Legal thrillers. Political conspiracies. The high cost of truth.
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San Francisco ad executive Marcus Chen is accused of murdering his biggest client. The evidence is airtight. But Marcus swears he's been framed.
A twisting legal thriller set against the fog-draped streets of San Francisco — where truth is the most dangerous thing of all.
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Techno Thriller
When his AI assistant maps a $95M fortune, Marsh Winters thinks he's found the future of convenience — until a brutal kidnapping reveals the system has become a roadmap for his destruction.
Political Thriller
When the President's helicopter is shot down, a desperate survival mission ignites a conspiracy reaching to the highest levels of power — and the clock is running out.
Legal Thriller
A journalist. A DA. A judge who lets killers walk free. When the system is rigged, who will pay the price for truth?
Legal Thriller
Retired attorney Wilson Branson gets a call at 6:30 AM. His fourteen-year-old grandson has been arrested for murder. Everyone believes he's guilty. Everyone except Wilson.
Legal Thriller
After a self-driving car blinds elite defense attorney Evelyn Manchester, investigators call it a malfunction. She calls it attempted murder.
Political Thriller
A Sacramento civil rights attorney finds a hidden roster of activists targeted for elimination. A kill list designed to silence protest and protect power.
YA Mystery
Sixteen-year-old Jamie Rodriguez is sharp, relentless, and way out of her depth — stumbling onto a conspiracy that nobody wants solved. First in the Rodriguez Mysteries series.
Historical Novel
As politics, ambition, and power collide inside America's land-grant universities, reformers and insiders wage a quiet war that will shape generations.
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Business & Marketing
Most small businesses don't fail because they have a bad product — they fail because nobody notices them. A practical roadmap for attracting attention, generating leads, and turning advertising dollars into measurable growth.
American History
The remarkable story of America's land-grant universities — how a bold legislative vision transformed a young nation, opened higher education to millions, and built the agricultural and industrial backbone of modern America.
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The New Fillmore · San Francisco
March 12, 2026
After living in the neighborhood for more than three decades, I've learned that San Francisco has a way of encouraging reinvention. After years working as a newspaper reporter, advertising executive and television station operator, I finally began writing the novels that had been sitting on my personal "to-do" list for decades.
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The Author
A graduate of the University of Arizona School of Journalism, William Sauro's career spans newspaper reporting and editing, advertising copywriting and production, and television station construction and operation.
Now retired and living in San Francisco, he writes novels exploring systemic corruption, the pursuit of justice, and the human cost of truth.