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Mark Gimenez is an American lawyer and author of mystery and thriller novels.

He is best known for writing the legal thriller series John Bookman, as well as the Scott Fenney Series.

Raised in Galveston County, Texas, Gimenez received his B.A. in Political Science with honors from Southwest Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas, before attending Notre Dame Law School in Indiana where he earned a J.D. degree magna cum laude.

He then went on to practice law with a huge Dallas law firm, where he even became a partner.

Gimenez however left after a decade in order to practice solo whilst pursuing his dream of becoming an author.

He made his debut as a novelist in 2005 with The Color of Law, the first book in the Scott Fenney Series, which was a New York Times bestseller.

Gimenez, who has also co-authored a children's book Parts & Labor (2011), currently lives in Texas with his wife and children.

More about Mark Gimenez

Genres: Mystery, Thriller

United States

Website: https://www.markgimenez.com/

Non Series

  • The Case Against William (2014)
  • The Abduction (2007)
  • The Perk (2008)
  • The Common Lawyer (2009)
  • The Governor's Wife (2012)

Omnibus Books

  1. Colour of Law / The Abduction (2010)
  2. Mark Gimenez Boxed 1 (2019)
  3. Mark Gimenez Boxed 2 (2019)
  4. Professor John Bookman Collection (2019)

Adventures of Max Dugan

  1. Parts & Labor (2011)

John Bookman

  1. Con Law (2013)
  2. End of Days (2017)

Scott Fenney

  1. The Color of Law (2005)
  2. Accused (2010)
  3. The Absence of Guilt (2017)
  4. Tribes (2020)
Adventures of Max Dugan

Detailed book overview

Non Series

The Case Against William

Criminal defense lawyers must make their peace with one harsh fact of life: most of their clients are guilty.

Yet when William Tucker, a celebrated and self-centered star college football player, is suddenly arrested and charged with the brutal rape and murder of a college coed two years before, his broken-down, drunken estranged father Frank can't believe he's guilty. What father could?

But Frank is also an ex-criminal defence lawyer.

Now Frank must find a way to sober up and save his son from the death penalty sought by an ambitious district attorney.

Can a father's love for his accused son save him from death?

Author: Mark Gimenez
First Release: 2014
ISBN: 978-0751567274
Publisher: Sphere
The Abduction

Former Green Beret Colonel Ben Brice drowns memories of Vietnam in oceans of Jim Beam. The war took everything from Ben—his wife, his son, his dreams—and now it threatens to take his ten-year-old granddaughter, Gracie, when she's abducted after a soccer game. Ben can't let that happen. He puts down the bottle and goes in search of Gracie—and discovers dark family secrets and meaning to his life.

NB: This book is also known as Saving Grace.

Author: Mark Gimenez
First Release: 2007
ISBN: 978-0751551112
Publisher: Sphere
The Perk

Beck Hardin returns to his Texas hometown - and his estranged father - after the death of his wife leaves him with two children to raise. The town is still reeling from the murder of sixteen-year-old Heidi, whose father - Beck's old college friend - asks Beck to help him find Heidi's killer before the statute of limitations runs out. 

Meanwhile, Beck is pushed into becoming town Judge, and he makes some powerful enemies amongst the rich white landowners when he refuses to condone their treatment of the Mexican workers of the town. As events escalate, the landowners carefully plot their revenge...

Author: Mark Gimenez
First Release: 2008
ISBN: 978-0751551129
Publisher: Sphere
The Common Lawyer

A mother in New York sneaks her young daughter out of a research hospital. A billionaire philanthropist in Texas fights to save his dying son at all costs. A young traffic-ticket lawyer in Austin named Andy Prescott runs his legal empire out of a tiny office above a tattoo parlor and dreams of being a rich lawyer. 

Five lives on separate paths—until Andy defends the billionaire's secretary against a speeding ticket. Their lives become fatefully intertwined, destined to intersect—in death. And Andy Prescott learns that a client can be too rich for his lawyer’s own good.

Author: Mark Gimenez
First Release: 2009
ISBN: 978-0751541304
Publisher: Sphere
The Governor's Wife

A Texas governor wants to be president. His wife wants to escape his suffocating ambition. A Mexican drug lord wants him dead. When the drug lord abducts the governor's wife while she is working secretly as a nurse in a colonia on the border, Governor Bode Bonner must choose between his wife and the White House, between his life and hers.

Author: Mark Gimenez
First Release: 2012
ISBN: 978-0751543766
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group

Omnibus Books

Colour of Law / The Abduction

The Color of Law

A partner at a prominent law firm is forced to choose between his enviable lifestyle and doing the right thing.

A. Scott Fenney is a hotshot corporate lawyer at a big Dallas firm. At 33, in the prime of his life, he rakes in $750,000 a year, drives a Ferrari and comes home every night to a mansion in Dallas's most exclusive neighborhood. He also comes home to one of Dallas's most beautiful women, with whom he has a much-loved daughter, Boo. For Fenney, life could not be better.

But when a senator's son is killed in a hit-and-run, Fenney is asked by the state judge to put his air-conditioned lifestyle on hold to defend the accused: a black, heroin-addicted prostitute - a very different client to the people Fenney usually represents. And, more importantly, she is not going be paying Ford Stevens $350 an hour for the privilege of his services.

Under fire from all sides, Fenney drafts in a public defender to take the case on. Yet as Scott prepares to hand over to Bobby, he feels increasingly guilty about the path he is taking, because Scott still believes in the principle of justice.

The question is: does he believe in it strongly enough to jeopardize everything in his life he holds dear? And to what lengths is the dead man's power-hungry father prepared to go to test Fenney's resolve?

The Abduction

Former Green Beret Colonel Ben Brice drowns memories of Vietnam in oceans of Jim Beam. The war took everything from Ben—his wife, his son, his dreams—and now it threatens to take his ten-year-old granddaughter, Gracie, when she's abducted after a soccer game. Ben can't let that happen. He puts down the bottle and goes in search of Gracie—and discovers dark family secrets and meaning to his life.

Author: Mark Gimenez
First Release: 2010
ISBN: 978-0751544121
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
Mark Gimenez Boxed 1

Mark Gimenez Boxed Set 1 is made up of the novels: The Abduction, Accused, The Absence of Guilt, The Case Against William, and The Perk. And a bonus for the kids: Parts & Labor: The Adventures of Max Dugan

Author: Mark Gimenez
First Release: 2019
Ebook: B07VZX5N4M
Publisher: Navarchus Press
Mark Gimenez Boxed 2

Mark Gimenez Boxed Set 2: The Common Lawyer, The Governor's Wife, Con Law, End of Days (Con Law II), and The Perk. And a bonus for the kids: Parts & Labor: The Adventures of Max Dugan.

Author: Mark Gimenez
First Release: 2019
Ebook: B07VVMN9MB
Publisher: Navarchus Press
Professor John Bookman Collection

CON LAW

John Bookman—Book to his friends—is a tenured professor at the University of Texas School of Law in Austin. He rides a Harley and wears jeans and cowboy boots and his hair too long to suit the conservative dean. He’s thirty-five, handsome and unmarried but seldom without a female companion. He teaches karate and Con Law, law school vernacular for Constitutional Law. 

He is a recognized constitutional law expert, debates senators on political talk shows and reduces them to blithering fools, writes scathing op-eds, and is often mentioned as a possible Supreme Court nominee. He is famous for taking on lost causes and winning. Consequently, when he arrives at the law school each Monday morning, hundreds of letters await him, letters from lost causes around the country seeking his help.

END OF DAYS (Con Law II)

Fifty ATF agents raid a remote compound outside Waco, Texas, at dawn to execute search and arrest warrants. The search warrant identifies two .50-caliber Browning Machine Guns; the arrest warrant names Jesus Christ. The ATF agents don't make it to the front doors.

Ninety miles south in Austin, Professor John Bookman reads a letter from an old woman whose daughter took her two young girls to live in a religious cult six years before. Her daughter wrote that the End of Days is near. She fears they might drink the Kool-Aid. She begs Book to save her granddaughters. The cult inhabits a massive compound called the Garden of Eden outside Waco.

PARTS & LABOR: The Adventures of Max Dugan

Max Dugan, 10, is a fourth-grader battling bullies at school and his emotions at home; his father deployed to Afghanistan and did not return. His mother, Kate, a labor-and-delivery nurse, struggles to maintain the family, which also includes Scarlett, 14, and Maddy, 4. The therapist says they are not coping well. In fact, the Dugan family is a mess—until a strange boy named Norbert moves in next door and changes their lives.

Author: Mark Gimenez
First Release: 2019
Ebook: B07VY9SRGW
Publisher: Navarchus Press

Adventures of Max Dugan

Parts & Labor

Max Dugan, 10, is a fourth-grader battling bullies at school and his emotions at home; his father deployed to Afghanistan and did not return. His mother, Kate, a labor-and-delivery nurse, struggles to maintain the family, which also includes Scarlett, 14, and Maddy, 4. The therapist says they are not coping well. In fact, the Dugan family is a mess—until a strange boy named Norbert moves in next door and changes their lives in more ways than they could ever imagine.

NB: Co-authored with Cole Gimenez.

Author: Mark Gimenez
First Release: 2011
Ebook: B006FRASQ8
Publisher: Navarchus Press

John Bookman

Con Law

John Bookman—Book to his friends—is a tenured professor at the University of Texas School of Law in Austin. He rides a Harley and wears jeans and cowboy boots and his hair too long to suit the conservative dean. 

He’s thirty-five, handsome and unmarried but seldom without a female companion. He teaches karate and Con Law, law school vernacular for Constitutional Law. He is a recognized constitutional law expert, debates senators on political talk shows and reduces them to blithering fools, writes scathing op-eds, and is often mentioned as a possible Supreme Court nominee. 

He is famous for taking on lost causes and winning. Consequently, when he arrives at the law school each Monday morning, hundreds of letters await him, letters from lost causes around the country seeking his help. Some letters are funny, others are sad, most are hopeless. But every now and then, one letter captures his attention. 

Then, with only his latest law school intern in tow, Professor Bookman takes off on yet another adventure—not in search of ancient artifacts like Indiana Jones, but in search of truth and justice—"or as close thereto as the law allows." In this first installment of a new series, Book investigates a murder in the world of art and fracking in Marfa, Texas.

Author: Mark Gimenez
First Release: 2013
ISBN: 978-0751543810
Publisher: Sphere
End of Days

Fifty ATF agents raid a remote compound outside Waco, Texas, at dawn to execute search and arrest warrants. The search warrant identifies two .50-caliber Browning Machine Guns; the arrest warrant names Jesus Christ. The ATF agents don't make it to the front doors.

Ninety miles south in Austin, Professor John Bookman reads a letter from an old woman whose daughter took her two young girls to live in a religious cult six years before. Her daughter wrote that the End of Days is near. She fears they might drink the Kool-Aid. She begs Book to save her granddaughters. The cult inhabits a massive compound called the Garden of Eden outside Waco.

Book and his intern travel to the compound intent on bringing the girls out peaceably, only to find the Feds there first—and to learn that peace is not an option.

Author: Mark Gimenez
First Release: 2017
Ebook: B077SNWYKM
Publisher: Navarchus Press

Scott Fenney

The Color of Law

A partner at a prominent law firm is forced to choose between his enviable lifestyle and doing the right thing.

A. Scott Fenney is a hotshot corporate lawyer at a big Dallas firm. At 33, in the prime of his life, he rakes in $750,000 a year, drives a Ferrari and comes home every night to a mansion in Dallas's most exclusive neighborhood. He also comes home to one of Dallas's most beautiful women, with whom he has a much-loved daughter, Boo. For Fenney, life could not be better.

But when a senator's son is killed in a hit-and-run, Fenney is asked by the state judge to put his air-conditioned lifestyle on hold to defend the accused: a black, heroin-addicted prostitute - a very different client to the people Fenney usually represents. And, more importantly, she is not going be paying Ford Stevens $350 an hour for the privilege of his services.

Under fire from all sides, Fenney drafts in a public defender to take the case on. Yet as Scott prepares to hand over to Bobby, he feels increasingly guilty about the path he is taking, because Scott still believes in the principle of justice.

The question is: does he believe in it strongly enough to jeopardize everything in his life he holds dear? And to what lengths is the dead man's power-hungry father prepared to go to test Fenney's resolve?

Author: Mark Gimenez
First Release: 2005
ISBN: 978-0751551105
Publisher: Sphere
Accused

"Scott – it's Rebecca. I need you."

His wife left him for a younger man. He blames himself. He could not give her what she had needed, so another man had. Now, two years later, she needs what only he can give her: a defense to a murder charge.

In this sequel to The Color of Law, A. Scott Fenney must defend his ex-wife, Rebecca, who is accused of murdering the man she left him for. Trey Rawlins, a rising star on the pro golf tour, is found dead in his $4 million Galveston beach house with a butcher knife in his chest—and Rebecca's fingerprints are found on the murder weapon. The police refuse to investigate other suspects, so Scott must. 

The case takes Scott to Galveston, and the investigation takes him behind the scenes of the image-conscious, corporate-sponsored pro golf tour—into a world of million-dollar purses and endorsement deals, agents and caddies, groupies and WAGs. Scott digs deep into Trey Rawlins and discovers a lifestyle that cost him his life—and that now threatens Scott's.

Author: Mark Gimenez
First Release: 2010
ISBN: 978-0751542240
Publisher: Little, Brown
The Absence of Guilt

An ISIS attack on America is narrowly averted when the FBI uncovers a plot to detonate a weapon of mass destruction in Cowboys Stadium during the Super Bowl. 

A federal grand jury indicts twenty-four co-conspirators, including the most dangerous man in Dallas, Omar al Mustafa. He is a notorious and charismatic Muslim cleric known for his incendiary anti-American diatribes on YouTube and Fox News. His mosque is a veritable breeding ground for Islamic jihadists. His arrest is greeted with cheers around the world and relief at home. The plot was thwarted, the terrorists are in jail, and the Super Bowl is safe. The president goes on national television and proclaims: "We won!"

There is only one problem: there is no evidence against Mustafa. That problem falls to the presiding judge, newly appointed U.S. District Judge A. Scott Fenney. If Mustafa is innocent, Scott must set the most dangerous man in Dallas free. But does the absence of guilt mean Mustafa is innocent? And if he is innocent, who is guilty?

The Super Bowl is just three weeks away. And the game clock is ticking.

Author: Mark Gimenez
First Release: 2017
ISBN: 978-0751567328
Tribes

An FBI agent shoots and kills a black boy during a gang raid gone bad. The politically ambitious Dallas district attorney indicts the agent for manslaughter and turns the case into a cause. The agent begs Federal District Judge A. Scott Fenney to defend her, but that would require he resign his lifetime appointment to the federal bench. He can't.

But he must.

Author: Mark Gimenez
First Release: 2020
Ebook: B08DW4RMY6
Publisher: Navarchus Press