Kategoria BISAC: Fiction >> Legal

San Francisco attorney Kali O'Brien knows that in the legal system reality can be shaded, but she doesn't like clients who lie to her. That's what she has in Grady Barrett, a wealthy computer magnate married to Kali's best friend, who is arraigned in the rape of Deirdre Nicholas. Grady's claim that the sex was consensual doesn't excuse the hurt he's caused his wife and his reputation, and puts Kali in a bind because she doesn't believe him. Then Deirdre plunges to her death from a second-story balcony. A tragic accident? Or cold-blooded murder? Now, bound to a client she can't trust, Kali...

When a local waitress and her five-year-old daughter are murdered, Wes Harding -- a former classmate of Kali's with a reputation as a troublemaker --becomes the prime suspect. Kali agrees to represent him, but is stunned when he refuses to help in his own defense, and won't explain why.

Attorney Kali O'Brien returns to her hometown of Silver Creek, California where her childhood friend Jannine is the prime suspect in her husband's murder. Kali is sure her friend is innocent until the evidence begins to mount. Kali hadn't counted on the missing teenage girl or the envelope of incriminating photos - or the need to confront her own past.

Toby Potts, fresh from bar school and clutching his graduation diploma, is a young, aspiring barrister, full of hopes and dreams and intent on becoming the leading criminal advocate of his time. He can hardly wait to impress a jury with his incisive cross-examination, his mastery of all things legal, and his spellbinding final speeches. Sadly, reality kicks in, and Toby finds the path to fame and fortune far from smooth and uneventful. His "trials" and tribulations take Toby from his calling to join the bar to his first brief when he represents the wrong client, through to his great tour de...

This is the story of the rocky liaison between Mark Bloomberg and Debra Winbourne who work for a successful New York law firm. The firm's cutting edge way of doing business ensures that they were always at the top of their game. They have powerful connections and sometimes play dirty when they have to, in order to win. The owner of the firm Mark Bloomberg was going through a divorce from Sasha. Debra Winbourne was the innocent and unwilling third party in Mark's messy love life. She was the newest member of Mark's law chambers Bloomberg & Partners and she had unwittingly stepped into the...

Vixen or Victim? Soccer Mom or Sorcerer? When a well-liked, small town business owner was murdered, who would be capable of committing such a heinous act? As high school sweethearts and parents of five children would the suspicion fall on the wife or was it suicide? What about the mysterious white car parked in the area? As Prosecuting Attorney, it was his job to figure this out with most of the small town and half the county against him. Based on the true events of Bill Prewitt's life and death.

As the old ways of the nineteenth century fade, Out of the Darkness tells a story that touches on the themes and issues America will face in the new century that looms ahead.
It is a story of technology and its place in society. It is a story of violence, a doctor's responsibility to his patient, and a lawyer's responsibility to his client. It is a story of forbidden love, and a story of a timid, terrified young woman s finding her courage. It questions humankind's ability and willingness to be a contributor in the quality and course of its own evolution.
Ultimately, Out of the...

A Supreme Court Justice is found cut into pieces in the back of a pick-up truck. Three other judges have already gone missing. In the eighth installment of Scott Pratt's bestselling Joe Dillard Series, Dillard is hired to represent the man driving the pick-up. As Dillard delves into the case, he comes to believe his client is not guilty. But who is? Who has been kidnapping and killing judges all over the state of Tennessee? The search for that answer leads Dillard and his friend, Sheriff Leon Bates, down a path so dark and so dangerous to a villain so evil, it will change both Joe and Leon...

Hugh Mahoney is the most powerful plaintiff's attorney in America, with a self-admitted weakness for power and beautiful women. When Kathryn Andrews, asks him to bring a wrongful death suit against Wycliffe Pharmaceutical because their drug killed her husband and is killing millions, Hugh agrees. As Hugh and his team of high-priced of Goldstein, Miller attorneys prepare their case, they find more and more evidence that Wycliffe has covered up the deadly properties of the drug that killed Tom. Multiple attempts on Kathryn's life confirm that the Goldstein, Miller lawyers are very close to...

The stunning new legal thriller from the New York Times-bestselling author of The Hanging Judge, -a talent to watch- (The Washington Post).

When FBI agents barge into Sidney Cranmer's home accusing him of a heinous crime, the respected literature professor's life becomes a nightmare. Cranmer insists the illicit material found by the agents isn't his, but the charge against him appears airtight, and his academic specialty--the life and work of controversial author Lewis Carroll, creator of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland--convinces...

"A witty and affectionate view of the new South--and especially, the new South's new woman," writes the San Diego Union-Tribune of Margaret Maron's award-winning Deborah Knott mystery series. From its first book, Bootlegger's Daughter, which swept every major mystery writing award, this series has been extraordinary--winning a greater audience and brilliantly evolving in content and style. Now, in the seventh book in the series, sexual tension, illicit love, and brutal murder entangle and explode in Deborah Knott's life . . .

Hurricanes rarely make it inland as far as Colleton...

Since the first Deborah Knott novel, Bootlegger's Daughter, swept the Edgar, Agatha, Anthony, and Macavity Awards for 1993, Margaret Maron has brought to life the landscape and people, the history and current concerns of a contemporary South. As akin to Carson McCullers and William Faulkner as she is to her fellow mystery writers, Maron continues her acclaimed series with a chilling story of suspense: a searing crisis of race and region and other burning issues of the heart . . .

One place the two Souths--black and white--meet is in Judge Deborah Knott's courtroom. From the...

A GRIPPING LEGAL THRILLER FROM A CELEBRATED L.A. DEFENSE LAWYER, WHO KNOWS HOW THE SYSTEM REALLY WORKS

Bobby Earl is the guy you call when it's time to fix bayonets and go to trial. But when he's tapped to defend a notorious safecracker arrested for killing a decorated LAPD officer, Earl's own life is suddenly in danger, and Earl must dive into LA's dangerous underworld, and battle a court system in which the news media and politics corrupt the wheels of justice.

Rafiq A. Medawar, M.D., is a rakishly handsome young surgeon. When the police find the body of his wife, Ann, in a park overlooking the Ohio River, they also discover a video on her cell phone. It shows him going into a sleazy inn with an attractive young nurse.

The prosecutor sees in the video evidence that Rafiq was having an affair. He concludes Ann confronted Rafiq, and he killed her.

Ann was taking a documentary-making class. Her classmates believe the video was part of the class project.

Ann's best friend has her own, darker theory.

Can Devin Garner, a...

Masterson College in rural Vermont is where the elite send their children for a top-notch education. At Masterson because of his skill as a hockey player and the financial aid that comes with it, Keenan Brody meets pretty freshman figure skater Shannon Dawson. Captivated by Shannon's grace on the ice and her easygoing nature, Keenan finds himself in love for the first time, maneuvering uncertain terrain and unsure if his feelings are reciprocated.

But when Shannon goes missing from campus, Keenan finds himself in a harrowing situation. Shannon's parents are devastated, her peers are...