Town Justices

When online influencer Simone Baker asks Leland Munroe to defend her on a criminal charge, the small town lawyer is ready to say no. He’s not a criminal lawyer—despite what the people of Basking Rock seem to think. Social media and manslaughter are both far from his area of expertise. But with no other clients coming through his door, Leland takes the job to make ends meet.

From award-winning suspense author Terri Blackstock comes a chilling small-town thriller where a marriage on the brink collides with a killer closing in, combining romantic suspense, faith under pressure, and the dangers that lurk beneath close-knit communities. "This tense and exciting thriller...

#1 New York Times Bestseller! Read by Academy Award–winning actress Viola Davis. “Davis is a force of nature, and her performance is riveting.” — Kirkus Reviews Viola Davis and the world's #1 bestselling author James Patterson’s Judge Stone "delivers first-class courtroom drama...

A body in an alleyway. Blood on the accused. Witnesses to the crime. When a sleepy Georgian town is rocked by the brutal murder of the local prosecutor’s son, all the evidence points to one man: Marcus Brantley. His only hope rests in defense counsel, Ryan Noble, drawn back to the town he tried to forget by his mother’s cancer diagnosis. But Noble’s homecoming brings a case that could cost him everything. Unwelcome, outnumbered, and with the clock ticking, Noble must navigate a dangerous game of secrets and lies before time runs out—where hostility lurks behind every corner and he ...

The complete collection of Scarlett Groves suspense filled shifter romance. Rookie Bear Puma shifter Stephanie Page can’t find a mate. Tired of waiting, Stephanie takes a Christmas cruise to the Caribbean. Meeting Stephanie interrupts Max’s mission and changes everything for the shell shocked shifter. Can Max save the girl, save the day, and learn to let himself be loved? Fly Bear Fly Bear, Rider Hendrix, is a decorated military pilot working with the Justice Squad. As dare devil and risk taker, Rider never thought he wanted a mate. Then a close call changes everything. Darcy Lane ...

Marisol Rivera barely survived being abused with nowhere to turn. So there's nothing she won't do to keep her Lower East Side women's health clinic open and give disadvantaged women new lives. Running an exclusive escort service for New York City's rich and powerful 1 percent is the perfect way to bankroll her business - not to mention the perfect cover for robbing corrupt CEOs.

With a master spy and the U. S. government after him, former CIA assassin Oliver Stone is America's most wanted man—but escaping D.C. won't protect him from a lethal world of political corruption in this #1 New York Times bestselling thriller. Known by his alias, "Oliver Stone," John Carr is...

Her twin sister killed four people. Wren Cade was the one who put her behind bars. Now she hunts monsters for a living—because she’s terrified she might be one. FBI Special Agent Wren Cade is brilliant, relentless, and utterly alone. She doesn’t sleep, doesn’t date, and doesn’t let anyone close. Obsessive work is this genius insomniac’s only coping mechanism. Her next case? Buried deep in the wild Ozarks. The most beautiful girls in Stonewater County are dying, like wilting flowers. When a young beauty pageant winner is found posed in the belly of a hidden cave, FBI Agent Wren ...

Yuma Prison was as close to a death sentence as a man could come without being hung. Mark Robichaud survived and now he’s back. A lot of people are going to pay for the injustice of sending an innocent man to that hellhole and it won’t be pretty before all the culprits pay the price. There is nothing sweeter than revenge served cold and that's exactly the way Robichaud intends to dish it out. “Dead Man Out of Yuma” is a series of 16 not-so-short episodes with each having its own fast-paced story of vengeance and old west justice. “Dead Man Out of Yuma” tells of a man who had ...

Danger—and revenge—threaten the forest in the fifth book in Kathleen Donnelly’s thrilling search and rescue K-9 romantic suspense series. Where there’s smoke, there’s fire… There’s nothing more terrifying than a trail of smoke over a summer-dry national forest—at least, that’s...

From bestselling author Jon Krakauer, a stark, powerful, meticulously reported narrative about a series of sexual assaults at the University of Montana ­— stories that illuminate the human drama behind the national plague of campus rape Missoula, Montana, is a typical college town, with a...

It's 1980. And there's a church steeple at the bottom of Lake Lanier. Sixteen-year-old Keisha Montgomery sees it her first night at the lake house — straight lines where straight lines shouldn't be, sixty yards from the dock, twenty feet down. Her parents say it's a summer house. Her father, a civil rights attorney, says he's here for work. Then Mae appears on the dock. She's also sixteen. Cotton dress, bare feet. Dead since 1912. Mae has been waiting decades for someone who would sit still long enough to see her. She has a story to tell — about a boy who told a lie, about Night Riders ...

A former marine learns to love again in the first book in this suspenseful, action-packed K-9 search and rescue series from Kathleen Donnelly. After losing her military K-9, former marine Maya Thompson swears she’ll never work with dogs again. But when she returns home to Colorado and accepts...

A respected businessman. A brutal murder. And a conspiracy that could bury the truth forever. When Derrick Styles is arrested for the murder of his ex-wife, the case against him looks airtight. His fingerprints are on the weapon, he was seen arguing with her, and he was the last one to see her alive. But Styles claims he’s innocent. Veteran defense attorney Jim Cohen has heard that claim before, but this case feels different. The evidence keeps shifting. The witnesses don’t add up. And no matter which thread he pulls, it leads back to the same place—someone within the investigation is...

AUTHOR'S NOTE: Hi. Sam here. Thanks to all you lovely readers for writing in! I'm pleased to let you know that Desert Highway has been fully re-edited and re-proofed again for this fully corrected July 2026 edition. If you enjoy this book, please leave a rating. Five stars are not required but are always appreciated. Happy Reading! --Sam Baron, July 20, 2026 It’s murder out there… In the new Baker & Tate mystery, Ruth faces a sniper’s deadly game on a remote desert highway where escape is impossible and survival is uncertain. Texas Ranger Ruth Baker thought she’d seen everything—...

Fifteen cases. Three states. One river system carrying evidence across county and parish lines. Across the river towns of Mississippi, Louisiana, and Alabama, violence rarely remained within a single jurisdiction. Sheriffs, coroners, juries, prison officials, employers, political organizations, racial hierarchies, and federal courts shaped what investigators recorded—and what the law could eventually prove. Backwater examines fifteen documented cases spanning more than a century, from the Colfax and Thibodaux massacres to the murder of Emmett Till, the Scottsboro prosecutions, Parchman ...

After years of defending Montgomery’s guilty, lawyer Ryan Ashcroft takes on the one case that could destroy him. When the body of Earl O’Grady, a former police officer, is pulled from the Alabama River, the city wants someone to blame. Tyson Carter, a young laborer with a record, fits the bill. Ashcroft agrees to defend him, but as he digs into the evidence, he uncovers a trail of lies, missing files, and witnesses who vanish before they can speak. The deeper he goes, the clearer it becomes that Tyson’s case is tied to something far bigger, and far more dangerous, than one man’s ...

The Ridgeline Fire is four thousand acres and growing. The Warren Haskell trial begins in one week. And someone just found remains in the burn zone. Twenty-six years after Brianna Hartley disappeared into the Colorado wilderness, justice is finally within reach. Gemma is set to testify. Vera Hartley-Price, who has attended every legal proceeding in Elk Creek for a quarter century hoping for answers, is finally going to get them. But the mountains have other plans. When firefighters report human remains in the path of the advancing wildfire, Gemma and Kira are deployed into an active fire ...

A perfectly timed murder. A deadly hurricane. And a crime scene the storm was meant to hide. As Hurricane Iris barrels toward Sand Key Shores, everyone scrambles to prepare except Sterling Blackwell, the meticulous new owner of the fiduciary services office across the street from the Sandlin Inn. When innkeeper Paisley Penrose discovers Sterling's body during the eerie calm of the storm's eye, everyone assumes the hurricane claimed another victim. Paisley isn't so sure. No one seems sorry Sterling Blackwell is dead. His estranged brother, Grayson Blackwell, stands to inherit everything. His...

A child vanishes, and the silence that follows feels deliberate. In Red Willow County, former lawman and private investigator Cole Maddox knows the land the way some men know scripture. He knows its back roads, its forgotten places, and the way winter can erase more than tracks. He also knows what it is to live with a question that never loosens its grip. When a new case pulls him toward a burned-out site called Juniper Ridge, the answers come slowly, and not without cost. People hesitate. Records resist. The past begins to surface in ways that feel uncomfortably personal, as if the land ...