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The Widow

John Grisham · 416 pages

'A classic, compulsive, taut and thrilling novel from one of the great storytellers of our time. No one does it better' CHRIS WHITAKER SHE NEEDS A LAWYER. HE NEEDS A PAYDAY. Lawyer Simon Latch is struggling with debt, gambling issues and an impending divorce. But when Eleanor Barnett, an 85-year-old widow, visits his office to secure a new will, it seems his luck has finally changed: she claims sh

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Poison

John Lescroart · 293 pages

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The Fifth Witness

Michael Connelly · 421 pages

Mickey Haller has fallen on tough times. He expands his business into foreclosure defense, only to see one of his clients accused of killing the banker she blames for trying to take away her home. Mickey puts his team into high gear to exonerate Lisa Trammel, even though the evidence and his own suspicions tell him his client is guilty. Soon after he learns that the victim had black market dealing

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Presumed Innocent

Scott Turow · 431 pages

Hailed as the most suspenseful and compelling novel in decades. Presumed Innocent brings to life our worst nightmare: that of an ordinary citizen facing conviction for the most terrible of all crimes. It's the stunning portrayal of one man's all-too-human, all-consuming fatal attraction for a passionate woman who is not his wife, and the story of how his obsession puts everything he loves and valu

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The Case Against William

Mark Gimenez · 400 pages

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Blind Justice

William Bernhardt · 314 pages

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The Arraignment

Steve Martini · 403 pages

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High Crimes

Joseph Finder · 388 pages

Claire Heller Chapman has the perfect life. She's a Harvard law professor and a high-profile criminal defense attorney known for taking on - and winning - tough cases. But one day this perfect life is shattered when her husband Tom Chapman is suddenly arrested by a team of government agents and accused of a brutal crime he insists he didn't commit. As Claire finds herself drawn closer into a web

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The Criminal Lawyer: (A Good Lawyer Novel)

Thomas Benigno · 406 pages

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Th1rt3en

Steve Cavanagh · 356 pages

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The Last Alibi

David Ellis · 465 pages

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 main suspect. One woman was his ex girlfriend and the other was a friend. He's the only link between the victims and he has no alibi for the night of either

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A Calamity of Souls

David Baldacci

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The Defendants

John Ellsworth · 312 pages

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The Last Innocent Man

Phillip Margolin · 352 pages

Defense attorney David Nash has made a career out of setting monsters free -- and no one does it better. Now a case has come to "The Ice Man" that could help cleanse Nash of the guilt and doubts that torment him: that rarest of all defendants, an innocent man. A fellow lawyer has been accused of a heinous crime -- the brutal murder of an undercover vice cop. But the case that is supposed to be Nas

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Most Dangerous Place

James Grippando · 356 pages

Jack signs on to defend an old school friend's wife who is accused of murdering her college rapist, but he finds the case unexpectedly complicated by the woman's tortured family history and conflicting testimony from an ex-boyfriend.

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The Neon Lawyer

Victor Methos · 165 pages

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A Case of Redemption

Adam Mitzner · 405 pages

"Dan Sorensen was once a high-powered New York City defense attorney--but that was before a horrifying accident killed the two people in his life who meant the most, plunging him into a downward spiral. As he approaches rock bottom, Dan is unexpectedly offered the opportunity of a lifetime: defend an up-and-coming rapper in a murder trial on the front page of every newspaper. Although his client s

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Conviction

Richard North Patterson · 500 pages

When the body of nine-year old Thuy Sen is found in the San Francisco Bay, the police quickly charge Rennell and Payton Price with her grisly murder. A twelve-person jury, abetted by an incompetent defense lawyer, is nearly as quick to find the brothers guilty, and to sentence them both to die for their crimes.Fifteen years later, overworked pro bono laywer Teresa Peralta Paget, her husband Chris,

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Predatory Kill

Kenneth Eade · 234 pages

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House Rules

Jodi Picoult · 532 pages

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The Verdict

Nick Stone · 512 pages

Terry Flynt is a struggling legal clerk, desperately trying to get promoted. And then he is given the biggest opportunity of his career: to help defend a millionaire accused of murdering a woman in his hotel suite. The only problem is that the accused man, Vernon James, turns out to be Terry's sworn enemy - a man who betrayed him and turned all his friends against him at university. This case coul

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Primal Fear

William Diehl · 508 pages

William Diehl has written five previous best-sellers, each of them superb, selling millions of copies around the world. Yet nothing he has done before can prepare you for Primal Fear. In Chicago, a sainted archbishop is slain, mutilated, and dismembered in his rectory. Moments after the murder, an angelic-looking young man, Aaron Sampler, is found crouched in a confessional, covered with blood and

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Directed Verdict

Randy Singer · 485 pages

In Saudi Arabia, two American missionaries are targeted by the infamous religious police--the Muttawa. The man is tortured and killed, his wife arrested on trumped-up charges before being deported to the U.S. Compelled by her story, attorney Brad Carson files an unprecedented civil rights suit against Saudi Arabia and the ruthless head of the Muttawa. But the suit unleashes powerful forces that wi

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The Night Crew

Brian Haig · 419 pages

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