Southern Legal Thrillers

The hill people and the Mexicans arrived on the same day. It was a Wednesday, early in September 1952. The Cardinals were five games behind the Dodgers with two weeks to go, and the season looked hopeless. The cotton, however, was waist high to my father, almost over my head, and he and my grandfather could be heard before supper whispering words that were seldom heard. It could be a 'good crop'.

Fegan Broussard’s world is filled with daily reminders of his sister’s murder, something he’d rather forget. So, when another young girl is killed and dumped in the swamp, Fegan doesn’t welcome the attention it brings to his doorstep… especially when it’s Clairee’ Sumner, a long-legged beauty and the daughter of his sister’s killer, asking the questions. Don’t Tell A Soul is the first book in the Southern Sizzlers Romantic Thriller Series.

Lee Mitchell is a young barrister from a working-class Caribbean background: in the cut-throat environment of the courtroom, everything is stacked against her. On her doorstep in South London the 15-year-old son of the pastor at the local Black church is shot, and the local community is shattered. All evidence is pointing to infamously corrupt, racist police officer Sergeant Jack Lambert as the irredeemable suspect. His own boss—rebel-turned-copper Danny Wallace—is certain he is guilty.