John F Dobbyn Books in Order

A judge's son is accused of killing an elderly man during Boston's Chinese New Year celebrations. Attorney Michael Knight and mentor Lex Devlin investigate, entering Chinatown's criminal networks while confronting allegations that damaged Devlin's career.

After Michael Knight's lawyer friend dies in a car bombing, Knight agrees to defend a Mafia boss's son accused of the killing. With Lex Devlin's support, he follows an art-fraud investigation from Boston to Amsterdam.

Michael Knight and Lex Devlin defend a jockey accused of killing another rider during a Boston horse race. Their investigation exposes race fixing and a conflict between local Irish mobsters and violent militants operating from Ireland.

Boston lawyers Michael Knight and Lex Devlin become entangled in the blood-diamond trade linking their city, Dublin and Sierra Leone. Competing criminal groups and the exploitation of child soldiers complicate their efforts to interrupt the profitable traffic.

Michael Knight and Lex Devlin defend a Puerto Rican jockey charged with murder after a fixed Boston race. Investigating the case draws them into rival gangs and an international operation trafficking endangered wildlife from the Amazon.

A Stradivarius violin discovered in Romania may contain clues to treasure associated with Vlad Dracula. Lawyer Michael Knight, aided by Lex Devlin, follows its history while competing Boston-based gangs pursue the instrument and its hidden information.

Law professor Matthew Shane doubts that his archaeologist mentor died by suicide. Investigating a secretive expedition group, he discovers fragmented instructions, a mysterious artifact, and further deaths that draw him into an international search for the truth.