Landis Wade

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It's modern day in the New South City of Charlotte, North Carolina, when three retirees at the Independence Retirement Community, a/k/a The Indie, team up to investigate two mysteries related to the death of a 96-year-old resident. Why was his manuscript about the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence missing when they found his body? And why did his handwritten will dated the day he died disinherit his beloved granddaughter (his only heir), and leave his $50 million fortune to Sue Ellen Parker, the most despised resident at the Indie? At the urging of Chuck Yeager Alexander, an optimistic soul who loves historical conspiracies, and Harriet Keaton, a former businesswoman with an extreme dislike of Sue Ellen Parker, Craig Travail, a trial lawyer recently ousted from his law firm after 40 years, reluctantly goes to court to challenge the dead man's will for the granddaughter. This decision sets in motion a series of dangerous events that could lead the threesome to discover the answer to a colonial mystery that has evaded historians for more than two centuries.

Winner of the 2018 Holiday category of the National Indie Excellence Awards and Honorable Mention in the 2018 Holiday category in the Readers' Favorite Awards, this book completes the Christmas Courtroom Trilogy, revealing secrets about the North Pole kept from attorney Thad Raker, a man who, for reasons made clear in the first two books, now believes in Santa Claus. When Raker is hired to defend the toy company that made the most popular Christmas present in 50 years-the Reindeer Hoverboard-he becomes entangled in the greatest threat to Christmas yet. And he learns that the survival of Santa's North Pole village is at risk. Standing in Raker's way are a large class of angry plaintiffs, an unbelieving judge, the FBI, several North Pole conspirators and Hank Snow, Raker's nemesis from his previous Christmas trials. Raker needs all the help he can get in this, his toughest case ever, but Snow is the guardian of many secrets and has his own plans for the future of Christmas.

Twirly Masters is an affable man who talks in circles and who believes that evil forces within Santa's operation are up to no good in taking his property. He calls on Thad Raker to handle his case, as much to help Raker as to save his house, because life's misfortunes have caused now widowed and single dad Raker to become a non-believer, a fact Twirly intends to change. When the county goes to court to take his new client's property, Raker must battle conspiring adversaries, a cantankerous judge, a formidable female lawyer he cares for, and his own personal feelings and doubts. Can Raker save Christmas once more, and in the process, save himself?

Small town lawyer Thad Raker must win a case or Santa won't come to town, but he doesn't believe in Santa Claus or know the stakes when he takes the case for a homeless man who says he works for Santa. Henry Edmonds is on trial for stealing a flash drive which holds the key to Christmas coming. Several people claim ownership of the flash drive and want Edmonds in jail, including an elfish looking man who says he works for an international toy company. Witness by witness the facts come out but who is to be believed and are there any True Believers? And what's so important about the flash drive to the fate of Christmas? A local newspaper reporter stirs things up by blogging about what he calls the "Trial of the Century" and tweets that the "Court's Ruling Could Halt Christmas for Thousands." Can an irascible judge looking toward retirement find it within himself to save Christmas? With The Christmas Heist, A Courtroom Adventure, Landis Wade has written a Christmas fable for the 21st Century, one that reminds all readers of why they were (or are) True Believers.