William Bernhardt

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  • Bibliography:
    57 Books (7 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1991
  • Latest Book:
    July 2024
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Full Series List in Order

Ben Kincaid

1 - Primary Justice (1991)
2 - Blind Justice (Sep-1992)
3 - Deadly Justice (May-1993)
4 - Perfect Justice (Jan-1994)
5 - Cruel Justice (Dec-1996)
6 - Naked Justice (Jan-1997)
7 - Extreme Justice (Feb-1998)
8 - Dark Justice (Jan-1999)
9 - Silent Justice (Feb-2000)
10 - Murder One (Apr-2001)
11 - Criminal Intent (Aug-2002)
12 - Death Row (Jul-2003)
13 - Hate Crime (Feb-2004)
14 - Capitol Murder (Jan-2006)
15 - Capitol Threat (Mar-2007)
16 - Capitol Conspiracy (Jan-2008)
17 - Capitol Offense (Oct-2009)
18 - Capitol Betrayal (Mar-2010)
19 - Justice Returns (Oct-2017)

Conner Cross

1 - Final Round (Mar-2002)

Daniel Pike

1 - The Last Chance Lawyer (Mar-2019)
2 - Court of Killers (Jul-2019)
3 - Trial by Blood (Nov-2019)
4 - Twisted Justice (May-2020)
5 - Judge and Jury (Aug-2020)
6 - Final Verdict (Jan-2021)
7 - Partners in Crime (Sep-2023)
8 - Justice For All (Jul-2024)

Shine

1 - Childhood's End (Nov-2013)
2 - Roses in the Ashes (Nov-2013)
3 - Pandora's Daughters (Nov-2013)
4 - Renegades (Jan-2014)
5 - Who's Gonna Stop Me? (Jan-2014)

A Splitsville Legal Thriller

1 - Splitsville (May-2021)
2 - Exposed (Nov-2021)
3 - Shameless (Mar-2022)
3.5 - Yuletide Splitsville (Dec-2022)

Susan Pulaski

1 - Dark Eye (Jan-2005)
2 - Strip Search (Sep-2007)

Travis Byrne

1 - Double Jeopardy (Feb-1995)

Book List in Order: 57 titles

  • Primary Justice

    • / Legal Thriller
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    Ben Kincaid - 1

    Deals are struck. Secrets are kept. And justices compromised... . Ben Kincaid wants to be a lawyer because he wants to do the right thing: But once he leaves the D.A.'s office for a hot-shot spot to Tulsa's most prestigious law firm, Ben discove...

  • Blind Justice

    Ben Kincaid - 2

    Out of corporate life and on his own, lawyer Ben Kincaid sees the seamy side of the law every day. There's no glamour and little reward when it comes to defending the lowlifes who beat down his door. But when a friend is set up for murder, Ben has no...

  • Deadly Justice

    Ben Kincaid - 3

    Ben Kincaid is not a superstar attorney. In Tulsa, Oklahoma, there are only a few lawyers who win headlines and big bucks. So when the notorious Apollo Consortium offers Ben a job as their in-house counsel, he takes it--for the money. The violence...

  • Perfect Justice

    Ben Kincaid - 4

    A young Vietnamese immigrant is brutally slaughtered by a crossbow. The prime suspect is a ruthless member of a white supremacy group. When attorney Ben Kincaid reluctantly agrees to confer with the presumed murderer, he encounters a chilling certa...

  • Double Jeopardy

    Travis Byrne - 1

    When mobster Al Moroconi is charged with orchestrating a heinous crime against a young woman, the first defense attorney on the case mysteriously disappears. Now, Travis Byrne--a smart Dallas cop who recently traded his badge for a law degree--is app...

  • Cruel Justice

    Ben Kincaid - 5

    Leeman Hayes, a black teenager in Tulsa, is accused of brutally murdering a young woman. As attorney Ben Kincaid struggles to pull together a defense, a young boy is falling into the clutches of a child molester. Ten-year-old Abie Rutherford, lonely ...

  • Naked Justice

    Ben Kincaid - 6

    As Tulsa's first black mayor and a former college football hero, Wallace Barrett was a city treasure - until he became the prime suspect in the gruesome murder of his wife and two daughters. Seen splattered with blood and fleeing his house after the ...

  • Extreme Justice

    Ben Kincaid - 7

    Disillusioned with both the legal system and his private life, criminal attorney Ben Kincaid abandons his practice for a less stressful pastime: playing with a combo at Uncle Earl's Jazz Emporium. The musician's life is bliss - until a corpse crashes...

  • The Midnight Before Christmas

    Thirtysomething lawyer Megan McGee is facing a quiet Christmas with her bulldog when Bonnie Cantrell, a battered wife, comes looking for legal protection from her violent ex-cop husband, Carl. In a recent bout of rage, Carl vowed to kill their seven-...



  • Dark Justice

    Ben Kincaid - 8

    Suffering from courtroom burnout, attorney Ben Kincaid heads to the picturesque Pacific Northwest for some much-needed R and R. But Ben's blissful getaway becomes a busman's holiday in the small town of Magic Valley, where a pitched battle between th...

  • Legal Briefs

    William Bernhardt, author of seven bestselling novels featuring attorney Ben Kincaid, asked ten of his fellow lawyer/authors to contribute their most fiendishly clever short pieces for this anthology, and told them their imaginations were their only ...

  • The Code of Buddyhood

    Bobby Beresford and Mark Szasz, the self-appointed "Knights Templar of the Code of Buddyhood," are undergraduates at the University of Oklahoma in 1979. There couldn't be a more unlikely pair of best friends. Bobby's cautious, social ineptitude and r...

  • Silent Justice

    Ben Kincaid - 9

    When a powerful corporation is charged with dumping toxic chemicals into a community’s drinking water and killing innocent children, Ben Kincaid knows the class action suit is a suicide mission. Facing off against the small Kincaid staff is Tulsaâ€...

  • Murder One

    Ben Kincaid - 10

    The crime is remarkably heinous: veteran police detective Joe McNaughton is found savagely slain, mutilated, and hung from a public fountain in downtown Tulsa. The accused is a tabloid reporter's dream: stunning, nineteen-year-old Keri Dalcanton, a s...

  • Natural Suspect

    First there was Naked Came the Stranger, a novel written round-robin by Newsday staff, then Naked Came the Manatee, a serial crime caper from Miami-based writers. Now, here's a legal thriller wherein each succeeding chapter has been created by recogn...

  • Final Round

    Conner Cross - 1

    In the glamorous world of professional golf, one match is synonymous with excellence, tradition, and prestige. The Masters is played on the sweeping fairways of Georgia's exclusive Augusta National Golf Club, drawing its annual pilgrimage of Lear-jet...

  • Criminal Intent

    Ben Kincaid - 11

    Defending radical priest Father Daniel Beale, the prime suspect in the brutal murder of a female parishioner, is the most difficult case of Ben Kincaid's career. Even as Father Beale struggles to escape the shadow of suspicion, another woman is savag...

  • Death Row

    Ben Kincaid - 12

    Oklahoma attorney Ben Kincaid put his reputation on the line when he represented Ray Goldman. The seemingly mild-mannered man was charged with massacring an entire suburban Tulsa family. When the prosecution's star witness--Erin Faulkner, the lone su...

  • Hate Crime

    Ben Kincaid - 13

    Johnny Christensen has earned national notoriety as a sadistic bigot who beat and stabbed a gay man and left him to die. When Johnny's mother begs Tulsa attorney Ben Kincaid to defend her son, Ben has one secret reason for saying no. But his partner,...



  • Dark Eye

    Susan Pulaski - 1

    Sometimes her eyes seduce. Sometimes they stare straight at the kind of sights most people turn away from. But in the blazing neon and searing sun of Las Vegas, she can't see the man who is watching her and thinking to himself: She is the one. . . . ...

  • Voices of the Heartland

    More than just a diverse collection, this book represents the heart and soul of modern writing. For these authors, it is a dreama destination that often seemed at the end of a distant rainbow. For readers, it is a rare opportunity to sample a mosaic ...

  • Capitol Murder

    Ben Kincaid - 14

    In the heart of the nation's capital, defense attorney Ben Kincaid takes on his most shocking, headline-making case yet. After powerful U.S. senator Tod Glancy is caught in a sordid sex scandal, Senate aide Veronica Cooper is found brutally murdered....

  • Capitol Threat

    Ben Kincaid - 15

    Tapped to fill out the term of a disgraced U.S. senator, attorney Ben Kincaid has barely gotten his political sea legs when he must advise the president's next Supreme Court nominee during the sometimes thorny confirmation process. Popular on both si...

  • Strip Search

    Susan Pulaski - 2

    She likes the sudden seconds of sheer terror. The neon dreams fit perfectly with the dreams that wake her up at night: about the man she loved and lost, about the constant temptations in her life, and about the odds that inevitably she'll be in the r...

  • Princess Alice and the Dreadful Dragon

    "Far across the ocean, many miles from the floating island of Pamperpazoo, and just west of the underground empire of the dark and terrible Kindersnitch, lies the little known nation called Very-Mixed-Upolis, where almost nothing is what you would ex...

  • Capitol Conspiracy

    Ben Kincaid - 16

    After two shocking murders rock the nation, the president barely escapes an assassination attempt at the Oklahoma City memorial. But the fusillade of sniper fire claims twelve unintended victims. In response, the president calls to amend the U.S. Con...

  • Nemesis

    In his bestselling legal thrillers, William Bernhardt has explored the dark side of contemporary politics, power, and the law. Now Bernhardt turns back the clock to the city of Cleveland, Ohio, in the fall of 1935. Based on true events and new discov...

  • Capitol Offense

    Ben Kincaid - 17

    In his thrilling novels of suspense, William Bernhardt takes us into the fault lines of the criminal justice system, where one mistake, a twist of fate, or an explosive secret can mean the difference between justice and its cataclysmic undoing. In Ca...

  • Capitol Betrayal

    Ben Kincaid - 18

    Ben Kincaid has lost his bid to be elected to the U.S. Senate in Bernhardt's less than credible 18th thriller to feature the honorable Oklahoma lawyer (after Capitol Offense). Ben's wife, Christina McCall, also a practicing attorney, has moved the fa...



  • After Hours

    in Love Is Murder (Mira)

    In this Thriller Short, bestselling author William Bernhardt shows how hidden love can lead to happiness -- or death. Morelli and Baxter are partners on the Tulsa police force. But what no one knows is that they are partners in private, too. Together...

  • Childhood's End

    Shine - 1

    In the near future, a few young women manifest extraordinary abilities called "Shine." Each girl's ability is different. Some develop extraordinary mental abilities. Some become physically strong. Others have powers that defy description. But the ...

  • Pandora's Daughters

    Shine - 3

    In the near future, a few young women manifest extraordinary abilities called "Shine." Each girl's ability is different. Some develop extraordinary mental abilities. Some become physically strong. Others have powers that defy description. But the wor...

  • Roses in the Ashes

    Shine - 2

    In the near future, a few young women manifest extraordinary abilities called "Shine." Each girl's ability is different. Some develop extraordinary mental abilities. Some become physically strong. Others have powers that defy description. But the wor...

  • Renegades

    Shine - 4

    After her unsuccessful attempt to escape from the Transforming Your Light "rehab" on Antolina Island, Aura was subjected to abusive treatment and increased pressure to submit to invasive brain surgery and testing. Aura remained strong and tried to...

  • Who's Gonna Stop Me?

    Shine - 5

    In the near future, a few young women manifest extraordinary abilities called "Shine." Each girl's ability is different. Some develop extraordinary mental abilities. Some become physically strong. Others have powers that defy description. But the wor...

  • The Black Sentry

    In the ruins of North America, the Laws and Ways of the Sentinel control everyone and everything. The Sentinel's rule is enforced by The Black Sentry, his ominous ever-present police force. Every aspect of the villagers' lives is dictated by the Sent...

  • Rough Justice

    This is a collection of three short stories involving lawyer Ben Kincaid and his friends and colleagues.YULETIDE JUSTICEIn this short story, Ben Kincaid solves a Christmas mystery with his legal assistant, Christina McCall. Relations with Clyde Burri...

  • Equal Justice

    A YOUNG GIRL DREAMS OF A BETTER WORLD...The law said America kept the black and white races separate but equal. Growing up in Chickasha, Oklahoma, Ada Sipuel learned that separate was never equal. Once she asked her father why the world was divided b...

  • The Game Master

    It’s not whether you live or die, it’s how you play the game.While in Vegas for the American Poker Grand Slam, BB Thomas -- the Game Master -- is suddenly arrested by the FBI and taken to a top-secret laboratory. A scientist has been murdered in ...



  • Shine

    In the near future, a few young women manifest extraordinary abilities called "Shine." Each girl's ability is different. Some develop unusual mental abilities. Some become physically powerful. Others have talents that defy description. But the world ...

  • Justice Returns

    Ben Kincaid - 19

    Attorney Ben Kincaid is back with the most controversial case of his career. Ben’s former friend, Oscar Kirby, an Iraq war vet subjected by the CIA to "enhanced interrogation techniques," is the primary suspect when his "interrogator" is murdered. ...

  • The Last Chance Lawyer

    Daniel Pike - 1

    Getting his client off death row could save his career… or make him the next victim.Daniel Pike would rather fight for justice than follow the rules. His unique ability to "connect the dots," to observe what others do not, has made him the most not...

  • Court of Killers

    Daniel Pike - 2

    The court of public opinion found her guilty. But one attorney resolved to change the verdict…

    Attorney Daniel Pike knows the dire consequences of crossing the government. So when rising political star Camila Perez faces charges in a gru...

  • Trial by Blood

    Daniel Pike - 3

    A billion-dollar inheritance. A relative’s suspicious reappearance. Can Dan dig up the secrets of the past before he’s buried six feet under?

    Attorney Daniel Pike’s flashy courtroom antics have earned him plenty of enemies--but al...

  • Twisted Justice

    Daniel Pike - 4

    If he loses this case, the consequence is death...Ever since his father's wrongful incarceration, defense lawyer Daniel Pike has defended the innocent at any cost. But he's stunned when his archrival DA is found shot dead and brutally crucified. And ...

  • Judge and Jury

    Daniel Pike - 5

    This time, Dan's putting everything on the line. Will his dangerous scheme reveal a killer...or cause a fatal injustice?Defense lawyer Daniel Pike believes he's closer than ever to proving his late father was no murderer. But with key witnesses snuff...

  • Final Verdict

    Daniel Pike - 6

    He has one chance to find the facts he's searched for his entire life. All he has to do is prove his Number One enemy is not a killer… Daniel Pike has devoted his legal career to ensuring no innocent person dies in prison like h...

  • Splitsville

    A Splitsville Legal Thriller - 1

    A struggling lawyer. A bitter custody battle. A deadly fire. This case could cost Kenzi her career-and her life.Kenzi Rivera is furious. Passed over for promotion at her own father's firm, the talented divorce lawyer is tired of fighting chauvinism e...

  • Christmas Tapestry

    In an unprecedented, one-of-a-kind anthology, six contemporary authors contribute a wide variety of holiday-themed stories featuring the series characters that have populated—or will populate—their bestselling novels. Betsey Kulakows...



  • Exposed

    A Splitsville Legal Thriller - 2

    When a scandalous divorce trial interferes with a ruthless killer, can one tough lawyer find the truth before she becomes the next victim?Kenzi Rivera is classy, compassionate, and ready to buck the status quo. Sick of being patronized by judges and ...

  • Shameless

    A Splitsville Legal Thriller - 3

    When her shocking new case hits too close to home, can Kenzi prevent a miscarriage of justice?Kenzi Rivera wants her day in the sun. Now the highest-earning name at her father's firm, the spitfire attorney is furious her brother was chosen to manage ...

  • Plot/Counterplot

    He writes gunfights and ticking time bombs. But when he's kidnapped and forced to plan a real-world crime, every plot twist will be explosive...Dylan Taggart channels his demons through the keyboard. Knocked around by a father who believed weakn...

  • Yuletide Splitsville

    A Splitsville Legal Thriller - 3.5

    In this story, William Bernhardt sends his crusading attorney Kenzi Rivera (Splitsville) to solve the mystery of a missing family heirloom—with several lives hanging in the balance. So pull up a chair by the Christmas tree, put on you...

  • The Florentine Poet

    "This book sparkles like a jewel in a cosmic clockwork-an uplifting gift to readers everywhere."  - Dan Millman, author of Way of the Peaceful WarriorWhy are the churches closed on Christmas Eve in Florence's San Frediano district? Thi...

  • Partners in Crime

    Daniel Pike - 7

    The Grim Reaper is coming to the courtroom-where Daniel Pike and Ben Kincaid may face their final judgment.In Florida, defense attorney Daniel Pike is stunned when his legal files are ransacked and his lover, Maria Morales, disappears. In Oklahoma, s...

  • Justice For All

    Daniel Pike - 8

    Daniel Pike faces Kenzi Rivera in the ultimate courtroom cage match—but death may render the final verdict. Florida defense attorney Daniel Pike (The Last Chance Lawyer) is dragged into his first civil case to represent a comic-b...

  • Powerful Promise

    • / General Fiction
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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

William Bernhardt has published 57 books.

William Bernhardt does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Justice For All, was published in July 2024.

The first book by William Bernhardt, Primary Justice, was published in January 1991.

Yes. William Bernhardt has 7 series.
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