Kategoria BISAC: Fiction >> Legal

A high-profile lawsuit erupts into chaos, revealing its place in a larger spree of violence in this scandalous tale of lust, lies, and vengeance. A brazen gunman is targeting prominent African American men on the streets of Los Angeles, and police are completely baffled. At the same time, savvy big-firm attorney Vernetta Henderson and her outrageous sidekick, Special, lead the charge for revenge against a man whose deceit caused his fianceE's death. For Special, hauling the man into court and suing him for wrongful death just isn't good enough. While she exacts her own brand of justice, a...

Dennis Brunt, a rookie tax attorney, can't understand why Gerhard Schmidt wants his involvement in the case when Schmidt is charged with serious felonies, including drug dealing, illegal arms trading, and money laundering. The only connection they seem to have is that they're both Argentinian.

But that connection is tenuous at best. Dennis remembers very little about Argentina since his adoptive parents raised him in America from a very young age. But this is a direct order from the managing attorney, so Dennis can't say no.

Despite his misgivings, Dennis knows this high-profile case...

The inexorable intent of whistleblower Yeseph Albert Schindler is to complete the circuit in order to shine a light on the shoddy, fungal legal establishment of Quakerville as its hyphae infiltrate the Auschwitzerland federal arena of law and politics.

Yeseph grapples with the incoherent, disjointed processes of the court's system and details how individuals in highly regarded positions of power and trust contort the law, unchallenged by their peers, a factor that exacerbates Schindler's existential anxiety. He boldly points the finger at the corruption and at those who have acted...

"Hidden in a compartment of my grandmother's bottom dresser drawer was an old scrapbook. Pressed inside were photographs of a beautiful young woman and hundreds of newspaper clippings about vaudeville shows and the movie industry. This is how I learned about my great aunt, Ruby Adams. As a child, I combed through the items that chronicled her life as a vaudeville headliner--her success and her tragedy."

So begins this novel set in the Golden Age of Hollywood, Prohibition and vaudeville in San Francisco in 1925. Waiting in the Wings tells the story of Ruby Adams, a vaudeville actress...

When investigators are called to a meticulously staged crime scene on a canal bank in rural Central California--the latest in a series of murders that have killed three young women in one month--they realize a dangerous serial killer is on the loose, someone who is highly adept at hiding his tracks. And before the murderer can be brought to justice, young assistant DA Matt Jamison will lose his illusions about what justice means.

As a fourth victim is abducted and investigators race against time, Jamison must cope with a sophisticated and elusive killer, a politically-minded sheriff...

Years later, he barely remembered the girlfriend, but the prophecy had lodged itself deep in his brain - maybe because it was the only time he'd ever had his fortune told. Then the horrifying foretold events frantically start to occur.

Tormented, he battles within himself struggling to stop the killing as other heart-pounding and unforeseen...