Reita Pendry Books in Order

Defense attorney Mercy Johnson represents a student who received a package containing twenty kilograms of heroin. As the trial unfolds, kidnapping, theft, and violence against her family turn an already difficult case into a threat to her own life.

Wrongly imprisoned after narcolepsy leads to a burglary charge, Sleepy LeBlanc becomes caught between an ambitious investigator and dangerous inmates after a guard’s murder. Threats against his family intensify as those who care about him struggle to help.

Prosecutor Laura Moss kills her husband after finding him with her daughter, but their accounts of the encounter conflict. Defense attorney Mercy Johnson must build a case for a client whose determination to protect her child obstructs her own defense.

Eleanor Austin appears to have killed her husband, until blood evidence and reports of departing strangers complicate the case. Attorney Mercy Johnson investigates the unexplained details while trying to uncover a secret her client has kept hidden.

Congressman Jack Fontaine is charged with murdering his lobbyist lover, and family connections persuade Mercy Johnson to defend him. His difficult behavior obstructs her work as she investigates whether his political enemies have reason to frame him.

Attorney Cassandra Robbins joins federal investigators seeking the assassin who murdered her client Eddie England. Connections to drug traffickers and a politician’s family lead the inquiry from a North Carolina jail to the Caribbean, where competing interests threaten justice.

Finding an abandoned baby revives attorney Cassandra Robbins’s grief over her own loss. She agrees to represent the child’s troubled mother despite her doubts, becoming entangled in circumstances that threaten both her professional standing and her safety.