Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Defending Innocence | 2021 | Peter Kirkland | Buy |
| 2 | Influencing Justice | 2022 | Peter Kirkland | Buy |
| 3 | Interpreting Guilt | 2023 | Peter Kirkland | Buy |
| 4 | Burning Evidence | 2023 | Peter Kirkland | Buy |
| 5 | Prescribing Doubt | 2024 | Peter Kirkland | Buy |
| 6 | Twisting Judgment | 2025 | Peter Kirkland | Buy |
The Small Town Lawyer series by Peter Kirkland is a six-book legal thriller series that began in 2021 with Defending Innocence. Set in a small American town, the series follows a lawyer whose cases are shaped as much by community dynamics as by the law itself. In a place where the defendant might be your neighbor and the jury pool is people you see at the grocery store, every case gets personal.
The books should be read in publication order since characters and relationships carry over between entries. Kirkland launched this series before his other two legal thriller series, the Maggie Gallagher Legal Thriller and the Spencer Dunn Legal Thrillers, making it the best starting point for readers new to his work.