The Grimsby Series

They are not legal thrillers.
They are a legal reality – without the lies we tell ourselves.

THEREFORE THESE ARE “TRUTH BOMBS!” – courtesy of The Miserable, Childless, Cat Ladies’ Book and Gun Club of Northern California

The Grimsby series is a darkly comic, brutally honest exploration of how power actually works. Set inside courts, city halls, commissions, and the everyday machinery of governance, these novels strip away rhetoric and focus on process on how decisions are made, how responsibility disappears, and how harm persists even when every rule is followed.

Grimsby is not a hero. He doesn’t save the system or redeem it. He moves through it while usually arguing, resisting, provoking, trying to right wrongs, and by forcing institutional logic to reveal its consequences. The stories unfold episodically, like case files rather than fairy tales, capturing the cumulative damage of compliance, careerism, and quiet self‑preservation.

Sharp, very profane, absolutely unsentimental, and very often very funny, the Grimsby books refuse comfort in favor of clarity. They are written for readers who suspect that injustice doesn’t survive because the system fails but rather because it works. The Bonus Coverage in each novel exposes the various and nefarious seeds of fascism, among other things.

Welcome to Grimsby.
Nothing is broken.
That’s the problem.