Brad Miller Books in Order

The Brad Miller books follow a young lawyer who stumbles into the dangerous overlap between criminal law, politics, and intelligence work. Brad starts his career as a low level associate in a big Oregon firm and gradually becomes a Washington insider, but he never really loses the outsider’s sense that something is off in the way power operates.

In Executive Privilege Brad is assigned a routine pro bono appeal for Clarence Little, a convicted serial killer on Oregon’s death row. Clarence admits to many murders but insists he was framed for one: the killing of a teenage babysitter who worked for then governor Christopher Farrington. As Brad reads old files and interviews his unsettling client, he begins to see gaps in the story that point toward a cover up. At the same time, a private investigator named Dana Cutler in Washington is running surveillance on a college student who is secretly meeting the now president Farrington. When that student turns up dead, Brad’s dusty appeal suddenly becomes a thread that could unravel crimes committed in the White House.

Supreme Justice finds Brad working at the center of the legal world as a clerk for a justice on the United States Supreme Court. A woman on Oregon’s death row is seeking review of her murder conviction, and her case is tied to a botched drug operation and a mysterious shootout on a freighter years earlier. Behind the scenes, a rogue element in the intelligence community is manipulating nominations to the Court and willing to attack sitting justices to keep its secrets intact. Brad is drawn into the investigation with Dana and another clerk, Keith Evans, and once again has to decide how far he is willing to push against the institutions that employ him.

In Capitol Murder Brad has moved into politics, working for Senator Jack Carson on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. Old dangers resurface when Clarence Little escapes from death row and a body killed in his signature style turns up in Carson’s home. The senator vanishes, a terrorist plot targeting a football stadium emerges, and Brad finds himself juggling loyalty to his boss, concern for his own safety, and a growing partnership with Dana as they try to piece together how all the threads connect.

Brad also appears in Sleight of Hand, where Dana chases a murderous lawyer and illusionist whose schemes intersect with familiar Washington figures. By this point Brad has lived through enough crises to be less naive, but he still acts as a kind of moral barometer in a world where favors, secrets, and leverage are traded as casually as coffee.

Together these novels trace Brad’s progression from eager young attorney to seasoned operator who understands just how fragile the rule of law can be when national security and personal ambition get involved. Readers see the capital through his eyes: committee rooms, back hallways of the Supreme Court, cramped law offices, and the corridors of the intelligence agencies that rarely show up in daylight. The tone is brisk and contemporary, full of conspiracies that feel only one step removed from the headlines, anchored by a protagonist who still believes the justice system can work if enough people inside it refuse to look away.