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Despite all that was revealed about Ian Ramsey's crimes during the Hope Kane criminal trial, Ramsey is still walking the streets as a free man. Prosecutors are hesitant to indict a powerful man like Ian Ramsey, unless they are presented with irrefutable evidence that will guarantee a conviction. Until Ramsey is tried and convicted of his crimes, Hope and her friends, Edward Miller and Annie Sharpe, must live each day in fear of Ramsey taking revenge...
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Siete testigos juraron decir la verdad. Todos mintieron.
Una madre injustamente acusada. Un pueblo entero en su contra.
¿Hasta dónde llegarías para proteger a quienes amas?
Es el primer día del juicio, y allí están todos. En Miracle Creek ha llegado la hora de saber qué fue lo que pasó ese día, hace justo un año, cuando el trágico incendio de aquella cápsula hiperbárica cambió la vida de todos para siempre.
¿Es posible que sea verdad...
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Hope Scott...
She's a beautiful New York heiress who will do anything for love, including pulling strings with a ruthless power broker to advance her husband's judicial career. But she doesn't know the hidden price; a blackmail, the rape of her trust fund, and perhaps the ruin of her marriage.
Judge Paul Murray...
He fought his way up from his working-class Irish roots to the Federal bench. Tough and honest, dedicated to the law, he relishes sitting...
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West Virginia attorney, Jack Fabian, is a battle-tested, hard-drinking personal injury trial lawyer concentrating his practice on medical malpractice plaintiffs' cases. He's developed a penchant for big spending, expensive airplanes, top-shelf booze, and luxury vacations. In 2005, he finds himself feeling the adverse effects of the recently enacted, repressive medical malpractice tort reform law in his state that has dulled his enthusiasm for the...
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A wickedly funny debut novel about a high-powered lawyer whose shockingly candid blog about life inside his firm threatens to destroy him
He's a hiring partner at one of the world's largest law firms. Brilliant yet ruthless, he has little patience for associates who leave the office before midnight or steal candy from the bowl on his secretary's desk. He hates holidays and paralegals. And he's just started a weblog to tell the world about what life...
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First published in 1926. Mrs Bentley has been arrested for murder. The evidence is overwhelming: arsenic she extracted from fly papers was in her husband's medicine, his food and his lemonade, and her crimes are being plastered across the newspapers. Even her lawyers believe she is guilty. But Roger Sheringham, the brilliant but outspoken young novelist, is convinced that there is 'too much evidence' against Mrs Bentley and sets out to prove her innocence....
7) Final Appeal
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A charismatic defense lawyer faces a horrific case where nothing is as it seems in this international bestselling thriller perfect for fans of Steve Cavanaugh and John Grisham. Now streaming on Amazon Prime Video and PBS as The Defence. When whip-smart criminal defense lawyer Joanna Chylka is tasked with defending the son of her law firm's biggest client, she is stumped for the first time in her career. Her client, Piotr Langer Jr, does not admit...
8) The Trial
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A young boy dying of a lethal disease... A corporation's greed is the cause... Avery Collins must get justice and possibly find the person who can save his life... Avery Collins, social justice warrior, has a new case, only it's not a criminal case. Not yet, anyway. 7 year old Frankie Jamison is dying, and nobody quite knows why. Avery knows Frankie through Regina, as Frankie is the son of Lorinda, one of Regina's best friends from the street. Lorinda...
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Hace cuatro meses William E. Townsend Jr., el hijo de un senador republicano de Nueva Jersey fue asesinado en un motel de mala muerte, cerca de Atlantic City. Sharise Barnes, una prostituta trans de diecinueve años, está detenida y todo indica que es la culpable. Erin McCabe es abogada defensora criminalista y este caso es el más importante de su carrera. Sabe que defender a Sharise pondrá al desnudo su propia vida. Pero como mujer trans, siente...
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In the second title in the Suspicion series, Suspicion of Guilt, Gail has the biggest case of her life-a career maker and a guarantee that partnership will soon be hers-until she discovers that a suspected forgery is only the top layer of a cover-up for brutal murder and a step into deep conspiracy and deadly risk. Suspicion of Guilt is the 2nd book in the Suspicion series, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.
11) Point of Order
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In this explosive legal thriller, Judge David Norcross enters dangerous terrain when a favor to a colleague lands him a fifty-year-old homicide case.
The defendant, Dominic O'Connell-with the help of his gangster uncle-is one of Boston's most charming and successful businessmen. His rise from poverty to power is the stuff of local legend. But when a dying hitman fingers O'Connell for the long-ago, unsolved murder of a city police officer, his...
12) The Prosecutor
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Two attorneys with everything to lose fight for justice in THE PROSECUTOR by USA TODAY bestselling author Adrienne Giordano
Chicago assistant state's attorney Zac Hennings just got handed a political hot potato: keeping the convicted murderer in a high-profile case behind bars. He's up against his most formidable-;and alluring-;adversary. First-year law student Emma Sinclair is passionately fighting to free her brother. But she needs the take-no-prisoners...
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An innocent woman charged with murder. A conspiracy at the highest level. A greedy corporation brought to its knees... Damien's mother, Olivia, is being charged with murder. At first glance, Damien thinks that the murder charge is flimsy at best. Olivia's friend, Dr. Tracy Dunham, died at her home of an apparent drug overdose. Olivia insists that she was simply sitting in her home, minding her own business, when Dr. Dunham came over to crash on her...
14) El crítico
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Un Thriller real vivido por el mayor especialista en ficción. Un implacable crítico de cine sospecha que parte de su vida pudo haber sido una farsa; una gran ficción. Se convierte así en protagonista de una historia que nunca hubiera considerado creíble de haberla visto reflejada en una película.Llegó el momento de descubrir quién es quién en el reparto: su mujer, su hija a la que perdió cuando tenía tres años, sus amigos, los que le rodean.Una...
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Cuando una adolescente tailandesa sufre una sobredosis durante una operación de tráfico de estupefacientes, todas las pistas conducen a Danilo Peña, el criminal que se ha convertido en bestia negra y principal objetivo de Jana Berzelius, una joven fiscal aficionada a las artes marciales. Deseosa de borrar todo rastro de su traumática infancia, Berzelius debe perseguir en secreto a Danilo, con el que comparte un horrendo pasado.
Entretanto, la...
16) Grave Designs
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Best of the West 2019 – 2nd Place in 20th- to 21st-Century Western Mystery Fiction by TrueWest Magazine
"Wortham's writing style is easygoing, relying on natural-sounding dialogue and vivid descriptions to give us the feeling that this story could well have taken place." -Booklist
As the 1960s draw to a close, the rural northeast Texas community of Center Springs is visited by two nondescript government men in dark suits and shades. They say their...
17) The Alibi
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The wife of a gangster is accused of offing him. Damien soon finds that nobody is who they seem - quite literally. But to defend his client, he must break every ethical rule. Damien Harrington is fresh off his come from behind victory when he's thrust into yet another harrowing scenario. Gina Degrazio, wife to Vittorio Degrazio, notorious gangster, stands accused of Vittorio's murder. Gina's a tough-talking native New Yorker who was transplanted...
18) Reasonable Doubt
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A famous artist murdered. A prime suspect with memory loss. A shocking revelation. A prominent artist from New York City, in town for a show, is found brutally murdered in the back of an art gallery. A prominent gay art dealer stands accused of the murder. He fears he might have done it. He doesn't remember if he did or not. Damien must get at the truth, which is made more difficult by the fact that even his client doesn't know the truth about what...
19) Firm Ambitions
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Storm Kayama and her partner Ian Hamlin are excited to get away from Honolulu for the weekend. While they will both be doing work on this trip, it is a much needed break from the routine. Storm is supposed to check on an old friendas diabetic son. This should be easy, but when the boyas mother, Jenny Williams, turns up dead, Storm must find the boy before the murderers do.
In the meantime, Ian is investigating the disappearance of Brock Liu, the...
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Si quienes leyeron "El Instituto", pensaron que habían llegado hasta lo más oscuro y más demente que podía escribir este autor, estaban equivocados. Les faltaba esta colección de 7 historias de oscuridad y demencia. Cierto que "El Instituto" puede ser más gráfico en sus descripciones, pero cada una de estas nuevas historias es mucho peor en cuanto a la oscuridad y la deshumanización necesarias de sus personajes para llegar a cometer los crímenes...