Years ago, Oliver Garland--an African-American judge--was nominated to the Supreme Court, but was unable to accept because of a shocking scandal. Now he is dead, and one of his legacies is another scandal, the details of which are enc...
Attorney Paul Madriani is called in to defend Dr. David Crone, a brilliant, respected medical researcher and leader in the mapping of the human genome, after Crone is accused of killing a young colleague, Kalista Jordan, an African-Am...
In a crowded courtroom in Mississippi, a jury returns a shocking verdict against a chemical company accused of dumping toxic waste into a small town’s water supply, causing the worst “cancer cluster” in history. The ...
A man is sitting on a bed. He is my father. The body of a woman is beneath the covers. She was my mother. This is not really where the story starts. Or how it ends. But it is the moment my mind returns to, the way I always see them .....
Dismas Hardy agrees to take an appeal to overturn the murder conviction of National Guard reservist Evan Scholler. Scholler had plenty of reasons for revenge—but as Dismas delves into the case, he begins to uncover a terrible truth ...
Attorney Dismas Hardy is hurled into a world of greed and violence when he makes a horrifying discovery, which threatens his family and his long-standing friendship with homicide lieutenant Abe Glitsky, while representing Dr. Eric Ken...
Assistant DA Alexandra Cooper returns in the new breakneck thriller by the New York Times bestselling author of Death Angel who once again captures the essence of New York City—its glamour, its history, its possibilities, and its en...
Second ChancesTen years have passed since young nurse Sophie Lee was accused of murdering her wealthy patient, Audrey Star. Georgia attorney Mikala Aulani believed her innocence--and Adam Star's guilt--but the prosecution convinced...
Jack Skinner, a thrice-divorced southern Alabama criminal defense lawyer with alimony problems, finds himself representing Brad Caine, a stranger with a positive cash flow indicted for the murder of wealthy Haddie Charles, an elderly ...
An innocent man is about to be executed.Only a guilty man can save him. For every innocent man sent to prison, there is a guilty one left on the outside. He doesn't understand how the police and prosecutors got the wrong man, and he c...
The Second Chair (Dismas Hardy)
John LescroartBored with his life as a legal consultant, lawyer Dismas Hardy agrees to be the second chair for a case being tried by his associate, Amy Wu. Having made a serious legal error, Amy is dependent on Dismas to save her client--a 17-year-...
Young attorney Daniel Ames is fired from his firm after mistakenly giving out damaging, top-secret documents that could cause a major client, Geller Pharmaceuticals, to lose a gargantuan lawsuit. Ames feels that he was set up, and, fu...
In her seventeenth Alexandra Cooper thriller, New York Times bestselling author Linda Fairstein takes readers where they have never been before: Inside the mind of NYPD Detective Mike Chapman.The Manhattan waterfront is one of New Yo...
In Nina O'Reilly's tenth suspenseful outing, the attorney is temporarily away from her home turf in Lake Tahoe, staying with her boyfriend, P. I. Paul van Wagoner, in Monterey, and sorting out how to respond to his marriage proposal. ...
When Dr. Caryn Dryden is found floating dead in her hot tub, homicide inspector Devin Juhle targets a suspect close to home: her husband, Stuart Gorman. After all, Stuart was recently asked for a divorce . . . and he stands to gain mi...
It starts with a double homicide. Because of the high profiles of the victims - a politically connected socialite and his glamorous fianc'e - the mayor of San Francisco herself demands that a high-ranking detective be put on the case....
The echoes of a murder reach deep into the halls of the U.S. Supreme Court in this electrifying new thriller featuring defense attorney Paul Madriani from New York Times bestselling author Steve Martini. Terry Scarborough is a lega...
Defense attorney Jason Kolarich is back in another edge-of-your seat thriller…and this time he may find himself in over his head, in more ways than one.James Drinker is a bit of an oddball. A funny-looking, geeky loner, he walks int...
Taking on a high-profile case involving a recently separated man who has been charged with murdering his highly insured wife, Gina Roake finds herself strangely drawn to her client and hires Wyatt Hunt to help her ascertain his guilt,...
Taking on a high-profile case involving a recently separated man who has been charged with murdering his highly insured wife, Gina Roake finds herself strangely drawn to her client and hires Wyatt Hunt to help her ascertain his guilt,...
The office of the public defender is not known as a training ground for bright young litigators. Clay Carter has been there too long and, like most of his colleagues, dreams of a better job in a real firm. When he reluctantly takes ...
Working as a pilot for cocaine smugglers in Mexico, Teresa Mendoza's boyfriend G'ero flirts with death on a daily basis, and they both know his days are numbered. When the inevitable occurs, Teresa is forced to flee for her life--and ...
Devil's Bridge (An Alexandra Cooper N...
Linda FairsteinIn her seventeenth Alexandra Cooper thriller, New York Times bestselling author Linda Fairstein takes readers where they have never been before: Inside the mind of NYPD Detective Mike Chapman.The Manhattan waterfront is one of New Yo...
Nina has just received a last-minute call from her old boss and mentor in Monterey County, California, where she is enjoying the breathtaking scenery and spending time with her boyfriend, P.I. Paul van Wagoner. Klaus Pohlmann is in de...
Savvy South Philly lawyer Dan Casella and his assistant, Jennifer Lodge, let their passion for each other explode―until betrayal, fraud, and murder place them on opposite sides of the courtroom. Featured in "A Pocket Full of Crime" ...
Jodi Picoult has touched readers deeply with her acclaimed novels, such as Keeping Faith and The Pact. Gifted with 'a remarkable ability to make us share her characters' feelings' (People), Picoult now explores the complex choices of ...
Invasion of Privacy (Nina Reilly)
Perri O'ShaughnessyWhen a documentary filmmaker approaches her to take on a straightforward litigation case, Lake Tahoe lawyer Nina Reilly is eager to begin, but the film holds a clue to a decades-old murder, and when her client turns up dead, Nina inve...
A Plague of Secrets (Dismas Hardy)
John LescroartAn Dismas Hardy, Abe Glitsky, and Wyatt Hunt return When high-grade marijuana is found on a coffee-shop manager murdered in San Francisco, it suggests that the shop's owner, Maya Townshend, may be behind more than a caffeine fix. But ...
This legal/police thriller is the 13th to feature San Francisco police detective Abe Glitsky and defense attorney Dismas "Diz" Hardy. After someone sets Paul Hanover’s Victorian home ablaze, firefighters find the bodie...
The author of Gone, But Not Forgotten delivers a fast-paced legal thriller featuring an arrogant attorney who attempts to improve his character by becoming the public defender of a retarded man on trial for murder. 200,000 first...