Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Professor | 2014 | Robert Bailey | Buy |
| 2 | Between Black and White | 2016 | Robert Bailey | Buy |
| 3 | The Last Trial | 2018 | Robert Bailey | Buy |
| 4 | The Final Reckoning | 2019 | Robert Bailey | Buy |
The McMurtrie and Drake series launched Robert Bailey’s fiction career with The Professor in 2014. Tom McMurtrie is a law professor who gets drawn into active legal battles alongside his former student Rick Drake. The mentor-protege dynamic gives the series an added layer beyond the standard courtroom thriller, as the two men bring different experience levels and perspectives to their cases.
Four books published between 2014 and 2019 follow the pair through increasingly high-stakes cases. Between Black and White, The Last Trial, and The Final Reckoning build on the relationship established in the first book while delivering the courtroom confrontations and legal strategy that genre readers expect. Bailey’s own legal practice gives the procedural elements a credibility that readers of the genre appreciate.