William Deverell

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  • Bibliography:
    21 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    October 1979
  • Latest Book:
    June 2024
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Full Series List in Order

An Arthur Beauchamp Novel

Snow Job (Oct-2009)
I'll See You in My Dreams (Sep-2011)

Pomeroy, MacArthur, Brovak and Sage

1 - Dance of Shiva (Oct-1996)
2 - Kill All the Lawyers (Mar-1998)

Book List in Order: 21 titles

  • Needles

    Lawyer Foster Cobb prosecutes the mysterious Dr. Au, the West Coast's primary drug trafficker. But Cobb-under pressure of a failing practice and a disintegrating marriage-has himself taken up a long-abandoned heroin habit. With a racing plot and dram...

  • High Crimes

    This high-seas romp from Deverell's Newfoundland to Colombia to Miami features undercover plots, double-dealings, and triple betrayal. This quirky murder mystery features an assortment of colorful characters, including a band of Newfoundland smuggler...

  • Mindfield

    A long-ago series of brainwashing and unorthodox psychiatric experiments are at the center of a conspiracy that eventually involves the CIA, FBI, mafia, and Montreal police force in this thrilling mystery. When bodies start turning up in an unexplain...

  • Trial of Passion

    Arthur Beauchamp, a heralded criminal lawyer, has moved to a quiet island off the British Columbia coast. While trying to recover from a marriage gone sour, his retirement is interrupted by his former law partners-they want Arthur to take charge of t...

  • Fatal Cruise

    Author William Deverell received an intriguing phone call. Would he be interested, he was asked, in defending a 59-year-old homosexual accused of bludgeoning his employer, a wealthy widow, with a liquor bottle while they were cruising in Canadian wat...

  • Street Legal: The Betrayal

    It's a long hot summer for the small law firm of Robinovitch, Barr, Barr, and Tchobanian. Leon Robinovitch is defending an anti-Semitic peddler of hate literature; Chuch Tchobanian is representing a pornography salesman; and Carrie Barr, fresh from h...

  • Dance of Shiva

    Pomeroy, MacArthur, Brovak and Sage - 1

    Eastern philosophy and legal thinking meet in this mystery novel in which Max Macarthur faces the greatest challenge of his young career when he must serve as defense counsel to cult leader Shiva Ram Acharya. In a grisly echo of Jonestown, 20 members...

  • Platinum Blues

    THEFT OF A TUNE ... Oliver Gulliver is the small-town lawyer, mayor and widower bringing up his two teenage daughters single-handed. He can just about cope with the pressures of solo fatherhood until the night his eldest brings home something eve...

  • Kill All the Lawyers

    Pomeroy, MacArthur, Brovak and Sage - 2

    Arthur P Besterman, criminal lawyer and reformed alcoholic, was the first to go. Counsel to Vancouver's assorted shifters and grifters, Besterman almost always lost his cases. But a recent victory defending a low-life client might be a clue as to why...



  • Slander

    In this legal drama, Liz Finnegan, a women's rights lawyer who defends abortion clinics and abused women, publicly denounces Judge Vandergraaf for giving a slap-on-the-wrist sentence to a white-collar rapist. The tension between these two legal power...

  • The Laughing Falcon

    William Deverell’s 11th novel is an adventure thriller layered with startling twists. All that Maggie Schneider, a romance writer from wintry Saskatoon, wants is a glorious holiday in the tropics and maybe a little real romance to reawaken her crea...

  • April Fool

    An irresistible story of justice heading off the rails. Arthur Beauchamp, the scholarly, self-doubting legend of the B.C. criminal bar (and one of Deverell’s most amiable -- and crafty -- protagonists), is enjoying his retirement as a hobbyist f...

  • Kill All the Judges

    Complex, fascinating, and fun … Kill All the Judges is a classic crime work, from an author heralded as one of Canada’s best, and with good reason.” -- Shelf Life Finalist for the Stephen Leacock Humour Prize Is someone systematically killin...

  • Snow Job

    An Arthur Beauchamp Novel

    “Smart, beautifully written, and really, really, funny satire featuring Arthur Beauchamp.” "" The Globe and Mail Finalist for the Stephen Leacock Humour Award In this zany political thriller, the leader of the despotic Asian nation of Bhashyi...

  • I'll See You in My Dreams

    An Arthur Beauchamp Novel

    Finalist for the Arthur Ellis Award for Best Crime Novel. “Deverell touches on the evils of the Native residential school system as this literate mystery builds to a surprising solution. Readers will hope they haven’t seen the last of the endeari...

  • Sing a Worried Song

    The sixth novel in the acclaimed Arthur Beauchamp series  Everything is going well for Arthur Beauchamp in his early middle age. Life is so good for the top-notch defence lawyer that, in a moment of career restlessness, he decides to switch side...

  • Whipped

    The toughest case of Beauchamp’s brilliant career features sex, slander, and dirty politics Montreal journalist Lou Sabatino, under witness protection after nearly being gunned down by the Mafia, is sucked into the quirky world of a conniving Russi...

  • Stung

    Award"winning novelist William Deverell is back with a new Arthur Beauchamp legal thriller. Lawyer Arthur Beauchamp is facing the most explosive trial of his career: the defence of seven boisterous environmentalists accused of sabotaging an Ontario...

  • Mecca

    Arthur Ellis award"winning William Deverell’s 1983 bestseller An extremist warlord is about to unleash the world’s deadliest shock troops. The Rotkommando -- an army of expert terrorists, political fanatics, and psychotic killers -- is arme...



  • The Long-Shot Trial

    Arthur Beauchamp takes a break from the courtroom to write a memoir so he can set the record straight about a headline murder case he fought as a young lawyer in 1966. The trial would either mark him as a pathetic loser or thrust him into the top ran...

  • Mind Games

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    Arthur Ellis award"winning William Deverell’s 2003 bestseller In Mind Games, William Deverell returns to the intriguing territory of the law and lawyers and of human psychology and motivation, and he does so in familiar Deverell sur­roundings: t...

Award-Winning Books by William Deverell

Trial of Passion
1998 Hammett -- Best Novel


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

William Deverell has published 21 books.

The next book by William Deverell, The Long-Shot Trial, will be published in June 2024.

The first book by William Deverell, Needles, was published in October 1979.

Yes. William Deverell has 2 series.
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