William Lashner

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  • Bibliography:
    20 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    May 1995
  • Latest Book:
    October 2021
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Full Series List in Order

Elizabeth Webster

1 - Elizabeth Webster and the Court of Uncommon Pleas (Oct-2019)
2 - Elizabeth Webster and the Portal of Doom (Oct-2020)
3 - Elizabeth Webster and the Chamber of Stolen Ghosts (Oct-2021)

Victor Carl

1 - Hostile Witness (May-1995)
2 - Veritas (Feb-1997)
3 - Bitter Truth (Apr-2003)
4 - Fatal Flaw (May-2003)
5 - Past Due (Apr-2004)
6 - Falls the Shadow (May-2005)
7 - Marked Man (Jun-2006)
8 - A Killer's Kiss (Sep-2007)
9 - Bagmen (Aug-2014)

Book List in Order: 20 titles

  • Hostile Witness

    Victor Carl - 1

    HE WANTED A WAY OUT...AND A WAY UP, BUT WHEN THE BIG OFFER CAME...IT CAME WITH A PRICE Victor Carl is sick of his loser life. After six thankless years hanging on to his sinking private law practice, the debts are king-size, a partner has flown t...

  • Veritas

    Victor Carl - 2

    THE TRUTH ALWAYS HURTS. THIS TRUTH KILLS. Used to defending an unpleasant parade of mob enforcers, two-bit hoods, and other riffraff, Victor Carl - lawyer, loser, and hapless hero of Hostile Witness - has a new case. A terrified young woman has of...

  • Bitter Truth

    Victor Carl - 3

    Victor Carl, the endearingly bent but effective Philadelphia defense attorney of choice for professional criminals great and small, is back--which is good news for the many fans of William Lashner's Hostile Witness. In Veritas, Carl is hired by a you...

  • Fatal Flaw

    Victor Carl - 4

    "Lust will make a fool of any man, but it is only love that can truly ruin him." So says Victor Carl, the ethically adventurous Philadelphia lawyer who usually ends up doing the right thing, but, as his law partner says, often for all the wrong reaso...

  • Past Due Are

    It means something to be a client. It means he gets my loyalty, whether he deserves it or not. It means he gets my absolute best for the price of an hourly fee. It means in a world where every person has turned against him there is one person who wil...

  • Past Due

    Victor Carl - 5

    Philadelphia defense attorney Victor Carl lives his professional and personal lives in shades of gray. Though he regularly skates dangerously on the razor's edge of legal ethics, he remains unwaveringly loyal to those he's been hired to defend - eve...

  • Falls the Shadow

    Victor Carl - 6

    "I don't have to believe in my client. I just have to believe in the legal tender he's tendering." Defense attorney Victor Carl has never been particularly concerned about trivial things like "ethics" and "morality." A beautiful woman has been bruta...

  • Marked Man

    Victor Carl - 7

    It must have been a hell of a night. One of those long, dangerous nights where the world shifts and doors open. A night of bad judgment and wrong turns, of weariness and hilarity and a hard sexual charge that both frightens and compels. A night where...

  • A Killer's Kiss

    Victor Carl - 8

    "You want to know what deceit tastes like? It's sweet. Like honey." Over the course of his shady legal career, Victor Carl has made a host of bad decisions, but letting his ex-fiancée, Julia, fall back into his life and into his bed might be the ...



  • Blood and Bone

    For a son, every funeral before his father's death is a rehearsal and every funeral thereafter is a memorial. Kyle Byrne, the illegitimate son of a prominent Philadelphia lawyer, had to sneak into his father's funeral when he was fourteen years o...

  • The Accounting

    Jon Willing was just a teenager when he and his pals Augie and Ben stole a fortune in drug money. Brazen with youth and stoned out of their gourds, they thought they had the perfect plan for getting away with it. They were wrong. Twenty-five ye...

  • The Barkeep

    Justin Chase is the perfect barkeep, tending bar as he lives his life, in a state of Zen serenity. At least until Birdie Grackle, a yellow-haired, foul-mouthed alcoholic from Texas, walks into his bar, orders a Mojito, and makes a startling confessio...

  • Bagmen

    Victor Carl - 9

    Victor Carl is back, and back in trouble. At a low point in his lowly career, Victor finds himself skulking through the streets of Philadelphia carrying a bag full of money for an ambitious politician. It is a rotten job on the wrong side of anyoneâ€...

  • Guaranteed Heroes

    In a nation still recovering from the nuclear tragedies of forty years earlier, Clyde is working a dead-end guaranteed job at a diner, and Moonis is incarcerated in a Labor Camp for the Malcontented. But when Moonis’s sister, Cecily, goes missing, ...

  • The Four Night Run

    J.D. Scrbacek has just won the biggest trial of his career, but even as he crows to the press, his entire life blows sky-high. Was the bomb meant for him, or for his mobster client? In this seaside casino town where the tables run hot and the tension...

  • A Filthy Business

    Good intentions: they’ll bite you every time. A lifetime ago, brutally efficient fixer Phil Kubiak coldly cleaned up the messes of shady clients from Miami to Las Vegas by any means necessary -- short of murder. Now he’s one eye and one wor...

  • Freedom Road

    He’s taking a dangerous path in search of his missing granddaughter -- the only part of his life worth saving. Oliver Cross is fresh out of jail. His plans for the future are to live out his days in regret, back pain, and a bottle of Lone Star. ...

  • Elizabeth Webster and the Court of Uncommon Pleas

    Elizabeth Webster - 1

    Welcome to Elizabeth Webster's world, where the common laws of middle school torment her days . . . and the uncommon laws of an even weirder realm govern her nights. Elizabeth Webster is happy to stay under the radar (and under her bangs) unti...

  • Elizabeth Webster and the Portal of Doom

    Elizabeth Webster - 2

    In this spine-tingling sequel to Elizabeth Webster and the Court of Uncommon Pleas, young Elizabeth has a client and case of her very own, but things quickly become bloodstains-on-the-courtroom-floor messy.After her grand success in the courtroom aga...



  • Elizabeth Webster and the Chamber of Stolen Ghosts

    Elizabeth Webster - 3

    In this final installment of the Elizabeth Webster series, Philadelphia's youngest barrister faces a ghostly case that will determine the future of her world.Reeling from recent struggles in the courtroom, Elizabeth Webster is surprised when two sist...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

William Lashner has published 20 books.

William Lashner does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Elizabeth Webster and the Chamber of Stolen Ghosts, was published in October 2021.

The first book by William Lashner, Hostile Witness, was published in May 1995.

Yes. William Lashner has 2 series.
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