William Manchee

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  • Bibliography:
    29 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    July 1998
  • Latest Book:
    March 2023
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Full Series List in Order

A Rich Coleman Novel

1 - Death Pact (Mar-1999)
2 - Plastic Gods (Oct-2003)
3 - Unconscionable (Nov-2012)

A Stan Turner Mystery

1 - Brash Endeavor (Aug-1998)
2 - Second Chair (Jun-2000)
3 - Cash Call (Sep-2002)
4 - Deadly Distractions (Sep-2004)
5 - Black Monday (Aug-2005)
6 - Cactus Island (Aug-2006)
7 - Act Normal (Aug-2007)
8 - Disillusioned (Jul-2010)
10 - Deadly Defiance (Sep-2011)
11 - Deadly Dining (Nov-2014)
12 - Deadly Blood (Aug-2018)
Undaunted (Jul-1998)

Tarizon

1 - Tarizon: The Liberator (Sep-2008)
2 - Tarizon: Civil War (Sep-2009)
3 - Conquest Earth (Sep-2010)
4 - Shroud of Doom (Apr-2013)
5 - Desert Swarm (Jun-2014)

Book List in Order: 29 titles

  • Undaunted

    A Stan Turner Mystery

    This is the story of Stan Turner's childhood and how he becomes an attorney. One year while he was growing up Southern California in the late fifties he goes to the county fair and they have an old Univac computer there programmed to tell fortunes. H...

  • Brash Endeavor

    A Stan Turner Mystery - 1

    Step into the shoes of Dallas attorney, Stan Turner, in the late 1970's as he begins the practice of law. Broke but determined to get his practice going, Stan starts with only a $2,000 cash advance on his American Express Card. It's the late 70's, a ...

  • Death Pact

    A Rich Coleman Novel - 1

    An attorney is appointed trustee over a seventeen-year-old girl's estate. They fall in love and enter into an illicit affair. When the girl's sole relative discovers them and threatens to get the attorney disbarred and sent to jail, she is murdered a...

  • Twice Tempted

    Fred Fuller is a poor but ambitious college student with dreams of a future in politics. He sees himself as being an honest and moral person but when confronted with the chance of a lifetime, not once . . . but twice he discovers the shallowness of h...

  • Second Chair

    A Stan Turner Mystery - 2

    Drop into the home of Dallas attorney, Stan Turner, and his wife Rebekah for a Christmas Party. The house is packed with clients and friends eating, drinking and having a great time. But then the lights go out and Stan’s CPA, Bobby Wiggins, is foun...

  • Trouble in Trinidad

    It's the year 2001 and recent discoveries of vast off-shore oil reserves in and around Trinidad-Tobago have suddenly thrown this region into the limelight. Consequently, the United States is attempting to establish a Caribbean Free Trade Zone much li...

  • Cash Call

    A Stan Turner Mystery - 3

    Stan and Rebekah's good friends, Don and Pam Blaylock, are in deep trouble. An imprudent investment in a Golden Dragon franchise and their son's arrest for DWI trigger an avalanche of misfortune culminating with the murder of Luther Bell, the smooth ...

  • Plastic Gods

    A Rich Coleman Novel - 2

    Rich Coleman's son Matt has just passed the bar exams and is anxious to make his fortune. Unfortunately his plans to be a personal injury attorney have been soured by tort reform. With the help of his new bride and a college professor, Matt devises a...

  • Deadly Distractions

    A Stan Turner Mystery - 4

    After two tough years practicing law, Stan and his family take a well deserved vacation to Colorado. Unfortunately the vacation is cut short when a client is found standing over the body of a dead IRS agent. It appears to be an open and shut case sin...



  • Black Monday

    A Stan Turner Mystery - 5

    A Stan Turner Mystery by William Manchee The latest Stan Turner thriller begins on the infamous Black Monday, October 19, 1987. As the stock market is taking a nosedive and the nation's banking system falls into crisis, Stan is asked by the CIA to he...

  • Cactus Island

    A Stan Turner Mystery - 6

    Stan is called out to Possum Kingdom Lake in Central Texas where a boy scout has been killed in a tragic Jeep accident. At first glance it appears to be just a typical case of reckless teenage driving, but when the teenager, Steven Caldwell, is charg...

  • Act Normal

    A Stan Turner Mystery - 7

    In this 8th episode of the Stan Turner Mystery series Dallas attorney Stan Turner struggles to keep his practice going in the wake of the tragic loss of his son and his rapidly disintegrating marriage. Stan, who has been recruited by the CIA for its ...

  • Undaunted

    Undaunted, volume one of the Stan Turner Mysteries, is the story of Stan Turner's childhood and how he becomes an attorney. One year while he was growing up Southern California in the late fifties he goes to the county fair and they have an old Univa...

  • Tarizon: The Liberator

    Tarizon - 1

    When a teenager discovers his father is working on a secret government project with aliens from the planet Tarizon, the project is compromised and Peter Turner must accept exile or be killed. Tarizon is recovering from a series of super volcanic erup...

  • Tarizon: Civil War

    Tarizon - 2

    When a teenager discovers his father is working on a secret government project with aliens from the planet Tarizon, the project is compromised and Peter Turner must accept exile or be killed. Tarizon is recovering from a series of super volcanic erup...

  • Disillusioned

    A Stan Turner Mystery - 8

    After being discharged from the United States Marine Corps, Stan ends up in Dallas where he intends to finish law school. In the spring of 1976, while attending SMU, he is recruited into the Republican party, elected county chairman, and finds himsel...

  • Conquest Earth

    Tarizon - 3

    Thi final book of the Tarizon Trilogy is the story of the Loyalist desperate attempt to warn the United States of an imminent attack by the Intergalactic Fleet and to thwart a carefully crafted plot to overthrow the U.S. government, the first stage o...

  • Uncommon Thief

    A college student is framed for a huge bank robbery and ends up on trial for murder when a bank official is found dead in the vault. UCLA student Fred Fuller is pleased with his new part time job as a messenger for Bank USA. The job pays well, the...

  • Deadly Defiance

    A Stan Turner Mystery - 10

    The law firm of Turner & Waters has a new associate. Jodie Waters has finally worked her way up from Stan's secretary to become a full fledged attorney. Having great confidence in her abilities, Stan asks her to help him in the investigation of a wro...



  • Unconscionable

    A Rich Coleman Novel - 3

          In Volume III of the Rich Coleman Novels, Rich's son Ryan finally graduates from law school and is anxious to start practicing law. While in law school he met and fell in love with Amanda, a classmate who doesn't want to practice law but h...

  • The Prime Minister's Daughter

    A young adult novel about Kevin Wells, a Texas high school student, who has a chance encounter with the daughter of the Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, Kiran Shah, and thinks he is in love. He knows there is no hope for such a long distance re...

  • Shroud of Doom

    Tarizon - 4

        Thousands of years ago a group of explorers were sent out from the planet Pharidon to find new habitats for their exploding population. After years of searching without success the explorers split up with one finally discovering Earth and the ...

  • Desert Swarm

    Tarizon - 5

    What looks like a cathedral suddenly begins to emerge from the sands of the Mojave Desert. Scientist believe it is a natural phenomenon but a local religious leader insists it is a sign from the Lord of the Second Coming of Christ....

  • Deadly Dining

    A Stan Turner Mystery - 11

    A triple homicide is caught on tape by a professional photographer yet the person or persons responsible and the motive for this grisly crime are a mystery. This is the kind of high-profile murder case that attorney Paula Waters loves but as she trie...

  • Deadly Blood

    A Stan Turner Mystery - 12

    Dallas attorney Stan Turner gets an unexpected appointment as the attorney-ad-litem for a teenager who is caught in the middle of an ugly divorce suit. Melody Monroe, who lost her parents in a tragic auto accident, is thrilled when she is finally ado...

  • Supreme Mandate

    Volume 1 of the Tarizon Saga chronicles the end of a hundred-year global war that nearly made the planet uninhabitable, the rise of Sandee Brahn, who was assigned the task of saving the planet by the God Pelgrem, and the unification of the 31 waring ...

  • The Pact

    Stan's son joins the firm and wants to practice personal injury law, but when Reggie bags his first client, he needs Paula and Jodie's help to untangle the legal quagmire that is unleashed when Tom "the Tornado" Tyson sues his new client and the Dist...

  • Bitter Choices

    Stan's son joins the firm and wants to practice personal injury law, but when Reggie bags his first client, he needs Paula and Jodie's help to untangle the legal quagmire that is unleashed when Tom the Tornado Tyson sues his new client and the Distri...

  • The Adventures of Jake West

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    Jake West's father liked to travel and took Jake on many vacations all across America. Over the years Jake loved to tell his children about all of his wild and wonderful adventures on these trips.His children loved these stories and made him tell the...



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William Manchee has published 29 books.

William Manchee does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Bitter Choices, was published in March 2023.

The first book by William Manchee, Undaunted, was published in July 1998.

Yes. William Manchee has 3 series.
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