Legal Crime Fiction

On May 23, 1992, a roadside explosion killed the Palermo judge Giovanni Falcone, his wife and three police officers. A few weeks later judge Paolo Borsellino and five police officers were killed in the center of Palermo. These anti-mafia judges became heroes but the violence spread to the region of Bari in Puglia, where we meet a new, memorable character, Maresciallo Pietro Fenoglio, an officer of the Italian Carabinieri. Fenoglio, recently abandoned by his wife, must simultaneously deal with his personal crisis and the new gang wars raging around Bari.

منذ طفولته وحتى بلوغه الثلاثين من عمره، كان (مجد الدين مهران) يحلم بأن يصبح قاضياً يحكم بين الناس بالعدل، وبعد أن حقق حلمه أخيراً وجد أن الشرور لا يجب أن تبقى دائماً خلف القضبان، خاصة عندما اكتشف الكوارث والمعاصي التي يرتكبها القضاة والمستشارون، الذين يتلاعبون بمصائر الناس، مستخدمين القانون سلاحاً لهزيمة خصومهم، وفي الوقت نفسه درعاً يحميهم من المحاسبة! عندها شعر أن القدر اختاره ليقول لهذا الهراء: "كفى!"

A prestigious job at a top law firm, a beautiful home, and a gorgeous wife all made for an ideal life - but then life gets in the way. For Mac McRyan, a family tragedy meant forgoing a lucrative legal career for one in the family business - the St. Paul Police Department. After four years as a cop, Mac crosses the crime scene tape for the first time as a homicide detective. The back alley murder of a young trial lawyer from a high profile law firm doesn't add up.

James Drinker is a bit of an oddball. A funny-looking, geeky loner, he walks into Jason Kolarich’s office one day with a preemptive concern: two women have recently been murdered, seemingly by the same killer, and Drinker thinks he will be the police’s main suspect. One woman was his ex-girlfriend, he says, and the other was a friend. He’s the only link between the victims and he has no alibi for the night of either murder - surely the police will realize it soon. Believing he’s the target of a frame-up, Drinker hires Kolarich for his defense. Something about James Drinker seems off from the start, but Kolarich doesn’t give it too much thought. Until another murder occurs....

Judge Scott Sampson doesn’t brag about having a perfect life, but the evidence is clear: A prestigious job. A loving marriage. A pair of healthy children. Then a phone call begins every parent’s most chilling nightmare. Scott’s six-year-old twins, Sam and Emma, have been taken. The judge must rule exactly as instructed in a drug case he is about to hear. If he refuses, the consequences for the children will be dire.

Five years before the events related in O'Shaughnessy's first Nina Reilly novel, Motion to Supress, Nina is living in Carmel, California, with Bob, her toddler-age son, and working as a paralegal at a law firm while attending law school at night. Additional stress comes from Nina's former boyfriend, Richard Filsen, who thinks she is a bad mother and sues her for custody of her son.

Gifted young New York lawyer Alec Brno gets the career boost of a lifetime: The chance to try a huge fraud case that's making international headlines. But he risks it all when he falls for an alluring young woman whose estranged husband is a sadistic Mafia don - and the criminal mastermind behind Alec's case. This fast-paced legal thriller set in the Mad Men era grabs you and doesn't let go. Moving from Wall Street power centers to Maine fishing towns, Pardon the Ravens follows Alec's journey.

Packend, authentisch, unerbittlich – eine Anwältin und das organisierte Verbrechen. Ein Routinefall, denkt die Münchner Rechtsanwältin Clara Niklas. Der italienische Pizzabäcker Angelo Malafonte wurde mit ein paar Gramm Marihuana erwischt. Aber völlig unerwartet verurteilt der Richter ihn zu achtzehn Monaten Haft. Als Malafonte im Gefängnis zusammengeschlagen wird, beginnt Clara die Angst ihres Mandanten zu verstehen. Aber nur langsam durchschaut sie die wahren Hintergründe des Falles. Und da ist sie schon viel zu tief eingedrungen in eine infame Geschichte von Verrat und Gewalt. Eine Geschichte, aus der es kein Entkommen gibt.

Yesterday John Fontanelli was just a pizza delivery guy in New York City. One day later, he's the richest man in the world. One trillion dollars - one million times one million - $1,000,000,000,000: more money than anyone could imagine. For generations the Vacchis, an old Italian family of lawyers and asset managers, had supervised the fortune as it grew over five hundred years, until one particular date that the benefactor had stipulated in his will.

Sebastian von Eschburg verliert als Kind durch den Selbstmord seines Vaters den Halt. Er versucht, sich durch die Kunst zu retten. Er zeigt mit seinen Fotografien und Videoinstallationen, dass Wirklichkeit und Wahrheit verschiedene Dinge sind. Es geht um Schönheit, Sex und die Einsamkeit des Menschen. Als Eschburg vorgeworfen wird, eine junge Frau getötet zu haben, übernimmt Konrad Biegler die Verteidigung. Der alte Anwalt versucht, dem Künstler zu helfen - und damit sich selbst.

Bunny Simpson is at his usual post behind the counter at a Denver cigarette store when his volatile friend Jerry presents an opportunity: 500 dollars to beat a guy up. Jerry has been dealing steroids to Helen, a lawyer, who is getting rapidly stronger just as she gets more erratic, vengeful towards her cheating ex-husband who she asks Jerry to attack. Bunny’s relatively solid conscience isn’t enough to stop him from biting—Ray, his beloved quasi-uncle, is behind on rent for the apartment they share, and Bunny will do anything to bail him out.

Jill Clark is determined to hold a hospital accountable for the death of her mother, who died during the chaotic early days of the COVID pandemic. Her death was attributed to the virus. But was COVID the cause of death? Adamant that hospital staff essentially murdered her mother through sheer negligence, Jill hires Tony Valenti and Penelope Brooks to sue the hospital. A fissure soon opens in Tony and Penelope's relationship as the case plunges them into a bewildering maze of explosive secrets that hint at alternative explanations—revelations that unleash hidden dangers.

At the rooftop bar of the famed Watergate Hotel in Washington, DC, a former vice president is assassinated. Across the Potomac River, a mysterious sniper leaves a .50 caliber rifle on the bed of his hotel room, then disappears. Crime reporter Jane Cole and NYPD cop Robert Warren have clues no one else has. But as they arrive in DC to investigate, they're hit with a series of cover-ups and misdirections. And as they close in on the killer, they realize that they, too, are being tracked.

Adam Hall lleva apenas un año en uno de los bufetes más prestigiosos de Chicago cuando se presta voluntario para la defensa del caso más difícil que se haya visto en el ramo. Su futuro cliente no quiere ni a Adam ni a su bufete. Es un racista declarado e impenitente, con un historial repleto de violencia. Se encuentra en el corredor de la muerte por el asesinato de dos niños judíos, en un atentado horrible que tuvo lugar en 1967. ¿Por qué iba a querer a un abogado novato como Adam para que le defienda? ¿Y por qué querrá Adam tan desesperadamente llevar este caso?

When the world's most notorious cartel bosses get arrested, they call Benn Bluestone. A drug lawyer sharp enough to exploit loopholes in the system, Bluestone loves the money, the women, the action that come with his career...but working between the lines of justice and crime has taken its toll, and he desperately wants out. He's convinced himself that only an insanely rich client can guarantee him a lavish retirement.

When Pierre, a troubled veteran, discovers that his girlfriend Ellen is an expensive call girl, it’s easy to understand the need to protect what belongs to him. Pierre’s been to war and back and lost brothers fighting wars against an unknown enemy. To discover that the very people Ellen services are profiting off the backs of other soldiers and students like him for their own gain while threatening Ellen’s life was all it took to throw Pierre over the edge.

Three riveting crime thriller novels in one box set! Crime thriller bestseller fans of James Patterson and Michael Connelly will love these heart-stopping mystery thrillers by bestselling author Colleen Cross! Exit Strategy: Blood diamonds and a deadly secret....Game Theory: What money can’t buy, murder can. Blowout: A sinister crime lies deep underwater....

Rudy Baylor es un abogado recién licenciado: tiene un caso, solamente uno, para saldar sus crecientes deudas. En él, debe enfrentarse a una gigantesca compañía de seguros, que podría haber salvado la vida de un hombre joven pero prefirió negarse a sufragar sus gastos médicos hasta que fue demasiado tarde. El litigio se podría cerrar con una condena de varios millones de dólares, pero hay un problema: Rudy no ha hablado nunca ante un tribunal. Y además debe enfrentarse a los abogados más caros, a profesionales que están acostumbrados a moverse entre mares de dinero.

Top global technology lawyer Tornait “Torn” Sagara knows he shouldn’t get involved with his beautiful client, Saya Brooks, whose revolutionary lightning-on-demand invention will solve climate change and render all other energy sources obsolete. But their shared connection as hafu (half Japanese, half American) draws them irresistibly together. Saya’s technology could save the world, but what’s good for the planet is bad news for those who profit from the status quo. Now, someone wants to stop Saya from commercializing her invention and will go to any lengths to do so.

Una novela del autor de superventas de los New York Times y recipiente del premio Raymond Chandler, Don Winslow, acerca del padrino de la mafia Sam Giancana--parecido en estilo y contendio a The Cartel.