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I am a lawyer by day and a writer in the early morning hours before the sun breaks the horizon. My fiction is fueled by bizarre dreams and an overactive imagination.

In my sixth novel, A Good Way to Wind Up Dead, two very different worlds converge when a true-crime podcaster goes to rural Alabama to investigate the disappearance of a young woman and unknowingly befriends a hitman who has just killed her father and is at the outset of navigating taking control of the family business and fending off the people who want her dead.

My fifth novel, Watch Party, is a contemporary murder-mystery/suspense novel that is a mash-up between Cast Away and Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None.

I have written four fantasy novels: The Zauberi Chronicles ...more

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	Watch Party 4.02 avg rating — 83 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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For many reasons, A Good Way to Wind Up Dead was a difficult book to write, but most of those reasons had little to do with the book itself. This novel took longer to write than any of the prior five novels. That was due in significant part to the second half of 2023 and the entirety 2024 being the busiest periods of my law practice that I’ve ever experienced. Obviously, that’s good in many ways,

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