AmongReaders.com Add a tiny library
📚 AmongReaders — track what you read, talk chapter by chapter without spoilers, and read with friends. Free.Join AmongReadersSign in

🧲 Books like this

Malice Prepense

Kate Wilhelm · back to the book

What’s in it

Tap a tag: ❤ = this matters to me · tap again ✕ = don’t care · again to reset. The list below updates each time.

24 books with the same feel

Include books by the same author
❤️

The Case of the Terrified Typist

Erle Stanley Gardner · 190 pages

Perry hires a temporary typist who flees in a panic, leaving behind a pair of diamonds hidden in a wad of chewing gum. Down the hall from Perry's office, a co-owner of a gem importing company has been charged in a smuggling scheme, and with murdering his accomplice. Mason agrees to defend the accused man, who would rather die than cooperate. And he just might--unless Mason can track down the terri

Legal ThrillerCourtroom DramaCourtroomDetective Protagonist
❤️

The Motive

John Lescroart · 448 pages

Legal ThrillerCourtroom DramaCourtroomDetective Protagonist
❤️

The Reversal

Michael Connelly

Legal ThrillerCourtroomCourtroom DramaDetective Protagonist
❤️

Weighed in the Balance

Anne Perry · 400 pages

"When Countess Zorah Rostova sweeps into the office of London barrister Sir Oliver Rathbone and asks him to defend her against a serious charge of slander, he is astonished to find himself accepting. For, from what he learns of the case, a defense of the countess can only earn him notoriety.". "Twenty years earlier, Countess Zorah's countryman Prince Friedrich had abdicated his throne to marry a

Legal ThrillerCourtroom DramaCourtroomDetective Protagonist
❤️

Obstruction of Justice

Perri O'Shaughnessy · 529 pages

Legal ThrillerCourtroom DramaCourtroomMystery
❤️

One Dog Night

David Rosenfelt · 387 pages

Defense lawyer Andy Carpenter takes on a cold case when the suspected murderer turns out to be the man who saved his beloved dog.

Legal ThrillerCourtroom DramaCourtroomDetective Protagonist
❤️

Rough Justice

Lisa Scottoline · 416 pages

Legal ThrillerCourtroom DramaCourtroomMystery
❤️

The Guilty Plea

Robert Rotenberg · 336 pages

Legal ThrillerCourtroom DramaCourtroomDetective Protagonist
❤️

House Rules

Jodi Picoult · 532 pages

Courtroom DramaCourtroomLegal ThrillerMystery
❤️

Violent Crimes

Phillip Margolin · 289 pages

Hired to represent the estranged eco-warrior son of an oil and coal interests lawyer who has been found murdered, lawyer Amanda Jaffe searches for the identity of the true killer when she learns that the suspect has only confessed to promote a cause. Dale Masterson, senior partner in a large Portland, Oregon, law firm, has become wealthy and successful representing the interests of oil and coal c

Legal ThrillerCourtroom DramaCourtroomMystery
❤️

Murder One

William Bernhardt · 319 pages

Legal ThrillerCourtroom DramaCourtroomMystery
❤️

Special Circumstances

Sheldon Siegel · 470 pages

Introducing an electrifying new voice in legal fiction--in a phenomenal thriller unlike anything you've read before...Debut author Sheldon Siegel bursts into the legal arena with a riveting courtroom drama, exposing the world of big-time law firms and lawyers in a sharp-witted, wonderfully sardonic page-turner of a novel.Meet Mike Daley. Ex-priest. Ex-public defender. Ex-husband. And as of yesterd

Legal ThrillerCourtroomCourtroom DramaMystery
❤️

The Trial

Robert Whitlow · 445 pages

Legal ThrillerCourtroom DramaCourtroomMystery
❤️

Rumpole on Trial

John Mortimer · 256 pages

Legal ThrillerCourtroomCourtroom DramaMystery
❤️

The Last Juror

John Grisham · 429 pages

Courtroom DramaCourtroomLegal ThrillerMystery
❤️

Involuntary Witness

Gianrico Carofiglio · 274 pages

A nine-year-old boy is found murdered at the bottom of a well near a beach in southern Italy and a Senegalese peddler is accused of the crime.

Legal ThrillerCourtroom DramaCourtroomMystery
❤️

Privileged Witness

Rebecca Forster · 384 pages

Legal ThrillerCourtroomCourtroom DramaMystery
❤️

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

Legal ThrillerCourtroomCourtroom DramaFemale Lead
❤️

Her Deadly Game

Robert Dugoni · 396 pages

Legal ThrillerCourtroom DramaCourtroomFemale Lead
❤️

Sandrine's Case

Thomas H. Cook · 341 pages

Samuel Madison always wondered what Sandrine saw in him. He's a meek, stuffy doctorate student, and she's a brilliant, beautiful bohemian with limitless talent and imagination. Yet on the surface their marriage seemed perfectly tranquil. Then one night Sandrine is found dead in their bed from a deadly overdose of pain medication and alcohol, and Samuel is accused of poisoning her. As the truth of

Courtroom DramaCourtroomLegal ThrillerMystery
❤️

The Stepmother

Simon Tolkien · 344 pages

Legal ThrillerCourtroom DramaCourtroomMystery
❤️

Prime Witness

Steve Martini · 405 pages

A series of bizarre murders leads to the arrest of a prime suspect and sparks the most explosive trial in lawyer Paul Madriani's career.

Legal ThrillerCourtroom DramaCourtroomMystery
❤️

The Letter of the Law

Tim Green · 352 pages

Legal ThrillerCourtroom DramaCourtroomFemale Lead
❤️

Escape

Robert K. Tanenbaum · 520 pages

Legal ThrillerCourtroomCourtroom DramaDetective Protagonist

In the works

To be read SpinnerCan’t pick your next book? Spin your Want to read.Blind date with a bookPick a mood, unwrap a surprise.Add a tiny librarySnap a little free library and its books.