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Justice... Once Dismas Hardy was a cop. Now he spends his days in a lawyer's suit, billing hours to a corporate client in a downtown San Francisco office. Hardy's wife and kids like it that way. Then one client changes everything. Compassion... Graham Russo, a former baseball star, is charged with murdering his dying father. Was it suicide, the last desperate act of a dying man? Was it murder? Or mercy? ... (more)

Presumed Innocent

by Scott Turow

Scott Turow's #1 runaway bestseller comes to theaters everywhere as a major motion picture from Warner Bros., starring Harrison Ford, Brian Dennehy, Raul Julia, and Bonnie Bedelia, directed by Alan Pakula, best known for his award-winning work in "Klute." Reissue.

Paul Madriani: Book 6

The Jury

by Steve Martini

Lawyer Paul Madriani is called on to defend a brilliant research physician -- who just may be a killer -- in the most daunting capital case of Madriani's career. Paul Madriani has ample reason to suspect he's representing a guilty man. Dr. David Crone, a respected medical researcher and principal in mapping the human genome, is charged with the murder of a young colleague: Kalista Jordan, an African-American... (more)

Guilt by Association

by Susan R. Sloan

In a legal drama, the victim of a rape at the hands of an affluent law student fights a thirty-year battle to convict her abuser, who is protected by an apathetic criminal justice system and who is now running for president. Reprint. K. PW.

Paul Madriani: Book 4

The Judge

by Steve Martini, Steven Paul Martini

Forced to defend his old nemesis, Judge Armando Acosta, when he is charged with soliciting a prostitute, unenthusiastic attorney Paul Madriani becomes concerned when the policewoman who snared the judge is brutally murdered. Reprint. NYT.

The Quiet Game

by Greg Iles

When former prosecutor Penn Cage returns to his hometown of Natchez, Mississippi, he doesn't find the peace he desperately craves. He finds that his own father is being blackmailed by a corrupt ex-cop. And when Penn investigates, he uncovers a murderous secret-and the small town's violent past.... "Rivals John Grisham's Best."- Library Journal "Grabs You Fast And Keeps You Glued."- Entertainment Weekly "Will... (more)

The 13th Juror (Dismas Hardy)

by John Lescroart

He is obsessed with her innocence. He will be destroyed by her guilt. The walls were champagne. The house was immaculate. A prosperous doctor lived there with his son and his beautiful wife. But the elegant walls hid a family's secret, a wife's shame. And one day shots rang out in the doctor's house. Suddenly Jennifer Witt was in jail, facing the death penalty. Jennifer insisted that she had not killed her... (more)

The Last Innocent Man

by Phillip Margolin

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 Nash's redemption... (more)

After Dark

by Phillip Margolin

Tackling her first assignment, an investigation into the murder of Oregon Supreme Court Justice Robert Griffen, Tracy Cavanaugh is plunged into a web of betrayal and revenge that points to the victim's estranged wife. Reprint. PW.

Paul Madriani: Book 3

Undue Influence

by Steve Martini

Making a deathbed promise to his wife to help her sister, Laurel, win a custody battle against Jack Vega, Paul Madriani finds the process complicated when Jack's new wife is shot and Laurel is caught with crucial evidence. Reprint.

Line of Vision

by David Ellis

Marty Kalish has been accused of murdering his lover's husband. He had a motive. He was at the scene of the crime. He manipulated evidence to hide his guilt. He even confessed. But that's not the end of the story. That's only the beginning. "The best suspense novel I've read in a while...surprising." (James Patterson) "Wicked...A twisty spellbinding story." ( Publishers Weekly )

No Safe Place

by Richard North Patterson

In the high-stakes, high-pressure world of presidential politics, where predators carry microphones and one misstep can savage a lifetime of achievement, Kerry Kilcannon is the rarest player of all. Kilcannon believes he can make the system work. And he just may die trying. Driven by the violent nightmare of his childhood, fueled by forces that few could understand, and burdened by secrets no one must know,... (more)

Personal Injuries

by Scott Turow

Scott Turow has always pushed himself beyond the expectations of readers and critics. In Presumed Innocent (1987), he introduced fictional Kindle County and ushered in the era that spawned such mega-authors as John Grisham, Richard North Patterson, and David Baldacci. In Personal Injuries, Turow continues to innovate on legal fiction, but his achievement this time is not gained through clever plot twists (though... (more)

The Motive (Dismas Hardy)

by John Lescroart

With their park view and old-fashioned detail, the Victorian houses on San Francisco's Steiner Street were highly valuable. But with their wooden construction, they were also highly vulnerable. So when Paul Hanover's multimillion-dollar home went up in flames, it was all over very quickly. And when the bodies of Hanover and his girlfriend were found in the charred debris, it appeared that the end came even more... (more)

Defense, The

by Dudley W. Buffa

Dynamite defense attorney Joseph Antonelli has never lost a case--or felt the sting of conscience for letting the guilty go free. "I can deceive anyone," he says, "and no one more quickly or more completely than myself." Now the man he most admires, the honorable Judge Rifkin, has asked him a favor: Defend a drug dealer accused of raping his twelve-year-old stepdaughter. Yet Antonelli's acceptance of the case sets... (more)

The Alternate

by John Martel

When a philandering ex-congressman is charged with killing his wife, it seems like an open and shut case. He is abusive, elitist, and unremorseful. He is also--he swears--innocent. Forced to piece together a puzzle that includes the mob, mistresses, double jeopardy, political ambition, and a tainted jury, both Grace Harris, the prosecutor, and Barrett Dickson, the defense attorney, find themselves closer to the... (more)

Play Dead

by David Rosenfelt

Few can rival attorney Andy Carpenter's affection for golden retrievers, especially his own beloved Tara. After he astonishes a New Jersey courtroom by successfully appealing another golden's death sentence, Andy discovers that this gentle dog is a key witness to a murder that took place five years before. Andy pushes the boundaries of the law even further as he struggles to free an innocent man by convincing an... (more)

Reasonable Doubt

by Philip Friedman

Ex-federal prosecutor Michael Ryan has been estranged from his son Ned for three years when Ned is murdered, bludgeoned to death in the private room of a Soho art gallery. His daughter-in-law, wealthy socialite Jennifer Kneeland Ryan, has been indicted for the crime. Jennifer insists she's innocent and begs her father-in-law to defend her. Though Ryan wants to believe she's guilty, he can't turn her away. He... (more)

Inadmissible Evidence

by Philip Friedman

For tough New York City prosecutor Joe Estrada, the law is his life. That's why he's determined to get the goods on millionaire real-estate tycoon and community hero Roberto Morales, who is accused of raping and murdering his mistress. The more Joe investigates, however, the closer he moves to the possibility that Morales is innocent and that all he has to go on is...INADMISSABLE EVIDENCE.

Behind Closed Doors

by Susan R. Sloan

From the bestselling author of Act of God and Guilt by Association comes a novel of rare emotional intensity- a gripping drama of an All-American family with secrets too terrible to reveal. Raised in a large, loving Irish Catholic family, Valerie O'Connor is a sheltered and innocent young woman who comes of age in the 1950s. When, at age 18, she meets and falls deeply in love with Jack Marsh, a dashing veteran of... (more)

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