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Judy K. Walker

She’s investigating a suspicious prison suicide. Someone’s determined to hide the truth…

North Florida, 2004. Private Investigator Sydney Brennan cut ties with her nearest and dearest long ago and keeps her past close to her vest. But it’s hard not to reflect on her own estranged family when a woman hires her to look into her father’s prison-cell suicide. Since the dead man served over twenty years for murdering his wife, Sydney suspects it wasn’t guilt that killed him. What other sins does her client’s family hide?

Sydney’s client isn’t the only one concealing secrets. As Sydney uncovers shady evidence and incomplete reports, the determined PI makes enemies of those who want their misdeeds to stay buried. And though she barely survives a brutal attack, she refuses to allow a violent murderer to remain free.

Can Sydney cut through the lies and expose the coverup before she meets a deadly fate?

Back to Lazarus is the first book in the Sydney Brennan Mysteries series. If you like strong heroines and gut-wrenching twists and turns, with occasional snarky profanity, then you’ll love Judy K. Walker’s gripping novel.

Buy Back to Lazarus to solve a long-forgotten mystery today!

The Sydney Brennan Mysteries books stand alone, but each of Sydney’s adventures builds upon previous ones. The reading order is:

1) Back to Lazarus

2) Secrets in Stockbridge

3) The Perils of Panacea

4) No Safe Winterport

5) Braving the Boneyard

6) River Bound

7) Grave Truth; and

8) Memory Lane

Sydney Brennan PI Mysteries

Back to Lazarus: A Sydney Brennan Novel

How far would you trust your Ex when it comes to murder?

PI Sydney Brennan's first error in judgment: performing a background check for her ex-boyfriend. Her second: delivering the report in person to his upstate New York home, where a man is murdered shortly after her arrival. Will believing her ex is innocent be the third error that leads to another murder?

Secrets in Stockbridge is a stand-alone novella in the Sydney Brennan series, featuring the Florida private investigator with a knack for getting into trouble who doesn’t know when to quit.

If you’re looking for a mystery with believable characters and “just enough humor to offset the dark,” click to read Secrets in Stockbridge today!

The Sydney Brennan Mysteries alternate between novels and novellas. The books stand alone, but each of Sydney’s adventures builds upon previous ones. The reading order is:

1) Back to Lazarus: A Sydney Brennan Novel

2) Secrets in Stockbridge: A Sydney Brennan Novella

3) The Perils of Panacea: A Sydney Brennan Novel

4) No Safe Winterport: A Sydney Brennan Novella

5) Braving the Boneyard: A Sydney Brennan Novel

6) River Bound: A Sydney Brennan Novella

7) Grave Truth: A Sydney Brennan Novel; and

8) Memory Lane: A Sydney Brennan Novella

Secrets in Stockbridge: A Sydney Brennan Novella

For over a decade, JD Devereaux’s son has been raised to think his father is dead. But he’s not. At least, not yet.

PI Sydney Brennan returns to west Florida to track down a friend's estranged father, long thought dead. But where JD Devereaux goes, men with guns aren't far behind. Before Sydney can reunite him with his son, she'll have to get Devereaux out of Panacea Point alive.

The Perils of Panacea is a novel featuring the Florida private investigator with a knack for getting into trouble who doesn’t know when to quit. If you’re looking for a mystery with believable characters and “just enough humor to offset the dark,” click to download and read The Perils of Panacea today.

The Sydney Brennan Mysteries alternate between novels and novellas. The books stand alone, but each of Sydney’s adventures builds upon previous ones. The reading order is:

1) Back to Lazarus

2) Secrets in Stockbridge

3) The Perils of Panacea

4) No Safe Winterport

5) Braving the Boneyard

6) River Bound

7) Grave Truth; and

8) Memory Lane

The Perils of Panacea: A Sydney Brennan Novel

A cop who hates you, a hurricane, or your big sister… which would you rather spend time with?

PI Sydney Brennan’s vacation with her estranged sister in Winterport is cut short when her brother-in-law becomes a murder suspect. With a hurricane bearing down on central Florida, it’s up to Sydney to figure out what the man’s gotten himself into and track him down before the authorities—or someone far worse—beats her to it.

No Safe Winterport is a novella featuring the Florida private investigator with a knack for getting into trouble who doesn’t know when to quit. If you’re looking for a mystery with believable characters and “just enough humor to offset the dark,” click to download and read No Safe Winterport today.

The Sydney Brennan Mysteries alternate between novels and novellas. The books stand alone, but each of Sydney’s adventures builds upon previous ones. The reading order is:

1) Back to Lazarus: A Sydney Brennan Novel

2) Secrets in Stockbridge: A Sydney Brennan Novella

3) The Perils of Panacea: A Sydney Brennan Novel

4) No Safe Winterport: A Sydney Brennan Novella

5) Braving the Boneyard: A Sydney Brennan Novel

6) River Bound: A Sydney Brennan Novella

7) Grave Truth: A Sydney Brennan Novel; and

8) Memory Lane: A Sydney Brennan Novella

No Safe Winterport: A Sydney Brennan Novella

Sometimes the darkest secrets just won’t stay hidden, no matter how deeply they’re buried.

Tallahassee PI Sydney Brennan is torn between loyalty to her mentor and duty to her client—facing life in prison—when her investigation uncovers a long-buried secret that someone is willing to kill for. How far will Sydney go to protect her friend’s past, and his life?

Need a Sue Grafton fix but you've blown through the alphabet? You're in luck. Braving the Boneyard is a novel featuring Kinsey's Millhone's kindred spirit, a Florida private investigator with a knack for getting into trouble who doesn't know when to quit. If you're looking for a mystery with believable characters and "just enough humor to offset the dark," click to download and read Braving the Boneyard today!

The Sydney Brennan Mysteries alternate between novels and novellas. The books stand alone, but each of Sydney’s adventures builds upon previous ones. The reading order is:

1) Back to Lazarus: A Sydney Brennan Novel

2) Secrets in Stockbridge: A Sydney Brennan Novella

3) The Perils of Panacea: A Sydney Brennan Novel

4) No Safe Winterport: A Sydney Brennan Novella

5) Braving the Boneyard: A Sydney Brennan Novel

6) River Bound: A Sydney Brennan Novella

7) Grave Truth: A Sydney Brennan Novel; and

8) Memory Lane: A Sydney Brennan Novella

Braving the Boneyard: A Sydney Brennan Novel

Is it bad luck to get held at gunpoint on a first date?

Sydney Brennan isn’t exactly the outdoors type, but the Tallahassee PI can’t say no when her investigator friend Mike Montgomery asks her on an unconventional first date. A lazy day canoeing down an idyllic Florida Panhandle river, with Mike providing a picnic lunch and most of the paddle power—what could go wrong? A lot, and this time it’s not even Sydney’s fault.

Soon Syd and Mike find themselves entangled in someone else’s imploding criminal enterprise, with no easy way out. Because when you’re River Bound, everyone gets swept downstream…

River Bound is a novella featuring the Florida private investigator with a knack for getting into trouble who doesn’t know when to quit. If you’re looking for a mystery with believable characters and “just enough humor to offset the dark,” click to download and read River Bound today.

The Sydney Brennan Mysteries alternate between novels and novellas. The books stand alone, but each of Sydney’s adventures builds upon previous ones. The reading order is:

1) Back to Lazarus

2) Secrets in Stockbridge

3) The Perils of Panacea

4) No Safe Winterport

5) Braving the Boneyard

6) River Bound

7) Grave Truth; and

8) Memory Lane

River Bound: A Sydney Brennan Novella

A runaway teen. A dying wish. A shallow schoolyard grave…

When PI Sydney Brennan is hired to find a man’s missing niece, memories of her own troubled teenaged years make the hunt a personal priority. But she can’t refuse a man’s deathbed request, either: to uncover a boy’s long-forgotten, final resting place at a shuttered juvenile center.

Once Sydney commits to tackling both high stakes assignments, life gets complicated. Locating the missing teen is only the first hurdle on the runaway front, and someone demonstrates an alarming interest in the cold case. With the young victim decades in the ground, who are they protecting? And why?

Can Sydney expose the shady correctional facility’s grim secrets before more skeletons are buried? Maybe even her own…

Grave Truth continues the gritty Sydney Brennan Mysteries (see reading order below). If you like dark conspiracies, sarcastic humor, and shocking surprises, then you’ll love Judy K. Walker’s chilling story.

Buy Grave Truth to dig up a disturbing whodunit today!

The Sydney Brennan Mysteries alternate between novels and novellas. The books stand alone, but each of Sydney’s adventures builds upon previous ones. The reading order is:

1) Back to Lazarus: A Sydney Brennan Novel

2) Secrets in Stockbridge: A Sydney Brennan Novella

3) The Perils of Panacea: A Sydney Brennan Novel

4) No Safe Winterport: A Sydney Brennan Novella

5) Braving the Boneyard: A Sydney Brennan Novel

6) River Bound: A Sydney Brennan Novella

7) Grave Truth: A Sydney Brennan Novel; and

8) Memory Lane: A Sydney Brennan Novella

Grave Truth: A Sydney Brennan Novel

They should have left well enough alone.

Florida PI Sydney Brennan needs a break. She just finished an intense week on the road, on the heels of a case that fundamentally changed her life. And nearly got her killed.

That’s why an exhausted Sydney is doing her best to pass out in her favorite bar (no booze required) when her world tilts on its axis again. Someone she hasn’t seen in more than fifteen years walks through the door, and he asks her to take a little trip with him.

Their journey starts out as a simple one—I just need to see her; she doesn’t even have to know we’re there—but soon they are tangled in a web of secrets and lies, threats and accusations. And the one person they wanted above all else to keep safe is suddenly in jeopardy.

Because there is nothing more complicated—and dangerous—than finally facing the past.

Memory Lane is the eighth installment in the Sydney Brennan PI Mysteries, featuring the Florida private investigator with a knack for getting into trouble who doesn’t know when to quit. These books stand alone but are best enjoyed in order, starting with Back to Lazarus.

Please don’t read this book if you haven’t read Grave Truth. You won’t have trouble following the story, but Memory Lane’s entire premise is a big spoiler for Grave Truth, and no one wants that.