Somewhat creased down the spine; edges yellowed. 441pp and 391pp.

THE BRETHREN, The perfect scam: the wrong victim.

Trumble is a minimum security federal prison, home to drug dealers, bank robbers, swindlers, embezzlers, tax evaders, and three former judges who call themselves The Brethren. They meet each day in the law library where they spend hours writting letters. They are fine-tuning a mail scam, and it’s starting to really work. The money is pouring in.

Then their little scam goes awry. It ensnares the wrong victim, a powerful man on the outside, a man with dangerous friends, and The Brethren’s days of quietly marking time are over.

THE SUMMONS

Ray Atlee is a professor of law at the university of Virginia who is forty three and newly single. He has a father, a very sick old man who lives alone in the ancestral home in Clanton, Mississippi, a beloved and powerful official who has towered over local law and politics for many years and is now a recluse.

With the end in sight, Judge Atlee issues a summons to Ray to return home to Clanton, to discuss the details of his estate. Ray reluctantly heads south. But the meeting does not take place the Judge dies too soon, and in doing so leaves behind a shocking secret known only to Ray. And perhaps someone else.