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Landis Wade is a recovering trial lawyer who writes mysteries and legal thrillers with amateur sleuths and underdog attorneys.

His Christmas Courtroom Trilogy has been called a cross between My Cousin Vinny and Miracle on 34th Street.

His Indie Retirement Mystery series involves humor, good puzzles, and engaging retirees who solve mysteries with a historic component. Deadly Declarations, book 1 in the series, won ten awards, including Winner in the 2022 American Fiction Awards in the Cozy Mystery category, and Winner in the Mystery category in the 17th Annual National Indie Excellence Awards. Next in the series is Deadly Gold Rush. His love of history led to this series.

Landis also founded the popular Charlotte Readers Podcast where he inte
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The Marketing Elephant in the Room that Writers Try to Ignore; Why and How They Should Snap Out of It

Earlier on this blog, I wrote a post entitled: All The Book Marketing I Did Not Know And Other Ways I Misunderstood How to Sell My First Three Books, Part I Now that I am 9 months into the launch of my fourth book, the novel Deadly Declarations, I have some updates to share on […]

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The Christmas Heist (Christ...

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“I became fascinated with the story of the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence when I interviewed Scott Syfert on Charlotte Readers Podcast about his non-fiction book on the topic. There were too many interesting facts and too many conspiracies involved in the tale not to write a novel with the Meck Dec at the center of the action.”
Landis Wade, Deadly Declarations

“Christmas is a fun theme for a courtroom tale, because like that "Miracle on 34th Street", strange things have been known to happen when Christmas and the law come face to face.”
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“Christmas is a fun theme for a courtroom tale, because like that "Miracle on 34th Street", strange things have been known to happen when Christmas and the law come face to face.”
Landis Wade

“I became fascinated with the story of the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence when I interviewed Scott Syfert on Charlotte Readers Podcast about his non-fiction book on the topic. There were too many interesting facts and too many conspiracies involved in the tale not to write a novel with the Meck Dec at the center of the action.”
Landis Wade, Deadly Declarations

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