Legal Crime Fiction

Conrad Wilson, an ex-detective, had less than a month to live. The date of his execution by lethal injection was scheduled for June 1. All legal avenues had been exhausted—the governor of New Hampshire refused to review his case. The only problem was Conrad Wilson was innocent, but no one cared. Or, rather, everyone that cared wanted him executed. His only chance to escape certain death was Judge Regan St. Clair and Jake Westley. Did they have enough time to stop the execution?

Five years ago, when Akash Hingorani won a trial in court for his friends Priti and Vansh Diwan, he lost his heart to the presiding judge, Shilpa Singh. But the passionate start to their relationship would meet a swift end. And then, nine months after the affair is over, Akash gets a call for help from Judge Shilpa Singh.

When old-school journalist William Carver is tipped off by a trusted Whitehall source that climate scientists have begun to go missing in suspicious circumstances, his gut instinct tells him to follow the story. It rapidly becomes clear that scientists, green campaigners and well-intentioned politicians are in the firing line; William Carver and his colleagues must move fast to find out who is behind the disappearances. They know the journalist's job is to speak truth to power - but first you must uncover that truth and this time it's buried deeper than ever.

Esattamente un anno dopo la cattura di Warren Hoyt, il serial killer soprannominato il Chirurgo, un nuovo incubo è calato su Boston. Come uno spettro, l’assassino si introduce nelle case. Per giorni studia giovani coppie, poi le sorprende nel sonno, stordisce il marito, lo lega costringendolo a guardare le violenze subite dalla moglie e alla fine gli taglia la gola. Della giovane donna, nessuna traccia. Rimane solo la firma del serial killer che giornalisti e poliziotti chiamano già il Dominatore: la camicia da notte della vittima macchiata di sangue ma ordinatamente ripiegata su una sedia.

Als David Child wegen Mordes verhaftet wird, wendet sich das FBI an Strafverteidiger Eddie Flynn: Er soll Child vertreten und dazu bringen, als Zeuge gegen eine skrupellose Firma auszusagen, die im Verdacht steht, an einem globalen Betrug beteiligt zu sein. Eddie bleibt keine Wahl, denn das FBI erpresst ihn mit belastenden Akten über seine Ehefrau Christine. Als er Child zum ersten Mal trifft, weiß er, dass der Mann unschuldig ist, auch wenn die Beweise gegen ihn überwältigend scheinen.

Ten years ago, Sebastian Croll was found not guilty of murdering his playmate. Criminal solicitor Daniel Hunter defended the 11-year-old in a trial that gripped the nation, but the past is unearthed when Daniel gets a call from his old client. Sebastian's university professor has been brutally murdered, and everyone who knew her is in the frame. As Daniel steps in to represent Sebastian for the second time, rumour of his client's identity spreads like wildfire.

Kylie Tate and Alex finally have the life they have been dreaming of. Happily married, they are enjoying their honeymoon in the Colorado Rockies. But when Kylie is kidnapped, their lives are thrown into turmoil once again. Once rescued, the kidnapper disappears, but not without leaving behind clues to his identity. The man who escaped from prison…Alex’s father, James Wells. Soon, his body is discovered on Alex Stone’s estate. The cause of death—murder. When James Wells’ body is found in the boathouse on the Stone estate, all the evidence points to one man—Alex.

She said…all three men got her drunk, led her to a hotel room, and took advantage of her. Three said…she was a willing participant and consented to sex with each of them. But after five weeks of listening to all of the evidence and all of the arguments in a celebrity rape trial that has gripped an entire nation, the jury sits down to begin their deliberations. Only they don’t know who to believe…will you?

Clay Carter lleva así demasiado tiempo y, como la mayoría de sus colegas, sueña con un puesto mejor en un bufete de verdad. Cuando acepta, sin muchas ganas, el caso de un hombre joven al que acusan de un tiroteo callejero con víctimas, asume que simplemente es uno más de los tantos asesinatos absurdos que se cometen en Washington D.C. cada semana. Mientras investiga el pasado de su cliente, Clay destapa una conspiración demasiado horrible para ser cierta. De repente se encuentra en medio de un complejo caso contra una de las mayores compañías farmacéuticas del mundo.

On the heels of her 13-year-old son’s suicide, public defender Andrea Harrison throws herself into her work. In trying to uncover the truth about her serial-killer client, she follows his exploits on a cross-country odyssey - only to discover, instead, a bombshell that will turn her life upside down.

That’s what I had to decide. I had it all. At least that’s what people told me. Beauty, brains, and a rich husband. I deserved it too. My fiancé had cheated on me with my best friend. But, I won in the end, or at least I thought I had. Until Christmas of 1999. My ex-fiancé, Danny, showed up at my parents’ house, wanting to talk to my father. Danny’s a police officer, and my father’s a retired officer. A six-year-old girl had disappeared without a trace, resembling a case my father had worked on years earlier.

In this pulse-pounding thriller that will keep you guessing to the very last minute, Denver homicide detective Nick Teffinger finds himself in a deadly game with an elusive killer who has given a young lawyer a chance to save his next victim.

Legal investigator Finley O’Sullivan searches for evidence the police overlooked, wading through secrets, lies, and betrayal to find answers. With the unsolved murder of her husband still very much on her mind, Finley must confront her own personal trauma on a daily basis. Lies are part of her livelihood, but they’re also the reason she can’t get justice for the man she loved. When a man imprisoned for murder recants his confession, claiming he cleaned up the mess for his girlfriend—the victim’s own daughter—Finley takes on the case.

In this pulse-pounding thriller that will keep you guessing until the very last minute, a beautiful young lawyer is hired by a colleague to find out if one of his clients is trying to kill him.

Brilliant but burnt-out English lawyer Ella Blake accepts an apparently simple brief: Investigate the mysterious disappearance of an African American polymath from his room at Cambridge University. The inquiry quickly becomes the greatest challenge of her life - solving the mystery of Genesis. Facing danger at every turn, can Ella find the answers to the riddles and clues left by the missing genius? Reunited with her estranged daughter, the inquiry sends them on a quest across the world and through ancient texts.

Elsa Bradshaw is 18. Despite a tough start - never knowing her father, and barely seeing her mother who’d rather be chasing men - she’s grown up with her grandmother’s values and a desire to build a better life. But will falling for local bad boy Clayton change all that? Pamela Maylett seems to have everything - as wife of local lap-dancing-club owner Jordan, she’s got money, influence and plenty of life’s little luxuries. But is her beautiful home also her prison? She knows her husband is surrounded by women at work - after all, she was dancing when she met him.

There is no man richer than a man without a price... Jack Kowalski is a young and newly qualified barrister, who finds himself working on the biggest drugs importation trial ever played out on English soil. With the assistance of his equally inexperienced instructing solicitor, Lara Panassai, Jack argues a savage cut-throat defence a risky tactic where the defendants blame each other and quickly embroils some of the most eminent QCs in the land.

Stephen Brasch, a young American lawyer working for the Rockefeller Foundation, comes to Thailand to ‘do good'. When Brasch blows the whistle on a scandalous plot involving Thai government ministers, British and American businessmen and even the most celebrated US presidential candidate of modern times, he finds himself face-to-face with a prime minister who is renowned for taking a gun out of his office drawer and using it.

Elitsoldaterna Simon och Ahmed får ett topphemligt uppdrag: Sök upp Gamen och döda honom. Den svenske IS-jihadisten "Gamen" är ett hot mot rikets säkerhet. Han har blod på sina händer. Varken regeringen eller militären vill att han ska komma levande hem från kalifatet. Men ordern att döda en svensk medborgare strider mot grundlagen - och är politisk dynamit. I Syrien går allt åt helvete. Ahmed avrättas. Simon får djupa sår i både kropp och själ. Ett år senare får Simon syn på Gamen på en kebabsylta hemma i Sverige. Eller såg han i syne?

Dr. Jason White and Ricky Gold, a former professor and defense attorney in New York City, find themselves blacklisted from their professions after Jason is denied tenure and Ricky is disbarred from the legal profession. Desperation leads the two to start working as consultants for a new Mexican cartel. Soon, their academic prowess helps the cartel make millions of dollars, and the criminal organization expands its operations and revolutionizes the way business is conducted in the criminal underworld through data science.