The A. J. Hawke legal thrillers comprise an ongoing series of novels featuring an aggressive young attorney practicing law in San Diego, California, who takes on seemingly hopeless criminal cases that no one else will touch.
Editor’s Pick: Publisher’s Weekly Booklife Reviews: Nail-biting legal thriller. . . . Great for fans of Scott Turow, Phillip Margolin.
In Donald McInnis’s second novel, Return of the Sphynx (September 2022), a young man is arrested for the so-called Sphynx rapes when his DNA matches that of the rapist’s DNA.
But is the suspect the real Sphynx rapist?… more
.In the first novel of the series (February 2022), The Sphynx Murder Case, a young man confessed; case closed. Or is it?
Did David Caine actually confess? Did he truly rape and kill his college sweetheart?
A. J. Hawke, believes otherwise, insisting the real culprit, dubbed The Sphynx, raped and killed the young woman.
Worse yet, The Sphynx is still at large. … more
In his true-crime book, She’s So Cold: The Stephanie Crowe Murder Case — A Defense Attorney’s Inside Story, Donald E. McInnis unveils the truth behind the coerced confessions that nearly sent three innocent 14-year-old boys to prison for a crime they did not commit. … more