Mike Connolly Mystery

Mike Connolly is a recovering alcoholic wrestling with newfound sobriety and a law practice that is on the skids from years of neglect, when he is, asked to represent Harvey Bosarge, a former police detective. Bosarge is, accused of murder in the death of a wealthy Southern heir, but that's just the beginning. The truth lies somewhere beneath a tangled web of drugs, espionage, and infidelity. To find it, Mike must navigate a maze of politics and family secrets that threaten his undoing at every turn. The case is a riddle within a riddle and Mike will need all the help he can get to solve it, and survive.

After years in a drunken stupor, Mike Connolly is finally sober. His legal practice is back to being profitable and his life has reached a comfortable rhythm. Then a late-night phone call turns his world upside down. Camille Braxton is missing and Perry, her husband, is the target of a police investigation. When Camille's body turns up a few days later on a sandbar near Horn Island, Perry lands in jail. Defending him takes Mike to a tanning salon that fronts for a prostitution ring and back to people he's tried hard to forget. Life would be much simpler if Mike could ignore the things he sees, but when he learns the women, from the salon were, trafficked into the sex trade and are, living in a warehouse, he feels compelled to do more, than simply defend his client. Then he discovers the cache of bodies in the scrapyard and Mike knows his life will never be the same again. But first, he has to avoid the men who intend to kill him to hide their secrets.

When Mike Connolly rescued a group of women from a prostitution ring operated by the Morella crime family, he knew there'd be trouble. But after the women were safely relocated and under federal protection, he thought they might be in the clear. Then a grand jury began asking questions and Father Scott, the priest at St. Pachomius Church, received a notice requiring him to testify in a lawsuit over property used by the prostitution ring. Now, the Morellas want payback. The grand jury wants justice. And the parties to the lawsuit want redemption. Mike and his friends just want to survive but it all hinges on Father Scott and the deposition that could change everything.