Susan P. Baker

• Nov-2025
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Aurora's life seems close to perfect. She has a devoted husband, a recent move back to her hometown, and the chance to fix up the house she inherited. She has a close circle of new and old friends and finds fulfillment in her volunteer work at the lo...

• Jul-2024
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Sharp-witted Private Investigator MAVIS DAVIS dives into a web of deceit, intrigue, and corruption on the Texas Gulf Coast when a determined banker's widow challenges the medical examiner's ruling that her husband's suspicious death was a suicide. As...

• Dec-2022
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Six-week-old twins are kidnapped from a church during a Wednesday night service. The parents, not trusting the attitude and advice of the HPD officers, hire Mavis to rescue their babies. Despite cops ordering her to butt out, as usual, Mavis and her...

• Jul-2021
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In this eclectic collection of personal essays, short fiction, and nonfiction, retired Texas District Court Judge Susan P. Baker writes about what she knows. That Susan's parents instilled a sense of empathy in her is reflected in her writings as she...

• Apr-2021
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In the midst of a midlife crisis, lawyer Sandra Salinsky finds herself coerced into defending a ranch's Latina señora, who has been accused in the shooting death of one of the rancher's twin daughters. Set in a small town deep in the Texas Hill Coun...

• May-2018
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Devastated by a divorce and death of a child, Judge Torie Van Fleet rebuilds her life around succeeding in the justice system. Her goal is to work her way to the U.S. Supreme Court. Vowing to do whatever it takes, she risks her relationship with her ...

• Jul-2017
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What you don't know CAN hurt you. Frustrated with the two controlling men in her life, Dena Barlow Armstrong has outlined a rosy future for herself and her children, independent of them. Her husband, Zack, constantly pushes her to turn over her inher...

• Nov-2016
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"...a spectacular compilation of stories of American judges who were tragically killed..." Jason Walker, Historian, Texas State Cemetery

42 True Stories of Judges who were assassinated by strangers, knocked off by family members, or other...

• Apr-2015
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Marian Reid was forced by her mother to give up her autistic son, Robert, for adoption. Though she fought in court for him twice in the past, when his current caregiver is diagnosed with Alzheimer's, she must fight a third time or risk losing all con...

• Jul-2013
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Jim Dorman, a laid off newspaperman in the Texas hill country, can't pay his child support. He is summoned to court for nonsupport and the first thing the judge does is read a Suggestion of Death into the record for a man who was supposed to appear t...

• Feb-2007
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A teenage girl from a well-to-do family disappears. Was she kidnapped or did she runaway? P.I. Mavis Davis' high school worker, Candy, brings in the girl's older brother to hire Mavis. Mavis doesn't work for kids, she says. Kids have no authority to ...

• Apr-2005
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Criminal Defense Attorney Sandra Salinsky is hired to defend the alleged murderer of plaintiffs' attorney Phillip Parker, her mother's best friend.Salinsky and her mother, Erma Townley, are law partners as well as sparing partners and different as ni...

• Jun-1989
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"Mavis Davis is a great character: smart, funny and stubborn enough to make an efficient PI." An Amazon  Vine �"�️ Voice  Reviewer"The complex plot unfolds very rapidly." The Galveston Daily News."Her 'first murder' is as good as you can ...

In Southeast Texas, Mavis hunts down the killer of an antiques dealer--Fiercely independent, though struggling, Texas P.I. Mavis Davis rates missing persons cases high on her list, second only to murder. After being hired by a Galveston att...

Five years ago, an ax-wielding killer hacked a cruise ship captain to death. The case has gone cold. After getting no response to her request that the case be reopened, a dead man's terminally ill sister hires Houston P. I. Mavis Davis to go down to...