On her deathbed, Paul Madriani's wife made him promise to look after her younger sister Laurel Vega. Locked in a custody battle with her former husband Jack, Laurel stands to lose her two teenagers. Suddenly the heated custody battle becomes a murder trial when Jack's new wife is found murdered in the bathroom of his opulent home-only moments after a hot exchange with Laurel on her front porch. As the evidence mounts, Paul faces a chilling realization...

Martini delivers Paul Madriani's most challenging case yet: one pitting a drug-addicted mother against her daughter's newly rich grandfather in a contentious custody case that leads to criminal accusations and ultimately murder. Having moved to San Diego to be closer to the woman in his life, Madriani takes on the case of Jonah Hale, an elderly man in terrible straits. As a result of their only child Jessica's longtime drug addiction, Jonah and his...

When a lawyer friend and his client are murdered outside the San Diego courthouse, attorney Paul Madriani fears he may have been the actual target and takes the case of a suspect he believes may hold the answers.

A hate crime involving the murder of a legal scholar who had made his career by penning controversial works places defense attorney Paul Madriani in a media spotlight that compromises his investigation into an elusive witness within the cloistered confines of the Supreme Court.

After a career terrorist threatens to destroy the Supreme Court in a single horrible act, defense attorney Paul Madriani must put his life on the line in order to stop the sinister deed before it comes to fruition.

Defense attorney Paul Madriani uncovers a morass of double-dealing and murder that leads him to the very highest levels of American political power