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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
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.
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
Volume 10 of the Stan Turner Mysteries series featuring Dallas
Attorneys Stan Turner, Paula Waters, and, beginning in this
episode, Jodie Marshall who has finally worked her way through law
school, passed the bar exam and assumed an associate position with
the firm of Turner & Waters.
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!
Step into the shoes of Dallas attorney, Stan Turner, in the late
1970's as he begins the practice of law. Then hang on for the ride
of your life as Stan immediately steps into a rattlesnake's nest
and has to do some fancy two-steppin' to avoid a lethal strike from
his own clients. When Stan's wife, Rebekah, is arrested for murder
and a client turns out to be a ghost, Stan turns in his legal pad
for a detective's notebook and goes to work to solve these most
perplexing mysteries. Teetering on the brink of bankruptcy, Stan
pushes on relentlessly to extricate himself and his family from
certain doom. Sex, greed and a lust for power drive this most
extraordinary novel to a stunning conclusion.
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...
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