Randy Singer Books in Order
Explore all Randy Singer books in order, with legal thrillers, historicals, summaries, reading order tips, and guidance on where to start with his novels.
Last updated: December 26, 2025
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Publication Order
17 books
Rule of Law
by Randy Singer
2017
When a covert SEAL Team mission to free hostages in Yemen ends in disaster, young attorney Paige Chambers sets out to prove the president put politics above soldiers' lives. Her lawsuit turns personal grief into a constitutional showdown that reaches the highest court.
The Advocate
by Randy Singer
2014
Roman lawyer Theophilus witnesses the crucifixion after advising Pontius Pilate during Jesus' trial and is haunted by the death of an innocent man. Decades later he defends Paul before Nero, risking career, love, and life in a sweeping first-century legal drama.
Dead Lawyers Tell No Tales
by Randy Singer
2013
Landon Reed, a disgraced college quarterback turned ex-con, earns a law degree and a rare second chance at a Virginia Beach firm. When partners start dying in suspicious accidents, his fight to prove his loyalty becomes a race to expose who is targeting their lawyers.
The Last Plea Bargain
by Randy Singer
2012
Assistant district attorney Jamie Brock has built her reputation on never cutting deals. When her longtime nemesis, a powerful defense lawyer, is charged with murder and sparks a statewide plea-bargain revolt, she must rethink everything she believes about justice and mercy.
Fatal Convictions
by Randy Singer
2010
Alexander Madison is a small-town lawyer, part-time pastor, and sometimes schemer who agrees to defend a Muslim imam accused of stirring up honor killings. As threats close in and loyalties tangle, he risks his calling, his safety, and the woman he loves to uncover the truth.
The Justice Game
by Randy Singer
2009
After a gunman murders a television news anchor on live air, the victim's family sues the gun manufacturer for enabling the crime. Charismatic attorneys Kelly Starling and Jason Noble battle in court while a hidden cabal uses their darkest secrets to manipulate the verdict.
By Reason of Insanity
by Randy Singer
2008
Crime reporter Catherine O'Rourke begins having vivid visions that match a string of kidnappings and murders around Virginia Beach. Branded the prime suspect, she turns to a Las Vegas lawyer famed for insanity defenses, forcing both of them to question guilt, sanity, and the supernatural.
False Witness
by Randy Singer
2007
Bail bondsman Clark Shealy has forty-eight hours to find a missing professor and his world-changing encryption formula or his kidnapped wife will die. Years later, law student Jamie Brock discovers the same secret algorithm and is pulled into a deadly chase involving federal agents and organized crime.
The Judge / The Cross Examination of Oliver Finney
by Randy Singer
2006
A dying billionaire creates a reality show where advocates for major world religions defend their beliefs on a remote island. Veteran judge Oliver Finney, arguing for Christianity, realizes the game is deadly and sends coded messages to his clerk as powerful forces close in.
The Judge Who Stole Christmas
by Randy Singer
2005
In the small town of Possum, Virginia, a federal judge rules the community's live nativity unconstitutional, and Thomas Hammond lands in jail for defying the order. Law student Jasmine Woodfaulk steps into the spotlight to defend him, igniting a national debate over Christmas, faith, and free speech.
Self Incrimination
by Randy Singer
2005
Sixteen-year-old Tara Bannister calmly confesses to shooting her abusive, wealthy stepfather, but her story keeps changing. Rookie defense attorney Leslie Connors juggles first-trial nerves, firm politics, and a frightening medical diagnosis as she searches for the truth behind Tara's defiant smile.
Made to Count Life Planner
by Randy Singer
2005
This companion to Made to Count offers a guided planner filled with prompts, questions, and space to reflect. It helps you clarify calling, set faith-shaped goals, and turn big hopes into daily steps so your time and gifts add up to a life that matters.
Made to Count
by Randy Singer
2004
Coauthored with Bob Reccord, this practical book explores eight biblical principles for discovering your God-designed purpose. Real-life stories, questions, and exercises invite you to align gifts and work with calling so that your everyday decisions move toward a life of lasting impact.
Live Your Passion, Tell Your Story, Change Your World
by Randy Singer
2004
This compact devotional challenges readers to see ordinary work, school, and neighborhood life as their mission field. Through brief stories and reflections, it encourages you to identify your God-given passion, share your story, and look for simple ways to serve others.
Dying Declaration
by Randy Singer
2004
Thomas and Theresa Hammonds delay taking their gravely ill toddler to the hospital because they believe real faith rejects doctors. After the child dies, a hard-charging prosecutor charges them with homicide, and defense lawyer Charles Arnold faces a case where parenting, doctrine, and criminal law collide.
Irreparable Harm
by Randy Singer
2003
Attorney Mitchell Taylor represents a surrogate mother carrying a cloned embryo for a wealthy couple whose plans shatter after the husband's death and a troubling diagnosis. Caught in a storm of bioethics, politics, and profit, he fights to protect both the unborn child and frozen embryos at risk.
Directed Verdict
by Randy Singer
2002
After a missionary in Saudi Arabia is tortured to death and his wife is framed by the religious police, young lawyer Brad Carson files a groundbreaking civil suit against the kingdom. As witnesses disappear and jurors are threatened, he risks career and safety to challenge religious persecution.
Where should I start?
If you want fast-paced modern legal thrillers: Rule of Law → The Justice Game → The Last Plea Bargain.
If you enjoy character-driven suspense with strong faith themes: By Reason of Insanity → Dead Lawyers Tell No Tales → Fatal Convictions.
If you love historical and biblical settings: The Advocate.
If you like recurring lawyers and interconnected cases: Directed Verdict → Self Incrimination → Dying Declaration.
If you want a shorter, seasonal story: The Judge Who Stole Christmas.
Author bio
Randy Singer is a trial lawyer, pastor, and novelist who has spent decades juggling courtrooms, classrooms, and church pulpits in Virginia Beach, Virginia. He sometimes jokes that he lives a kind of Jekyll and Hyde existence, part attorney and part preacher.
Singer was born in 1956 and raised in Pennsylvania, a long way from the settings of many of his later books. After college he enrolled at the William and Mary Law School, where he graduated in 1986, second in his class, before moving into full-time trial work in Virginia.
He began his career at the Norfolk firm Willcox and Savage and eventually led the litigation section there. In 2009 he launched his own practice in Virginia Beach, now known as Singer Hoffman, handling complex civil cases, appeals, and other high-profile matters that often play out in the news.
Over more than three decades in the courtroom, Singer has tried a wide range of cases, from wrongful-death and medical malpractice suits to nationally watched gun-liability and poisoning trials. Those experiences, along with his work in terrorism-related litigation, give his novels their detailed view of how the law actually works under pressure.
Around the early 2000s he began to channel that experience into fiction, writing legal thrillers in the hours most lawyers reserve for sleep. His debut novel, Directed Verdict, a story about persecuted missionaries and an audacious lawsuit against Saudi Arabia, won a Christy Award for suspense and introduced many readers to faith-driven legal fiction.
Since then he has written a shelf of stand-alone novels, including Irreparable Harm, Dying Declaration, The Justice Game, Rule of Law, and the first-century courtroom drama The Advocate. That last book, which imagines the legal career of Theophilus from the New Testament, received major Christian fiction honors in 2015 and showed that his mix of law and faith could extend well beyond modern America.
Singer’s stories usually center on lawyers, reporters, and judges who are forced to make hard choices about truth, loyalty, and justice. The novels move quickly, but he gives space for questions about conscience, the abuse of power, and what it means to live out Christian faith in messy public settings.
Alongside his law practice, Singer serves as teaching pastor at Trinity Church in Virginia Beach, preaching most weekends while still keeping a full trial calendar. He has said that the two roles feed each other, with courtroom stories finding their way into sermons and spiritual questions slipping into his fiction.
He also invests heavily in training young advocates. For many years he has taught trial practice, advocacy, and civil litigation at Regent University School of Law, where he has served as an adjunct, attorney in residence, and long-time member of the Board of Visitors. The school recently announced the Singer Center for Advocacy, a hub for moot court, trial teams, and skills training that builds on his work with students.
Singer has been recognized both inside and outside the courtroom, from being named among Virginia’s Legal Elite and top litigation attorneys to serving as a finalist for the inaugural Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction alongside writers such as John Grisham and Michael Connelly. For him, those awards are less a finish line than a reminder that stories about justice and mercy still matter.
Today he continues to practice law, teach, preach, and write from the coast of Virginia. He and his wife, Rhonda, make their home in Virginia Beach, and their two grown children and a growing circle of students, readers, and church members help keep his stories grounded in real life.
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