A Perfect World: : Perry Richards Legal Mystery Book 1

Justice has a price. Truth has a cost. Few are willing to pay it. In Los Angeles, nothing stays buried. One man seems willing to buck the status quo, regardless of the risk. That man is Perry Richards, attorney at law. He confronts and slays the corrupt minions of criminals and politicians standing in the way of true justice. For that, and to achieve the right thing, Perry Richards will walk and sometimes cross the line. The Perry Richards Legal Mysteries follow the black Los Angeles attorney as he navigates a world where justice is political, corruption wears a thousand faces, and the past is never truly buried. Each novel blends courtroom suspense with psychological noir, plunging Perry into cases that test his brilliance, his conscience, and the fragile balance of his personal life. Throughout the series, Perry confronts missing identities, judicial corruption, murder charges echoing his own childhood secrets, and political scandals capable of reshaping the city. At his side - and sometimes in the shadows - are the people who define his world: Felicia, his gifted psychologist wife whose own lineage hides a devastating truth; Charleston Bradley Sr., the billionaire patriarch whose influence reaches farther than anyone realizes; and a constellation of allies and adversaries whose lives intersect in ways none of them can escape. In a city where desire is dangerous, loyalty is costly, and truth moves like a shadow, Perry Richards fights for the better angels of the human soul - even as he wrestles with the darkness in himself. Each book stands alone, but together they reveal a single, unbroken circle of family, power, and fate. In the inaugural novel, Never, A Perfect World, the attorney finds himself blessed by his wife's devotion and by the love of their two daughters. For Perry, it is a blissful, perfect world. But his perfect world is soon shattered as a cruel façade. Just days before Perry is set to be appointed as the executive director of the firm, Felicia vanishes on her way to meet him at their cabin in the mountains. Was it an accident, foul play, or something more sinister? His search leads to the shocking revelation that the woman known as Felicia Pridemore Richards was a construct of fiction - she never existed. Perry sets out to find the truth by tracing Felicia's steps from a year earlier, aided by his wealthy and beautiful colleague, Charleston Liria Bradley, the daughter of a billionaire. He also discovers that Liria is so deeply in love with him that she will go to any length to see that Felicia remains a haunting mystery. Perry's search evolves into a battle against sexual temptation, racial politics, professional treachery, and a host of people out to kill him. It is the cost of disrupting someone else's perfect world.