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The Pelican Brief
By John Grisham. 1992
In suburban Georgetown, a killer's Reeboks whisper on the floor of a posh home. In a seedy D.C. porno house,…
a patron is swiftly garrotted to death. The next day America learns that two of its Supreme Court justices have been assassinated. And in New Orleans, a young law student prepares a legal brief.To Darby Shaw it was no more than a legal shot in the dark, a brilliant guess. To the Washington establishment it's political dynamite. Suddenly Darby is witness to a murder-a murder intended for her. Going underground, she finds that there is only one person-an ambitious reporter after a newsbreak hotter than Watergate-she can trust to help her piece together the deadly puzzle. Somewhere between the bayous of Louisiana and the White House's inner sanctums, a violent cover-up is being engineered. For someone has read Darby's brief-someone who will stop at nothing to destroy the evidence of an unthinkable crime. "Gripping...a genuine page-turner. Grisham is a skilful craftsman." - The New York Times (P)1992 Random House, LLCThe Last Juror
By John Grisham. 2004
In 1970, one of Mississippi's more colorful weekly newspapers, The Ford County Times, went bankrupt. To the surprise and dismay…
of many, ownership was assumed by a 23 year-old college dropout, named Willie Traynor. The future of the paper looked grim until a young mother was brutally raped and murdered by a member of the notorious Padgitt family. Willie Traynor reported all the gruesome details, and his newspaper began to prosper.The murderer, Danny Padgitt, was tried before a packed courthouse in Clanton, Mississippi. The trial came to a startling and dramatic end when the defendant threatened revenge against the jurors if they convicted him. Nevertheless, they found him guilty, and he was sentenced to life in prison.But in Mississippi in 1970, "life" didn't necessarily mean "life," and nine years later Danny Padgitt managed to get himself paroled. He returned to Ford County, and the retribution began.(P)2004 Random House, LLCThe Defence: Win the trial. Or lose his life. (Eddie Flynn Series)
By Steve Cavanagh. 2015
The truth has no place in a courtroom. The truth doesn't matter in a trial.The only thing that matters is…
what the prosecution can prove.Eddie Flynn used to be a con artist. Then he became a lawyer. Turned out the two weren't that different.It's been over a year since Eddie vowed never to set foot in a courtroom again. But now he doesn't have a choice. Olek Volchek, the infamous head of the Russian mafia in New York, has strapped a bomb to Eddie's back and kidnapped his ten-year-old daughter Amy. Eddie only has 48 hours to defend Volchek in an impossible murder trial - and win - if wants to save his daughter. Under the scrutiny of the media and the FBI, Eddie must use his razor-sharp wit and every con-artist trick in the book to defend his 'client' and ensure Amy's safety. With the timer on his back ticking away, can Eddie convince the jury of the impossible?Lose this case and he loses everything.(p) 2015 Orion Publishing GroupDamage
By John Lescroart, John T Lescroart. 2011
Ro Curtlee, convicted of murder and rape a decade ago, goes free pending a retrial. When a witness in the…
case is killed, San Francisco detective Abe Glitsky investigates. But Curtlee's wealthy parents use their newspaper to discredit police. Violence, strong language, and some explicit descriptions of sex. 2011Try dying: a novel (Ty Buchanan Ser.)
By James Scott Bell. 2007
L.A. attorney Ty Buchanan mourns his fiancée, Jacqueline Dwyer, who dies in a car accident. After Ty learns that Jacqueline's…
death was not an accident, he risks his life and career to solve her murder. 2007Forcing Amaryllis
By Louise Ure. 2005
Tucson trial consultant Calla has avoided rape cases ever since her sister Amaryllis was raped, attempted suicide--and ended up in…
a coma. But when Calla is assigned to a defense team and notices similarities between this attack and Amaryllis's, she secretly investigates. Strong language and some violence. Shamus Award. 2005The Man In The Wooden Hat: From the Orange Prize shortlisted author
By Jane Gardam. 2009
'It's a cliche to compare novelists to Jane Austen, but in the case of Jane Gardam it happens to be…
true. Her diamond-like prose, her understanding of the human heart, her formal inventiveness and her sense of what it is to be alive - young, old, lonely, in love - never fades' Amanda Craig'Her work, like Sylvia Townsend Warner's, has that appealing combination of elegance, erudition and flinty wit' Patrick GaleFilth (Failed In London, Try Hong Kong) is a successful lawyer when he marries Elisabeth in Hong Kong soon after the War. Reserved, immaculate and courteous, Filth finds it hard to demonstrate his emotions. But Elisabeth is different - a free spirit. She was brought up in the Japanese Internment Camps, which killed both her parents but left her with a lust for survival and an affinity with the Far East. No wonder she is attracted to Filth's hated rival at the Bar - the brash, forceful Veneering. Veneering has a Chinese wife and an adored son - and no difficulty whatsoever in demonstrating his emotions . . . How Elisabeth turns into Betty and whether she remains loyal to stolid Filth or is swept up by caddish Veneering, makes for a page-turning plot in a perfect novel which is full of surprises and revelations, as well as the humour and eccentricites for which Jane Gardam's writing is famous.Sycamore Row: Jake Brigance, hero of A TIME TO KILL, is back
By John Grisham. 2013
In the long-awaited successor to the novel that launched his phenomenal career, John Grisham brings us the powerful sequel to…
A Time to Kill. As filled with page-turning twists as it is with legal mastery, Sycamore Row proves beyond doubt that John Grisham is in a league of his own.Jake Brigance has never met Seth Hubbard, or even heard of him, until the old man's suicide note names him attorney for his estate. The will is dynamite. Seth has left ninety per cent of his vast, secret fortune to his housemaid. The vultures are circling even before the body is cold: the only subject more incendiary than money in Ford County is race, and this case has both. AS the relatives contest the will, and unscrupulous lawyers hasten to benefit, Jake searches for answers to the many questions left by Seth Hubbard's death: What made him write that last-minute will leaving everything to a poor black woman named Lettie Lang? Why did he choose to kill himself on the desolate piece of land known as Sycamore Row? And what was it that Seth and his brother witnessed as children that, in his words, 'no human should ever see'?(P)2013 Random House AudioThe Firm
By John Grisham. 2007
At the top of his class at Harvard Law, he had his choice of the best in America. He made…
a deadly mistake. When Mitch McDeere signed on with Bendini, Lambert & Locke of Memphis, he thought he and his beautiful wife, Abby, were on their way. The firm leased him a BMW, paid off his school loans, arranged a mortgage and hired him a decorator. Mitch McDeere should have remembered what his brother Ray -- doing fifteen years in a Tennessee jail -- already knew. You never get nothing for nothing. Now the FBI has the lowdown on Mitch's firm and needs his help. Mitch is caught between a rock and a hard place, with no choice -- if he wants to live.(P)2009 Random House, LLCThe Litigators: The blockbuster bestselling legal thriller from John Grisham
By John Grisham. 2011
The classic legal thriller and huge bestseller from master of the genre John Grisham.David Zinc has it all: Big firm,…
big salary, life in the lawyer's fast lane.Until the day he snaps and throws it all away.Leaving the world of corporate law far behind, he talks himself into a new job with Finley & Figg. A self-styled 'boutique' firm with only two partners, Oscar Finley and Wally Figg are ambulance-chasing street lawyers who hustle nickel-and-dime cases, dreaming of landing the big win.For all his Harvard Law Degree and five years with Chicago's top firm, Zinc has never entered a courtroom, never helped a client who really needed a lawyer, never handled a gun.All that is about to change.(P)2011 Random House AudioThe Death Collector
By Neil White. 2014
Joe Parker is Manchester's top criminal defence lawyer and Sam Parker - his brother is a brilliant detective with the…
Greater Manchester Police force. Together they must solve a puzzling case that is chilling Manchester to the bone...The Death Collector is charming, sophisticated and intelligent, but he likes to dominate women, to make them give themselves to him completely; to surrender their dignity and their lives. He's a collector of beautiful things, so once he traps them he'll never let them go.Joe is drawn into the Death Collector's world and when the case becomes dangerous, Sam is the first person he turns to. In this gripping thriller, danger lurks for not only the Parker brothers, but also those closest to them.Gray Mountain: A Bestselling Thrilling, Fast-Paced Suspense Story
By John Grisham. 2014
America's greatest storyteller brings us a new masterpiece of legal courage and gripping suspense - and his finest heroine since…
The Pelican Brief.Donovan Gray is ruthless and fearless. Just the kind of lawyer you need, deep in small-town Appalachia.Samantha Kofer is a world away from her former life at New York's biggest law firm. If she is going to survive in coal country, she needs to start learning fast.Because as Donovan knows only too well, the mountains have their own laws. And standing up for the truth means putting your life on the line . . .(P)2014 Random House Audio IncThe Racketeer: The edge of your seat thriller everyone needs to read
By John Grisham. 2012
Number One bestseller John Grisham returns with his most suspenseful thriller yet.Given the importance of what they do, and the…
controversies that often surround them, and the violent people they sometimes confront, it is remarkable that in the history of the USA only four active federal judges have been murdered.Judge Raymond Fawcett just became number five.His body was found in the small basement of a lakeside cabin he had built himself and frequently used on weekends. When he did not show up for a trial on Monday morning, his law clerks panicked, called the FBI, and in due course the agents found the crime scene. There was no forced entry, no struggle, just two dead bodies - Judge Fawcett and his young secretary.I did not know Judge Fawcett, but I know who killed him, and why.I am a lawyer, and I am in prison.It's a long story.(P)2012 Random House Audio IncAmong thieves
By David Hosp. 2010
Attorney Scott Finn comes to the aid of old acquaintance Devon Malley, who was involved in an art heist years…
ago. While trying to help Malley avoid a violent Irishman determined to find the still-missing paintings, Finn cares for Malley's recently discovered young daughter. Violence and strong language. 2010Dark harbor
By David Hosp. 2006
When attorney Natalie Caldwell's body is found in Boston Harbor, detective Linda Flaherty suspects serial killer Little Jack has struck…
again. Caldwell's colleague and former lover Scott Finn takes over her ongoing court case and gets caught up in Flaherty's investigation. Violence, strong language, and some descriptions of sex. 2005Silent mercy
By Linda Fairstein, Linda A Fairstein. 2011
Assistant district attorney Alexandra Cooper and NYPD detectives Mike Chapman and Mercer Wallace investigate the murders of two women whose…
mutilated corpses were left at churches. Convinced another woman will die, Cooper probes Manhattan's houses of worship, searching for a connection between the killings. Violence and strong language. 2011Try fear (Ty Buchanan)
By James Scott Bell. 2009
Los Angeles attorney Ty Buchanan, last seen in Try Darkness (DB 72829), and his assistant Sister Mary Veritas take on…
the drunk-driving case of Carl Richess. When Richess is murdered after being acquitted, Buchanan uncovers city corruption. 2009Port mortuary (A Scarpetta Novel #Bk. 18)
By Patricia Daniels Cornwell, Patricia Cornwell. 2010
Kay Scarpetta, a former Air Force doctor, receives training at Dover Air Force base on conducting virtual autopsies using 3-D…
imaging technology. Back at Cambridge, Kay's husband Benton, her niece Lucy, and investigator Pete help Kay probe three murders connected to the military. Strong language and some violence. Bestseller. 2010Try darkness: a novel
By James Scott Bell. 2008
Los Angeles attorney Ty Buchanan moves to the grounds of a Benedictine community after he is cleared of murdering his…
fiancée in Try Dying (DB 72663). Buchanan offers free legal advice to the poor but one of his clients, a single mother about to be evicted, is murdered. 2008All about Eva
By Deidre Berry. 2010
African American fashionista Eva Cantrell lives a lavish lifestyle with wealthy investment banker Donovan Dorsey in Manhattan. Donovan takes Eva…
on a Switzerland vacation and disappears--sticking Eva with the bills. After discovering that Donovan was running a Ponzi scheme, Eva must rebuild her life. Strong language. 2010