Steven Womack Books in Order

Disillusioned New Orleans newspaperman Jack Lynch leaves reporting to work for a powerful financier involved in local politics. Becoming his employer's public relations man draws Jack into a world where corruption, manipulation and personal compromise threaten his remaining principles.

Struggling public relations consultant Jack Lynch takes a job with an eccentric film producer planning an underwater studio in an abandoned nuclear cooling tower. The Louisiana project entangles him in political corruption, competing interests and a dangerous murder investigation.

Nashville private investigator Harry James Denton agrees to help an old flame whose surgeon husband owes dangerous gambling debts. When the husband is murdered, Harry continues investigating a case crowded with enemies, despite his client's effort to withdraw.

A hacker threatens a New Orleans bank with a destructive computer program unless a ransom is paid. Freelance public relations consultant Jack Lynch is hired to suppress the scandal, but the assignment soon immerses him in financial intrigue and murder.

Searching for wealthy runaway Stacey Jameson, Harry James Denton enters Nashville's adult entertainment underworld. Rescuing the troubled teenager from a murder scene draws him into family secrets and a dangerous effort to protect her from a ruthless killer.

A fire near Harry James Denton's home draws the Nashville investigator into a series of arson attacks. As changing neighbourhoods provoke hostility and suspicion, he searches for the person turning resentment over their transformation into deadly destruction.

Harry James Denton investigates the murder of rising country singer Rebecca Gibson, whose former husband becomes a suspect. Meanwhile, a religious group holds his coroner girlfriend hostage at the morgue, and an insurance fraud assignment brings additional trouble.

A successful author who makes enemies wherever he goes is murdered, drawing Harry James Denton into Nashville's publishing world. The private investigator must untangle the grievances surrounding the victim and determine which of his many antagonists turned resentment into killing.

A struggling crime novelist takes his search for authenticity to a murderous extreme, basing books on killings he commits himself. Literary success and a passionate relationship follow, but his new life conceals an appetite for murder that he cannot stop.

Steven Womack examines corruption, lobbying and the influence of wealth in American politics, tracing problems from the republic's origins to contemporary public life. This short polemic also proposes changes intended to make a dysfunctional political system more accountable.

Hoping to reunite with Marsha, Harry James Denton travels to Reno and takes an undercover maintenance job at the Mustang Ranch. Investigating money laundering becomes a personal crisis when a woman is murdered and Harry emerges as the principal suspect.

After years away from detective work, Harry James Denton dismisses a screenwriting teacher's claim that someone intends to kill him. When the teacher is murdered, Harry returns to investigation, confronting the bitter rivalries and hidden dangers inside a film school.

Acclaimed novelist Michael cannot make a living from his books, so he turns to violent thrillers and commits murder as research. Success follows, but discovering that he enjoys killing threatens everything his new career has brought.

Steven Womack recounts twenty-five years teaching screenwriting at Nashville’s Watkins Film School. Its ambitious founding and eventual closure reveal the human cost of financial trouble, declining enrollment, and mismanagement within a vulnerable arts college.

Reporter Devin Greene investigates a woman who admits killing her husband after their anniversary celebration, then refuses to explain. Their apparently happy marriage draws him into an inquiry that unsettles his understanding of intimacy and secrecy.