DW Buffa Books in Order

Joseph Antonelli agrees to defend a sleazy man accused of raping his stepdaughter as a favor to a judge he respects. The case shadows him for years and forces him to question both his ethics and his talent.

Joseph Antonelli comes out of retirement to prosecute, not defend, sending a deputy district attorney to trial for murder for hire. Adultery, betrayal, and competing lies turn the case into a fight for truth and survival.

When sitting judge Calvin Jeffries is murdered, Joseph Antonelli is pulled into a case that strikes at the heart of the justice system. The investigation uncovers revenge, damaged lives, and hard questions about crime and punishment.

In San Francisco, Joseph Antonelli defends a Berkeley pre-med student accused of killing a United States senator. The evidence looks airtight, but the deeper he digs, the clearer it becomes that powerful people are hiding something.

Joseph Antonelli defends a celebrated Hollywood writer-director accused of murdering his famous actress wife. As the witnesses pile up and the case looks worse by the day, the truth only gets more elusive.

A Harvard Law reunion draws Joseph Antonelli into the reopened death of a young woman, a case with links to a presidential race. Old friends, old lies, and political ambition make every answer more dangerous.

When brilliant young lawyer Julian Sinclair is accused of murdering a married prosecutor, Joseph Antonelli is sure the case is not what it seems. Love, rivalry, and public scandal drive this tense courtroom thriller.

On a secret trip to Germany, Senator Bobby Hart learns an assassination is being planned before the election. He does not know the target or the plotters, only that the scheme called Rubicon could upend American democracy.

After a luxury ship sinks off Africa, six survivors are rescued from a lifeboat and Captain Vincent Marlowe is charged with murder. The case turns into a fierce moral test about survival, law, and what necessity can excuse.

Senator Bobby Hart looks into a president's death and finds a cover-up that reaches from Washington to Paris. What begins as a scandal becomes a deeper conspiracy, driven by wealth, manipulation, and a mastermind hidden in plain sight.

William Darnell plans to retire, then takes the strangest case of his life, defending a mysterious man called Adam. The trial opens onto murder, myth, and the possibility that Atlantis was never only a legend.

A billionaire financier is murdered on his yacht, and his glamorous young wife is charged with the crime. As lawyer Andrew Morrison digs deeper, shifting stories and old secrets pull him into a dangerous triangle of deception.

Judge Walter Bannister seems to have the perfect life, but he is hollowed out by boredom and obsession. While presiding over a murder trial, he becomes consumed by one question, what does it feel like to kill?

Told through the eyes of a young Sicilian woman, this novel moves from tyranny in Sicily to the age of Pericles in Athens. Helen witnesses philosophers, statesmen, war, and the birth of a new way of thinking.

After President Robert Constable dies under suspicious circumstances, Senator Bobby Hart is asked by the first lady to find out who really killed him. His investigation leads into adultery, ambition, and a far-reaching political conspiracy.

Joseph Antonelli takes on the case of Senator Kevin Fitzgerald, who admits killing the president but insists it was necessary. The defense sounds impossible, until buried motives and national secrets begin to surface.

In an alternate version of the 2016 election, Julian Drake steps from political exile to the center of a presidential campaign. His honesty electrifies voters, but it also collides with the machinery, vanity, and danger of modern politics.

Julian rises from sidelined scholar to Roman emperor in this historical novel about belief, power, and a dying empire. Told through two men who knew him, it follows his attempt to save Rome and restore its older gods.

Buffa imagines Machiavelli telling his own story, turning Renaissance Florence into a struggle over power, loyalty, and survival. It is a historical novel about the man behind The Prince, and the hard lessons that shaped his politics.

Joseph Antonelli is defending a man accused of murdering his wife when another client gives him proof of his innocence. The catch is attorney-client privilege, and Antonelli soon realizes he has stepped into a deadly game he barely understands.

An American piano prodigy, Wilfred Malone, falls under the spell of Isaac Neumann, a German Jewish refugee and once-great concert pianist. Their bond opens into a story of music, memory, and the question of how modern Europe slid into catastrophe.