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Muddle Law
Paperback
Publisher: Shane P Miller
Published: May 24 2026
Pages: 580
Weight: 1.46
Height: 1.17 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
In Cedar Spur, a loud fool is the easiest man to blame.
When Luther Bragg, a hard-nosed lender with too many enemies and too much paper, turns up dead, the town quickly points at Doyle Cafferty. Doyle threatened Bragg, lied about where he had been, and owned the tire iron tied to the killing. To most of Cedar Spur, that is enough.
But attorney Tobin Harrow has made a career out of being underestimated. Mocked as Muddle Law, Tobin sees what everyone else wants to ignore: the case against Doyle is ugly, but not complete. With the help of disciplined records clerk Sable Devereaux, he follows courthouse filings, notary trouble, land pressure, missing tools, altered tow logs, and a development deal called Hollow Trace.
The deeper Tobin digs, the more the murder looks like one piece of a larger scheme built on fear, paper, and respectable men with clean hands. As the town laughs, gossips, and takes sides, Tobin and Sable must hold the line between truth, procedure, and a dangerous attraction neither can safely pretend away.
Muddle Law is a sharp small-town legal mystery with dry humor, courtroom pressure, crooked paperwork, and the hard lesson that truth does not shout. It files.
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