Metal. He is smart and cunning. He is quick, brutal and deadly. And he is everywhere. ...

  • King Con

    King Con vs. The Don Raised in a world of flimflams, come-ons and con-jobs, Beano Bates has done so well he's earned a spot on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted List. But his lucky streak vanishes after a card game in which he scams a cool eighty grand fr...

  • Riding the Snake

    Revenge Becomes a Brother's Obligation A Beverly Hills golden boy whose glow is fading, Wheeler Cassidy, an aimless, hard-drinking womanizer, is partying toward dissipation. But after his brother's mysterious death, Wheeler embarks on a perilous j...

  • The Devil's Workshop

    They told USC grad student Stacy Richardson that the death of her noted microbiologist husband was suicide, but nothing will convince her of that. Now only her own death will keep her from the truth... They told "Lucky" Cunningham he was doing his...

  • The Tin Collectors

    A Shane Scully Novel - 1

    IT TOOK ONE MOMENT TO CHANGE HIS LIFE It begins with a call in the middle of the night from a woman at the mercy of her abusive husband. It ends with a split-second decision for LAPD detective Shane Scully. But the man Scully brings down is also his...

  • The Viking Funeral

    A Shane Scully Novel - 2

    If Detective Shane Scully's best friend, Jody Dean, committed suicide three years ago, then who did Shane just see for one fleeting moment on the Ventura Freeway? He's convinced it was his former colleague. Or was his mind playing tricks? Shane's lov...

  • Hollywood Tough

    A Shane Scully Novel - 3

    Detective Shane Scully is back in the good graces of the department, hailed as a hero after bringing down a deadly gang of rogue cops in The Viking Funeral. At a glamorous Hollywood party with his new wife, Alexa, Shane overhears a famous producer ma...

  • Runaway Heart

    PI Jack Wirta

    WHEN THE SCIENCE EXISTS... Behind the impenetrable walls of a black-op government laboratory a top-secret weapon is being developed-a genetically engineered animal with superhuman strength and speed. It thinks. It obeys. It kills without conscience....



  • Vertical Coffin

    A Shane Scully Novel - 4

    A nightmarish series of events sweeps LAPD's Sergeant Shane Scully and his wife (and boss), Alexa, into the vortex of an enormous, jurisdictional firestorm. First, a sheriff's deputy, a friend of Shane's, is gunned down while serving a routine sea...

  • Cold Hit

    A Shane Scully Novel - 5

    BETWEEN A COLD WAR Shane Scully has found his footing while his partner is going down in flames and a serial murderer rattles L.A.. Each corpse has been mysteriously defiled. Then, in the middle of the hunt, Scully gets an idea that may cost him his...

  • White Sister

    A Shane Scully Novel - 6

    Back from the New York Times bestselling Cold Hit, Detective Shane Scully goes up against the beautiful, blonde wife of powerful hip-hop mogul--who stands at the center of a ruthless conspiracy Leaving L.A.'s Parker Center, Shane Scully and his w...

  • Three Shirt Deal

    A Shane Scully Novel - 7

    IN THE CITY OF LOS ANGELES Truit Hickman is a small-time crook doing life in a California prison for the murder of his mother. But now Hickman is claiming that his confession was coerced. Enter Secada "Scout" Llevar, the gorgeous Internal Affairs det...

  • At First Sight

    In his newest and most distinctive novel, Stephen J. Cannell channels his insider experiences into a tautly drawn noir look at the materialistic Hollywood lifestyle. Meet Chick Best--a middle-aged, selfabsorbed, disaffected, California dot.com mil...

  • On the Grind

    A Shane Scully Novel - 8

    Charged with felony misconduct in a high-profile solicitation of murder case, Lieutenant Scully is faced with an impossible decision: either quietly resign from his job as a detective for the LAPD, the work he loves, or face criminal prosecution. Rat...

  • The Pallbearers

    A Shane Scully Novel - 9

    From the perennial New York Times bestseller comes a powerful new novel in which Detective Shane Scully, who grew up as an orphan, must revisit his painful childhood to find out who murdered the kind and charismatic man who became a father to him ...

  • The Prostitutes' Ball

    A Shane Scully Novel - 10

    Detective Shane Scully responds to a call in the Hollywood hills at a once-immaculate mansion, the scene of an infamous murder twenty-five years prior. He discovers the ......

  • Vigilante

    A Shane Scully Novel - 11

    In the last novel by acclaimed producer and New York Times bestselling author Stephen J. Cannell, LAPD detective Shane Scully and his partner Sumner Hitchens investigate a crime with ties to the sometimes violent world of reality TV Lita Mendez wa...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Stephen J. Cannell has published 18 books.

Stephen J. Cannell does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Vigilante, was published in December 2011.

The first book by Stephen J. Cannell, The Plan, was published in June 1995.

Yes. Stephen J. Cannell has 2 series.
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