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By Scott Turow. 1990
Alejandro Stern, attorney-hero of Scott Turow's first novel, "Presumed Innocent," returns from Chicago, where he has been defending his brother-in-law…
Dixon Hartnell, who is under investigation by a federal grand jury. Stern discovers his wife of thirty years has committed suicide and, in his grief, must face his own and his family's deepest secrets. Strong language and explicit sex. BestsellerBy Ralph McInerny. 1989
Andrew Broom, attorney in Wyler, Indiana, is representing Pauline Stanfield in a divorce suit, when her husband is murdered and…
Broom finds himself defending a murder suspect. Meanwhile, Leo Barany, who long ago murdered his parents and buried them in the backyard, has decided to murder Pauline. Can Broom stop the pathological killer in time? Some violence, some strong language, and some descriptions of sexBy Erle Stanley Gardner, Thomas Chastain. 1989
Based on the characters created by Erle Stanley Gardner, the novel follows Perry Mason in his defence of a woman…
charged with the murder of her husband, a prominent Los Angeles businessman. 1989.By Ed Mcbain, Ed McBain. 1988
An Indiana farmer who has come to Florida to visit his gay brother becomes a murder suspect when, the morning…
after a wild party, the brother is found with a kitchen knife sticking between his ribs. The Hoosier pleads innocent, and soon unorthodox Florida lawyer Hope links the deceased to incriminating photographs, an attempted blackmail, and the fortunes of a beer dynasty. Strong language and explicit descriptions of sexBy John S Martel. 1988
A novel about trial attorneys in San Francisco on the brink of bankruptcy. Includes a senior partner desperate to save…
the firm, a talented junior partner facing professional and personal trauma, a female associate determined to break into an all-male partnership, and a street-wise homicide cop who falls in love with her. Strong language and some explicit descriptions of sexBy Stuart Woods. 1988
Cat Rutledge is left for dead when Columbian pirates raid his yacht and murder his wife and daughter. But soon…
after, he receives a phone call which reveals that his daughter is still alive. Violence and some descriptions of sex. 1988.By John Edgar Wideman. 1987
Reuben, an elderly, wizened black man, lives in an abandoned trailer and works as a lawyer for his neighbors in…
the Homewood ghetto of Pittsburgh. His clients include an assistant coach at a major university, who must deal with his murderous fantasies and the intentions of the university to make him a scapegoat; a young prostitute fighting to keep her child; and a mentally ill man who lives out his passions and delusions on the street. Some strong language, some violence, and some explicit descriptions of sexBy William G. Tapply, William G Tapply. 1986
Young writer and scion of a great Boston-politics clan, Stuart Carver, is found dead in an alley, dressed as a…
bum, with an ice-pick wound in his brain. Though there is much speculation over the disguise, his lawyer Brady Coyne knows that Carver was secretly researching a new novel about the homeless. What Brady does not know is why Carver was murdered--and he intends to find out. Strong language and some descriptions of sexBy Scott Turow. 1987
By William G Tapply. 1987
Lawyer-sleuth Brady Coyne takes off for remote Raven Lake Lodge to do some salmon fishing and to reassure Tiny Wheeler,…
the lodge's owner/manager about new Indian lawsuits that claim the lake as ancestral property. Then troubles escalate: a lodge guest disappears and the guest's brother, arriving to join the search party, is found dead in the lake. Some strong language and some descriptions of sexBy Tom Wolfe. 1987
The arbiter of radical chic and macho flyboys attempts to satirize the grab-it-now Yuppie generation. The plot centers on the…
efforts of a socialite bond broker to escape responsibility for a freak accident that brings him into contact with unsavory elements of New York life: the justice system, the political hacks, the church, and the poor. Strong language and descriptions of sex. BestsellerBy Walter Walker. 1986
A strange murder brings together a tough kid from New England, a young lawyer who risks everything to defend a…
friend he knows is guilty, and a cynical judge who is a virtual stranger in his own home. Some strong language and some explicit descriptions of sexBy Louis Auchincloss. 1986
By George V Higgins. 1985
Sleazy Boston lawyer Jerry Kennedy is losing a case for an accountant friend whose principal clients are high-ranking mafiosi. While…
he has other clients, ranging in diversity from a good-guy Cadillac thief to a young wife-assaulter who becomes psychotic during his trial. Kennedy continues to be harassed as he handles the accountant's case. Strong language and some descriptions of sexBy Gerald William Bullett. 1976
This mystery, first published in 1935, depicts a murder trial in which no detail is spared concerning the background of…
the jurors or their deliberation. The novel portrays the trial of Roderick Strood for the murder of his wife with the poison, chloralBy Geoffrey Wolff. 1986
Adam Dwyer, a criminal lawyer who lives in Providence, learns that he is dying of leukemia. He and his wife…
Clara then receive another blow when their home is robbed, by two young thugs, Skippy and Baby. Tome Cocoran, the hard-bitten police officer assigned the case, becomes involved with Skippy's waitress girl friend. Strong language and explicit descriptions of sex. Book club main selectionBy William G Tapply. 1984
The struggle for a legendary 130-year-old stamp, the Dutch Blue Error, leads to forgery, blackmail, and murder. Boston lawyer Brady…
Coyne, acting for his wealthy client who owns the stamp, and his legal secretary, Harvard graduate Zeke Garrett, become murder suspects. Some strong languageBy Ed McBain. 1985
Successful lawyer Matthew Hope is hired by a beautiful blonde to gain her release from a Florida psychiatric facility, where…
she is being treated for paranoid schizophrenia. Meanwhile, Hope's friend in the police department, Detective Bloom, is looking for the murderer of another blonde, found floating in the river. Is there a connection? Some strong language and some descriptions of sexBy John Mortimer. 1981
Rumpole, the beloved barrister, teaches a professor of moral philosophy about blackmail, traces the path of true love when a…
doctor is accused of murder and drinks to excess with a teetotalling member of the prosecution. 1981. (Rumpole mysteries) Uniform title: Regina v. RumpoleBy John Mortimer. 1982
Horace Rumpole, now retired, is resting in the Florida sunshine when a colleague's casual request for advice on a difficult…
case sends him winging back across the Atlantic. Before he is through, Rumpole comes up against a religious cult, a mysterious letter written in blood, and the Pornographer-in-Chief of the fair town of Grimble