Paul Levine Books in Order

Jake Lassiter takes what looks like a medical malpractice defense and finds himself in a far dirtier fight. Sex, money, and a suspicious death turn a courtroom case into a dangerous first outing.

As a special prosecutor, Jake hunts the killer of a woman who left behind a lipstick clue and a trail of lies. A brilliant psychiatrist and a shadowy link to London pull him into increasingly risky ground.

Jake refuses to accept an easy guilty plea in a warehouse death and starts digging for the real story. The search leads from Miami to Havana, into art theft, politics, and deadly international secrets.

Jake is secretly involved with Gina Florio while defending her mob-connected husband in a wrongful death suit. Desire, deception, and Miami corruption make this one of his messiest cases.

When an elderly client loses $1.6 million in bonds, Jake follows the money from Miami to Maui. A slick windsurfer and a lethal woman keep turning a recovery job into a trap.

Jake becomes the prime suspect when an associate is found murdered in his own house. To clear his name, he has to outmaneuver an old flame, a dangerous rancher, and a case that stretches from Miami to Aspen.

Jake defends a young model accused of killing her father and quickly learns the facts are tangled with emotion. The case forces him to ask how far he will bend his own rules for someone he wants to believe.

A newly appointed Supreme Court justice and his brilliant law clerk are pulled into a plot to sway a billion-dollar air crash case. Ambition, seduction, and murder bring danger right up to the Court's doors.

Steve Solomon and Victoria Lord can barely agree on tactics, yet they have to defend a glamorous woman accused of killing her wealthy husband. The case is hot, messy, and perfect for two lawyers who fight almost as hard with each other.

When a giant marlin lands on Steve Solomon's doorstep, it is only the beginning of the trouble. He and Victoria have to untangle threats from the past before the next warning turns fatal.

A wrecked yacht, cash on the beach, and a dying man drop Solomon and Lord into a Key West murder case. Family secrets and control issues make the legal battle personal as well as dangerous.

A midnight call about water park trespassing leads Steve Solomon into a case involving murder, animal activists, and two kidnapped dolphins. With Victoria Lord on the other side, the courtroom battle gets personal fast.

Jimmy Payne sets out to find a young Mexican woman who vanished during a border crossing and stumbles into human trafficking. Cops, coyotes, and a powerful rancher turn his search into a fight for survival.

A doomsday cult seizes a missile base, and suddenly a low-ranking sergeant and a psychiatrist are all that stand between order and nuclear disaster. The setup is big, but the pressure stays close and human.

An old disappearance comes roaring back when Jake digs into the case of a runaway teen who later became a porn star. What starts as unfinished business turns into a rough, personal hunt for truth.

Disbarred lawyer Bobby Gallagher is broke, desperate, and in debt to the mob. With help from his 12-year-old son, he tries the impossible, rig the Super Bowl before someone kills them both.

This collection gathers four thrillers built around dark journeys and bad choices. The settings change, but each story pushes its characters toward danger, hard decisions, and powerful enemies.

In this prequel, Jake represents aging rhythm and blues singer Cadillac Johnson, who says his best song was stolen by a hit-making rapper. It is a music rights case with heart, grit, and Jake under heavy personal strain.

In this short adventure, Steve's secret fishing trip looks suspicious from the start. Victoria follows him aboard, and a stolen bundle turns a boat ride into a dangerous test of trust.

Jake goes from defense lawyer to murder defendant when his banker lover is found strangled in his hotel room. With stolen trust money pointing his way, he has to solve the case before the state buries him.

After a jetliner crashes in the Everglades, a Supreme Court justice and his law clerk get trapped inside a plot to control the outcome of the case. It is a legal thriller of seduction, power, and very high stakes.

Steve Solomon is arrested for murder, the key witness vanishes, and Victoria Lord turns to Jake Lassiter for help. Russian mob pressure and sparks between Jake and Victoria make the defense anything but simple.

Jake wins an acquittal for NFL star Thunder Thurston, then becomes convinced his client really did kill his wife. As CTE symptoms worsen, Jake's friends fear the case could push him toward vigilante justice.

Now serving as a special prosecutor, Jake goes after a prominent surgeon accused of killing his wife. The trouble is obvious, there is no body, no witness, and almost no case.

Jake plans to leave the courtroom behind until his nephew is charged in a college admissions fraud scheme. With the mastermind trying to save himself and Jake's health failing, the trial turns brutally personal.

When his godson is catastrophically injured in a high school football game, Jake sues to shut the sport down and becomes a public villain. At the same time, he is fighting CTE and trying to hold his own life together.

In 1937 Los Angeles, Albert Einstein and Charlie Chaplin uncover a fascist plot to kill movie stars and spark unrest in America. With Georgia Ann Robinson beside them, they have to move before history tilts the wrong way.

Set in 1940, this thriller sends Einstein and Chaplin against Nazi agents, a kidnap plot, and an assassin bent on silencing Chaplin. The chase narrows to a deadly showdown aboard the Santa Fe Super Chief.