A Woman of Valor

In this exciting, character-driven police procedural by acclaimed author Gary Corbin, rookie policewoman Valorie Dawes has a mission: take serial child molesters like Richard Harkins off the streets of her small hometown of Clayton, CT--for good.

Gary Corbin is a writer, editor, and playwright in Camas, WA, a suburb of Portland, OR. His latest novel, A Woman of Valor, is a character-driven police procedural, combining the prose style of literary fiction with the action of a thriller.

Lying in Judgment, his debut novel and Amazon.com best-selling legal thriller, wasselected as Bookworks.com "Book of the Week" for July 11-18, 2016, andwas the feature novel on Literary Lightbox's "Indie Spotlight" inFebruary 2017. The long-awaited sequel to Lying in Judgment, Lying in Vengeance, was released in September, 2017.

Gary's second novel, The Mountain Man's Dog, came out in June 2016. The sequel, The Mountain Man's Bride, was released in February 2017, and the third book in the series, The Mountain Man's Badge, was released in June, 2018.

All of these novels are available in hardcover, paperback, and ebook forms, and most are available as author-narrated unabridged audiobooks.

His writer's reference, Write Better Right Now: A Dozen Mistakes Good Writers Make-And How to Fix Them, is available exclusively on Kindle.

Gary's plays have enjoyed critical acclaim and have enjoyed several productions in regional and community theaters.

Gary is a member of the Willamette Writers Group, Northwest Editors Guild, 9 Bridges Writers Group, PDX Playwrights, the Portland Area TheaterAlliance, and the Bar Noir Writers Workshop, and participates inworkshops and conferences in the Portland, Oregon area.

Ahomebrewer and coffee roaster, Gary loves to ski, cook, and watch hisbeloved Red Sox and Patriots. He hopes to someday train his dogs toobey. And when that doesn't work, he escapes to the Oregon coast withhis sweetheart.