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Legal Thrillers
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Mystery fiction with a legal bent: lawyers, judges and other legal professionals as protagonists, or where a court is a predominant setting.
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Ashford, Jeffrey Criminal Innocence Lawyer Steven Drury is caught in an impossible dilemma when the man he identified as his attacker threatens to kill a young woman if he doesn't recant his statement. 2010 Adult Fiction Book |
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Bauer, Sydney Alibi In the hallowed halls of Deane University, America's privileged youth allow nothing and no one to jeopardize their ambitions -- until a wealthy heiress is brutally murdered, and Boston defense attorney David Cavanaugh is forced into the case. His protege, a Deane law student, has been accused of the crime. David soon realizes that the odds are against him, as he is led down a road where every ally is an enemy in disguise, and where privilege means anyone can get away with murder. 2009 Adult Fiction Book BAUER |
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Bernhardt, William Death Row Attorney Ben Kincaid defends a man accused of a mass murder. When the woman who helped convict him--whom Ben suspects of perjury--turns up dead, only Ben can hunt down a killer determined to cover his tracks. 2003 Adult Fiction Book BERNHAR |
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Buffa, Dudley W. Trial By Fire Joseph Antonelli, San Francisco defense lawyer, finds himself in the case of his career, when his client, accused of murdering a wealthy man's wife, is demonized by the media manipulation of the wealthy man. 2005 Adult Fiction Book |
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Burke, Alafair Judgment Calls A seemingly simple, open-and-shut trial involving a brutal attack on a thirteen-year-old girl draws Deputy D.A. Samantha Kincaid into a complex and dangerous case that takes her on dark trail leading to a high-profile death penalty case, a prostitution ring of underage girls, and a potential serial killer. 2003 Adult Mystery Book BURKE |
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Campbell, Gordon Missing Witness Recent law-school grad Douglas McKenzie takes his first job, in Phoenix, AZ, passing up an offer from a blue-chip firm for a chance to work with legendary defense attorney Dan Morgan. When the hard-drinking, chain-smoking ex-marine asks Doug to help him with a huge murder case, McKenzie knows it will be the trial of his life. 2007 Adult Fiction Book CAMPBEL |
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Connelly, Michael The Reversal : a Novel After 24 years in prison, convicted killer Jason Jessup has been exonerated by new DNA evidence. Longtime defense attorney Mickey Haller is convinced Jessup is guilty, and he takes the case on the condition that he gets to choose his investigator, LAPD Detective Harry Bosch. Together, Bosch and Haller set off on a case fraught with political and personal danger. Opposing them is Jessup, now out on bail, a defense attorney who excels at manipulating the media, and a runaway eyewitness reluctant to testify after so many years. 2010 Adult Fiction Book |
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Connors, Rose Temporary Sanity After leaving the District Attorney's office, Marty Nickerson tackles a difficult first case in her defense of a client who shot his son's presumed killer on television and refuses to enter in a plea of insanity, his only available means of defense. 2003 Adult Fiction Book CONNORS |
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Dobbyn, John F. Neon Dragon A man is murdered during Boston's Chinese New Year celebrations. The man arrested for the crime is the son of a judge, who asks Michael Knight to defend the accused in court. With colleague Lex Devlin's help, Knight navigates the treacherous world of Chinese organized crime, drugs, and political corruption. 2007 Adult Fiction Book DOBBYN |
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Ellis, David Breach of Trust Blaming himself for the deaths of his wife, his infant daughter, and an informant a year earlier, vigilante Jason Kolarich is forced by the FBI to bring down the organization of a corrupt governor of Illinois, a case that reveals devastating truths about his family's deaths. 2011 Adult Fiction Book |
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Fairstein, Linda A. The Bone Vault When a recently deceased body is discovered in an ancient Egyptian sarcophagus during a donor gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Assistant DA Alex Cooper must infiltrate New York's museum society to catch a killer. 2003 Adult Fiction Book FAIRSTEIN |
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Gimenez, Mark The Color of Law A partner at an elite Dallas law firm, Scott Fenney is forced to choose between his conscience and his wealthy, privileged lifestyle when he assigned to defend pro bono Shawanda Jones, a heroin-addicted prostitute. She is accused of murdering Clark McCall, the ne-er-do-well son of a millionaire Texas senator and presidential candidate. 2005 Adult Fiction Book GIMENEZ |
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Hart, John The King of Lies Jackson Workman's life and legal practice are in shambles. When his father Ezra is murdered, the large fortune he left behind makes Workman not only a grieving son, but, along with his sister, a suspect in his father's murder. He must fight to save his sister, clear his name, regain his wife's love, and above all, redeem himself. 2006 Adult Mystery Book HART |
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Horan, Ellen 31 Bond Street : a Novel Committed to justice and the law, New York City defense attorney Henry Clinton will aid the vulnerable widow Emma Cunningham in her desperate fight to save herself from the gallows as they both seek to discover who killed Dr. Harvey Burdell. 2010 Adult Fiction Book |
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Horn, Stephen In her Defense Frank O'Connell is a former top prosecutor who walked away from both a lucrative Washington law firm and his wife, the daughter of the firm's senior partner. He is offered a chance to return to the big time when he is hired by Ashley Brandon, a beautiful socialite who stands accused of murdering the former Secretary of Commerce. She freely admits that she did it, blaming Garvey for her father's suicide. Determined to save his client, O'Connell ignores the obvious facts and begins to dig through conflicting information. Using old friends and contacts, he finds information that could blow the case wide open, exposing old secrets and important people. 2000 Adult Fiction Book HORN |
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Hosp, David Among Thieves Members of Boston's criminal underground are turning up dead. When Scott Finn learns that one of his clients, Devon Malley, was part of a $300 million artwork heist, he's quickly drawn into the crossfire, and into the renewed hunt for the missing artwork--a hunt that may cost Finn and his colleagues their lives. 2010 Adult Fiction Book |
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Jacobs, Jonnie Cold Justice After the brutal murder of her best friend, which bears a startling resemblance to the victims of the Bayside Strangler, (who was recently executed), San Francisco lawyer Kali O'Brien fears that the wrong man was sentenced to death and must re-open a case thought to be solved in order to catch the real killer. 2002 Adult Mystery Book JACOBS |
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Lashner, William. Fatal Flaw Late one night, Philadelphia lawyer Victor Carl gets a panicked phone call from old law school classmate Gut Forrest, who has just found his fiancie lying murdered in their house. The victim is Hailey Prouix, for whose love Guy had abandoned his wife and children and life. Convinced that Guy is Hailey's killer, Victor agrees to represent him, all the while vowing to see justice done - whatever the cost. 2003 Adult Fiction Book LASHNER |
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Lescroart, John T. Nothing but the Truth In an effort to save his wife Franny, lawyer Dismas Hardy investigates the murder of a woman thrown out of a window. The victim was his wife's friend and Franny has been jailed for refusing to reveal a secret which the other confided to her. 1999 Adult Fiction Book LESCROART |
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Levine, Paul Trial and Error: A Solomon vs. Lord Novel Miami attorney Steve Solomon and his partner (and lover) Victoria Lord find themselves on opposite sides of a high-profile case involving dolphin kidnapping ecoterrorists that could generate big-time publicity for their law firm. 2007 Adult Mystery Book LEVINE |
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