New Valorie Dawes Thriller

(Releasing Tuesday, March 25, 2025)

The Injustice of Valor

When the cops and courts fail, The Redeemer exacts his own form of justice.

A fanatical vigilante murders freed sex offenders, but the Clayton, CT police seem uninterested in finding the perp. Then when Val’s closest friend on the force, a trans woman, suspiciously disappears, Val makes it her mission to find her.

When the bodies of freed sex offenders turn up with increasing regularity in western Connecticut, the Clayton Police Department responds with a disinterested yawn.

Second-year cop Val Dawes doesn’t share the department’s apparent indifference to the trend of vigilante justice. But her warnings fall on deaf ears, especially after her jealous rivals in the department get her suspended on a bogus assault charge.

Then her best friend in the department, a trans woman named Shelby, goes missing under suspicious circumstances.

Can Val find her friend before she, too, falls victim to a deranged vigilante?

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“Gary Corbin should be considered the John Grisham of the PNW!”
– Amazon reviewer D. McCall

More Novels by Gary Corbin

In the tradition of Philip Margolin, Scott Turow, David Baldacci, Lisa Scottoline and Michael Connelly, mystery author Gary Corbin’s thrillers feature complex, realistic characters, revealing their inner struggles as they strive to achieve their own unique concepts of justice.

The Valorie Dawes Thrillers


Character-Driven Police Procedural Mysteries

Valorie Dawes is a woman on a mission.

Lying Injustice Thrillers

A man serves on the jury of a murder trial for the crime that he committed.

The Mountain Man Mysteries

Mountain Man Lehigh Carter fears only two things: dogs and women.


About Gary Corbin

Author and Playwright Gary Corbin
Photo credit: Renee Faddis

Gary Corbin is a writer, editor, playwright, and actor in Camas, WA, a suburb of Portland, OR. Lying in Judgment, his Amazon.com best-selling legal thriller, was released in early 2016. Lying in Judgment was selected as Bookworks.com “Book of the Week” for July 11-18, 2016 and is one of six novels worldwide featured in the Literary Lightbox “Indie Spotlight” for Autumn/Winter 2016-17.

Gary is a member of PDX Playwrights, the Willamette Writers Group, the Northwest Independent Editors Guild, the Portland Area Theater Alliance, and the Writing Dojo Writers Workshop, and participates in workshops and conferences in the Portland, Oregon area.

A homebrewer as well as a maker of wine, mead, cider, and soft drinks, and an avid home roaster of fresh coffee, Gary is a member of the Oregon Brew Crew and a BJCP National Beer Judge. He loves to ski, cook, and garden, and someday hopes to train his dogs to obey. And when that doesn’t work, he escapes to the Oregon coast with his sweetheart.