Crime Legal Thriller

Vor über einem Jahr hat der Strafverteidiger Eddie Flynn vor Gericht einen folgenschweren Fehler begangen – und sich danach geschworen, niemals mehr einen Fall zu übernehmen. Doch nun muss er Olek Volchek, den berüchtigten Paten der New Yorker Russenmafia, gegen eine Mordanklage verteidigen. Volchek droht, Eddies elfjährige Tochter Amy umzubringen, falls er sich weigert.

Dopo venticinque anni di pattuglie sulle strade di Chicago, Cal Hooper ha trovato un cottage sotto una distesa di stelle selvagge. Adesso la cosa più rischiosa che fa è bere due pinte la sera al pub. Ma qualcuno tra la gente del posto lo tiene d'occhio e il suo idillio ha le ore contate. All'inizio, sentendo i rumori in giardino, ha pensato a un animale. Poi, una sera, dopo aver trovato le impronte delle scarpe da ginnastica, lo ha sorpreso. È poco più di un bambino, eppure ostinato e testardo come un adulto.

Rainer Waßmer ist tot. Er war der Anführer einer Nazi-Rocker-Bande, mit denen die Clan-Familien in Düsseldorf bisher in friedlicher Ko-Existenz lebten. Bis jetzt. In der Nacht hatten sich Clans und Rocker ein kleines Gefecht geliefert. Nichts Ernstes. Nur mal klarstellen, wo jeder steht. Doch nun ist Waßmer tot, und Faruk Maliki, Thronfolger einer bedeutenden Clan-Familie, wird des Mordes beschuldigt. Er braucht dringend einen Anwalt. Oder eine Anwältin. Oder am besten gleich beide. Pirlo und Sophie suchen fieberhaft nach Beweisen, die ihren Mandanten entlasten könnten.

Clay Carter lleva así demasiado tiempo y, como la mayoría de sus colegas, sueña con un puesto mejor en un bufete de verdad. Cuando acepta, sin muchas ganas, el caso de un hombre joven al que acusan de un tiroteo callejero con víctimas, asume que simplemente es uno más de los tantos asesinatos absurdos que se cometen en Washington D.C. cada semana. Mientras investiga el pasado de su cliente, Clay destapa una conspiración demasiado horrible para ser cierta. De repente se encuentra en medio de un complejo caso contra una de las mayores compañías farmacéuticas del mundo.

On the heels of her 13-year-old son’s suicide, public defender Andrea Harrison throws herself into her work. In trying to uncover the truth about her serial-killer client, she follows his exploits on a cross-country odyssey - only to discover, instead, a bombshell that will turn her life upside down.

Newly single after calling off her wedding, sex-crimes prosecutor Anna Curtis is summoned home to Michigan when her old high school coach - a hometown hero - is killed in a fiery car crash. But Anna isn't there to prosecute a crime; she's home to support her innocent sister, Jody, who has been wrongfully accused of the coach's murder.

After a life in various war zones, Dell and Dolly have settled in this town, fulfilling Dolly's lifelong dream. Though she has given up her nursing career and moved smoothly into civilian life, Dell had been a mercenary, so they both have to sacrifice their prior identities. When the star of the girls' softball team shoots and kills the most popular boy in school, Dolly asks Dell to uncover the motive behind this inexplicable crime. It doesn't take him long to uncover a horrifying rite of passage.

In the follow-up to best-selling Blood Defense, Samantha is hired as the legal advocate for Cassie Sonnenberg after a brutal stabbing left her father and brother dead, and her mother barely clinging to life. It's a tabloid-ready case that has the nation in an uproar - and Sam facing her biggest challenge yet. Why did Cassie survive? Is she hiding something?

Stan's bankruptcy client, Maureen Thompson, is accused of her husband's murder. Her alleged motive is the proceeds of a large insurance policy on her husband's life that would cure her financial woes. Stan assigns the case to his partner, Paula Waters, who at first is excited about getting a new high-profile murder case but her excitement is soon dampened when she learns this isn't the first of Maureen Thompson's husbands to be hacked to death with an ice pick!

Courting Death finds Melanie Wilkerson (from Cotton, book two of the Clarkeston Chronicles) and Arthur Hughes working uncomfortably together in the chambers of a famous federal judge. While Melanie neglects her duties as a law clerk to investigate the mysterious death of a young woman in the courthouse five years earlier, Arthur wades through the horrific habeas corpus appeals of two prisoners: an infamous serial killer and a pathetic child murderer.

Ry Slaight was a rebellious cadet who almost destroyed West Point when he exposed and solved the murder of a gay cadet in 1969. Now, nearly three decades later, Slaight's been promoted to Lieutenant General and appointed Superintendent of the Military Academy. When a female cadet dies during parade, an autopsy establishes that she had sex with multiple partners the night before. Was she the victim of a gang rape? Was there a cadet orgy? Don't ask. Don't tell.

Cal Claxton is determined to reinvent himself as a small-town lawyer in the aftermath of his wife's suicide. Once a hard-charging Los Angeles prosecutor, he nowlives in solitude in an old farmhouse overlooking Oregon's wine country. When a scruffy, tattooed kid shows up asking for help in solving a cold case - that of his mother's murder - Cal wants to say no. Times are tough, and he's no private eye, anyway. But the kid, who calls himself Picasso, has ridden a bicycle in the rain all the way from Portland, and something about his determination touches Cal.

DI Brook thought the nightmare was over - but the Reaper has left behind a horrifying legacy…. When an accidental drowning is found to be murder, Brook’s past relationship with the victim makes him the prime suspect. A fact made worse when he receives a chilling message urging him to continue the work of the serial killer The Reaper, the deranged vigilante who had previously terrorised the UK.

He's a serial killer. A murderer of young women, all killed in brutal attacks. But despite Hamish Wolfe's conviction, he's always stuck to his story - he's innocent, and he's been wrongly imprisoned. And now he wants someone to investigate and, more importantly, to write his story. Maggie Rose is a notorious defense attorney and writer whose specialty is getting convictions overturned. At first Maggie is reluctant to even acknowledge Hamish's requests to meet, ignoring his letters. But this is a very charismatic and persuasive man, good looking and intelligent.

Ein brutaler Serienmörder. Ein todkranker Kommissar. Eine Stadt, die von einer Sintflut bedroht ist. Der Polizist Noah Scott ist herzkrank und weiß, dass seine Lebenszeit begrenzt ist. Doch er ist besessen davon, das Rätsel um den Serienmörder Bible John zu lösen, der Ende der 60er-Jahre junge Frauen tötete und nie gefasst wurde. Jetzt, im Jahr 1983, folgt Noah einer neuen Spur, die ihn nach Bilbao führt. Er weiß, dass sich der Mörder hier versteckt hält und durchforstet die Stadt, deren herbe Schönheit ihn gefangen nimmt, bis sich eine Jahrhundertflut ankündigt, die alles zu verschlingen droht.

Packend, authentisch, unerbittlich – eine Anwältin und das organisierte Verbrechen. Ein Routinefall, denkt die Münchner Rechtsanwältin Clara Niklas. Der italienische Pizzabäcker Angelo Malafonte wurde mit ein paar Gramm Marihuana erwischt. Aber völlig unerwartet verurteilt der Richter ihn zu achtzehn Monaten Haft. Als Malafonte im Gefängnis zusammengeschlagen wird, beginnt Clara die Angst ihres Mandanten zu verstehen. Aber nur langsam durchschaut sie die wahren Hintergründe des Falles. Und da ist sie schon viel zu tief eingedrungen in eine infame Geschichte von Verrat und Gewalt. Eine Geschichte, aus der es kein Entkommen gibt.

Una nuova e appassionante sfida per l'avvocato Joe Dillard: a volte etica e giustizia seguono vie diverse, non sempre conciliabili... Un'intera famiglia di quattro persone viene massacrata senza pietà nelle campagne del Tennessee. Due settimane dopo, segue un altro violento omicidio che vede coinvolti un professore in pensione e la sua amata moglie. Tutti gli indizi sembrano portare a due ragazzi seguaci di Satana, sospettati di essere i responsabili di entrambi i delitti.

L'avvocato Josie Baylor-Bates è impegnata in un nuovo e delicato caso, quando il suo compagno, l'ex poliziotto Archer, viene accusato di aver ucciso il proprio figliastro. L'inattesa scoperta della paternità del suo uomo lascia Josie incredula e delusa, senza tuttavia impedirle di assumerne la difesa. Ma i numerosi dettagli che emergono dal passato di Archer gettano continue ombre sulla sua innocenza e minano la loro relazione.

It's 1976, Los Angeles. Sarah Collins, a young mother of two, is brutally raped and murdered at the Hollywood Reservoir. For 19 years the murder remains unsolved, and the case goes cold. In 1995 the streets of Los Angeles are being terrorized by Jake Babbage, a traffic cop who uses his position of power to rape and murder innocent women. On his way to court one day, Babbage sees Judge Daniel Hart.

Twenty-four-year-old Mary Kendricks is a vivacious young teacher living in the quiet Northern town of Highford, her beauty turning heads wherever she goes. But when she catches the eye of Robert Carter, initial flattery quickly turns dangerous. Wherever she goes, Carter is not far behind, and Mary soon becomes stifled by his attention, telling friends of her fears that he’s getting too close. And then Mary’s body is discovered, stabbed to death in her own bedroom. The case quickly garners the attention of the press, all baying for Carter’s blood.