Ben Kincaid Books in Order

On his first day at a prestigious Tulsa law firm, idealistic Ben Kincaid gets pulled into a murder tied to an adoption case and a child with severe memory loss. The deeper he digs, the more the firm's power and money start to look dangerous.

Ben has left corporate law and opened a scrappy practice defending people nobody else wants. When a friend is framed for murder, he faces a hostile judge and a case that looks unwinnable.

Short on cash, Ben takes a job as in-house counsel for a powerful Tulsa consortium. Office rivalries turn lethal when a fellow lawyer is killed and Ben ends up charged with murder.

While vacationing in the mountains, Ben agrees to represent a white supremacist accused of killing a young Vietnamese immigrant. The case drops him into a town ripped apart by racism, fear, and violence.

Ben defends a Black teenager accused of murdering a young woman, but another tragedy keeps pulling at him. When a missing boy vanishes into the hands of a predator, the two cases begin to collide.

A popular mayor is accused of killing his wife and two daughters, and Ben is suddenly in the middle of a media circus. The case is huge, ugly, and built to crush a small-time defense lawyer.

Ben Kincaid is dragged into one of his most volatile cases, where violence outside the courtroom is every bit as dangerous as the legal fight inside it. As the facts keep shifting, so do the lines between justice and survival.

Burned out on courtroom battles, Ben heads to the Pacific Northwest for rest and finds a murder instead. A war between loggers and environmental activists turns a small-town case into a deadly trap.

Ben takes on a class-action suit over toxic chemicals in a community's water supply, knowing the odds are terrible. Then a string of brutal murders links the courtroom battle to someone else's private war.

After a Tulsa police sergeant is found mutilated in public, Ben defends the dead man's teenage stripper girlfriend and wins on a technicality. The backlash is savage, and soon the police are coming after Ben himself.

A renegade priest Ben once helped becomes the prime suspect in a brutal murder at St. Benedict's. When another woman dies and the evidence worsens, Ben has to chase the truth through faith, fury, and dark secrets.

Seven years after Ben failed to save a client from a death sentence, a last-minute confession gives the case new life. Then the key witness dies, and Ben is in a race to stop an execution and uncover the real killer.

Christina McCall takes on the defense of a notorious bigot accused in a brutal anti-gay killing. When Ben joins the case, the only way to prove innocence may be to draw the real murderer back into the open.

Ben's success lands him in Washington, where a senator caught in a sex scandal is soon accused of murder. Between a televised trial and a vicious political underworld, nothing about the case stays simple.

Newly appointed Senator Ben Kincaid is asked to help shepherd a Supreme Court nominee through confirmation. Then a murdered woman is found in the judge's backyard, and the fight turns into open political war.

A wave of terror strikes Washington, killing top officials and pushing the country toward sweeping new antiterror laws. Ben suspects the threat is coming from much closer to home than anyone wants to admit.

A grief-stricken professor tells Ben he wants revenge on the detective he blames for his wife's death. When that detective is shot, Ben takes the impossible defense while Loving digs into a secret that keeps getting darker.

Ben is with the president when a foreign dictator seizes control of America's nuclear defense system. Trapped in a bunker, he has to sort out panic, power, and betrayal before the country pays the price.

Mike Morelli and his partner Baxter are called to a baffling murder with no clear motive and too many tangled relationships. The deeper Mike digs, the more the case threatens his private life as well as the investigation.

On Christmas Eve, Ben agrees to look into a theft at the pawnshop next door. The small favor quickly turns into a mystery with life-or-death stakes and just enough holiday grace to make it memorable.

This slim collection gathers three Ben Kincaid stories, including Yuletide Justice, What We're Here For, and After Hours. It is a good way to dip into Bernhardt's legal world in short bursts.

Ben represents Tess Corrigan, a model whose face was ruined in a terrible accident, in a personal injury case against a wealthy doctor. When the system starts failing her, Ben looks for another way to do right by his client.

Ben Kincaid is back for another later-career showdown, with old allies, new legal trouble, and the same stubborn belief that truth is worth the fight. It plays like a return visit to the characters and moral pressure points that made the series work.