S. Lasher & Associates Books in Order

S. Lasher & Associates is Blade's darker, more offbeat series, built around high profile defense attorney Shane Lasher. On the surface Lasher runs a successful criminal law practice, arguing hard for clients other lawyers might refuse to touch. Behind closed doors, he follows a secret code and hunts the murderers he knows are guilty, turning him into a serial killer who only kills killers.

That double life sits at the heart of every scene. By day he works objections, cross examinations, and office politics with his staff, but the quiet voice in the back of his mind is always measuring people, weighing whether they deserve another chance or a one way trip onto his table. The tone is less procedural than psychological, leaning into questions about whether revenge can ever really count as justice.

In The StoneCutter, Lasher has spent years obsessed with a sadist who buries victims alive and leaves them for dead. He defended the man in court and won an acquittal, only to take matters into his own hands afterward. When new bodies appear with the same signature, he has to work out whether he missed something, whether someone is copying the murders, or whether the monster he thought he stopped was never really gone.

Cut and Dry raises the pressure by putting Lasher under someone else's microscope. Kirk Cutter, an FBI agent who hunts serial killers, notices that dozens of acquitted murder defendants represented by S. Lasher & Associates have quietly disappeared. While Cutter digs into the firm's files, Lasher tries to stay one step ahead of the Bureau and zeroes in on a new predator known as the Woodsman, whose victims turn up in the forest carved like his name suggests.

The result is a world where the courtroom, the interrogation room, and the kill room are all connected, and where the protagonist is both the hunter and something very close to the thing he hunts.

Across the two books so far the series stays tightly focused on Lasher's inner war, his uneasy friendships, and the thin line between his sense of order and outright madness. It is a good fit for readers who like legal thrillers but do not mind following an antihero into morally messy, sometimes disturbing territory.