Windstar Press: 5 books

Defense lawyer AJ Garrison finds herself representing a high school student accused of murdering his English teacher, and she's only in her second year out of law school. Never defended a capital murder case before. The student did it. He shot the woman in front of 24 other students. With...

A note on the windshield of defense lawyer AJ Garrison’s car asked who killed Dr. Taylor? It’s a cold case, and Garrison takes it on because Taylor was her family’s doctor and the community’s go-to man. She finds herself walking into the inner world of county politics and government...

All James Early wants to do on Christmas Eve is sit by the fire and enjoy the company of his new his wife. Well, not all. He also wants to slip away into the night, so he can bring home the gift he’s gotten for her. But before he can do that, Early, the sheriff of Riley County, Kansas,...

All John Hepsebah Lawless wants is a pledge of big money from the wife of a lumber baron so he can build a free hospital in the Smoky Mountains for tuberculosis victims, but what she and her husband want is for Lawless to be Saint Nick and take Christmas to the poor and unemployed. Saint Nick’s...

The killing of a former Iraqi interpreter sets his American sponsor on a search for the assassin, a search that threads its way through a torch job of the Iraqi’s house and the murder of the man’s wife, culminating in a race across open water on a snowmobile, a chase up an Interstate highway in...