Kategoria BISAC: Fiction >> Legal

Greed. Control. Brainwashing. Murder. After Sheldon McAllister is charged with poisoning her wealthy husband, she seeks out Lexi Hartt, a bright young attorney who has just escaped her father's law firm in favor of solo practice. Against her better judgment, Lexi accepts the case and matches wits with the prosecutor and the detective in charge of the investigation. When another client dies in the same manner as Sheldon's husband, Lexi finds herself drawn into a web of deceit that stretches from a powerful businessman to a celebrated psychiatrist; from her own father to an enigmatic cult...

This is the first of the Sam Cohen Case Adventure Series. Sam's a lawyer and he gets involved in a cover-up while with the U.S. Attorney's Office in Chicago. Sam refuses to become a participant, is labeled a "turncoat" by the Establishment and becomes a lawyer for the little guy. Mel Pollard is a bartender, secret mystery writer, and Sam's confidant, Val Darensburg is his faithful secretary. One day beautiful Serena Wilson stops by Sam's office with a ruse to gather information about her father. That starts the fast paced trouble. They are after her and because she has come to him, they are...

Henry Hartwell, Boyd Culver, Charles Evans and Dan Proctor were classmates at Midwestern Law School. Though they came from very different backgrounds, they became very close friends and formed the School's most successful study group as 1L's. They have remained friends since graduation yet each going their separate way and experiencing their own triumphs and hurdles. Henry is an Associate Dean at Midwestern, Boyd a successful partner in a Chicago law firm, Charles a philanthropist and Dan a judge in Atlanta, Georgia. They are reunited for a weekend class reunion on Midwestern's campus where...

Life was good for Arturo and Maria Diaz. One night out at the local bar changed all that as they found themselves, for some unknown reason, targeted by police authorities. They were chased, beaten and chastised; they lost everything.

No old school attorney would take their case so it was up to a newly admitted attorney to fight for their rights.

Follow this fast paced courtroom drama, based on actual testimony and with a strange twist at the end as the Diaz's try to regain normalcy to their broken lives.

In "The Nanny Murder Case" lawyer Jake Carter defends his client, Rosa Mendez, when she is charged with murdering the baby left in her care. The prosecution team appears to have a perfect case against Rosa. Jake has to turn to his lawyer friend, Boomer Grogan, for help in finding a needed expert witness. The two try a hard case in defending Rosa. "The Nanny Murder Case" also involves Fransisco Herrera, Jake's law partner, who is called on to save his old friend, Billy Bob Bradford, from a trip to the penitentiary for assault with a deadly weapon, his fists. Big Lou, Billy Bob's secretary,...

Simon Jacks is an idealistic young attorney with a prestigious Chicago law firm, about to start the most important case of his career, defending the accused in a series of grisly sex slayings dubbed The Toolbox Murders. But in a moment of stress Simon throws a punch at another attorney and is ordered to take some time off. Retreating to a secluded island cabin in northern Michigan with his family and friends, Simon hopes for a relaxing vacation. Instead he encounters conflicting ideologies, jealousy, and betrayal. And more. Someone is stalking them. Soon, childish pranks turn deadly in an...

As a teen, prosecutor Ben Santos fathered a daughter out of wedlock. Hell-bent on a career in law, he lost contact with her. A dozen years later, his failure to embrace fatherhood is his one abiding regret.

Blood money claims the life of a pregnant woman. A jail snitch badgers her husband into implicating himself. Conviction seems a safe bet until the criminal lawyers go to work, bending the rules of evidence so as to profit from the husband's cellblock confidences.

Santos is initially gun-shy about handling the case. His one previous murder trial ended in a hung jury. The...

"Jacqueline Laurent paints a picture with great detail, until you find you don't want to put the book down..."
--Barbara Morris, Author and Screenwriter

When Sarah Klein was born, there was no one who told her how beautiful she was, how her blond hair already had the tiniest little curls, and how she crinkled her mouth as if she wanted to tell you something really important.

After Bernice Stetson abandoned her newborn baby Sarah, authorities placed the little girl in an institution. When Sarah was two years old, Ellen and Jeff Jansen became Sarah's foster parents and took her in...

Laura Adler, Public Defender, takes on the appeal of a man only because he was a childhood friend. Half-believing there are no real grounds for the appeal, she is shocked when strange, and dangerous, events threaten her own life.

The problem is many of the suspects are friends of the victim or of Laura, herself: two prosecutors, an attorney in private practice, a photographer, a scientist at the med school, and Laura's client, himself.

The P.D. meets a Baptist pastor who unwittingly may have the key to the victim's death and the two of them form an unlikely partnership and see the case...

"Agent Only" tells the riveting story of two law partners torn apart by a bitter hatred for each other, but linked by their ambitions and love for one woman.

Author Robert Goldberg delivers an absorbing tale of murder and deception within a vivid Chicago setting. In this gripping narrative, the slaying of Frank Reinhart, a prominent trial lawyer, triggers a police investigation and then an indictment. In the ensuing murder trial, the victim's life is laid bare, revealing far more than his law partners might ever have imagined. And yet despite an able prosecutor--as beautiful as she is...

When Rory McDonnell, the only son of power attorney Michael McDonnell, learns of his father's unethical business practices, Rory is faced with a difficult decision. Will Rory follow his heart? Or is he headed down the same immoral path as his father?

"Rory walks in. Michael looks surprised, maybe even a bit embarrassed. Rory asks outright if his father just committed collusion at the expense of a trusting client. Michael tried to dignify his answer by justifying the collusion with reasons. Rory always thought of his father as perfect. Realizing that his father is less than perfect, even...