Kategoria BISAC: Fiction >> Legal

Moving and suspenseful, Lisa Ballantyne's The Guilty One is a psychological thriller about the darkness in each of us. It explores how we are all tied to our pasts, and what it means to be guilty.

Solicitor Daniel Hunter is called to defend 11-year-old Sebastian who has been charged with the murder of a young boy on a London playground. While examining Sebastian's life in order to save it, Daniel can't help but be transported to his own difficult youth spent in foster care--a time when the one he trusted the most was the one who betrayed him...

Emotionally wrought, and...

Trey Jackson Jr. is a successful trial attorney. He lives a charmed life as a Yale graduate, married to the girl of his dreams with a son on the way.

After he provides reluctant legal help to a gang member, however, fate brings him to the attention of Jimmy. Jimmy is not a man to trifle with. He is the leader of a violent biker gang located outside of Asheville, North Carolina, known as the Dreadnaughts. The Dreadnaughts are in need of legal counsel, and Trey is their man-whether he likes it or not.

Soon, Trey is surrounded on all sides by danger and possible death. The deeper he...

Trey Jackson Jr. is a successful trial attorney. He lives a charmed life as a Yale graduate, married to the girl of his dreams with a son on the way.

After he provides reluctant legal help to a gang member, however, fate brings him to the attention of Jimmy. Jimmy is not a man to trifle with. He is the leader of a violent biker gang located outside of Asheville, North Carolina, known as the Dreadnaughts. The Dreadnaughts are in need of legal counsel, and Trey is their man-whether he likes it or not.

Soon, Trey is surrounded on all sides by danger and possible death. The deeper he...

When government documents wind up in the wrong hands, US Air Force Sergeant Tafari Spencer becomes the face of the scandal-and now he must prove his innocence in the face of a massive government conspiracy. He is charged with helping notorious Jamaican scammers who have attempted to acquire US visas fraudulently. To make matters worse, he has reason to suspect that he has been betrayed by someone close to him-very close to him.

His life in a tailspin, Tafari must rely on inexperienced military lawyers to defend him. The evidence tying him to a Jamaican visa fraud ring is...

When government documents wind up in the wrong hands, US Air Force Sergeant Tafari Spencer becomes the face of the scandal-and now he must prove his innocence in the face of a massive government conspiracy. He is charged with helping notorious Jamaican scammers who have attempted to acquire US visas fraudulently. To make matters worse, he has reason to suspect that he has been betrayed by someone close to him-very close to him.

His life in a tailspin, Tafari must rely on inexperienced military lawyers to defend him. The evidence tying him to a Jamaican visa fraud ring is...

John Grisham's A Time to Kill is one of the most popular novels of our time. Now we return to that famous courthouse in Clanton as Jake Brigance once again finds himself embroiled in a fiercely controversial trial-a trial that will expose old racial tensions and force Ford County to confront its tortured history.

Seth Hubbard is a wealthy man dying of lung cancer. He trusts no one. Before he hangs himself from a sycamore tree, Hubbard leaves a new, handwritten, will. It is an act that drags his adult...

Kristina Riggle, the acclaimed author of Real Life & Liars, returns with a thought-provoking novel inspired by real-life events

Seventeen-year-old Morgan Monetti shocks her parents and her community with one simple act: She chooses to stand by the man everyone else believes has exploited her--popular high school teacher TJ Hill. Quietly walking across a crowded courtroom to sit behind TJ, and not beside her parents, she announces herself as the adult she believes herself to be.

But her mother, Dinah, wants justice. Dinah is a fighter, and she believes with all her...

Joe Nelson is a pediatrician in Eastern Kentucky and is being sued for malpractice involving the death of a four-year-old girl. The child was the niece of the wealthiest man in town, and the trial is not going well. Then it gets worse. While sitting in his car outside his lawyer's office, someone shoots at Joe. The police seem convinced that he has faked the shooting, especially since the shot was fired with his own gun. The next day in court, Joe realizes that his patient's death was not an accident or malpractice, it was murder. When one of the plaintiffs is murdered, Joe becomes the...

Bestselling author William Wood spins this dark, riveting tale of a beloved Sacramento cop killed in a bizarre accident, and the hunt to track down his killer a fast-paced thriller of murder, deceit, haunting pasts, and one man s dangerous scheme to fight for those he loves.

Officer Tommy Ensor did not see the car that struck him down on a rainy night in California s capital.

Ensor is no ordinary cop. He s a hero, winner of the Medal of Valor, devoted family man and coach, helping at-risk kids. But the driver who struck him down and didn t stop isn t ordinary either. He s Judge...