Brad Smith Books in Order

In 1950s Ontario, washed-up boxer Tommy Cochrane learns he can no longer fight and needs money to save his grandfather's farm. With former sparring partner T-Bone, he heads to Toronto, where cards, criminals, and double-crosses await.

Fresh out of prison, Ray Dokes returns to rural Ontario hoping for a quiet life. Instead, a wealthy developer threatens local farms, old enemies close in, and Ray is pulled toward a risky horse-racing scheme with real consequences.

Dock Bass leaves a failing marriage and inherits a rundown farm near Gettysburg. While restoring it, he finds remarkable Civil War relics, possibly including Lincoln's voice, and must fend off collectors, crooks, reporters, and anyone chasing a profit.

When ruthless industrialist Everett Eastman dies, his three estranged children inherit troubled businesses with strict conditions attached. Documentary filmmaker Kick must revive a fading country singer while her brothers struggle with their own impossible assignments and family rivalry.

While fishing on the Hudson, Virgil Cain hauls up a metal cylinder full of cocaine from an old drug deal. His boat is seized, dangerous people resurface, and Virgil must untangle competing schemes to get it back alive.

When attorney Mickey Dupree is murdered, farmer Virgil Cain becomes the prime suspect, having blamed Dupree for his wife's killer going free. Virgil escapes custody and hunts for the truth before more murders make his innocence impossible to prove.

Farmer Virgil Cain rents his Percheron horses to a Hollywood crew filming in upstate New York. When the production's leading actress is found dead, Virgil is drawn into its egos, rivalries, and a danger threatening a young child actor.

After prison, Carl Burns returns to Rose City to support his estranged daughter as she testifies against a former mayor. Her case leads Carl into a web of local corruption, old wounds, and powerful people determined to protect themselves.

Carl Burns is building a quiet life with Frances Rourke at her Ontario organic farm when a violent home invasion destroys that peace. With Frances badly injured and the case turning against him, Carl faces criminals and a system he cannot trust.

Released after nearly thirty years in a Montana prison, cowboy Nate Cooper returns to a changed West in 1910. When he finds the Blackfoot people he once defended still being cheated of their land, he takes up their fight again.

Billie Masterson inherits her late father's struggling Kentucky thoroughbred farm, its debts, and an untested colt named Cactus Jack. Ready to sell, she changes course when a wealthy racing owner tries to bully her into giving up the horse.

After a school shooting kills her goddaughter, organic farmer Jo Matheson watches TV host Sam Jackson exploit the tragedy for political gain. Furious, she kidnaps his daughter to force an apology, setting off a crime story neither side can control.

In Depression-era North Carolina, Ava Flagg turns her family's failing molasses business toward moonshine. With ex-con and gifted driver Bobby Barlow helping, the Flaggs enter a dangerous trade ruled by violent rivals and treacherous mountain roads.

Aging baseball star Billy Crawford faces a losing season and an owner eager to reshape the Rose City Rounders. When that owner enters politics, Billy is handed an offer he cannot easily refuse, in a sharp story of sports and civic scandal.