Jay Brandon

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  • Bibliography:
    23 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    December 1989
  • Latest Book:
    October 2021
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Full Series List in Order

A Chris Sinclair Novel

1 - Angel of Death (Oct-1998)
2 - Afterimage (Feb-2000)
3 - Sliver Moon (Jul-2003)
4 - Grudge Match (May-2004)
5 - Running with the Dead (Oct-2005)

An Edward Hall Case

1 - Against the Law (May-2018)
2 - From the Grave (Jan-2020)

Mark Blackwell

1 - Fade the Heat (Nov-1991)
2 - Loose Among the Lambs (Nov-1994)

Book List in Order: 23 titles

  • Predator's Waltz

    A PAWN TICKET TO DEATH Pawnshop owner Daniel Greer is losing everything. In the seedy and rapidly changing Houston neighborhood where he built a solid business, a new Vietnamese competitor is stealing his customers. Desperate and too trusting, Gre...

  • Fade the Heat

    Mark Blackwell - 1

    On a quiet April night, San Antonio's peace is shattered by insistent screams. A cleaning woman working late in a downtown office building points to a young computer expert as her attacker. Her version of the incident is rape; he claims he's been fra...

  • Rules of Evidence

    Raymond Boudro, San Antonio's best black criminal lawyer, has publicly branded white police detective Mike Stennett a racist. But now Boudro has accepted Stennett as a client, with one warning: The truth or I ruin you. Stennett is accused of beating ...

  • Deadbolt

    Grey Stanton once thrived in the hard-edged criminal courts. Now on sabbatical, he's writing a book and spending time with his wife and child on their peaceful Texas homestead. Out of the blue, a young woman stops by to ask questions about an old cas...

  • Tripwire

  • Loose Among the Lambs

    Mark Blackwell - 2

    It's mid-August, and San Antonio is on edge. Over the summer three children have briefly disappeared, each returning home with chillingly similar accounts of where they have been - of the man who took them in, tended to them, touched them in all the ...

  • Local Rules

    The old county courthouse casts the longest shadow in Green Hills, Texas, and when former San Antonio Assistant D.A. Jordan Marshall is ticketed for speeding, he's hauled before the bench of Judge Richard Waverly. His Honor has a job for a city lawye...

  • Defiance County

    Galilee, Texas, is not far from Houston, but it might as well be in another world--which is why a hideous double murder that rocks Galilee's ruling family knocks the town to its knees. Lorrie Beaumont and her husband have been shot to death, and thei...

  • Angel of Death

    A Chris Sinclair Novel - 1

    To the African American community of San Antonio, Malachi Reese is a saint, a community leader, a man who feeds the hungry and houses the homeless. To San Antonio District Attorney Chris Sinclair, Reese is the Angel of Death: a vicious killer possess...



  • Afterimage

    A Chris Sinclair Novel - 2

    San Antonio District Attorney Chris Sinclair has never forgotten his first real love, Jean a college girlfriend from the era of free love, a wild young woman who introduced him to a world of sex, drugs and alcohol drastically unlike his own. She left...

  • Executive Privilege

    When young San Antonio attorney David Owens wins a big divorce case he hopes it will attract new business. But when the First Lady of the United States asks him to get her a divorce, he gets much more than he bargained for. Before he can even start w...

  • Sliver Moon

    A Chris Sinclair Novel - 3

    Murder by Moonlight. There’s but a bare sliver of moon on the dark night when a shot rings out and a man falls, dead, from the balcony of child psychologist Anne Greenwald’s father’s house during a party. Anne and her boyfriend, District Att...

  • Grudge Match

    A Chris Sinclair Novel - 4

    Steve Greerdon is not a dirty cop . . .

    Eight years ago Chris Sinclair sent him to jail for armed robbery. Now, new DNA evidence shows that he is innocent and Sinclair sees that Greerdon is set free.

    Two police officers are murdered a...

  • Running with the Dead

    A Chris Sinclair Novel - 5

    Soon after starting his career, San Antonio lawyer Chris Sinclair defended his longtime friend, high school teacher Henry Claremont, against a charge of rape brought by a student -- though in doing so, he had to expose an affair Claremont was having ...

  • Pushed Or Was Fell

    in Mystery Writers of America Presents Death Do Us Part

    This volume compiles 18 gripping stories about relationships from some of the top mystery writers working today, including Harlan Coben, P.J. Parrish, Lee Child, Ridley Pearson, R.L. Stine, Jim Fusilli, Jeff Abbott, Charles Todd, and Tom Savage....

  • Milagro Lane

    A tale of murder wrapped in family secrets, potentially incestuous relationships, and a diabolic plot to avenge lost love, this intriguing mystery is set in San Antonio, Texas -- a traditional city where races and ethnic groups blend. When Estela Val...

  • A Jury Of His Peers

    in Best American Mystery Stories 2010

    Best-selling novelist Lee Child edits this latest collection of the genre’s finest from the past year. Featuring “gritty tales told with panache,” this is a “must-read for anybody who cares about crime stories” (Booklist)....

  • The Jetty

    Michael and Kathy set off on a romantic seaside vacation to the Texas Gulf Coast where they meet the wealthy and glamorous Jack and Vivian Leffler. Kathy is captivated by the Lefflers' worldly sophistication, but Michael senses something disturbing a...

  • Shadow Knight's Mate

    This novel of international espionage begins with a bizarre terrorist attack meant to discredit a secret society that has been attempting to steer historical events for more than a century. Jack Driscoll, a member of the society, and Israeli security...



  • Thanksgiving Eve

    Ray Seymour receives frightening news from his doctor on Christmas Eve. He goes home, feeling sad and angry, to confront the tense atmosphere of his home. His wife, eight-year-old daughter, and fifteen-year-old son remain separate, not cohering in...

  • Against the Law

    An Edward Hall Case - 1

    Fresh out of prison, former lawyer Edward Hall thinks his days in the courtroom are behind him. Until his sister, Dr Amy Hall, is arrested for murder… She’s been accused of shooting the ex-husband she supposedly reconciled with and is convince...

  • From the Grave

    An Edward Hall Case - 2

    Disbarred defence attorney Edward Hall discovers that in order to win his case he has to lose in this tense and twisting legal thriller. "You want me to represent the most hated man in Houston?" Disbarred Texas lawyer Edward Hall return...

  • Not Done with the Night

    With two goons on his trail, Gerald risks a stranger’s life to save his own. Then remorse sets in, and he has to decide what he’ll risk to make things right.The Barb Goffman Presents series showcases the best in modern mystery and crime stories, ...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Jay Brandon has published 23 books.

Jay Brandon does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Not Done with the Night, was published in October 2021.

The first book by Jay Brandon, Predator's Waltz, was published in December 1989.

Yes. Jay Brandon has 3 series.
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