Stephen Penner

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  • Bibliography:
    25 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    April 2010
  • Latest Book:
    November 2021
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Full Series List in Order

A Maggie Devereaux Mystery

1 - Scottish Rite (Jan-2012)
2 - Blood Rite (Jan-2012)

Professor Barrister's Dinosaur Mysteries

1 - The Case of the Truncated Troodon (Apr-2010)
2 - The Case of the Armored Allosaurus (Jul-2010)
3 - The Case of the Enormous Eoraptor (Aug-2010)
4 - The Case of the Colorful Caudipteryx (May-2011)
5 - The Case of the Crested Cryptoclidus (Apr-2012)

Book List in Order: 25 titles

  • The Case of the Truncated Troodon

    Professor Barrister's Dinosaur Mysteries - 1

    Third graders Nate and Emily meet Professor Reginald Barrister and travel into the Cretaceous, where they encounter the terrifying raptors known as Troodon. Full color interior with thirteen illustrations....

  • The Case of the Armored Allosaurus

    Professor Barrister's Dinosaur Mysteries - 2

    In this second installment of the series, world-famous paleontologist Professor Reginald Barrister and third-grade dinosaur experts Nate and Emily travel back to dinosaur times to investigate a mysterious Allosaurus fossil. The fossil shows the domin...

  • The Case of the Enormous Eoraptor

    Professor Barrister's Dinosaur Mysteries - 3

    Professor Barrister thinks he's discovered a new dinosaur species, but third grade dino-experts Nate and Emily aren't so sure. They think his new fossil just looks like an enormous Eoraptor, one of the first dinosaurs ever. To learn who's right they ...

  • The Case of the Colorful Caudipteryx

    Professor Barrister's Dinosaur Mysteries - 4

    A dinosaur from the Triassic Period accidentally transports itself to Cretaceous China, a world filled with colorfully feathered dinosaurs. Will Prof. Barrister's crazy feather-fossil-color theory be enough to save the time-trapped dino?...

  • Mars Station Alpha

    A LOCKED ROOM MYSTERY IN SPACE. The colonists of the first space station on Mars have vanished. Captain John Stanton leads a second team to the Red Planet, unsure what he'll find. Originally assigned merely to relieve the first group, Stanton must no...

  • The Godling Club

    PARANORMAL ADVENTURE. 14-year-old Jeni Tanaka just wants to belong. To something. To anything. But right when she's about to join the cool girls' clique, she suffers an embarrassing seizure--brought on by an ancient Japanese goddess trying to possess...

  • Blood Rite

    A Maggie Devereaux Mystery - 2

    PARANORMAL MYSTERY. The heir to the Clan MacLeod has been kidnapped. The police think it's for ransom, but Maggie Devereaux knows better. She'll have to tap into her dark magic again to save the baby, damn the consequences. Except that damnation may ...

  • Scottish Rite

    A Maggie Devereaux Mystery - 1

    PARANORMAL MYSTERY, SET IN THE SCOTTISH HIGHLANDS. American student Maggie Devereaux fulfills a life-long dream when she travels to Scotland to study abroad. But her dream turns into a nightmare when a serial killer begins murdering women at the scho...

  • The Case of the Crested Cryptoclidus

    Professor Barrister's Dinosaur Mysteries - 5

    Time-travelling paleontologist Professor Barrister and third-grade dinosaur experts Nate and Emily swim the Jurassic seas to solve the mystery of the professor's unexpectedly crested Cryptoclidus skull fossil....



  • Presumption of Innocence

    LEGAL THRILLER. Homicide prosecutor David Brunelle faces the most difficult case of his career. An innocent young girl is murdered in a heinous, unforgivable way. The only evidence against the killer is the full confession of his accomplice--another ...

  • Tribal Court

    LEGAL THRILLER. A man is murdered in Seattle's Pioneer Square. The killer is caught just blocks away, blood still on his hands. When it's discovered that both killer and victim belong to the same Native American tribe, the Tribe asserts jurisdiction ...

  • By Reason of Insanity

    LEGAL THRILLER. Sometimes the easiest cases are the hardest. The defendant absolutely, positively murdered her own mother. She's also absolutely, positively mentally ill. Homicide prosecutor David Brunelle is tasked with holding her responsible despi...

  • Last Rite

    In SCOTTISH RITE, American graduate student Maggie Devereaux discovered a lost Celtic book of Dark Magic. In BLOOD RITE, Maggie unravelled a prophesy that foretold the eventual loss of all White Magic. Now, in LAST RITE, Maggie will learn the truth a...

  • A Prosecutor for the Defense

    LEGAL THRILLER. Seattle homicide D.A. David Brunelle has spent his entire career prosecuting criminals. But when his girlfriend, medical examiner Kat Anderson, asks him to go to California to defend her ex-husband on a murder charge, he just can’t ...

  • Substantial Risk

    A sex club. A dead “submissive.” A “dominant” in custody. Homicide D.A. Dave Brunelle barely understands the terms. How can he ever hope to understand the bondage subculture well enough to hold a killer responsible for the apparently accident...

  • Corpus Delicti

    A murder case without a dead body. Even on his best day, Assistant D.A. Dave Brunelle would have trouble winning a homicide case where the police could never find the victim's remains. But it's been a while since Brunelle has had a good day. His love...

  • Accomplice Liability

    There is no honor among thieves. But what about murderers? Seattle homicide prosecutor David Brunelle faces a prosecutorial nightmare. A drug addict-turned-police informant is found murdered, his body dumped publicly as a warning to others. The prime...

  • Winter's Law

    From the author of the top-rated David Brunelle Legal Thriller Series... Talon Winter was one of the most feared civil litigators in the Pacific Northwest -- until she was wrongfully terminated by her high-priced law firm for refusing to follow an un...

  • A Lack of Motive

    Motive, means, opportunity. The solution to the classic whodunit. But what if the person "who done it" had no motive at all? Tech mogul Neil Rappaport had everything any person could want: fame, riches, a mansion on the shores of Lake Washington. So ...



  • Winter's Chance

    Criminal defense attorney Talon Winter holds a man's life in her hands. Ezekiel Frazier is just another small time drug user, until he gets pulled over in someone else's car with a gun under the seat. Now his past catches up to him and he's facing St...

  • Missing Witness

    A man shot to death under a freeway overpass. A suspect who flees into the night. And a witness no one can find. Homicide D.A. David Brunelle must figure out the connection between these three people in order to hold a murderer responsible. But how c...

  • Winter's Reason

    Criminal defense attorney Talon Winter agrees to represent an 18-year-old man charged with a murder he didn't commit. But under the strict letter of the law, he can still be held responsible for the actions of the person who actually pulled the trigg...

  • Homicide in Berlin

    A VACATION TO DIE FORDave Brunelle, Seattle homicide prosecutor, and his new girlfriend, police detective Casey Emory, fly to Berlin for a romantic getaway. But these two can't seem to get away after all. On their luxury spa day, they discover a dead...

  • Winter's Justice

    THE PROBLEM WITH FIGHTING THE SYSTEM IS THAT THE SYSTEM FIGHTS BACKKarim Jackson, college student and social justice activist, joins a protest at a newly completed private jail in downtown Tacoma, Washington. When the director of the jail comes out t...

  • Winter's Duty

    DUTY TO CLIENT > DUTY TO JUSTICE? Attorney Talon Winter confronts the darker side of criminal law, in more ways than one, when she is hired to defend the indefensible.A young man with every advantage in life is charged with murdering his own grand...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Stephen Penner has published 25 books.

Stephen Penner does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Winter's Duty, was published in November 2021.

The first book by Stephen Penner, The Case of the Truncated Troodon, was published in April 2010.

Yes. Stephen Penner has 2 series.
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