Robin James Books in Order

Ten years after four friends were slaughtered at Deadwater Lake, the sole survivor asks Mercy Gale for help, convinced the wrong man was executed. When a stranger repeats the killer's final words, Mercy is pulled into a nightmare of secrets and a threat that is not finished with her yet.

Mercy Gale has spent her life in the shadow of her father, legendary defense attorney E. Thomas Gale, now retreating into dementia on a Lake Michigan island. When his last client insists he was wrongly convicted of his sister's murder, Mercy digs into the case and risks shattering her father's legacy.

Hayden Simmons walks into Mara Brent's office carrying a box from a cold-case murder and claims her own father killed her aunt twenty-two years ago. With no physical evidence and a family united against her witness, Mara must convince a jury that a charming patriarch is really a predator.

Two years after law student Daria Moreau was murdered at her graduation party, her classmate sits in prison and still insists he is innocent. Hired by his desperate family, Cass reopens the case and finds a tight group of friends bound together by dangerous secrets and lies.

After an old mentor wills his tiny law practice to her, Cass Leary discovers it comes with a single client, Farrah Sibley, accused of murdering her powerful boss and secret lover. With no physical evidence but plenty of motive, Cass must navigate a tangle of office politics and desire.

Megan Lewis is killed in a savage attack that horrifies even seasoned investigators, and her married ex-boyfriend calmly confesses. Though every cop wants him locked away, inconsistencies in the file and pleas from his family push Cass Leary into a high-risk defense that could ruin her career.

In the middle of a death-penalty trial, Mara Brent’s defendant offers a trade, his information about a decade-old child kidnapping that once gripped the nation. As she tests his story, officials block her at every turn and fresh violence suggests the past is still very much alive.

When longtime sheriff Bill Clancy is found shot dead in his car, an itinerant drifter is quickly arrested and every officer in the county demands a conviction. Under election-year pressure, Mara Brent suspects the easy story is wrong and that someone is using the case to hide deeper corruption.

In a northern Michigan town famous for its holiday lights, beloved "Christmas Guy" Nick Whittaker is arrested for the brutal beating of a local politician. Snowed in with a hostile jury pool, Cass Leary defends the soft-spoken Santa and uncovers rivalries that make almost everyone a suspect.

Zoe Paul finds an uncashed check for millions hidden under her late grandmother's floorboards and turns to Cass Leary for help. What begins as a strange probate matter becomes a fight over long-buried secrets, a suspicious old accident, and relatives who may be willing to kill for the money.

College student Neveah Ward accuses former mayor Denny Sizemore of rape, and the DNA evidence backs her up. Taking on a polished family man adored by voters, Mara Brent risks her own political future and a looming custody battle to prove that power does not erase consent.

Decorated veteran Ty Chapman seems an unlikely killer, yet witnesses place him fleeing a brutal motel beating with blood on his hands. Representing a client who refuses to explain himself, Cass digs into the victim's past and uncovers motives that reach far beyond a bar fight.

Defense attorney Cass Leary is forced onto the witness stand against the man she loves when Detective Wray is accused of murdering his estranged wife. Determined to clear him as damning evidence piles up, she races to expose the truth before a deadly jailhouse plot makes him the next victim.

When beloved local mechanic Cal Emmons is charged with the sadistic murder of Haley Chambers, the town rallies to his side and vilifies Mara Brent. Evidence tying the case to an older abduction convinces her that a patient predator is hiding in plain sight.

Seven members of the Sutter family are executed in their Ohio farmhouse, turning Maumee County into a national spectacle. As neighbors accuse one another and tensions explode, Mara Brent prosecutes the prime suspect while facing a brilliant defense lawyer who once mentored her.

After housewife Juliet Clay finally goes viral selling diet shakes, her husband dies from poison and the internet brands her a killer. With public outrage and physical evidence stacked against Juliet, Cass must look past the online circus to find out who really orchestrated the murder.

Twenty years after Denise Silvers was left for dead on a riverbank, a DNA match finally identifies her attacker as a suspected serial rapist. Prosecutor Mara Brent builds the one case strong enough to lock him away, then discovers powerful forces quietly working to collapse her trial.

Still cleaning up after a corrupt former boss, Mara Brent discovers that old mistakes could free dangerous felons from prison. When a pair of brutal brothers win release on a technicality, she races to shore up the case before their inevitable return to violence.

When a local judge begs Cass Leary to help protect his sister from a violent husband, she sees a chance to rebuild her career. After the woman vanishes, Cass's frantic search points toward powerful figures in Delphi and a conspiracy that could shake the entire court system.

A popular high school cheerleader is found dead and Cass Leary's teenage niece watches her boyfriend charged with first-degree murder. As Cass challenges thin evidence and sloppy police work, she uncovers a scheme that suggests someone is eager to sacrifice a kid to protect the real killer.

Cass Leary's vacation disappears when her paralegal begs her to revisit a long-ago homicide conviction. With a terminally ill prisoner insisting he was framed and an entire town resisting her questions, Cass digs into the past and risks provoking a killer who may never have been caught.

A wealthy Ann Arbor couple is brutally murdered and their six-year-old daughter disappears. When Cass Leary's sister is charged with the crime, Cass must defend her, search for the missing child, and face the possibility that her own family member could be guilty.

Cass thought she was done defending the mob until an old crime boss calls in a life-or-death favor. Forced to represent a feared hitman known as Ghost Man, she must win his freedom to keep her family safe while wondering what dangerous secret he is still protecting.

A client’s search for her birth parents leads Cass Leary to suggest a simple at-home DNA test, but the results uncover a gruesome family history. As Cass follows the genetic trail and deals with her estranged father's new arrest, two cases collide in a deadly tangle of bloodlines.

After fleeing a dangerous Chicago past, defense lawyer Cass Leary returns to Delphi, Michigan and takes a teen girl accused of killing the town's beloved coach as her first case. Fighting hostility from neighbors and officials, she uncovers secrets that suggest a frame-up and a wider cover-up.