Kategoria BISAC: Fiction >> Legal

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...

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...

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...

"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...

The spectacular trust fund creates a feeding frenzy among covetous contenders, from committed altruists to adept con artists. Expensive lawyers and their eager clients vie to garner the trust funds for their programs, from a woman's center to a junk science...

"A Hole in the Water" is the journey of Jon Pilgrim, an attorney caught in a web spun by a money laundering diamond dealer client and the FBI agent investigating the case. Pilgrim discovers his greed has immersed him deeper in criminal activity than he can handle, has cost him his family, and that his client mysteriously knows more than he, himself, about his own history.

A seemingly simple burglary takes Pilgrim from his apparently Catholic background, through mystical Judaism, Islam, and Shabbetaianism (an obscure Seventeenth Century sect), and through the Holocaust concentration...

Anger burns like an Irish demon in Chuck McCrory's throat: "They piss their poisons and flush their factories in our drinking water."

Insight strikes on how to change the country.

Secret Oath taken to rise to power, to hold their values, to stick together, to recruit others, to bring back America.

Sex shatters the group: "A young goddess flaunted and a young god hunted. They mixed like a warm front and a jet stream. Tornado fury."...

This book, which is a fictionalized account of what happened to me, captures the emotional aspects of what I went through and what I am still going through. It also explains, in language I could understand, the legal aspects of what I went through. I hope some good comes out of it."

Lawrence Storer

Widely viewed as a liberal, Dunstan Mitchell, bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Central Kentucky, has been aggressively pressing his agenda for the Episcopal Church, including ordination of openly gay clergy and the blessing of same-sex marriages. His actions have severely offended the more conservative elements of the Diocese. Mitchell also has some personal habits that his allies in the Church find distasteful, and it soon becomes apparent that he is a liability-one that the church may want to eliminate.

Six weeks later, the bishop's desecrated body is found in the covered swimming...

As "Void Where Prohibited" begins, Ralph is hopelessly in debt. But when his loan shark suggests the murder of Ralph's wife, Bonnie, for the insurance money, he is appalled: "He's a putz, maybe, possibly, all right, if you say so. But a criminal? A murderer? His own family?" All he can think to do is get up and storm out of the room. Nevertheless it happens. The story of how murder comes about, and what follows, is recounted in two threads that are interwoven in alternate chapters. One thread traces the crime: the automobile collision that changes Ralph's mind, the criminal investigation,...