Green Eye Bandit Books in Order
Part ofKiki Swinson Books in OrderBrowse the Green Eye Bandit books by Kiki Swinson in order, with summaries, series background, and a quick guide to this short crime saga.
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Publication Order
2 books
Green Eye Bandit
by Kiki Swinson
2012
Tina and Shelby Martin make their money robbing men and trusting each other. But the hustle that once felt easy starts to fall apart when greed and heat from the streets catch up to them.
Green Eye Bandit 2
by Kiki Swinson
2013
After a bloody disaster, Tina Martin ends up in police custody with more questions than answers. The sisters' robbery game has finally caught up with them, and the cost keeps climbing.
Series background & context
The Green Eye Bandit books are a compact crime story about sisters, greed, and the danger of thinking a small hustle can stay small. The main women are Tina Martin and Shelby Martin, two sisters who make money by robbing men. It is a setup built on confidence and nerve, because their whole game depends on charm, distraction, and getting out before the target understands what happened.
That game starts slipping.
From the first book, the appeal is the sister dynamic. Tina and Shelby are partners, but not perfectly matched ones. One is more cautious, one more reckless, and that imbalance gives the story its tension. These are women working together because they have learned to survive together, yet they are also exactly the kind of people who can drag each other into trouble faster than either of them would alone.
By Green Eye Bandit 2, the consequences are fully landing. Tina is taken into custody after a deadly incident connected to the apartment she shared with Shelby, and the story tightens around law enforcement, betrayal, and the question of whether either sister can outlive the mess they built together. Once violence enters the picture, the books stop feeling like quick capers and start reading more like a collapse.
This is not one of Swinson's longest or most layered series, but it has a clear hook. If you like stories about women who hustle men and end up hunted by their own choices, it scratches that itch fast. The books move quickly, and the danger comes less from big criminal networks than from the simple fact that every theft leaves somebody angry.
It is a short run, but the premise is easy to grab onto, sisters, street smarts, easy money, and the moment when easy money stops being easy at all.
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