Renegade

“Allen’s heat-drenched Ozark courtrooms, her heroine stifled both literally and metaphorically by the circumstances surrounding her, are rendered hotter than hell by her talent for crafting a truly disturbing young villain.”–Alex Marwood, author of The Wicked Girls, on A Killing at the Creek“Keeps you glued to the page from start to finish, and that’s a very rare thing.” –JAMES PATTERSON, #1 New York Times bestselling author“Unflinching and gritty.”–Library Journal on The Wages of Sin“What a terrific book–strong, tough, smart and powerful.”–Hank Phillippi Ryan, Agatha Award-winning author of The Wrong Girl, on The Code of the Hills

Nancy Allen is the author of the Ozarks Mystery Series, published by HarperCollins/Witness Impulse. She has the background required to tell the tales because she practiced law for fifteen years as Assistant Missouri Attorney General and Assistant Prosecutor in her native Ozarks. She’s tried over thirty jury cases, including murder and sexual offenses, and was a law professor at Missouri State University.