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Mix together, a scheming trophy wife, a Chinatown business icon and likely gangster, a plan to settle accounts, a local criminal tong, and a Hong Kong based drug dealing triad, and what could possibly go wrong for Jake? Oh yes, and then there's a...

Assistant US Attorney Joe Haise is off-balance. The bodies were so carefully concealed, the evidence meticulously destroyed, and the king was protected. A homicidal federal prosecutor can be forgiven for feeling above the law. But all of it is coming undone at the hands...

Bob Ellinger is a sometimes successful lawyer whose personal life is a mess. He drinks too much and cares too little. Life and people just aren't important to him so he never anticipated getting dragged into the heart of a political scandal. But that's...

Bill Ford and Bill White practice law like pirates looking for sunken treasure. Their conduct has finally been brought to the attention of law enforcement, thereby triggering a federal criminal investigation into their billing practices. However, before they are brought to justice on charges...

Gathering places for the LGBT community are under attack as well as individuals supportive of the community. Local TV Reporter Karim Cunningham and his wife, Carolee who is an Assistant United States Attorney, start looking for whoever is behind the bombings. The attacks become...

MURDER MOST JUDGMENTAL A DETECTIVE JAKE SWANSON MURDER MYSTERY A prominent family law judge and his wife lay dead in their driveway with fingers of suspicion pointing at the possibility that their deaths is a revenge killing by disgruntled client; or maybe retribution by...

This is a story about LISA MORGAN, a beautiful 17 year old junior at Shawnee Mission West High School. Lisa is a petite, blond cheerleader growing up with a single mother, DIANE. Lisa had asked her mother many times about her birthfather, but that...

The Bible has long influenced lawmakers, but what if the Bible was the law? John Reid considers himself a good person, a loving husband, and a devoted father. He is not political or religious. He just wants to live a quiet, normal life. After...

Wanting something so badly demands a hefty price.Star investment banker James Tait has gone rogue. Following a personal crisis, he ditches the City to set up a kids' charity, LifeChance. Using his reputed deal-making skills, he'll do all it takes to succeed. When an...

Rafiq A. Medawar, M.D., is a rakishly handsome young surgeon. When the police find the body of his wife, Ann, in a park overlooking the Ohio River, they also discover a video on her cell phone. It shows him going into a sleazy inn...

In this gripping legal thriller, defense attorney David Edwards takes on the case of a young woman accused of murdering her abusive ex-boyfriend. As he delves deeper into the case, he uncovers a web of corruption and deceit that threatens not only his client's...

When down on his luck lawyer Jonas Calver is hired to defend an ex-soldier on a murder charge, things seem to be looking up for the maverick attorney. But he soon discovers he's bagged a client who is not quite what he seems, and...

ROGER LEGION, the head of a prestigious San Diego law firm, finds himself in the middle of a turf war between a Mexican drug cartel and a local gangster. When the cartel's attempt to persuade him fails, all hell breaks loose. It begins with...

As the stock market crashes, Attorney Leland Denton is hired to advise James McKenzie, an insurance examiner probing the possibly cooked books of a Los Angeles insurance company with suspicious assets backed by derivative investments. McKenzie is brutally murdered-the cops say by a hooker-but...

BY BACKGROUND the men are not so different. North Carolinians who served in the Army and were wounded in combat. Now they are enemies . . .Jack Thomas, an Iraq War hero, returns from service and finishes law school. He's now an FBI Special...

In his debut novel --The Target, author Dean Arden spins a modern-day tale of deception, intrigue, and suspense. A social and political commentary that offers insight into Washington and Wall Street's betrayal of the public trust and the dangers of unrestrained power, personal and...

THEY CAN TAKE EVERYTHING. EXCEPT HIS WORD.Jed Rawls hid in the safest corner of the law: his sleepy Chicago trusts-and-estates practice. Wills. Probate. Doling out money to his dead clients' obnoxious offspring. He should have made partner years ago. He also knows exactly why...

Sometimes a victim decides to stop being a victim. Michael Gresham and Marcel, his investigator, go on the hunt for a client's missing wife. She has been nominated to the U.S. District Court, and now she can't be found. She's an outstanding lawyer, but...

Former police captain Robert Carter never expected to find himself on the jury of a murder trial - especially one for a murder he committed after retiring from the force. As jury deliberations unfold, latent biases and personal histories ignite heated confrontations, pushing Robert's...

Author: James Patterson,Viola DavisISBN-10: 1538769778ISBN-13: 9781538769775Publisher: Little Brown and CompanyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/06/2027Pages: 432Format: PaperbackSize: 8.25h x 5.50w x 1.08d

Some lines are crossed only once.Nora Miller was supposed to come home with coffee and a ridiculous purple dragonfly for the kitchen window. Instead, she is killed in a collision, and her husband Silas wakes to discover that the man responsible has already crossed...

A young woman stands trial for the double murder of her parents. Eighteen-year-old Janelle Thompson is used to seeing her adoptive parents in the news. Her father is a rising political star. Her mother is the mind behind his first major campaign. Then one...

In 1969 a young lawyer returned to his roots in the Mississippi Delta as an investigator for the local District Attorney. He is immediately handed a murder case dealing with the separate murders of two young girls in the same rural community. He has...

Award-winning attorney Christina Rainville's debut novel, The Courage to Tell, is a page-turning legal thriller, about a prominent Chicago lawyer, who has what she expected to be a one-time fling with a young law student, only to get drawn into the student's undisclosed quest...

A beloved senator. An unspeakable crime. A new face for the prosecution. Welcome to the trial of the century. In the heart of Blake County, an unprecedented legal storm is brewing. A long-time US senator, Bill Collins, is at the epicenter of this maelstrom....

A decades-long family feud culminates in murder, and a small-town lawyer must uncover the truth...before more lives are ruined.The national exposure of the Lee Acker case put the trial skills of Maggie Reynolds on full display. Now she is intent on pursuing more profitable...

Winner of the 2014 Best Indie Book Award for Mystery-Suspense. For some, betraying justice is a small price to pay for riches. For others, the truth is more important than money. When deceit and integrity clash, gamesmanship controls the outcome. A legal thriller filled...

Dr. Randall Adams was young, handsome, and loved by his elderly patients-especially wealthy Isabel McCormick, who was estranged from her only son.When Isabel dies, Paul McCormick returns from Turkey and discovers his mother left her entire estate to Dr. Adams. Suspecting fraud, District Attorney...

Misty Cooper's divorce was pending when she met Quentin Ritter at an AA meeting. They shared their love of alcohol and good times. But Misty would never see the finality of her divorce. Follow Mike McCarthy, Montana's number one prosecutor, as he takes us...

From Wall Street Journal bestselling author James Chandler and attorney Laura Snider comes Two Wrongs, the fourth book in the Smith and Bauer Legal Thriller series. Perfect for fans of John Grisham and Michael Connelly. He finally got out. Then a body turned up....

From #1 New York Times bestselling author and FOX News host Trey Gowdy comes the much-anticipated sequel to The Color of Death, a twisty and chilling murder mystery in which vengeance and justice are interchangeable and the law becomes a tool for corruption.When a...

From #1 New York Times bestselling author and FOX News host Trey Gowdy comes the much-anticipated sequel to The Color of Death, a twisty and chilling murder mystery in which vengeance and justice are interchangeable and the law becomes a tool for corruption.When a...

SEEN: What Cannot Be TakenSarah Mitchell is changing.Not metaphorically. Not the soft language of self-help or the careful vocabulary of therapy. Actually changing - knowing things before they happen, feeling the people she loves like warm points of light behind her sternum, standing in...

When a high-powered medical recruiter exposes a culture of harassment, fraud, and corruption at one of the nation's top staffing firms, she's forced into a brutal spiral of lawsuits, betrayal, homelessness, and health collapse--only to rise again with unshakable resolve.In Good Faith, real-life events...

Assembly Call by Jack Preston is a thrilling novel that takes readers on a journey through the world of espionage and counterterrorism. The story follows the life of a former CIA agent named Alex Hale, who is forced out of retirement to help stop...

Trust in Trial is a legal thriller that follows the story of a young lawyer named Jack who must navigate the complex world of corporate law to defend a client accused of fraud. Along the way, he discovers the true meaning of trust and...

Author: Erik CortezISBN-13: 9798315834359Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/27/2025Pages: 408Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.20lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.84d

Drawn into a web of small-town secrets, family drama, and the rusted tentacles of the Dixie Mafia, a young lawyer is forced to confront his own notions of justice, freedom, love, and sobriety. Athens, Georgia, 1988: Attorney August "Critter" Stillwell dreams of a life...

OUTRAGEOUS is a gripping contemporary thriller about victims, determination, retaliation, and finding a new path. After tragedy claims her family and her husband, Police Detective Marcy Parks retreats to a quiet, small-town precinct to heal. But the peace doesn't last. Her investigation into a...

What if the Voices inside someone's head could determine their guilt or innocence?Mark Lambert thought he was done with the law. Retired and still grieving the loss of his son, he had no intention of stepping back into a courtroom-until a judge hands him...

Childhood friends, known as "the crew", head out for their annual camping trip to Bigfoot Provincial Park. Among the baggage is a new powder keg: Ryan and Jess, former lovers, are bringing new partners, outsiders to "the crew", on the getaway. As the drinks...

Childhood friends, known as "the crew", head out for their annual camping trip to Bigfoot Provincial Park. Among the baggage is a new powder keg: Ryan and Jess, former lovers, are bringing new partners, outsiders to "the crew", on the getaway. As the drinks...

A man's journey through love, obsession, and the legal system reveals the opposing aspects of dedication and dismissal, as he confronts the consequences of his actions in a courtroom. Measured against societal expectations that are meant to influence one's understanding of relationships, personal boundaries,...

A man's journey through love, obsession, and the legal system reveals the opposing aspects of dedication and dismissal, as he confronts the consequences of his actions in a courtroom. Measured against societal expectations that are meant to influence one's understanding of relationships, personal boundaries,...

An exciting new standalone thriller in the best-selling Atlanta Murder Squad series!Pain means money. Lots of it. But not for a pill-pushing doctor who's written his last prescription. And while Chance Meridian didn't really like the dead guy much, somebody's got to solve the...

The architecture of faith is on trial. In a near-future America, defending Christian orthodoxy has become a federal crime.The year is 2041. Under the draconian Science Reform Act, religious truth claims can no longer be publicly defended as factual. The Office of Statutory Inquiry...

They built their empire on a lie. Now the bill is due.When defense attorneys Hal and Kristina Nolan return home one night, the police are waiting. Within minutes, Kristina is arrested for a murder she didn't commit, framed with evidence so convincing it could...

Perry Mason solves a murder in a mining town in this whodunit from one of the bestselling authors of all time. When a millionaire enlists Perry Mason to protect his mining interests, the sleuthing attorney and his tireless secretary Della Street trade the Los...

In Explosive Reprisals, Kit Chase faces one of her most perilous investigations yet. Working as an international prosecutor in Pristina, she is drawn into a case that ignites after a Kosovo police officer is found murdered soon after escorting a well-known singer to a...

In a world where duty transcends borders and love defies political divides, "The Duties" unfolds a captivating narrative that entwines the past with the present. Against a backdrop of international intrigue and a complex tapestry of historical and contemporary events, this novel explores the...