Mysteries & Thrillers - Legal Thrillers

William Bernhardt

DEATH ROW, 2003, 320 pp.
Oklahoma defense attorney Ben Kincaid works for an accused killer on death row. Things take a turn for the worse when the only surviving witness turns up dead.

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Terri Blackstock

ULTERIOR MOTIVES, 1996, 314 pp.
Defense attorney Sharon Robinson knows just how crude her new client Ben can be even though she believes his innocence. The question is; does she know Ben as well as she thinks she does? Two small kidnapping victims hold the answer--and time to save their lives is running out.
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Jay Brandon

SLIVER MOON, 2003, 398 pp.
District Attorney Chris Sinclair and psychiatrist Anne Greenwald witness a shooting that puts an end to the time off she was looking forward to. Chris declares the shooting suicide and Anne believes it was a murder. Who is right?
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Rose Connors

MAXIMUM SECURITY, 2004, 255 pp.
Cape Cod attorney Marty Nickerson is hired to defend her boss's ex-lover against the charge of murdering her husband.

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Ellis Cose

BEST DEFENSE, 1998, 259 pp.
Felicia Fontaine, an outstanding and beautiful black lawyer, faces prosecuting attorney Mario Santiago in a high-profile case involving a white defendant accused of killing his Latino office colleague.
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William Coughlin

PROOF OF INTENT, 2003, 320 pp.
Pickeral Point hermit Miles Dane - once a bestselling thriller writer - stands charged with murdering his wife. He calls on Charley Sloan to defend him and so begins Sloan's most puzzling - and frustrating - case yet. Aided by his daughter, Charley must unravel dark family secrets while trying to contain a client bent on self-destruction.
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Christopher Darden

THE LAST DEFENSE, 2002, 360 pp.
Mercer Early is a young attorney at the most prestigious African American law firm on the west coast. He finds his career and his life on the line after he becomes entangled in an intricate murder case.

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David Ellis

LIFE SENTENCE, 2003, 400 pp.
Jon Soliday was at a party that resulted in a teen’s death years ago. Now legal counsel to a politician and close childhood friend who is running for governor, Jon is shocked to discover that his fellow party-members are being killed off one by one.
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Philip Friedman

GRAND JURY, 1996, 595 pp.
Susan Linwood and David Clark meet while serving in the same grand jury. They now find themselves working together and becoming increasingly involved in a perilous drug-conspiracy case against two elderly Chinatown residents.
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Fredrick Huebner

SHADES OF JUSTICE, 2001, 367 pp.
This taut, suspense-filled thriller involves a forensic psychiatrist and a 30-year-old cold case in which a young disappeared from an island in the Pacific Northwest.

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John T. Lescroart

THE OATH, 2002, 408 pp.
Dismas Hardy is defending the prime suspect in a murder at a local hospital. Hardy soon discovers that there is something fishy going on with the HMO--that too many patients have been dying, many of them victims of murder. And it looks like it is the hospital that is killing them.
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Philip Margolin

TIES THAT BIND, 2003, 352 pp.
Amanda Jaffe finds herself representing the chief suspect in a presidential candidate’s murder. He claims to have information linking the victim to a drug ring of high-ranking judges and public officials. This could get messy!
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Perry O’Shaughnessy

PRESUMPTION OF DEATH, 2003, 416 pp.
Just as attorney Nina Reilly returns home to Monterey County to put her life in order and move in with Paul Van Wagoner, she is called to the case of her former assistant's son, who has been accused of murder in a disturbing arson case.
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John Peak

M & M, 2002, 329 pp.
Pediatrician Vicki Shea exposes evidence of child abuse while treating a severely injured infant. The mother ends up arrested but later turns up dead! Vicki’s investigation reveals a deadly network of evil is at play.
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Nancy Taylor Rosenberg

CONFLICT OF INTEREST, 2002, 312 pp.
Veteran female district attorney Joanne Kulman, tries to rebuild her crushed personal life when she is suddenly forced into a moral, legal, and emotional case of defending three childhood buddies who held up a 24-hour market. Things are not as simple as they seem.
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Lisa Scottoline

DEAD RINGER, 2003, 320 pp.
Clashing with her sister in a heated quarrel at the same time her law firm runs into financial trouble, attorney Bennie Rosato takes on a potentially rewarding class action suit and finds unexpected assistance from a mysterious stranger.
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Scott Turow

REVERSIBLE ERRORS, 2002, 448 pp.
Corporate lawyer Arthur Raven defends the case of a death-row inmate who may be innocent. Two prosecuting attorneys Muriel Wynn and Larry Starczek fight back for the kill they still believe is deserved.

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