William Lashner

All Victor Carl knows is that he's just woken up with his suit in tatters, his socks missing....

Jon Willing was just a teenager when he and his buddies Augie and Ben stole a fortune in drug money. Brazen with youth and stoned out of their gourds, they thought they had the perfect plan for getting away with it. They were wrong....

A lifetime ago, brutally efficient fixer Phil Kubiak coldly cleaned up the messes of shady clients from Miami to Las Vegas by any means necessary - short of murder....

Just when Victor begins to think he’s got a future in the political game, one of his payoffs ends up in the pocket of a dead woman, and Victor goes from bagman to fall guy....

Fresh out of jail, Oliver Cross is taking a dangerous path in search of his missing granddaughter - the only part of his life worth saving....

Justin Chase is the perfect barkeep, tending bar as he lives his life, in a state of Zen serenity, until Birdie Grackle, a foul-mouthed alcoholic, walks into his bar and makes a startling confession....

J.D. Scrbacek has just won the biggest trial of his career, but even as he crows to the press, his entire life blows sky-high....

In a nation still recovering from the nuclear tragedies of forty years earlier, Clyde is working a dead-end guaranteed job at a diner, and Moonis is incarcerated in a Labor Camp....

Young Victor Carl is a fool for love and money, but he's not a blind fool. When Victor is propositioned by the woman of his dreams, he knows it's too good to be true....

A beautiful young woman is dead, her husband convicted of the murder....

Philadelphia lawyer Victor Carl may be desperate and unethical, but he's no one's patsy. And to survive in a legal snake pit of and lethal double-crosses, he's going to play the game his way....

So believes Victor Carl, the antithesis of the classic sharp-eyed, cool, and dispassionate lawyer. Late one night Victor gets a panicked phone call from an old law school buddy. Guy Forrest claims he's just found the body of his fiancee in the house they shared....

A terrified young woman has offered Victor Carl - lawyer, loser, and occasional hapless hero - an unusual proposition: to prove that a recent suicide was not a suicide at all....

A defense attorney who lives his life in shades of gray, Victor Carl fights all the right fights for all the wrong reasons....