A Wall Street Journal bestseller.

From Wall Street Journal bestselling author Robert Bailey comes a haunting legal thriller about the price of redemption for a billboard lawyer who takes a case he can’t win in a town he can’t forget.

Now that attorney Jason Rich has returned home to Guntersville, Alabama, the “In an accident? Get rich!” lawyer is anxious to leave his checkered past behind. Jason hopes this next chapter in his life will be a chance to confront his personal troubles while making amends with his family.

But when a former high school football star stands accused of killing a police officer, Jason is unwillingly thrust into the chaos. The local meth king blackmails Jason into defending the alleged murderer, and Jason knows he can’t refuse. With the lives of his family and closest friends on the line, he takes the obviously unwinnable case.

As Jason dives into the investigation, he vows to dismantle the meth empire gripping his hometown. But as he confronts alternative suspects and follows new leads, Jason realizes that everyone has secrets to hide and interests to protect—at any cost.

Review

Praise for Robert Bailey

Rich Waters

An Amazon Best Book of the Month: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

“A compelling dive into the life of a lawyer out way past his depth.” — Kirkus Reviews

“Small town, big story— Rich Waters works like magic as a mystery and a legal thriller, but what I loved best was Robert Bailey’s attention to the details of character and place. I’d ride with Jason Rich to a courthouse anywhere!” —Michael Connelly, #1 New York Times bestselling author

Rich Blood

An Amazon Best Book of the Month: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

“Well-drawn characters match the surprise-filled plot. Phillip Margolin fans will be enthralled.” — Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“ Rich Blood is a deliciously clever legal thriller that keeps you turning pages fast and furious. Robert Bailey’s latest is wildly entertaining.” —Patricia Cornwell, #1 New York Times bestselling author

The Wrong Side

“Bailey expertly ratchets up the suspense as the plot builds to a surprise punch ending. Readers will impatiently await the next in the series.” — Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“Social tensions redoubled by race intensify a workmanlike mystery.” — Kirkus Reviews

Previous Praise for Robert Bailey

“ The Professor is that rare combination of thrills, chills, and heart. Gripping from the first page to the last.” —Winston Groom, author of Forrest Gump

“Robert Bailey is a thriller writer to reckon with. His debut novel has a tight and twisty plot, vivid characters, and a pleasantly down-home sensibility that will remind some readers of adventures in Grisham-land. Luckily, Robert Bailey is an original, and his skill as a writer makes the Alabama setting all his own. The Professor marks the beginning of a very promising career.” —Mark Childress, author of Georgia Bottoms and Crazy in Alabama

“Taut, page-turning, and smart, The Professor is a legal thriller that will keep readers up late as the twists and turns keep coming. Set in Alabama, it also includes that state’s greatest icon, one Coach Bear Bryant. In fact, the Bear gets things going with the energy of an Alabama kickoff to Auburn. Robert Bailey knows his state, and he knows his law. He also knows how to write characters that are real, sympathetic, and surprising. If he keeps writing novels this good, he’s got quite a literary career before him.” —Homer Hickam, author of Rocket Boys / October Sky , a New York Times #1 bestseller

“Bailey’s solid second McMurtrie and Drake legal thriller (after 2014’s The Professor )…provides enough twists and surprises to keep readers turning the pages.” — Publishers Weekly

“A gripping legal suspense thriller of the first order, Between Black and White clearly displays author Robert Bailey’s impressive talents as a novelist. An absorbing and riveting read from beginning to end.” —Midwest Book Review

“Take a murder, a damaged woman, and a desperate daughter, and you have the recipe for The Last Trial , a complex and fast-paced legal thriller. Highly recommended.” —D. P. Lyle, award-winning author

“ The Final Reckoning is explosive and displays every element of a classic thriller: fast pacing, strong narrative, fear, misery, and transcendence. Bailey proves once more that he is a fine writer with an instinct for powerful white-knuckle narrative.” — Southern Literary Review

“A stunning discovery, a triple twist, and dramatic courtroom scenes all make for a riveting, satisfying read in what might well be Bailey’s best book to date.… Legacy of Lies is a grand story with a morality-tale vibe, gripping and thrilling throughout. It showcases Bailey once more as a writer who knows how to keep the suspense high, the pacing fast, the narrative strong, the characters compellingly complex, and his plot full of white-knuckle tension and twists.” — Southern Literary Review

“Inspiring.…Sharp in its dialogue, real with its relationships, and fascinating in details of the game, The Golfer’s Carol is that rarest of books—one you will read and keep for yourself while purchasing multiple copies for friends.” —Andy Andrews, New York Times bestselling author of The Noticer and The Traveler’s Gift

About the Author

Robert Bailey is the Wall Street Journal bestselling author of Rich Blood ; the Bocephus Haynes series, which includes The Wrong Side and Legacy of Lies ; and the award-winning McMurtrie and Drake Legal Thrillers series, which includes The Final Reckoning , The Last Trial , Between Black and White , and The Professor. He is also the author of the inspirational novel The Golfer’s Carol. Rich Waters is Bailey’s ninth novel.

For the past twenty-three years, Bailey has been an attorney in Huntsville, Alabama, where he lives with his wife and three children. For more, please visit www.RobertBaileyBooks.com.