Lackey Ferguson met Melissa Hardin once, the morning he signed on to build a bath house at the Hardin's fancy Fort Worth home. Two minutes after Ferguson walked out, "Monkey-boy" Wilson walked in and blew her brains out. Now Lackey is suspect number one in a crooked investigation. His face is plastered across newspapers and TV screens...the parole board is hassling his crew...his fiancée's family wants to have a few words with him, punctuated by a tire iron...and a psychopath is still out there with his gruesome taste for twisted pleasures. Worst of all, Monkey-boy knows who Lackey is, and he wants something Lackey has—his fiancée. From Fort Worth's million-dollar homes to its seamy underworld, this riveting thriller of big money, corruption, illicit sex, and murderous deceit crackles with suspense and excitement—Texas style.

Rick Bannion. A man on the long slide to nowhere, a former Dallas Cowboys hero turned parolee chasing after bail-jumpers. The only things left over from his glory days are his Corvette and his love for the wife of his former teammate, Jack Brendy. So when Jack gets busted by the Feds for smuggling cocaine, and his pretty wife promises Rick $5,000 to keep the government's sleazy informant out of court, he's only too happy to comply. But the game turns sour when Jack is gunned down cold, and Rick finds himself the D.A.'s top draft pick for murder. Out of luck and on the lam in the underbelly of Dallas, he's about to learn some offensive moves he never practiced with the Cowboys—moves he needs just to stay alive...

Bino. A white-haired, longhorn lawyer with the inside scoop on everything from hookers to Dallas high society. When his seediest client turns up dead, Bino suspects a white-wash of the dirtiest kind and goes on the offensive. His hunt takes him from the halls of Congress, to the arms of a sexy FBI agent, to the sleazy bars of "Big D." What Bino finds links his client's demise to a political assassination, and the bodies start piling up. Politics has always been the dirtiest game in town—and it's about to become the deadliest...

In 1991 Nancy Dillard Lyon, daughter of a powerful Dallas real estate tycoon, was murdered, poisoned with arsenic. Nancy's brother became convinced her adulterous husband, Richard, was responsible. And so Richard was arrested, tried, and convicted—and sentenced to life in prison. But did the evidence support this conviction? Mystery novelist A. W. Gray made his nonfiction debut with this provocative true-crime account of sex, incest, infidelity, drugs, and murder—one that raises doubts about the justice that was served in this case.

This crime fiction novel from the author of the Bino Phillips series follows former Dallas police officer Frank White as he matches wits with an attractive ex-convict, who tries to entrap him in a kidnapping plot through which she hopes to beat the system. Facing a counterfeiting scheme, double crosses, and murder, White must summon all his skills as a detective to hunt down the conspirators and bring them to justice.

At a gala event in downtown Dallas, lawyer Sharon Hays runs into an old friend turned Hollywood star who is in town promoting her most recent film with her current lover—a Hollywood bad boy. But when a brutally murdered corpse is discovered in her posh hotel suite, the starlet finds herself accused of the crime. Sharon is all too eager to take up her friend's defense, but the facts of what happened that night in the hotel room are far from clear. Sharon's friend claims she never went back to the room, and her lover had supposedly blacked out. Soon Sharon finds herself in the media spotlight defending America's sweetheart.

In this spine-chilling courtroom drama, beautiful thirty-something defense attorney Sharon Hays takes on the case of Midge Rathermore, the teenage daughter of a Texas millionaire, who is accused of hiring a hit man to kill her father. In addition to her case, Sharon finds herself and her daughter being stalked by a savage sexual psychopath.

Defending a flashy, big-time Houston lawyer who is accused of killing his wife, Dallas attorney Bino Phillips becomes involved with a sultry blues singer, a vindictive judge, and a hired killer with a cleanliness fetish. Before long Bino will uncover corruption and conspiracies perpetrated by those on both sides of the law. And with all the deals being made, Bino is left to sort it out on his own.