David Baldacci – First Family
A daring kidnapping turns a children’s birthday party at Camp David into a national security nightmare, pushing agents Sean King and Michelle Maxwell to their limits.
Linda Fairstein – Final Jeopardy
When assistant district attorney Alexandra Cooper allows friend and film star Isabella Lascar to borrow her summer home on Martha’s Vineyard, she has no idea that Isabella will end up dead and that Alexandra’s boyfriend will emerge as the prime suspect. Who is the real murderer? Was Alexandra the intended target?
Brad Meltzer – The Tenth Justice
Fresh from Yale Law School, Ben Addison has just landed one of the most coveted positions in the field of law–a Supreme Court clerkship. After inadvertently revealing the confidential outcome of an upcoming decision to the wrong person, Ben enlists the aid of his housemates and his co-clerk, Lisa, to trap a blackmailer.
Justin Peacock – A Cure for Night
In Brooklyn’s criminal courts, justice often depends on who has the better story to tell. After a drug-related scandal ejects Joel Deveraux from his job at a white-shoe law firm, he slides down the corporate ladder to the Public Defenders’ office in Brooklyn, where he defends the innocent and the guilty alike, a cog in the great clanking machine that is the New York City justice system
David Rosenfelt – First Degree
The mysterious legacy of defence attorney Andy Carpenter’s late father has made him a rich man – 22 million dollars rich, to be exact. But as Andy relaxes in his office, imagining ways to spend his money, he has an unexpected visitor: a stranger who confesses to decapitating and burning a man – coolly relaying on the confidentiality of attorney-client privilege.
William Bernhardt – Dark Justice
The eighth offering in the best-selling, critically acclaimed series of legal thrillers plunges attorney Ben Kincaid into the tumultuous case of an environmental activist charged with killing a lumberjack in the small logging town of Magic Valley.
John Lescroart – Damage
His career derailed by the vengeful billionaire Curtlee family for his part in convicting one of their number for murder, former homicide detective Abe Glitsky learns that the killer has won a retrial at the same time a star witness has been murdered.
Perri O’Shaughnessy – Case of Lies
Back in Lake Tahoe, Nina gets her next case from a masseuse whose aunt was killed during a motel robbery. Unless Nina acts, the lawsuit filed against the Ace High Lodge will be dismissed, as no one has been able to locate the witnesses.
Michael Connelly – The Lincoln Lawyer
Mickey Haller is a Lincoln Lawyer, a criminal defense attorney who operates out of the backseat of his Lincoln Town Car, traveling between the far-flung courthouses of Los Angeles to defend clients of every kind. Bikers, con artists, drunk drivers, drug dealers – they’re all on Mickey Haller’s client list.
Steve Martini – Compelling Evidence
Ben Potter, successful lawyer and possible U. S. Supreme Court nominee, is found dead in his office–suicide or murder? All of the police evidence points to foul play, and his beautiful young wife, Talia, stands trial for a crime she claims she didn’t commit–or did she?
Richard North Patterson – Conviction
Fifteen years ago, brothers Rennell and Payton Price were sentenced to death for the brutal murder of nine-year-old Thuy Sen. Now, as Rennell’s scheduled execution approaches, pro bono lawyer Theresa Peralta Page, along with her attorney husband and attorney stepson, takes his final appeal all the way to the Supreme Court.