Carl Weber's Kingpin Books in Order

Carl Weber's Kingpin is a multi-author urban crime world built around different cities, different power players, and the families fighting for control. Keisha Ervin's entry, St. Louis, brings the focus to the city she knows best and drops readers into a succession fight after the death of a major street figure.

The dead man is King David, the St. Louis kingpin whose empire does not disappear just because he is gone. Instead, it becomes the prize everyone has an opinion about. His surviving heirs, David Jr. and Davita, are close in age but were raised in very different worlds.

Blood ties do not mean shared rules.

David Jr. is college educated and has been pushed by his mother to rise above the street side of the business. Her goal is money and legitimacy, and she sees her son's future as something cleaner than the empire he inherits. Davita, on the other hand, was raised closer to the streets. Her mother taught her to use what she has, take what she can, and never confuse softness with survival.

That split gives St. Louis its tension. The book is not just about who gets the throne. It is about mothers steering children, family members keeping score, and the way greed can turn blood into a liability. Readers can treat Ervin's book as a city-specific entry in the larger Kingpin universe, but it also works as a focused St. Louis crime drama about inheritance, rivalry, and the cost of power.