Alan Joscelyn: 4 books

The writer, Montana lawyer Alan Joscelyn, says he does his best thinking while running. Something to do with the rhythm, the breathing, the coursing of the blood through the body, including the brain. He credits running with getting him through the stresses of four decades in a career that tends towards...

Montana lawyer Miles Patrick hates smartphones, likes jazz and stray cats, and gets his legal strategy from The Gang, a group of retired lawyers who meet for coffee, cards and gossip in the backroom of a bar downstairs from Miles' offices. A letter from a long-dead client propels Miles into a cross-country...

In this second story in the Miles and Casie series, Helena lawyer Miles Patrick sets out with fiancée Casie Irish on a worldwide tour to visit Miles' fatefully-acquired collection of "Proper Mariner's Houses" and to find out if workaholic Miles can get away from his practice long enough...

So this Irishman walks into a bar. No joke. The bar happens to be The Club, a hole-in-the-wall bar owned by Helena lawyer Miles Patrick on old Last Chance Gulch. Despite an unexpected welcome from Cabo, The Club's resident cat, the Irishman persuades Miles to travel to Sneem, in southwestern Ireland,...