Mike Stewart Books In Order

Tom McInnes Books In Order

Sins of the Brother (1999)
Dog Island (2000)
A Clean Kill (2002)
A Perfect Life (2004)

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Mike Stewart Books Overview

Sins of the Brother

Mike Stewart’s first novel introduces Tom McInnes, an Alabama attorney who investigates his brother’s murder, only to uncover secrets that can kill.

Mike Stewart’s debut mystery was published to rare praise. ‘An atmospheric setting, evocative family background, a Chinese box of a plot, and a hero tough and clever enough to surprise you as much as the bad guys…
. The most accomplished debut of the season,’ hailed Kirkus Reviews. ‘Mike Stewart shows a talent for evoking atmosphere that has all but vanished from thriller novels,’ praised The Washington Post. ‘ He finds heroism in ordinary men placed in extraordinary circumstances and evil in the seemingly banal.’ Now Stewart’s attorney sleuth Tom McInnes pits wits against stone cold killers who would rather commit murder than leave witnesses. When a teenage runaway she has befriended witnesses a brutal murder, Susan Fitzsimmons puts in a call to her lawyer friend, Tom McInnes. Tom makes a cursory inquiry through the local sheriff’s office, only to trigger unexpectedly swift and forceful retaliation: His office is broken into and armed gunmen lay siege to Susan’s house. The situation deteriorates as Tom and those close to him stir up several hornet’s nests’ worth of trouble across the Florida panhandle on their way to a deadly showdown. With riveting action and perfect pacing, Mike Stewart follows through on the promise so evident in his mystery debut.

A Clean Kill

Kate Baneberry died with a whimper, not a bang. One moment she was alive, an attractive woman married to a successful businessman. The next moment she was dead, and no one had the slightest suspicion until a lawyer got involved and shook the legal system to its core…
. Living on Alabama’s warm, windswept Gulf Coast, Tom McInnes attracts troubling cases and troubled clients. With the help of Dr. Kai Li Cantil, a gorgeous psychologist with a knack for unraveling other people s secrets, McInnes pries into Kate s death and soon knows it was no accident. In a world of multimillion dollar lawsuits, Kate Baneberry signed her own death warrant when she did her civic duty and served on a jury. Because someone out there has grabbed justice by the throat and won t let go until all the right people die…
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A Perfect Life

A PERFECT PLAN…
Scott Thomas doesn t know it, but he has been chosen. Not because he’s handsome, smart, or on the verge of a brilliant career as a clinical psychologist trained at Harvard. No, Scott has been chosen because he has the perfect life for someone who needs a life to destroy. A PERFECT LIE…
It starts with a bizarre carjacking, followed by an apparent burglary in his Cambridge apartment. Then a woman is murdered at the hospital where he works, and evidence of Scott s guilt is all around him on his computer, in his apartment, in the dead woman s room. With police hunting for him and a bizarre stranger watching his every move, Scott must take a chance on trusting a beautiful woman and searching through a shadow world of computer hackers and unclosed chapters of his own past. Because with the perfect frame closing around him and a killer growing more violent, Scott has only one choice now: to take back his life or die trying .