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John Peoples flees Mexico to escape a cartel hit squad and sneaks into the USA where he had been born and resided until he was nine years old. John attempts to carve out a normal life for himself in his county of birth but finds himself battling Mexican cartels first in Louisiana and later in Kansas. John hopes that eventually the cartels will realize that John is hard to kill and doesn't feel restrained by American laws. In that respect John is a very unamerican American but that is what makes him so dangerous to criminals. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Donald W. Desaulniers is a Canadian lawyer who ...

Cursed with a form of Asperger's Syndrome which compels him to repeat ridiculous rituals whenever a pen or an eating utensil is in his hands, newly-minted lawyer Wyatt Mazy can't find a job with any law firm. Forced to open his own legal practice on a shoestring budget, Wyatt attempts to survive among the established shysters of Upper New York State. This is the first in a planned series of novels about Wyatt and his search for acceptance in a brutal profession and his dream of finding a woman who will accept and love him, quirks and all. There are now three books in the series. ABOUT THE ...

Curtis Scott, retired Canadian attorney, chose assisted suicide on September 12, 2023 and the procedure went perfectly. A day later Curtis emerges on a cliff ledge in Tennessee as a 30 year old version of himself but with all his 76 years of memories, attitudes and opinions still intact. In this second instalment in the 3-part series, Curtis leaves Tennessee and moves to Corinth, Mississippi in search of some sort of normal life despite his unique impediment of being an old man in a young man's body. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Donald W. Desaulniers is a retired Canadian lawyer who has published more...

Retired Canadian attorney Curtis Scott chose assisted suicide on Sept. 12th, 2023 to end his loneliness and cancer pain. The following day Curtis was reincarnated as a 30 year old American version of himself but with his 76 years of memories and attitudes still intact. In this 3rd book in the SECOND LIFE SERIES, Curtis not only finds true love but also discovers why he has been granted a second chance at life. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Donald W. Desaulniers is a retired Canadian lawyer who has published more than 100 books on Amazon since his retirement in 2009. Please check out his Author Page on ...

Retired Canadian lawyer Curtis Scott chooses assisted suicide on September 12, 2023 to put a dignified end to his loneliness and terminal cancer. Imagine his shock when he emerges a day later on a cliff ledge in Stillwater, Tennessee standing next to a young girl who is about to hurl herself over the cliff. In this first segment of the SECOND LIFE SERIES, Curtis must figure out how to cope with being a 76 year old widower with his lifetime of memories and attitudes intact but now occupying his own 30 year old body. This novel is the first book in a 3-part series. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Donald W....

Wyatt Mazy is a young attorney newly arrived in Bath, New York who has recently opened his own legal practice. Wyatt suffers from a form of Asperger's Syndrome which causes him to repeat ridiculous rituals especially when a pen or eating utensil is in his hand. In this second novel in the WEIRD LAWYER SERIES, poor Wyatt is falsely accused of sexually assaulting a pretty young client. Establishing his innocence as an oddball stranger in a small town will prove to be a daunting task. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Donald W. Desaulniers is a Canadian attorney who has penned more than 100 novels since his ...

Just a few days after his 80th birthday, retired and widowed Canadian lawyer Blake Boudreau is diagnosed with terminal cancer. Blake chooses to take MAID (Medical Assistance in Dying) which is an assisted suicide option offered by the Canadian government. In order to eat up some of the mandatory 90 day wait period, Blake decides to take his first ever long driving holiday. He sees the Maritime provinces in Canada and then heads into the USA. The incredible mess he lands in after doing a young girl a favor in Worcester, Massachusetts will convince Blake that he will be much better off dead. ...

This is the 5th novel in the 6-book Vanishing Lawyer Series. Each book is a stand-alone story but with the same main character, John Carverton who in Book 1 found himself plunked into a parallel world where he had never been born. Subsequent books have described John's various adventures in this eerily similar realm. In this 5th novel, John is sent undercover by the FBI to a retirement home in Bluefield, West Virginia as bait to attract a ring of swindlers who have been stealing the bank accounts of trusting seniors. The criminals grab onto the bait but that throws John into the most ...

In this third novel in the ongoing series, young attorney Wyatt Mazy continues to struggle in his Bath, New York legal practice. As if his Asperger's quirks didn't make it tough enough to grow his business, more bad press hounds him. At least Wyatt begins to attract a bit of welcome attention from the ladies. Will being seen out on a few dates with pretty girls trigger a pinch of jealousy in Amanda Corbett, the gorgeous fellow lawyer whom Wyatt secretly adores? ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Donald W. Desaulniers is a retired Canadian lawyer who has penned more than 100 novels, most of which deal with ...

Brian Branigan was the victim in Twelfth Grade of a false sexual molestation allegation by his younger step-sister. Those lies resulted in Brian being kicked out of his home and banished from the family he loved. Now eleven years later Brian is again being framed. He is arrested and charged with theft from the auto parts store where he had just begun work and the evidence pointing to him is damning. Brian hires a young female attorney with only six weeks of experience to help him. Will "Lady Injustice" once again torment Brian and prevent him from proving his innocence? ABOUT THE AUTHOR: ...

Boyd Billingsworth is an extremely rich lawyer from Canada who made his fortune separating widows and spinsters from their money. In order to preserve his ill-deserved but pristine reputation, Boyd is forced to act like a saint when he's in his home town. The only times Boyd can let his inner asshole out to play are when he's in the company of his best and only friend or when he's on vacation. That's when Boyd loves to be an outrageous jerk. Timothy Camacho is a poor, overworked Catholic Priest with a kind and generous heart who resides in Bleakwood, Texas. These polar opposites meet by ...

Ronald Smith is a wealthy retired Canadian lawyer but a hopeless cheapskate. After he is severely mugged, what emerges out of the resulting coma is a lavish spender with no memories of his previous insanely frugal life. Eventually the two opposite personalities begin meeting in shared dreams in a Las Vegas hotel room and instantly detest each other. Throw in a romance with a lovely lady from Chicago and the hilarious battle is on to win the girl's heart and defeat the hated rival. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Donald W. Desaulniers is a retired Canadian lawyer who writes mainly about the legal ...

This is the 5th installment of the Ty Ward Adventure Series which is made up of seven separate novels. Each novel is a stand-alone story. This story begins with Ty in prison where he receives an unusual offer of early parole. All Ty has to do is live in a Dallas slum for the remaining seven months of his sentence. While in Dallas, Ty attempts to discover the identity of Mr. J, the leader of the kidnapping and prostitution ring that Ty encountered in "Deadly Witness" which was the 4th book in the series. As usual in Ty's tumultuous life, he wades into the most depraved cesspools of human ...

Dosed up with Ketamine to calm his racing heart after a car accident, young lawyer Donald Wardman wakes up in a squalid New York City tenement in the body of a Black man with an empty bottle of powerful sleeping pills clutched in his hand. Desperately wanting to wake up from this nightmare hallucination, Donald figures out that he must have been dropped into this dead guy's life in order to right a terrible injustice. Lawyers can be pretty awesome at fixing problems, but this one is a real doozy. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Donald W. Desaulniers is a Canadian lawyer who took up fiction writing as a ...

Some perfect relationships are doomed. For young Las Vegas attorney Paul Skelding, a chance meeting with lovely Amber Anderson leads to romance and the prospect of an idyllic life of shared love. It truly seems like a match made in Heaven. But even Heaven can be tricked by evil masquerading as pious devotion to God. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Donald W. Desaulniers is a retired Canadian lawyer who has penned more than 125 novels, all of which are available as E-Books, Audiobooks and in Paperback form.

Tired of eighty-hour work weeks, attorney Jimmy Corbett grabs an opportunity to leave a Toronto law firm and head to the small city of Belleville, Ontario to open his own law practice and find a life actually worth living. Jimmy is handed a complex legal mystery with his very first client and will soon discover that danger can arise anywhere when you stick your stubborn snout in the wrong toilet. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Donald W. Desaulniers is a Canadian author who has penned more than 100 novels since his retirement in 2009. Please check out his Author Page on Amazon for details about each book.

You've got to feel a bit sorry for veteran attorney Delbert Drunge. Poor Delbert was disbarred by the Iowa Attorney Discipline Board for pooping his pants while trying to close a real estate deal. Delbert was too humiliated to fight the adverse ruling. Then he meets Jake Taalsma who just suffered a similar fate by the same panel of young litigation lawyers. Jake's sin was passing out at his desk and spending a week in hospital. The two old boys join forces and fight the callous legal bureaucracy which determined that a health crisis was grounds for dismissal from the legal profession. ...

This novel is set in early 2017 during Donald Trump's first term as President. Utterly confused by the media coverage of President Donald Trump's first hundred days in office, retired Canadian lawyer Don Smith decides to hitchhike through America in an attempt to discover whether the new President is the savior of the USA or the biggest fool ever to hit the White House. Fifty years ago Don Smith had hitchhiked around America as a university student in the Vietnam War era, and now in 2017 he wants to understand why America seems so divided again. Has the USA and the American dream changed ...

For the first time since arriving in the USA in 2011, 300-pound former bodyguard Ty Ward had enjoyed more than a year of peaceful living in northern Kansas. When a motorcycle gang buys up all the other homes in the tiny hamlet, Ty's blessed peace is quickly shattered by a series of violent confrontations. What does a guy have to do to live out his remaining years peacefully? Perhaps the right woman might turn things around. This is the 7th novel in the 10-volume TY WARD ACTION/ADVENTURE SERIES. Please check out the other books in the series, each of which is a stand-alone story. ABOUT THE ...

In this 3rd novel of the HAUNTED FUNERAL HOME SERIES, young lawyer Jeremy Duff and his ghostly girlfriend Amelia are sent to extreme southern Louisiana to free the trapped spirit of a young girl named Blanche DesRoches who took her own life after her sister died in a car accident. As ghost detectives, Jeremy and Amelia need to unlock the trauma which has prevented Blanche's spirit from ascending to the next sphere of existence. Jeremy and Amelia are for the first time thrown into a totally unexpected battle with powerful evil spirits. This novel describes their latest adventure. ABOUT THE ...