Volume one of the Rich Coleman series of financial thrillers taking place in Dallas, Texas and featuring attorney Rich Coleman and his son Matt.

Stan is called out to Possum Kingdom Lake in Central Texas where a boy scout has been killed in a tragic Jeep accident. At first glance it appears to be just a typical case of a reckless teenager driving too fast, but the teenager, Steven Caldwell, insists the accident wasn't his fault. He claims he was distracted by an alien spacecraft flying over head. At first Stan thinks his client's story is ridiculous, but as his investigation progresses he discovers his client may be telling the truth.

With consumer debt nearing two trillion dollars and seventy million Americans struggling to pay their bills each month, attorney Matt Coleman finds fertile ground for his new Consumer Relief Centers of Texas. As thousands flock into his offices to file bankruptcy, Matt's success begins to take its toll on Houston's MidSouth Bank run by a very powerful and ruthless banker, Franklin P. Hill. At first Hill is content to play some dirty tricks on Matt in an effort to discredit him. But when that doesn't work, Matt is warned one last time to back off his vicious attacks on the lucrative credit card industry or suffer dearly. A timely novel of love, greed, and America's addiction to plastic

Stan is called out to Possum Kingdom Lake in central Texas where two boy scouts have driven off a cliff in a Jeep. The driver, Steven Caldwell, survives unscathed but the passenger dies. It appears to be just another tragic auto accident until the sheriff discovers Steven and the victim were in love with the same girl. When Steven is charged with murder he asks Stan to defend him, but Stan is reluctant to do so because Steven claims he ran off the road when he saw a spacecraft hovering overhead. In order to prove Steven's innocence he'd have to prove that aliens had visited Possum Kingdom Lake!

The latest Stan Turner thriller begins on the infamous Black Monday, October 19, 1987. As the stock market is taking a nosedive and the nation's banking system falls into crisis, Stan is asked by the CIA to help an operative unravel an IRS garnishment and ends up caught in a fire-fight between the CIA and the FBI. His day grows more complicated still as he receives the surprising news that he has been named as the executor of the estate of one Lottie West, who has died in suspicious circumstances and who--Stan soon discovers--has been hiding priceless art treasures stolen during World War II. So the last thing Stan needs is a visit from his law partner, Paula Waters, who tells him she wants to defend a man accused of killing the chairman of one of the troubled thrifts. And it's only Monday...

Three business executives get lured into a restaurant partnership by a slick promoter and soon must respond to numerous cash calls which far exceed their initial investment of $10,000. Soon the venture fails and Luther Bell, the promoter who swindled them, is found brutally murdered. Now suspects in Bell's murder, the partners turn to Stan to prove their innocense.

Volume 11 of the Stan Turner Mysteries featuring Dallas legal sleuths Stan Turner, Paula Waters and Jodie Marshall. Stan and his partners have a propensity for attracting impossible cases and getting in way over their head. Based on actual cases of the author-attorney, William Manchee

Drop into the home of Dallas attorney, Stan Turner, and his wife Rebekah for a Christmas Party. The house is packed with clients and friends eating, drinking and having a great time. But then the lights go out and Stans CPA, Bobby Wiggins, is found dead. To make matters worse Bobbys wife blames her hubbys demise on Stan and Rebekah and files suit to collect two million dollars. Then Stan takes on the defense of a young college student, Sarah Winters, accused of murdering her own baby. Stan knows this is way out of his league so he convinces his old criminal law professor, Harry Hertel, to be second chair. Much to his dismay, however, midway into the trial Harry disappears. Bad goes to worse as Stan is stalked by a religious fanatic who calls himself Doomsayer. Then he narrowly escapes an attempt on his life and suddenly is the main attraction in a media frenzy. Despite all these distractions, Stan never loses sight of his goal to find out the truth about Sarahs baby. And when the truth is finally revealed its not at all what he or anyone else expects.

A college student working part time as a bank messinger is framed for a huge bank robbery. When a Bank employee is found dead in the vault, Fred Fuller finds himself on trial for murder and must depend on his girlfriend and two high school buddies to prove him innocent.