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  • Bibliography:
    24 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    February 2012
  • Latest Book:
    July 2022
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Full Series List in Order

An Adam Dutton & Beverly Laborde Mystery

1 - Steal Away (Feb-2020)
2 - Hide Away (Apr-2020)
3 - Burn Away (Jun-2020)

A Melungeon Witch Short Story

1 - The Melungeon Witch (Jun-2015)
2 - Return of the Melungeon Witch (Jun-2015)
3 - The Melungeon Witch's Ghost (Jun-2015)
4 - The Melungeon Witch's Gold (Jun-2015)
5 - The Melungeon Witch's Scandal (Jun-2015)

A Scott Drayco Mystery

0.1 - Grave Madness (Mar-2012)
0.2 - False Shadows (Oct-2013)
1 - Played to Death (Aug-2014)
2 - Requiem for Innocence (May-2015)
3 - Dies Irae (Oct-2015)
4 - Elegy in Scarlet (Dec-2016)
5 - The Suicide Sonata (Dec-2019)

Book List in Order: 24 titles



  • The clock is ticking as crime consultant Scott Drayco and "the world's most diminutive defense attorney" Benny Baskin play games with a dangerous killer in order to save an innocent man from going to jail.Why is the killer texting cryptic poems to Dr...



  • From award-winning author BV Lawson comes five short tales of crime and suspense about the dark choices people make when their backs are against a wall: a sheriff’s deputy and a nun hold the fate of a meth dealer in their hands; a down-on-his-luck ...



  • From Derringer Award winner BV Lawson, four short tales of mirth, murder and mayhem: a shopping mall Christmas Elf with revenge on his mind; a young man whose day goes from bad to worse when his car is rear-ended by the mayor's wife, and police find ...





  • Scott Drayco had everything going for him: handsome, brilliant, a talented classical pianist in the prime of his youth. After violence scarred him physically and emotionally, he turned to an FBI career and now freelances as a crime consultant, taking...



  • Simmering resentment in a small coastal town. A missing manuscript. A dark family secret.

    Scott Drayco isn’t a typical detective:  a former concert pianist with synesthesia, he turned to law enforcement when a violent attack put an end to...



  • Injustices, big and small, surround each of us every day. But what can one person do? Plenty, in these stories of vengeance and betrayal -- whether it's a cheating spouse, a prostitute who's had enough, or a bookkeeper who decides to stick it to "the...



  • Crime consultant Scott Drayco is in the middle of a thorny case in Washington, D.C., involving murder victims who were all wheelchair-bound. Then, out of the blue, he gets a worried call from a friend on Virginia's Eastern Shore about an attack on a ...






  • From Book 1:

    A 3,000-word Kindle short reads tale of suspense, romance, and the supernatural set between the two World Wars in the Appalachians

    From Derringer Award winner BV Lawson

    The area's mysterious Melungeons - with their oli...



  • A 6,000-word Kindle short reads tale of suspense, romance, and the supernatural set between the two World Wars in the Appalachians

    From Derringer Award winner BV Lawson

    In the third installment in the Melungeon Witch short-story s...



  • A 6,000-word Kindle short reads tale of suspense, romance, and the supernatural set between the two World Wars in the Appalachians

    From Derringer Award winner BV Lawson

    In the fourth installment in the Melungeon Witch short-story ...



  • The fifth intallment in the Melungeon Witch short-story series set between the two World Wars in the Appalachians near Sneedville, Tennessee. When a single, pregnant woman is attacked, Melungeon healer Cephea Collins comes to her def...



  • A 6,000-word Kindle short reads tale of suspense, romance, and the supernatural set between the two World Wars in the Appalachians

    From Derringer Award winner BV Lawson

    In the second installment in the Melungeon Witch short-story ...



  • A mysterious music puzzle. A murdered co-ed. Sinister secrets.

    Three years ago, Scott Drayco left the FBI after an incident involving his partner, Mark “Sarg” Sargosian. Now a freelance crime consultant, Drayco often helps law enforcemen...



  • From Derringer Award winner BV Lawson come five tales featuring Scott Drayco, a man who had everything going for him: handsome, brilliant, and a talented classical pianist in the prime of his youth. After violence scarred him physically and emotional...



  • In this prequel novelette to the novel Elegy in Scarlet, crime consultant Scott Drayco and “the world’s most diminutive defense attorney” Benny Baskin find themselves on the Eastern Shore of Virginia fighting for the innocence of Baskin's clien...



  • Description: What if a large part of your past turned out to be a lie?

    Crime consultant Scott Drayco is already in the middle of a possible career-ending legal battle when word comes that his mother, who disappeared 30 years ago, is very muc...



  • Can a piece of music be cursed?

    When a young marine biologist is found dead of suicide, his father can't believe he took his own life and hires Scott Drayco to prove it was murder. But what of the strange song found with the young man's body ...






  • Revenge is best served ... bold.  

    When Beverly Laborde becomes a con artist to exact vengeance on the man who shut down her grandmother's antiques business and sent her to an early grave, she comes face to face with the handsome but haunte...



  • What's a cop to do when his best friend is accused of murder?Vermont Detective Adam Dutton has to make one of the hardest arrests of his life—his friend and godfather, Harlan Wilford, who stands accused of murder. Meanwhile, slightly reform...



  • If you play with fire ... you get murder.When a series of arsons targets Vermont antiques stores, Detective Adam Dutton and con-woman Beverly Laborde worry a shop owned by their friend might be next. But the stakes take an even deeper and uglier turn...



  • Some secrets refuse to stay buried...When Scott Drayco's ex-girlfriend begs him to prove her rich fiancé, Harry Dickerman, is innocent of murder, Drayco's torn; he's suspicious of Harry's motives for wanting to marry a much younger woman, but on...



  • How would you solve your own kidnapping? And what if the reason behind it was even stranger than you could ever imagine? When detective Scott Drayco is abducted and given a mysterious puzzle to solve, his predicament is bizarre enough. But after he's...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

B.V. Lawson has published 24 books.

B.V. Lawson does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Melody of Murder, was published in July 2022.

The first book by B.V. Lawson, Ill-Gotten Games, was published in February 2012.

Yes. B.V. Lawson has 3 series.