Timothy Hallinan

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  • Bibliography:
    23 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    July 1989
  • Latest Book:
    June 2022
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Full Series List in Order

Junior Bender

1 - Crashed (Nov-2012)
2 - Little Elvises (Feb-2013)
3 - The Fame Thief (Jun-2013)
4 - Herbie's Game (Jul-2014)
5 - King Maybe (Apr-2016)
6 - Fields Where They Lay (Oct-2016)
7 - Nighttown (Nov-2018)
8 - Rock of Ages (Jun-2022)

A Poke Rafferty Thriller

1 - A Nail Through the Heart (Jul-2007)
2 - The Fourth Watcher (Jul-2008)
3 - Breathing Water (Sep-2009)
4 - The Queen of Patpong (Aug-2010)
5 - The Fear Artist (Jul-2012)
6 - For the Dead (Nov-2014)
7 - The Hot Countries (Oct-2015)
8 - Fools' River (Nov-2017)
9 - Street Music (May-2020)

A Simeon Grist Mystery

1 - The Four Last Things (Jul-1989)
2 - Everything but the Squeal (May-1990)
3 - Skin Deep (Apr-1991)
4 - Incinerator (Feb-1992)
5 - The Man With No Time (Jul-1993)
6 - The Bone Polisher (Apr-1995)

Book List in Order: 23 titles

  • The Four Last Things

    A Simeon Grist Mystery - 1

    Simeon Grist knows LA inside and out-- the sex for sale, the chic seductions, every rip-off from City Hall to Venice. So when he's hired by a Hollywood recording company to shadow one Sally Oldfield, suspected of embezzlement, Grist discovers she's e...

  • Everything but the Squeal

    A Simeon Grist Mystery - 2

    Simeon Grist is a private eye and Los Angeles is his city, and in the mid-nineties it's a city of lost children. Against his better judgment -- this is heartbreak territory -- Grist is on a new case, one that leads him down the streets of LA and into...

  • Skin Deep

    A Simeon Grist Mystery - 3

    Hired to keep Toby Vane, prime-time's number one leading man, out of trouble, Simeon Grist is certain the job will be a piece of cake--that is, until Vane is framed for the murder of a nude dancer. Reprint....

  • Incinerator

    A Simeon Grist Mystery - 4

    When a wealthy man is set ablaze by the "incinerator"--a deranged pyromaniac who is stalking the homeless of L.A.--professor-turned-private investigator Simeon Grist is determined to catch the killer. Reprint....

  • The Man With No Time

    A Simeon Grist Mystery - 5

    In The Man With No Time, the fourth Simeon Grist novel, the erudite Los Angeles private eye does a favor for the family of his sometimes-girlfriend, Eleanor Chan, and goes looking for two children who vanished in Chinatown. He quickly learns that he'...

  • The Bone Polisher

    A Simeon Grist Mystery - 6

    Simeon Grist, a fortysomething private detective, becomes entangled in a mystery involving a vicious serial killer who is terrorizing the gay community in Los Angeles with gruesome murders followed by exposes of the gay life style of his victims...

  • A Nail Through the Heart

    A Poke Rafferty Thriller - 1

    A thief, found dead in an alley. A man, disappeared from a city that never knew he existed. A boy, grievously hurt, who everyone called Superman. Bangkok, the glittering center of a country full of ghosts. Travel writer Poke Rafferty ...

  • The Fourth Watcher

    A Poke Rafferty Thriller - 2

    Travel writer Poke Rafferty is ready to let go of his Looking for Trouble series of travel books and the dangerous lifestyle that goes with it, and settle down in Bangkok with his fiancee, Rose, and his newly adopted daughter, Miaow. But trouble isn'...

  • Breathing Water

    A Poke Rafferty Thriller - 3

    Behind every great fortune is a great crime . . . For American ex-pat writer Poke Rafferty, a late-night poker game delivers an unexpected prize: an "opportunity" to write the biography of Khun Pan, a flamboyant, vulgar, self-made billionaire with...



  • The Queen of Patpong

    A Poke Rafferty Thriller - 4

    For American travel writer Poke Rafferty, life finally seems to hold some semblance of stability. He and his longtime love, Rose, have gone through with their much-deferred marriage ceremony, their adopted daughter, Miaow, a former street child, has ...

  • The Fear Artist

    A Poke Rafferty Thriller - 5

    An accidental collision on a Bangkok sidewalk goes very wrong when the man who ran into Rafferty dies in his arms, but not before saying three words: Helen Eckersley. Cheyenne. Seconds later, the police arrive, denying that the man was shot. That nig...

  • Crashed

    Junior Bender - 1

    INTRODUCING JUNIOR BENDER, THE FAVORITE BURGLAR-TURNED-PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR OF HOLLYWOOD CROOKS Junior Bender is a Los Angeles burglar with a magic touch. Since he first started breaking into houses when he was fourteen years old, he’s never on...

  • Little Elvises

    Junior Bender - 2

    JUNIOR BENDER UNTANGLES ONE OF THE WEIRDEST MYSTERIES IN TINSELTOWN LA burglar Junior Bender has (unfortunately) developed a reputation as a competent private investigator for crooks. The unfortunate part about this is that regardless of whether ...

  • The Fame Thief

    Junior Bender - 3

    THE LAUGH-OUT-LOUD FUNNY THIRD INSTALLMENT IN THE MYSTERY SERIES FEATURING JUNIOR BENDER, HOLLYWOOD BURGLAR TURNED PRIVATE EYE There are not many people brave enough to say no to Irwin Dressler, Hollywood’s scariest mob boss-turned-movie king. E...

  • Herbie's Game

    Junior Bender - 4

    Junior Bender, the clown prince of crime fiction, returns in his most hardboiled adventure yet -- a tale that will take Junior Bender deep into a murderous conspiracy in present day Los Angeles and uncover an increasingly confusing legacy of his bur...

  • For the Dead

    A Poke Rafferty Thriller - 6

    After seven years in Bangkok, American travel writer Poke Rafferty finally feels settled: his family is about to grow larger, and his adopted Thai daughter, Miaow, seems to have settled in at junior high school. All that is endangered when Miaow help...

  • The Hot Countries

    A Poke Rafferty Thriller - 7

    Back when Poke Rafferty first arrived in Bangkok to write a travel guide, some of the old-timers in the Expat Bar on Patpong Road helped him make sense of the city. Now these men many of whom have been living in Southeast Asia since the Vietnam War h...

  • King Maybe

    Junior Bender - 5

    Hollywood burgler Junior Bender finds himself caught in a revenge plot epic enough for the silver screen. Los Angeles’s most talented burglar, Junior Bender, is in the middle of stealing one of the world’s rarest stamps from a professional ki...

  • Fields Where They Lay

    Junior Bender - 6

    It’s three days until Christmas and Junior Bender, Hollywood’s fast-talking fixer for the felonious, is up to his ears in shopping mall Santas, Russian mobsters, desperate holiday shoppers, and (’tis the season) murder. The halls are decked,...



  • Fools' River

    A Poke Rafferty Thriller - 8

    Timothy Hallinan returns us to the Bangkok of The Queen of Patpong and further lays bare the seediest industry in Thailand. The two most difficult days in Bangkok writer Poke Rafferty’s life begin with an emergency visit from Edward Dell, the al...

  • Nighttown

    Junior Bender - 7

    Reluctant P.I. to the perfidious, Junior Bender, may be L.A.’s smoothest operator but when he breaks one of the cardinal rules of burglary (don’t take scores that you’re being paid way too much for) he finds himself once again on the wrong side...

  • Street Music

    A Poke Rafferty Thriller - 9

    Eight years ago, Poke Rafferty, an American travel writer, and his Thai wife, Rose, adopted a Bangkok street child named Miaow, forming an unconventional intercultural family. That family has weathered extreme challenges -- each of its three members ...

  • Rock of Ages

    Junior Bender - 8

    Junior Bender, Los Angeles burglar and off-the-books detective to the felonious, is reminded that rock and roll will never die (no matter how fervently he wishes some of it would) when Hollywood's most dangerous geriatric mobster, Irwin Dressler,...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Timothy Hallinan has published 23 books.

Timothy Hallinan does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Rock of Ages, was published in June 2022.

The first book by Timothy Hallinan, The Four Last Things, was published in July 1989.

Yes. Timothy Hallinan has 3 series.
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