William Lashner

There's nothing easier-or more dangerous-than falling into bed with an old lover. Especially when you're Victor Carl. Once upon a time, Victor was engaged to a woman named Julia. She was beautiful and elegant and not the kind of woman to end up with a second-rate lawyer on the edge of insolvency. Now she's back, Julia's husband has been murdered, her fingerprints are all over the crime scene, and $1.7 million in cash is missing.

When Joey Cheaps is murdered less than twenty-four hours after telling Victor Carl a twenty-year-old secret, Victor decides to investigate, but soon finds his own life threatened

An old law school classmate of Carl Victor is accused of killing his fiancée, a woman who once mesmerized Carl himself. A quest to finding the real identity of the dead woman takes Carl from Philadelphia to Las Vegas to the valleys of West Virginia and back again.

A beautiful young woman is dead, her husband convicted of the murder. In seeking a new trial for the husband, defense attorney Victor Carl must confront not only a determined prosecutor and a police detective who might have set up his client, but also a strange little busybody named Bob. Bob has the aspiration, one could even say compulsion, to help those around him. And it usually works out well for all concerned, except when it ends in blood. But...

"Justin Chase is the perfect barkeep, tending bar as he lives his life, in a state of Zen serenity. At least until Birdie Grackle, a yellow-haired, foul-mouthed alcoholic from Texas, walks into his bar, orders a Mojito, and makes a startling confession. Six years ago Justin's life was ripped apart when he discovered his mother's bludgeoned corpse in the foyer of the family home. Now Justin's father is serving a life sentence and Justin, after a stint...

Lust will make a fool of any man, but iot is only love that can truly ruin hi..So says Victor Carl, the ethicallyu adventurous Philadelphia lawyer who usually ends up doing the right thing, but , as his law partner says, often for all the wrong reasons.