Novels

I write novels as another way of paying attention.

Most of them are rooted in and around Boaz, Alabama — not as a brand or backdrop, but as a moral landscape where ordinary lives intersect with family pressure, church-shaped certainty, buried secrets, old crimes, inherited stories, and long-delayed truth.

Some are mysteries. Some are family stories. Some are stories of escape, reckoning, or late discovery. Many involve lawyers, investigators, small-town churches, old wounds, and people who begin to see that the story they inherited may not be the truth.

Each novel stands on its own. Together, they return to the questions that keep shaping my fiction: What do people inherit? What do they hide? What does silence cost? And what happens when buried truth finally begins to speak?

Where to Begin

If you are new to my fiction, here are three possible starting places.

Meghan’s Son

A novel about faith, power, family pressure, and the cost of telling the truth when silence is expected.

Begin here if you are drawn to stories about inherited belief, moral courage, and a young life shaped by secrets adults tried to control.

The Boaz Stranger

A late-life mystery involving memory, justice, grief, and the pull of unfinished love.

Begin here if you like stories where the past returns quietly, old relationships still matter, and the truth has waited a long time to be named.

Millie’s Daughter

A story of escape, resilience, and the long shadow of violence across generations.

Begin here if you are interested in survival, family wounds, and the strength it takes to step outside the story others tried to write for you.

Explore the Full List

These are only selected novels. You can find the full list of my published fiction here:

Find all novels here.

The Wider Boaz World

Many of these stories return to the same emotional and moral territory: small-town Alabama, inherited certainty, church-shaped culture, family silence, old crimes, and the pressure of truth long delayed.

If that world interests you, you may also want to visit The Tanner Files, an ongoing fictional publication written in the voice of Micaden Tanner, the Boaz attorney at the center of The Boaz Scorekeeper.