Forthcoming — June 21, 2026
Contempt
A Civic Noir Novel
LeRenyae Watkins
Baltimore, 2006. Defense attorney Shawn Davidson inherits his dead father’s murder trial and discovers the case was never built to find the truth. It was built to protect the people who own it.
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Forthcoming — 2026
Contempt
Legal Thriller / Civic Noir
“A deputy mayor is dead. An eighteen-year-old sits in county because his prints were on a gun that went missing weeks before the murder. And the only lawyer willing to take the case inherited it from his father who died before the trial began.”
Baltimore, 2006. A deputy mayor is dead. An eighteen-year-old sits in county because his fingerprints were on a gun that vanished from his family’s restaurant weeks before the killing. Old prints. New blame.
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