4 Books Published by Windmill Books on AALBC — Book Cover Collage

This book mixes the rhythm of a drum beat with evocative words to create an unforgettable reading experience. Vibrant illustrations show people and wild animals playing music and dancing to the beat. This book is perfect for developing readers or for parents to read aloud to their younger children, who are encouraged to clap, stomp, and feel the drum in their heart. A celebration of music, this book brings the beat of a drum to life.

Sleepless Nights abounds with despicable and loveable characters. Trial attorney Drew Smith a solo practitioner takes on shady clients solving cases fraught with danger and romantic intrigue. The urban legal wizard frolicks with an exotic dancer succumbing to a midlife crisis. Haunted by foreshadowing nightmares an awakening reveals an empty life but Smith finds solace with therapist Zöe Settles. In an already complicated life Smith is pressed into service when a vicious robbery leaves three dead and the city enraged. Drew Smith and his devoted sidekick Julio Mejia work to free his young client on the trail of a crazed gunman responsible for a growing body count. In the end, the gunman and the dancer combine forces to bring Smith down. When death comes knocking Drew Smith faces the fight of his life.

In this prequel to the Drew Smith Series Norwood Holland takes us back to the beginning when Drew Smith launches his legal career. Before the ink is dry on his license Smith finds himself at the center of a murder mystery. The recent law school graduate works as a hotel concierge and befriends two bellmen Medhat and Julio. This eclectic trio form a solid fraternal friendship put to the test when Medhat is kidnapped after running up a drug tab he can’t pay. Rescued by his crew he then becomes the prime suspect in a string of murders. Driven by their romantic entanglements the attorney is captivated with a pretty Latina whose father objects to her dating a Black man. Julio and his Filipina love find themselves expecting, and Medhat

In the third installment of Drew Smith Series, the attorney works to free an innocent man detained in a murder investigation of Smith’s law school classmate. He enlist the help of friend Edward Miller and TV news reporter Stephanie Gilchrist and finds himself ensnared in a love triangle while wrestling the demons of his post-traumatic stress disorder episodes. The investigation leads into the Chinese underworld of human smuggling and endangers his investigation team. Drew Smith races against time in a life threatening chain of events to save them.