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  • Bibliography:
    19 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    October 1997
  • Latest Book:
    August 2022
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Full Series List in Order

A Joseph Antonelli Novel

1 - The Defense (Oct-1997)
2 - The Prosecution (Jul-1999)
3 - The Judgment (May-2001)
4 - Star Witness (Apr-2003)
5 - The Legacy (Jul-2002)
6 - Breach of Trust (May-2004)
7 - Trial by Fire (Apr-2005)

Book List in Order: 19 titles



  • Dynamite defense attorney Joseph Antonelli has never lost a case--or felt the sting of conscience for letting the guilty go free. "I can deceive anyone," he says, "and no one more quickly or more completely than myself." Now the man he most admires, ...



  • A superstar defense attorney, Joseph Antonelli has made his reputation by winning at any cost, watching the wheels of justice turn, outguessing every turn and every lurch. Now he's come out of retirement to win again. Only, this time his job is not t...



  • Judge Calvin Jeffries is the first victim. Brilliant, power hungry, and hated, he's found murdered in a courthouse parking lot. In swift order, his killer is caught, confesses, and then commits suicide in his jail cell. The case is closed. Then a sec...



  • A make-or-break case sends lone wolf lawyer Joseph Antonelli to the legal battlegrounds of San Francisco in this riveting novel from acclaimed legal thriller master D. W. Buffa. On a San Francisco street dark and dense with fog, somebody has shot ...



  • The victim is a movie star found in the pool of her luxurious Los Angeles home. The accused is her husband, Stanley Roth, the most powerful movie mogul in the world. Convicted by the tabloids, Roth has one hope: San Francisco attorney Joseph Antonell...



  • Attorney Joseph Antonelli dives into a case of White House intrigue, intimacies not forgotten, and suspicions dark and deep in this legal thriller in the Edgar Award-nominated series called "adroit and often elegant" (Los Angeles Times). The novels o...



  • Attorney Joseph Antonelli finds that murder can be a very public affair-in this moody and scintillating novel of love, loyalty, and revenge in the Edgar Award-nominated series. Joseph Antonelli's never lost a case he should have won. . . until now....



  • Evangeline, the finest ship of her kind, built to sail anywhere in the world, sinks in a ferocious storm off the coast of Africa. A single lifeboat with fourteen people crowded into it gets away. Forty days later, a thousand miles from South America,...



  • A scandalous coverup that includes the President's wife (a woman with ambitions of her own) and the mysterious deaths of everyone who comes too close to the truth, makes The Grand Master a riveting tale of conspiracy and espionage. Senator Bobby Hart...






  • A Fatal Triangle of Deception... They had everything anyone could want - money, power, fame and influence â€" but none of it was enough.They had to have more. Nelson St. James, one of the world’s richest men, is accused of a massive fraud, stealing...



  • William Darnell thought he had seen every kind of human conflict, every type of human tragedy, seen them in all their immense variety: murder done from envy, murder done for revenge, murder done for money, murder done for love, murder done after care...



  • Walter Bannister had the manner that nothing could rival and no one could imitate, and with it a rare intelligence and perfect rectitude, complete self-command and not a trace of vanity or a hint of ambition for anything he did not already have. He w...



  • Helen is a novel about ancient Greece from the age of Pericles to the end, or what was tantamount to the end, of the Peloponnesian War. Thucydides wrote the history of the war and Plato wrote the dialogues which, along with the writings of Xenophon, ...



  • “A Dan Brown read-alike tailor-made for an election year." -- BooklistA President is murdered.A First Lady demands answers.And a young Senator will uncover a conspiracy that threatens the world as we know it.When Robert Constable, President of the...



  • It could happen...Bobby Hart, an idealistic young senator from California, thinks that he's escaped the political spotlight when he decides not to run for president. Then, on a secret mission to Germany, he discovers that there is going to be an assa...



  • The riveting new thriller from bestselling Edgar Award nominee D.W. Buffa! It was a strange case, a great case, a case that, once it got to trial, might well change forever the history of the United States. Other presidents had been murdered, but n...



  • What if a political party in disarray turned to a man to lead them with no political background? What if a country torn apart by ideology turned to a man whose charisma belied a complete lack of governing experience? What if a country elected a Presi...



  • Joseph Antonelli, who never lost a case he should have won and won nearly every case he should have lost, is about to see his client, Justin Friedrich, convicted for a crime he did not commit. His wife was found shot to death in the bedroom of their ...



  • “D.W. Buffa has taken the legal thriller one step further - endowing it with an eerie and stylish noir sensibility…masterfully crafted and people with characters you won’t forget.”   -- Jonathan KellermanD.W. Buffa’s first novel,&...





Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

D.W. Buffa has published 19 books.

D.W. Buffa does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Lunatic Carnival, was published in August 2022.

The first book by D.W. Buffa, The Defense, was published in October 1997.

Yes. D.W. Buffa has 1 series.