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Teresa Burrell is an American attorney, advocate and award-winning author of mystery and legal thrillers.

Best known for writing the award-winning Advocate Series, she has also penned non-fiction and children’s books.

Born in Minnesota, Teresa acquired her teaching certification before embarking on a fulfilling journey in the education field, where she taught children with different backgrounds and special needs.

Upon teaching for twelve years, she acquired her Juris Doctorate degree from the University of San Diego, prior to entering private practice where she focused on domestic, criminal, and civil cases.

Passionate about helping children, Teresa has been feted with numerous awards and recognitions for her pro bono work with children and their loved ones.

Now a semi-retirement attorney, she currently resides in California, where she writes novels inspired by real legal cases.

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Genres: Children's Book, Legal Thriller, Mystery, Non-fiction, Suspense, Thriller

United States

Website: https://teresaburrell.com/

Advocate

  1. The Advocate (2009)
  2. The Advocate's Betrayal (2010)
  3. The Advocate's Conviction (2011)
  4. The Advocate's Dilemma (2012)
  5. The Advocate's ExParte (2013)
  6. The Advocate's Felony (2014)
  7. The Advocate's Geocache (2015)
  8. The Advocate's Homicides (2016)
  9. The Advocate's Illusion (2018)
  10. The Advocate's Justice (2019)
  11. The Advocate's Killer (2020)
  12. The Advocate's Labyrinth (2020)
  13. The Advocate's Memory (2022)
  14. The Advocate's Nightmare (2023)

Conner & Hitch (Co-authored with L J Sellers)

  1. No Consent (2021)

Gaspar

  1. Gaspar, The Flatulating Ghost (2014)
  2. Gaspar, The Flatulating Ghost Meets a Bully (2015)
  3. Gaspar, the Flatulating Ghost, Flies a Kite (2017)

Non-fiction

  1. $0 to Six-Figures: A Writer's Guide to Financial Success (2018)

Tuper Mystery

  1. Mason's Missing (2017)
  2. Finding Frankie (2019)
  3. Recovering Rita (2021)
Conner & Hitch (Co-authored with L J Sellers)

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Advocate

The Advocate

For Sabre Orin Brown, life is good; she has it all...or would have, if only she could solve the mysterious disappearance of her brother. The search for her brother and her career as a Juvenile Court Attorney collide when she defends a nine-year-old whose father will go to any length to obtain custody. Sabre finds herself immersed in a case with too many unanswered questions. Her quest for the truth takes her coast to coast and five years into the past. 

Confronted with mysterious clues and strange occurrences, Sabre is threatened by someone wanting to make her suffer the unbearable anguish of losing everything--including her life. As Sabre's passion to find the answers intensifies, she discovers a twisted history of desperation, deceit, and revenge. And she discovers how obscure and treacherous the truth can be.

Author: Teresa Burrell
First Release: 2009
ISBN: 978-1938680038
Publisher: Silent Thunder Publishing
The Advocate's Betrayal

The Killer left nothing behind but a rosary, a kitchen knife, and a dead man. but the dead man is a friend of Sabre Orin Brown. When his unsuspecting wife is accused of the murder, Sabre will stop at nothing to uncover the truth, even if it means unearthing chilling secrets.

From a San Diego jail to the shady Chicago nightlife, Sabre's search for the true killer forces her to face the question: What do you do when the ones you trust the most are the ones with the most to hide?

Author: Teresa Burrell
First Release: 2010
ISBN: 978-1938680045
Publisher: Silent Thunder Publishing
The Advocate's Conviction

Sabre Orin Brown's clients keep disappearing. With seemingly no connection between the cases, Sabre enlists the help of her southern PI friend, JP, and her best friend, Bob, to find each of them--before it's too late. In her race against the clock, Sabre must uncover the contemporary horrors that are being buried in the shadow of dark traditions. A conspiracy years in the making, secrets hidden for decades, and the twisted work of a mysterious society have all come together in the ultimate test of the strength of Sabre's conviction.

Author: Teresa Burrell
First Release: 2011
ISBN: 978-1938680052
Publisher: Silent Thunder Publishing
The Advocate's Dilemma

Attorney Sabre Brown’s day is going well until she walks into her office and finds a dead man sprawled across her desk. When, Bob, her best friend and colleague is suspected of the murder, and Sabre’s minor client has information that might clear him, Sabre has a dilemma.How does she help her best friend without betraying the confidence of the child she is sworn to protect?

Author: Teresa Burrell
First Release: 2012
ISBN: 978-1938680069
Publisher: Silent Thunder Publishing
The Advocate's ExParte

Attorney Sabre Brown is summoned into Judge Lawrence Mitchell chambers for an ex parte hearing. When the judge attempts to discuss one of her cases, she refuses to listen without proper counsel present.

Later that evening, Judge Mitchell is murdered.

Sabre’s shock at his death is only surpassed by an attempt on the life of Dr. Carolina Heller, a psychologist she employs on a regular basis. Sabre now fears for her own life.

Sabre enlists her private eye JP, and they begin to comb and scrutinize her cases, searching for connections between the two crimes. But Sabre’s life is in danger from someone much closer to her.

Sabre and JP’s roads diverge. While JP infiltrates a twisted world of greed and corruption, Sabre is caught up in a domestic crisis fueled by obsession. As each is forced to fight their own battles, the question soon becomes, can they find a way to save one another?

Author: Teresa Burrell
First Release: 2013
ISBN: 978-1938680083
Publisher: Silent Thunder Publishing
The Advocate's Felony

When Attorney Sabre Brown’s phone rings at 2 a.m. she’s shocked to hear from her brother, Ron, who has been in Witness Protection for the past seven years. Someone has discovered his whereabouts and is trying to kill him—and possibly Sabre as well.

Sabre and her private investigator, JP, leave sunny San Diego to find her brother who has gone underground. Based on a single clue, they begin their search in the cold, wintry Pacific Northwest. They soon discover that the six felons whom Ron testified against have been released from prison. One by one, they are being murdered.

Sabre and JP race to find Ron and stop the next bullet. As the clues unfold, they’re unsure if someone is trying to kill Ron or protect him. Or is Ron the killer? Could Sabre's beloved brother have changed during his long absence and is he now seeking vengeance? Sabre risks her relationships, her career, and her life to seek the undeniable truth. Is Sabre’s love for her brother overriding her sound judgment and if so, is there a final bullet with Sabre’s name on it?

Author: Teresa Burrell
First Release: 2014
ISBN: 978-1938680106
Publisher: Silent Thunder Publishing
The Advocate's Geocache

Attorney Sabre Brown is having a great time geocaching, the Internet’s version of a treasure hunt. The fun ceases when she “caches” a container with an official death certificate citing “Murder by Poison” as the cause of death. 

Even more disturbing is that the date of death is ten days in the future. Sabre is forced to search cache after cache, each revealing more clues, until they take an unexpected twist and shockingly point to one of her court cases. 

Is the murderer a rejected child, a well-known plastic surgeon, a scorned ex, a crooked lab technician, or a politician in line for the highest office in the land? Or is someone playing Sabre in an ugly geocache of life and death?

Author: Teresa Burrell
First Release: 2015
ISBN: 978-1938680168
Publisher: Silent Thunder Publishing
The Advocate's Homicides

Attorney Sabre O. Brown is called upon to defend an abused fourteen-year-old boy of murder after a body is discovered in a shallow grave with the word GOOF scrawled across his forehead. Years later when more bodies are unearthed baring the same GOOF signature, two more abused juveniles are accused of the gruesome slayings. 

In order to convince a jury of her client's innocence, Sabre must either find a copycat killer; prove the murderer was a trusted friend of the three boys; or realize her worst fear—that her teenage clients carried out their own brand of vigilante justice to the men who abused them.

Author: Teresa Burrell
First Release: 2016
ISBN: 978-1938680212
Publisher: Silent Thunder Publishing
The Advocate's Illusion

Attorney Sabre O. Brown takes on three disconcerting new cases, each with its own illusion: a woman claiming she's been impregnated by a ghost, a threatening parent prone to violence, and a child bride with a heart-breaking First Amendment issue. At the same time, Sabre tries to protect her mother who is dating a suspicious widower she met on online. In Sabre’s search for justice, she is found near death after a magician’s illusion deviously goes wrong.

Author: Teresa Burrell
First Release: 2018
ISBN: 978-1938680267
Publisher: Silent Thunder Publishing
The Advocate's Justice

Attorney Sabre Brown is charged with saving Conner, a fifteen-year-old who’s accused of murdering his grandma's abusive boyfriend. All eyewitness accounts and forensic evidence point directly to the boy. To make matters worse, this time it's personal. Conner is the nephew of JP Torn, Sabre's boyfriend. 

Undaunted, Sabre and JP investigate, turning up sordid details and a long list of suspects. Soon, tempers flare, confidences are broken, and secrets of the past surface as they try to untangle the web of lies created by JP's family.

Author: Teresa Burrell
First Release: 2019
ISBN: 978-1938680304
Publisher: Silent Thunder Publishing
The Advocate's Killer

Attorney Sabre O. Brown receives a text with an image of a dead man, a social worker she recently opposed in juvenile court. Did he fall, or was he pushed? As she and JP, her private investigator, search court cases for the suspected killer, the texts become more frightening and personal. 

Soon packages with dire warnings threaten Sabre and her loved ones. Their frantic search uncovers disturbing revelations, putting Sabre in the crosshairs of a clock-ticking threat. With her life on the line, will she discover the stalker in time—or become a victim of the Advocate's Killer?

Author: Teresa Burrell
First Release: 2020
ISBN: 978-1938680335
Publisher: Silent Thunder Publishing
The Advocate's Labyrinth

When Attorney Sabre Brown’s eccentric Aunt Goldie dies, leaving a series of cryptic notes, Sabre launches the most intriguing and frustrating investigation of her life. While sorting through the piles of junk her hoarder aunt left behind, Sabre must keep Goldie’s greedy, dysfunctional children at bay. But she also discovers unexpected treasures, family secrets, and her aunt’s suspicions that someone was trying to kill her.

But soon Sabre is torn in another direction when she takes a case involving four children whose brother was murdered in their home, and no evidence of who killed him.

When her PI boyfriend and good-natured brother step in to help, they also get caught up in the labyrinth of clutter, deceit, and attempted murder. Sabre must hold everything together long enough to bring a killer to justice, protect the child’s siblings, and carry out her aunt’s bizarre last wishes.

Author: Teresa Burrell
First Release: 2020
ISBN: 978-1938680342
Publisher: Silent Thunder Publishing
The Advocate's Memory

Attorney Sabre Brown runs from a horrific assault and loses her memory of it with every step. When a dead man turns up in the same area, Sabre blames herself. Did she witness the murder? Or worse--did she kill him?

Before Sabre and her private investigator, JP, can solve that mystery, a minor client, Angela, disappears near the murder scene. Sabre must find her. But as Sabre’s memory slowly returns, she realizes the killer may be coming for her next. Can she and JP find Angela in time to save them both?

Author: Teresa Burrell
First Release: 2022
ISBN: 978-1938680359
Publisher: Silent Thunder Publishing
The Advocate's Nightmare

Attorney Sabre Brown has dealt with her share of predators over the years as a child advocate, but the defendant in her latest case is the worst—targeting vulnerable women and their young daughters for decades. When the predator is abruptly murdered, Sabre’s investigator reluctantly takes the case, but with so many victims, who are now suspects, JP struggles to make progress.

Meanwhile, Sabre’s brother gets tangled in a paternity/custody case, and she has to defend him in court—her worst nightmare. The stunning truth for both cases is buried in the past. Can they dig it up and nail the killer before innocent men are framed for crimes they didn’t commit?

Author: Teresa Burrell
First Release: 2023
ISBN: 978-1938680441
Publisher: Silent Thunder Publishing

Conner & Hitch (Co-authored with L J Sellers)

No Consent

A stressed-out prosecutor needs help from a charming ex-con. What could possibly go wrong?

District Attorney Clara Hitchens faces two major battles—exposing a corrupt DA, who might be her boss, while handling a high-profile trial with a victim who isn’t sympathetic. When Hitch runs into Nate Conner, he’s the last person she would expect support from.

Newly released from jail, Conner has his own problems. A thug is pressuring him for money, and his little sister Kaylee is missing. Determined to go straight, Conner decides that Hitch is the one person he can trust with his suspicions.

They develop a plan, but everything goes sideways.

The snitch who testified against Conner turns up dead, and all the evidence points to him. Then another key player is murdered, and Kaylee goes deeper into hiding, On top of all that, Hitch’s trial gets derailed when the victim’s OnlyFans videos are revealed in court—a devastating blow.

Can Conner and Hitch beat the odds to bring down the corrupt prosecutor, win the trial, and find Kaylee in time to save her?

Author: Teresa Burrell
First Release: 2021
ISBN: 978-1938680403
Publisher: Silent Thunder Publishing

Gaspar

Gaspar, The Flatulating Ghost

Gaspar is a lonely, little ghost who is lactose intolerant and his favorite thing in the whole world is ice cream. The other ghosts tease him and call him names. Gaspar lives in a vacant house. When the house is sold and Mr. and Mrs. Stone move in, with their two young boys, he is thrilled to have a new family, until he discovers no one can see him. After several attempts to get their attention, he finally gives up and goes to bed only to discover that sometimes wishes come true.

Author: Teresa Burrell
First Release: 2014
ISBN: 978-1938680120
Publisher: Silent Thunder Publishing
Gaspar, The Flatulating Ghost Meets a Bully

Gaspar, the lactose intolerant ghost, goes to school with his new friend, Hayden, and CJ, Hayden's big brother. When CJ is picked on by a bully, he doesn’t tell for fear of being known as a “tattler.” Hayden tells their mother that CJ is being bullied, and she reports it to the principal. But when the bullying still doesn’t stop, Gaspar finds an imaginative way to help CJ.

Author: Teresa Burrell
First Release: 2015
ISBN: 978-1938680182
Publisher: Silent Thunder Publishing
Gaspar, the Flatulating Ghost, Flies a Kite

Gaspar, the lactose-intolerant ghost, goes to the park with his friend Hayden to fly kites. They see a sad, young girl named Amelia, who can't get her kite airborne. After several failed attempts by Hayden to help her, Gaspar, with the aid of some cheese sticks, devises a clever way to lift up and sail the kite through the air.

Author: Teresa Burrell
First Release: 2017
ISBN: 978-1938680250
Publisher: Silent Thunder Publishing

Non-fiction

$0 to Six-Figures: A Writer's Guide to Financial Success

Yes. You can make a living as a writer!

I've made hundreds of thousands of dollars selling my books on Amazon.com and so can you! $0 to Six Figures contains the inside secrets to reach a $100,000 yearly income. My simple, step-by-step method of marketing, which I have used successfully for years, will sell your books, build your following, and catapult you into the list of the most financially successful writers.

Why wait? It's time you literally write your own $ ticket to success.

Author: Teresa Burrell
First Release: 2018
ISBN: 978-1938680274
Publisher: Silent Thunder Publishing

Tuper Mystery

Mason's Missing

Tuper is helping find five-year-old Mason, who was presumably taken by his father, but when Mason's father is found unconscious, Mason has disappeared again. In an impossible search during a bitterly cold Montana blizzard, old cowboy Tuper and his hacker friend Lana's quest blurs into one of insanity and murder. As wounded Tuper fights to stay alive in the bitter cold, Lana searches cyberspace and finds someone is working hard to ensure certain secrets remain secret--especially Mason's true identity.

Author: Teresa Burrell
First Release: 2017
ISBN: 978-1938680236
Publisher: Silent Thunder Publishing
Finding Frankie

A hit-and-run driver leaves Tuper’s best friend for dead. But why? And how did Squirrely, a homeless man, acquire a duffle bag stuffed with thousands in cash, a pistol, and a 25-year-old newspaper? As Squirrely lies in a coma, Tuper’s techie sidekick, Lana, uncovers fifty-year-old secrets about his connection to the death of a high school classmate. The cold case pops to the front burner when a second classmate dies in the same manner. 

A Senator, his barren wife, and a long-ago illegal adoption heat up the complications. As Tuper and Lana dig deeper, lies, fraud, and blackmail bubble to the surface. When they get too close, the killer panics and tries to take them out too. The case reaches a boiling point—just as Tuper unties a fifty-year-old twist and the cold truth finally puts the fire out.

Author: Teresa Burrell
First Release: 2019
ISBN: 978-1938680328
Publisher: Silent Thunder Publishing
Recovering Rita

When a young girl goes missing from a Hutterite colony, the case is personal for Tuper. So his tech-loving sidekick, Lana, volunteers to go undercover in the isolated community and dig for the truth. She quickly learns that Rita has a love interest on the outside, but as they start to think she eloped, another Hutterite girl disappears.

As Tuper seeks help from old friends, Lana hacks into their suspects’ backgrounds, but their leads hit a dead-end. Worried sick, Lana goes deep online into the dark web—where she discovers a disturbing chat room with a conversation about sex trafficking. 

Out of leads, Lana makes the ultimate sacrifice and sets herself up as bait. But their plan goes sideways, and her life is soon on the line. Can Tuper find the captive women in time to save them?

Author: Teresa Burrell
First Release: 2021
ISBN: 978-1938680373
Publisher: Silent Thunder Publishing