Crime Legal Thriller

Daisy Lane is battling to keep her family together. About to be released from prison, her oldest son Eddie is desperate to escape his past. But Eddie soon discovers that giving up the life of a gangster isn’t going to be easy. Daisy’s youngest son Jamie is determined to step out from under the shadow of his older brother and make a name for himself. And when Jamie gets wind of his brother’s plan to pull off a heist, his involvement threatens to be Eddie’s undoing.

When a veteran cop tries to arrest baseball's home run king, one of them ends up on trial and the other one ends up dead. A routine stakeout is almost over when Dave Mackno decides to pursue a speeding Porsche. It's a decision that will have deadly consequences. That's because the Porsche is being driven by Remo Centrella, baseball's home run king, who is half-drunk and at the tail-end of a steroid cycle that makes him think he's bulletproof.

Matt Royal is going back to the courtroom. He has agreed to defend his good friend and wife of Longboat Key's police chief. Abby Lester has been charged with the murder of Nate Bannister, an unlikeable, shady character. He was found shot to death in his downtown Sarasota condo, and the evidence points to Abby as the killer. Matt cannot refuse Abby's pleas for help, despite having retired from the practice of law several years earlier. Now he must face a hotshot prosecuting attorney with a record of 22 wins and zero losses in murder trials.

In the Missouri Ozarks, some things aren't talked about...even abuse. But prosecutor Elsie Arnold is determined to change that. When she is assigned to prosecute a high-profile incest case in which a father is accused of abusing his three young daughters, Elsie is ready to become the Ozarks' avenging angel. But as Elsie sinks her teeth into the case, everything begins to turn sour.

Bum Rap is the novel that brings Lassiter together with squabbling Miami lawyers Steve Solomon and Victoria Lord. In a tale filled with startling twists, Lassiter digs deep into the underbelly of glitzy South Beach to defend a client who's not telling him the truth.

Lassiter believes that NFL superstar Thunder Thurston, murdered his wife. But the jury said "not guilty." A lawyer is supposed to let it go. Not Lassiter, who vows to become a vigilante.

He may be a millionaire, but Vern Wheeler never forgot that he is a son of Maine - land of big sky, wide lakes, and the fattest salmon on the East Coast. To escape the boardroom, he buys a rundown fishing lodge in the wilds of his home state, and with his brother turns it into the most fashionable retreat in New England. After years of happy fishing, the Wheelers have no interest in selling Raven Lodge. But a local Native-American group won't take no for an answer.

Joseph Antonelli has never lost a case he should have won and has won nearly every case he should have lost - yet he's about to see his client, Justin Friedrich, convicted for a crime he didn't commit. His wife was found shot to death in the bedroom of their yacht in the San Francisco marina, and Friedrich doesn't stand a chance. But then the real killer approaches Antonelli. Famous and enigmatic, James Michael Redfield, the head of a high tech company that leads the world in the development of artificial intelligence, Redfield gives Antonelli evidence proving Friedrich's innocence.

When a defense attorney becomes the defendant, one small town is forced to reconsider their ideas of good and evil. Successful public defender Ashley Montgomery helps acquit yet another client and people in small-town Brine, Iowa are enraged. Following the verdict, a protest breaks out, and the hated defense attorney quickly finds her life in danger. But little does Ashley know, things are about to get worse - much worse.

Teenager Ebby Engstrom witnesses a murder—and then passes out. The next morning, he wakes in his bed with no memory of how he got there and is told his mother was stabbed to death the previous night. Thirty years later, the case has gone cold, with numerous suspects but no new clues—until Ebby starts having uncontrollable flashbacks to that night. As repressed memories surface, he questions his own role in the murder, leading to a dramatic confession and Ebby’s arrest.

Boston, pochi giorni a Natale. La città è imbiancata dalla neve, serrata dal gelo in attesa delle festività. Ma la morte non ha rispetto per luoghi sacri o ricorrenze: Maura Isles, patologa della polizia metropolitana soprannominata la Regina dei Morti, viene convocata dal detective Jane Rizzoli a ora tarda, nella cappella del convento di Nostra Signora della Divina Luce. A terra giacciono due corpi massacrati: la novizia Camille e suor Ursula, più anziana e con un passato nelle missioni del Terzo mondo.

Chi ha detto che tra moglie e marito non è mai il caso di mettere il dito? C’è chi lo fa e pure con discreto successo. Quando nella fiacca routine di Joe ed Elizabeth, che insieme gestiscono l’unico cinematografo della cittadina di Stoneville, irrompe la giovane e apparentemente ingenua Carol, assistente tuttofare, nessuno penserebbe mai che una storia di corna possa trasformarsi nella più improbabile delle finzioni shakespeariane, per giunta nella sonnolenta provincia americana. Eppure, è proprio Elizabeth a proporre al marito e alla giovane amante un patto di ferro.

Mick McFarland is stunned when he's arrested for murdering business tycoon Edwin Hanson, brother to David Hanson - one of Mick's former clients. Mick is even more shocked when he's confronted with the incriminating evidence: surveillance footage of him stalking the victim and pulling the trigger. As Mick's legal team fights against windmills trying to beat the prosecution in court, his wife, Piper, journeys across the country, trying to win her husband's freedom by going after the man she is convinced is out to destroy Mick and David both.

The story opens in 1954 with the main character: Anne Schefter, a 28-year-old US constitutional law expert, currently unemployed ever since concluding a position as associate campaign manager in Helen Gagahan-Douglas’ upsetting loss of a US senatorial race in 1950 against Richard M. Nixon. Anne is approached by her Stanford law school friend Natalie (Nat) Gottlieb, now a tax lawyer for a law firm in San Francisco.

Trial lawyer Eddie Terrell's professional life is prospering. His personal life is a dumpster fire. Usually racing to the prize fight, Eddie comes to the realization that he needs to beat a hasty retreat from the enticing flames and recalibrate on his own impulsive and subjective terms. Wishing to expand his professional interests by accomplishing something on the darker side, Eddie decides to head an investment scheme with a promising payoff. Of course, there are risks that must be navigated, risks that might require dangerously effective actions.

After the narrator is forced to resign his position as a Navy JAG, he takes a position as a criminal defense attorney with a charismatic county public defender known for reckless behavior. When his boss dies in a car accident, Narrator is left alone to continue taking on clients. Shortly thereafter, he's assigned the case of Scotty Watts, a high-school classmate charged with murder. Scotty was found mopping up a pool of blood on the floor of his cabin and doesn't remember anything about the evening in question. As Narrator earnestly works the case, his mind starts to unravel....

One freezing December night, the body of young, vulnerable Lizzie Barnsley is found on the side of an isolated canal. When blood from her stiletto heel matches that on a wound on the head of Peter Box, police swiftly declare him the prime suspect in her murder. Criminal lawyer Dan Grant is called in to provide Peter Box’s legal defense, along with investigator Jayne Brett. They need answers from Box - but he’s not talking.

Una nuova e appassionante sfida per l'avvocato Joe Dillard: a volte etica e giustizia seguono vie diverse, non sempre conciliabili... Un'intera famiglia di quattro persone viene massacrata senza pietà nelle campagne del Tennessee. Due settimane dopo, segue un altro violento omicidio che vede coinvolti un professore in pensione e la sua amata moglie. Tutti gli indizi sembrano portare a due ragazzi seguaci di Satana, sospettati di essere i responsabili di entrambi i delitti.

L'avvocato Josie Baylor-Bates è impegnata in un nuovo e delicato caso, quando il suo compagno, l'ex poliziotto Archer, viene accusato di aver ucciso il proprio figliastro. L'inattesa scoperta della paternità del suo uomo lascia Josie incredula e delusa, senza tuttavia impedirle di assumerne la difesa. Ma i numerosi dettagli che emergono dal passato di Archer gettano continue ombre sulla sua innocenza e minano la loro relazione.

Twenty-two years ago, Ike Rossi’s life was shattered when his parents were murdered in cold blood. He surrendered his football scholarship and returned home to find their killer and raise his nine-year-old sister. Now, the crime of a local 10-year-old genius, Jack Cole, threatens to unearth old wounds rather than provide the closure Ike desperately wants.