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A court appoints Candle Reid, an alcoholic lawyer, to represent Dewey Coltraine, an indigent defendant, who is charged with a capital murder he didn't commit but falsely confessed to doing.

A series of murders test the friendship between Tyler Spurlock, an idealistic lawyer, and Loice Eubanks, a county sheriff prone to quick judgments. Set in the West during the 1880s, the murders come at a bad time for the sheriff, faced as he is with political opposition in his re-election bid and problems caused by his wife. Although Spurlock indirectly aids Eubanks' political campaign by accepting an appointment to represent the prosecution in a criminal action brought against the sheriff's opponent, he does not hold back when he undertakes to defend persons whom the sheriff believes responsible for the killings. As so often reflected in his work, Goolsby employs realistic court-room drama and memorable characters to tell his story.

From the Deep South, comes Deloris Meek, Esquire, a fast-talking, animated lawyer who practices law during the 1960s out of a converted milk truck. He is not a lawyer one would retain on a good day, his having flunked the bar exam on his first try. And his second. One afternoon, he meets an auctioneer in a beer joint and agrees to draft his will and consents to serve as the auctioneer's executor and lawyer for his estate. When the auctioneer dies, Meek's problems begin. Not only must he search for the auctioneer's sole heir, Roda Anne Harrison, he must also contend with three disgruntled claimants to the property. After the auctioneer's funeral and accompanied by Dixie St. John, a float-qualified" legal secretary, they begin their search for the heir. Along the way, they meet several unforgettable characters.

Once again, circumstances bring together Dixie St. John, a float-qualified legal secretary, and Deloris Meek, a two-time candidate for the Bar. (Deloris is not a lawyer one would hire on a good day--he practices law out of a converted milk truck.) Deloris undertakes to help two ventriloquists, Ginger Childree and Ginger's one-time partner Wally Teal with their troubles. Ginger's legal problems all relate to her efforts to regain possession of her dummy Kuddles that an evangelist spirited away to use in his campaigns As before, the reader will encounter memorable characters as Deloris attempts to help the two performers.Troubles and Kuddles is a sequel of sorts to Finding Roda Anne.

This coming-of-age story, a sequel to the author's first novel, Her Own Law, is set in the Deep South during the waning days of World War II. Twelve-year-old Luke "Skeets" McLendon and his best friend, Will Sheffield, fall for Lydia Powell, a beautiful, recently orphaned girl their same age. When his aunt, Tweeve Huggins, assumes temporary custody of Lydia, Skeets' life becomes complicated in more ways than one and he soon learns a lesson about love and loss.

Devotional Briefs, some ninety in number, may be read on a daily basis or read more frequently. While geared primarily but not exclusively to members of the legal profession, they are written to teach, to entertain, to comfort, to advise, and to counsel, whether one is a lawyer, a judge, a juror, a senior citizen, a fisherman, a person in need, an enabler, a failure, a mourner, a law enforcement officer, a defendant, or whatever. Even a sinner.