William Lashner

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....

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

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....

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 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....

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....

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....

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....

Over the course of his shady legal career, Victor Carl has made a host of bad decisions, but letting his ex-fiancee Julia, fall back into his life and into his bed might be the worst....

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

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....