Fiction - Thrillers - Legal

Mitch Arno always meant bad news for Folsum, Oregon. When they ran him out of town seventeen years ago, he left behind a wife with two daughters and a family that never wanted to see him again. When he returns, he brings trouble in...

When a beloved state senator plunges to his death at Alexa Williams' feet in the Capitol Rotunda, the authorities suspect suicide. Although the powerful chair of the Environmental Resources and Energy Committee was at the center of a controversial new bill to expand hydraulic...

In this fast-moving, fast-talking legal thriller, brash young New York lawyer Tom Weldon happens to witness the 2 a.m. murder of a business tycoon and finds himself held captive with the murdered man's arrogant daughter. The two escape and go on the run, trying...

Heart pounding thriller and suspense from award-winning New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author Diane CapriHe kills from afar. Until Jess Kimball makes it personal.An explosion ripped through a close-knit community in Iowa, leaving five dead, dozens hospitalized, and the country outraged.Shattered and...

The sexy Italian seems too good to be true. Because he is.When her Taboo Magazine assignment uncovers a modern Italian crime family operating scams and killing their victims inside the US, Jess Kimball joins forces with FBI Special Agent Henry Morris to stop the...

New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author DIANE CAPRI Returns For fans of Lee Child, John Grisham, Jack Reacher and Michael Connelly"Full of thrills and tension - but smart and human too." -Lee Child, #1 World Wide Bestselling Author of Jack Reacher ThrillersJudge...

Judge Willa Carson returns in this chilling story from New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author Diane Capri "Full of thrills and tension - but smart and human too." -Lee Child, #1 World Wide Bestselling Author of Jack Reacher Thrillers Everyone needs a...

New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author DIANE CAPRI Returns to Tampa in this gripping suspense novel featuring Judge Willa CarsonCharismatic Federal Judge Willa Carson is devoted to two things: her job and her loving husband George. But when a controversial war hero...

Fresh out of prison, former lawyer Edward Hall thinks his days in the courtroom are behind him. Until his sister, Dr Amy Hall, is arrested for murder... She's been accused of shooting the ex-husband she supposedly reconciled with and is convinced that her ex-convict...

A Kid's Curiosity ... A Parent's NightmareThe award-winning author of Anybody's Daughter is back with an addictive courtroom drama that gives readers a shocking look inside the juvenile criminal justice system.Graylin Alexander is a model fourteen-year-old. When his adolescent curiosity gets the best of...

Attorney David Adams is the last hope for an adolescent runaway being targeted by an assassin and sought by the FBI in a breath-catching novel by the Amazon Charts bestselling author of An Unequal Defense.Having abandoned corporate law, David Adams is now the voice...

Eddie Bennison is at the top of his game, one of the most successful and popular golfers out there, until Tee Time, a national golf magazine, publishes a story that destroys his reputation. Now Eddie, championed by cunning lawyer Charlie Mayfield, must defend himself...

The newest in Marti Green's award-winning books about the wrongly accused features Dani Trumball in another suspenseful courtroom drama - and her fiercest fight yet.Convicted of setting fire to her house and killing her three children, young Texas widow Becky Whitlaw is sentenced to...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Investigator Lacy Stoltz follows the trail of a serial killer, and closes in on a shocking suspect--a sitting judge--in "one of the best crime reads of the year.... Bristling with high-tech detail and shivering with suspense.... Worth staying...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - John Grisham is the acknowledged master of the legal thriller. In his first collection of novellas, law is a common thread, but America's favorite storyteller has several surprises in store. "Homecoming" takes us back to Ford County, the...

The beloved New York Times bestselling Dismas Hardy series returns with this "perfect piece of entertainment from a master storyteller" (Steve Berry, New York Times bestselling author) about a relentlessly twisty murder mystery. No one mourned when San Francisco DA Wes Farrell put Paul...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Investigator Lacy Stoltz follows the trail of a serial killer, and closes in on a shocking suspect--a sitting judge--in "one of the best crime reads of the year.... Bristling with high-tech detail and shivering with suspense.... Worth staying...

Blockbuster bestselling author Lisa Scottoline is back with Corrupted, a novel of breathtaking legal suspense about one woman's fight for justice--at all costs. Bennie Rosato, the founder of the Rosato & DiNunzio law firm, hides her big heart beneath her tough-as-nails exterior and she...

"Outstanding--starts with a bang and gets tenser and tenser. Say Nothing shows Parks is a quality writer at the top of his form."--Lee Child "Terrific book. Truly terrific. Tension throughout and tears at the end."--Sue Grafton Judge Scott Sampson doesn't brag about having a...

Donnie Ray Cuinn returns to Austin to defend a war hero accused of murder. David Lewis lost both legs in Iraq, but he has overcome his nightmares and his disabilities by sheer willpower. He has learned to run and to box and is a...

It's a wild ride...Are you ready?⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐Private investigator Katerina Carter uncovers a sinister connection between blood diamonds and organized crime. Can she stay alive long enough to expose the criminals...or will her first case be her last?"An international tale of diamonds, danger and disappearance, a...

In the cutthroat world of high-stakes finance, where money flows like water, there's a sinister undercurrent that only a select few can perceive. What money can't buy, murder can.Billionaire Zachary Barron's currency hedge fund is bleeding money, thanks to an elusive thief. Determined to...

A cold-blooded killer is destroying all who oppose him. Will there be a final witness to the truth?Young, idealistic law clerk Rachel Ybarra has just been handed a career-making opportunity--helping in the prosecution of an infamous leader of the Russian Mafia. But when the...

Jake Denney has hit rock bottom. His wife has left him. He's drinking again. And his five-year-old daughter is in the middle of it all. When a judge calls him "a disgrace to the legal profession," Jake starts thinking things might be better for...

An Antarctic research vessel sinks and all aboard perish in the freezing waters of the Patagonia. A popular priest is murdered inside a Puerto Montt cathedral. Prominent Washington, D.C. lawyer, Stephan Brent, pleads for his assistant, Emmanuelle Solis, to hand-deliver incriminating files to him...

As the edge of winter slices through fall, Josie Bates testifies in Washington D.C. about the Albanian blood feud that sent Hannah Sheraton and Billy Zuni fleeing for their lives, and Archer reluctantly abandons a trail that has gone cold in his search for...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - In his first collection of short stories John Grisham takes us back to Ford County, Mississippi, the setting of his first novel, A Time to Kill. This riveting collection of short stories features an unforgettable cast of characters:...

One of the foremost courtroom lawyers of his generation. Alan M. Dershowitz takes controversial stands based on the principle of equal justice for all. Along the way, he has authored the #1 New York Times bestseller Chutzpah; the bestselling account of the Claus von...

Gates Hunt is a compulsive felon, serving a stiff penitentiary sentence for selling cocaine. His brother, Mason, however, has escaped their bitter, impoverished upbringing to become the commonwealth's attorney for their rural hometown in Virginia, where he enjoys a contented life with his wife...

New York Times Bestseller"A fast-moving and suspenseful thriller, cheerful, charming...funny and a good read."--Los Angeles TimesIn the seventh blockbuster legal thriller in #1 bestselling author Lisa Scottoline's Rosato & Associates series, a beautiful young lawyer is believed to have been murdered, but she's very...

Miami attorney Jack Swyteck lands in the heart of the contentious immigration debate when he takes on the heart-wrenching case of an undocumented immigrant who fled to America to protect her daughter and save herself, in this timely and pulse-pounding thriller that explores the...

James Grippando's crusader Jack Swyteck is back in his sixteenth adventure, a timely and pulse-pounding thriller.Miami attorney Jack Swyteck lands in the heart of the contentious immigration debate when he takes on the heart-wrenching case of an undocumented immigrant who fled to America to...

Defending a woman accused of murdering the man who sexually assaulted her, Miami lawyer Jack Swyteck must uncover where the truth lies between innocence, vengeance, and justice in this spellbinding tale of suspense--based on shocking true-life events--from the New York Times bestselling author of...

A spellbinding novel of suspense from New York Times bestselling author James Grippando, in which Miami's top prosecutor becomes a prime suspect in his wife's disappearance, which may have a chilling connection to the woman he can't forget.Unbelievable was the word for her. Samantha...

"A breathless thriller. . . . If a good roller-coaster is what you want, step up and have your ticket punched."--PeopleA female judge finds her life and her career on the line when the defendant in a high-profile lawsuit is killed in this riveting...

Agents Savich and Sherlock are back in the latest installment in Catherine Coulter's #1 New York Times bestselling FBI Thriller series, and this time both are enlisted to help women with traumatic pasts who are in mortal danger.When she was twelve years old, Kirra...

Jeffri used to run with a street gang when growing up in KL, but is now a criminal lawyer with his own small firm. He's also down on his luck. One day his old college buddy Kim On Juan (OJ) - also a lawyer...

Scott Turow's Pleading Guilty takes us back to Kindle County, where skies are generally gray and the truth is seldom simple, in an edge-of-the-chair story rife with indelible characters and riveting suspense. The star litigator from a top-notch law firm has gone missing, along...

Small towns keep the darkest secrets... In Southern Illinois, defense attorney Tex Hunter agrees to defend a young man against a murder charge. With an entire city against him, Hunter realizes there's more to the case than he's been told. To discover the truth,...

From the bestselling author of A Killer's Wife comes the thrilling first installment in the Shepard & Gray series, featuring a young sheriff who teams up with a former prosecutor to stop a copycat killer.This is Reaper speaking.So begins an anonymous letter published in...

Who would ruin a good party by stabbing a lawyer in the back?Jim Walker is a lawyer. One of the best. The type who doesn't need to practice much law to make a client's problems disappear. A fixer who enjoys the finer things in...

Will Duggan doesn't belong at Smith Stevens, one of the largest and most powerful law firms in the country. He knows his days as a non-Ivy Leaguer at the firm are numbered, but he also knows the firm has a dirty secret. Behind Smith...

Is corporate greed powerful enough to coverup an environmental disaster of epic proportions? Probably not now but what about in the 1980's. Kesterson is a fast paced environmental thriller that examines that question. The novel is a fictional account of the Kesterson Reservoir saga,...

Two rich families. One poor student. Who will win?Casey Cort is proud of her struggles. She's the first in her family to graduate from college. After finishing her legal education, she'll be the first in her family to have a job in an office....

Modern-day Georgia. The state Supreme Court celebrates the opening of its new courthouse, but the Chief Justice-shot dead in his chambers-is late to the party. Enter ex-lawyer Chance Meridian. Pressed into service by an offer he cannot refuse, Chance launches the search for the...

Take your seat inside the jury room for the deliberations of three sensational courtroom mysteries. She Said, Three SaidIn a celebrity rape trial that has an entire nation gripped, the jury are finally released to deliberate their verdict.The problem is they don't know whether...

Religious liberty is under attack in the United States. Faced with legal challenges for the mere action of preaching from the Bible, Pastor Preston and his supporters confront a terrifying truth: the US Constitution is no defense against a biased district attorney obsessed with...

Attorney Ben Kincaid knows that a class action suit against a powerful corporation, charged with dumping toxic chemicals into a community's water and killing innocent children, is a suicide mission. But as Ben prepares for legal battle, a serial killer strikes, and with each...

MEDICAL MALPRACTICE OR MURDER? A wrongful death in a state hospital leaves Boston trial attorney Ken Dwyer seeking ways to get around a $100,000 statutory cap on damages. An aggressive courtroom brawler on the rise, he makes his living in the trenches of personal...

Jack Swyteck and his family are caught in the crossfire after a deadly school shooting claims twenty casualties--Florida's fifth mass shooting in as many years--in this provocative and timely thriller from Harper Lee Prize-winner James Grippando that touches on some of the most contentious...