J.W. Judge

I am a lawyer by day and a writer in the early morning hours before the sun breaks the horizon. My fiction is fueled by bizarre dreams and an overactive imagination.

In my sixth novel, A Good Way to Wind Up Dead (coming 6/10/25), two very different worlds converge when a true-crime podcaster goes to rural Alabama to investigate the disappearance of a young woman and unknowingly befriends a hitman who has just killed her father and is at the outset of navigating taking control of the family business and fending off the people who want her dead.

My fifth novel, Watch Party, is a contemporary murder-mystery/suspense novel that is a mash-up between Cast Away and Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None.

I have written four fantasy novels: The Za

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