Jorma-Veikko Sappinen Book order (chronological)

Trumble, a minimum security federal prison, is home to the usual assortment of relatively harmless criminals - and three former judges who call themselves The Brethren. They meet each day, handle cases for other inmates, practice law without a licence. Their mail scam is really beginning to work, and the money is pouring in. Then their little scan goes awry. It ensnares the wrong victim, a powerful man on the outside

Ray Atlee and his brother, Forrest, receive a letter from their father, a reclusive, retired judge, instructing them to return home to Clanton, Mississippi, to discuss his estate, but the judge dies before his sons arrive, leaving behind a secret known only to Ray.