William Lashner Books in Order

Struggling Philadelphia lawyer Victor Carl accepts a prestigious assignment defending a councilman’s aide against extortion, arson, and murder charges. When he suspects his client is being sacrificed to protect a powerful politician, Victor challenges the arrangement.

Victor Carl accepts a lucrative assignment to prove that heiress Jacqueline Shaw’s apparent suicide was murder. The investigation uncovers buried family secrets and draws the Philadelphia lawyer into a dangerous web involving organized crime and an avaricious cult.

Victor Carl represents an old classmate accused of murdering his fiancée, secretly believing his client guilty. His own attachment to the victim complicates the case, and investigating her past forces him to question the justice he intended to deliver.

After a client confesses involvement in a decades-old killing and is himself murdered, Victor Carl investigates the connection. The case draws him toward powerful figures while his dying father tries to share unresolved stories from his own past.

Seeking a new trial for a man convicted of killing his wife, Victor Carl encounters an unusually helpful stranger named Bob. As Bob improves Victor’s fortunes, a troubling connection to the murdered woman raises questions about his generosity.

In a 1950s Times Square hotel, a cockroach awakens in human form and begins learning how people live. Guided by a small-time gangster and a reserved woman, he applies insect instincts to crime, business, and social ambition.

Victor Carl wakes with a mysterious woman’s name tattooed on his chest and no memory of getting it. His search for her intersects with a wanted client’s stolen painting, attracting dangerous attention from people protecting old secrets.

Victor Carl rekindles his relationship with Julia, the former fiancée who left him for a doctor. When her husband is murdered and she becomes implicated, Victor takes the case despite the personal and financial dangers surrounding their reunion.

Young Victor Carl receives an enticing offer of romance and professional success, provided he prevents a jailed murder client from revealing the truth. Before agreeing, Victor investigates who is being protected and what really happened during the killing.

Twenty-five years after stealing drug money with two friends, Jon Willing discovers one of them murdered in Las Vegas. With his marriage and finances already collapsing, he must choose between fleeing and confronting the consequences of their crime.

Victor Carl becomes a cash courier for an ambitious Philadelphia politician, enjoying access to wealth and influence. When one of his payments surfaces with a dead woman, he must seek help from fellow bagmen to avoid taking the blame.

Bartender Justin Chase has withdrawn into emotional detachment after his mother’s murder and his father’s conviction. A customer’s claim that he committed the killing for payment sends Justin searching for the truth while another killer pursues him.

Drifting through life after his lawyer father’s death, Kyle Byrne becomes a suspect when his father’s former partner is murdered. Questions from police and a former client lead Kyle into a search exposing family deceptions and powerful interests.

In an America still damaged by nuclear catastrophe, Clyde and Moonis leave their restricted lives to search for Moonis’s missing sister. Their journey leads into a poisoned Midwestern territory where a brutal gang leader holds her captive.

After winning a major trial, attorney J.D. Scrbacek survives a bombing that may have targeted him or his mobster client. Fleeing into a casino town’s ruined district, he confronts his past and must argue for his own survival.

Hunted and severely injured, former fixer Phil Kubiak recounts his career serving corrupt clients to a journalist in a desert bar. She seeks a revealing interview, but her hidden motives may turn his confession toward forgiveness or revenge.

A classmate’s request for tutoring leads Elizabeth Webster to a ghost calling her name. Searching for her missing father reveals a family law firm representing the damned, drawing Elizabeth and her friends into a supernatural courtroom.

Recently released prisoner Oliver Cross jumps parole after learning that his granddaughter has vanished. Traveling across America with a teenager and an abandoned dog, he pursues her trail while a vindictive Russian drug dealer follows him.

Elizabeth takes a banshee mother’s case to free her son Keir and reunite them at the Portal of Doom. Keeping him safe at middle school becomes complicated when his fate proves tied to a century-old pact.

Two sisters ask Elizabeth Webster to recover their parents’ stolen spirits, leading her into conflict with a ghost thief and the demon Redwing. Her mother’s history offers guidance as the case threatens the balance between natural and supernatural worlds.