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By Michael Nava. 2001
In Michael Nava’s final Henry Rios mystery, the gay Latino lawyer faces his most daunting personal and professional challenges as…
he comes to terms with his past—and a cache of family secretsHenry Rios was dead for fifty-seven seconds when he suffered a heart attack in the courtroom. While he recovers, his sister, Elena, stays with him at the hospital, and they begin to repair their strained relationship, finally airing their thoughts and regrets about their childhood in an abusive home. But Elena has an extra surprise for Rios: Thirty years ago, when she was in college, she had a baby and gave her up for adoption. The girl, Vicky, grew up in foster homes, but now seeks out Elena for help escaping an abusive husband. Despite Elena and Rios’s efforts, Vicky returns to her husband—but not long after, he’s shot dead in a motel room and Vicky claims to have blown him away. Rios doesn’t believe her confession, though, and finds evidence that suggests she’s innocent. Rios’s search for the facts leads him into a thicket of secrets and lies. As he fights for a niece he never knew he had, he must also combat the ever-present shadow of his own mortality and the truth about his past. A possible judgeship and the beginning of a new love give him hope for the future in this stellar conclusion to the acclaimed Henry Rios series, about love, loss, and the enduring power of family. Rag and Bone is the seventh book in the Henry Rios mystery series, which begins with The Little Death and Goldenboy.By William Bernhardt. 1993
A young lawyer finds himself as a murder suspect trying to clear his name while in the midst of working…
for a crooked law firm. A tale of jealousy, justice and blood money.By John Lescroart. 2001
The call comes at midnight. It looks like a tragic and petty murder-a rising star in San Francisco's legal firm…
found shot in a dark alley. But for homicide lieutenant Abe Glitsky, the crime cuts horribly close to home--unknown to anyone, the victim was his daughter. Seething, Glitsky leans hard on his only suspect--a homeless heroin addict found lingering over his daughter's body, with her jewelry in his pocket and a smoking gun in his hand. The city's embattled, ambitious D.A., Sharron Pratt, sees an opportunity to revive her troubled administration by publicly declaring war on the killer and vowing to deliver the death penalty, putting the case on the fast track to certain conviction. Unable to watch a man die for Pratt's political gain, Dismas Hardy warily takes on the defense. But as Hardy's crusade to secure his client a fair hearing ensues, a lethal web of political corruption, legal conspiracy, and cold blooded murder begins to unravel. In a case that would send shock waves through the city of San Francisco and echo in the private lives of its citizens, the hearing is just the beginning.By William Bernhardt. 1992
Lawyer Ben Kincaid leaves the cozy corporate law world to defend criminal defendants. Then, his close friend is accused of…
murder. Ben fights a system bent on conviction, not justice, and a judge who despises Ben.By Dudley W. Buffa. 2002
Lone wolf lawyer Joseph Antonelli takes the case of a black man accused of murdering a senator in San Francisco.…
Antonelli soon finds himself in a world ruled by backroom politics and naked ambition--and learns just how much one person will risk in order to leave behind a legacy.By Richard North Patterson. 1992
A claim of attempted rape. A talepathology. These are the elements of Degree of Guilt, Richard North Patterson's stunning courtroom…
novel. Christopher Paget is a trial lawyer with a famous past: as a young investigator in Washington, he unearthed a scandal that brought ruin to a President--and an abrupt end to Paget's affair with Mary Carelli. Now, fifteen years later, they are estranged. Carelli is a well-known television journalist based in New York; Paget lives quietly in San Francisco, raising their teenage son and preserving what privacy he can. Until a charge of murder changes everything. The victim is America's most eminent novelist, Mark Ransom. The accused is Mary Carelli. Her defense is attempted rape. The man she chooses to defend her is Christopher Paget. Carelli does not deny that she killed Ransom, but a fateful question remains to be answered: Was it self-defense or was it murder? In preparation for a trial, Paget sets out to establish that Mark Ransom was the twisted man Carelli claims he was. With the help of an associate, Teresa Peralta, Paget uncovers compelling evidence that presents a complex and disturbing picture of Ransom as a sexual predator. But this evidence may not be admissible in court. And there are other unsettling surprises: a secret in Carelli's past that provides her with a powerful motive for murder; facts that suggest she has been lying; a woman prosecutor who firmly believes that Carelli is using the issue of rape to conceal murder; and an enigmatic judge who may very well have an agenda of her own. With the odds against Carelli's acquittal quickly rising, Christopher Paget is faced with a risky legal decision that leads to an explosive convergence of public trial and private conflict--a decision that threatens not only Mary Carelli's future, but his own, and their son's, as well. From first to last, Degree of Guilt holds us galvanized by its masterful storytelling, its complexity of motive and feeling, its vivid depiction of men and women under pressure, and its brilliant delineation of even the most subtle courtroom dynamics. It is an electrifying story of a search for legal and emotional truth. It is the ultimate courtroom drama.By Margaret Maron. 1996
By Michael Biehl. 2002
A mystery novel in the Karen Hayes series previously published in hardcover by Bridgeworks, now in paperback. Karen Hayes is…
a smart and courageous hospital attorney. In this novel a medical device fails and the patient dies on the operating table. Was it an accident, or murder? Hayes must find out: her job and her life depend on it.By Bonnie Macdougal. 1999
On the night of a lavish party celebrating newlyweds Doug and Campbell Smith, tragedy strikes when the thirteen-year-old son of…
an influential senator is kidnapped. The senator--Doug's mentor--urges Cam to track the boy down. It is an offer she cannot refuse, despite her own unsettling suspicion that the statesman seems less concerned about his child than about keeping the scandal out of the headlines. But as Cam soon discovers, everyone has something to hide. With a circle of wealth and ambition closing in tightly around her, Cam penetrates layer upon layer of lies and invention. For the abduction is not what it seems. After using all her investigative skills to find the missing boy, she begins to uncover the shocking story that links him to his captor. Surprised at her deepening attachment to them both, struggling between her duty and what is best for the child, Cam starts to question her loyalties, her marriage, her priorities, even the man she thought she loved. As she pieces together an intricate pattern of abuse and cover-up; as a series of brutal murders looms ever closer, Cam is forced to make the most agonizing decision of her life--to reveal the devastating secret of her own past ... and the shattering lie she has lived for years.By Ralph Mcinerny. 1995
By Scott Turow. 1999
By Margaret Coel. 2002
James Sherwood claims to have been to the shadow world. He claims to know the future. He also claims to…
have no connection to the disappearance of Dean Little Horse or the murder of Ben Holden...By Steve Martini. 2003
By John Mortimer. 1990
By Ed Mcbain. 1994
By Nancy Taylor Rosenberg. 1993
By Scott Turow. 2002
By Nancy Taylor Rosenberg. 1996
The labyrinth of the law, the dark secrets of the human heart, together with the forces of lust, greed, ambition,…
and power combine to give us a breathless page-turning thriller set in Texas.By John Lescroart. 1997
By Tom Topor. 1995
Renegade private detective Adam Bruno wonders how hethe street-smart son of a bookiehas come to be chosen by the aristocratic…
family to find the missing heir. Is the truth that they are counting on him to failso that they can keep the inheritance? Bruno's investigation runs him smack up against the dead man's complex facade of secrets and deception. But as the secrets start to unravel, the witnesses turn up deadand Bruno must race against time, and an unknown nemesis, to solve the secret and find the missing child, before his hidden enemy finds him.