Law Fiction

On the night of October 6, 1998, a gay 21-year-old University of Wyoming student named Matthew Shepard was lured from a bar by two young men, then savagely beaten, tied to a fence on the outskirts of Laramie, and left to die. Five days later, Lesléa Newman arrived on campus to give the keynote speech for the University of Wyoming’s Gay Awareness Week. October Mourning is Lesléa Newman’s deeply personal response to the events of that tragic day and its brutal aftermath.

After a drug cartel abducts his sister, a Kansas judge puts everything on the line to find her. Judge Benjamin Joel catches a death penalty case involving a local drug dealer with ties to a Mexican cartel. When his sister is abducted three days before the trial, Ben is told what he must do to save her - cut the defendant loose utilizing a seldom-used judicial tool known as a judgment of acquittal.

From number one best-selling mystery and suspense author Blake Pierce comes book two in a gripping new series: The FBI has created an elite unit to target criminally insane killers, and when a serial killer writes taunting letters to the press, FBI Special Agent Valerie Law and her elite team are summoned. But this killer is truly deranged, and with the trail soon cold, Valerie may just be the only who can enter his mind and crack the baffling case.

Young Rudyard Kipling, privileged son of a well connected British family, lives a life of luxury in Bombay. But when he is separated from his family and sent to live in a desolate foster home at the age of six, he develops ideas and attitudes that shape his entire worldview.

It seems that keeping my complicated relationship with Mario, Anthony, and Jared secret wasn't to be. Now that my clients are whispering, my parent's reputation is on the line. With my whole family against me, it seems only my new lovers are in my corner. But can our feelings for each other survive the scandal?

Mario, Anthony, and Jared—they’re my older brother’s best friends. And the three of them, plus my brother? They run a powerful law firm. I’ve dedicated my life to my law studies, and as I graduate and look to become a lawyer myself, I find myself interviewing at my brother’s firm.

Jasper Lightner is a decorated Crimean War hero and the most admired inspector in London's Metropolitan Police. Along with a chest full of medals, he's got a head injury that's left large chunks of his memory missing. But Jasper's biggest problem is his father, the Duke of Kersey, who is enraged by a series of front-page newspaper stories extolling Jasper's exploits. Jasper is sent packing to New York City on a yearlong assignment to train detectives and discovers a police department hovering on the brink of armed conflict.

The town wants her to arrest her former boyfriend for a murder on his ranch­—but Sheriff Leigh Mercer refuses. The newly elected law enforcer doesn't have evidence against bad boy Cullen Brodie. In fact, the search for the killer draws them passionately close again…and into relentless danger. Not only could Leigh lose her job for not collaring Brodie…but they could both lose their lives.

Cuarta parte de la Saga de "El guardián de las flores". En el Monasterio de Santo Estevo de Rivas do Sil se celebra la entrega de los premios a los gallegos del año. La noche amenaza tormenta y un hecho violento obligará a cerrar el recinto a cal y canto, con lo que todos se convierten en sospechosos. La arqueta con los nueve anillos de los nueve obispos está detrás de todas estas muertes, que el padre Afonso, ha decidido proteger con su propia vida.

هل تعلم بأنَّك إذا كسرت قدمك مثلًا فإنّه وحسب قانون الكارما هناك رسالة معينة يُرسلها لكَ الكون وهي أنّك قد تكون بحاجة إلى أن تتباطأ أو أن تكون أكثر حذرًا مع جسدك في الأوقات القادمة أو ربّما تكون هذه الرسالة كعقاب على فعلٍ معّن أو أذىً قد تسببت فيه لشخصٍ آخر!

The most unimaginable and relentless bouts of mischief abound as the Brown children turn their minds to breaking all the rules. But when the no-nonsense nanny Nurse Matilda arrives, with her very special kind of magic, things start to happen beyond everyone's widest expectations.

A little boy turns the perfect crime into a work of art.

Dylan is the only boy living in the tiny Welsh town of Manod. His parents run the Snowdonia Oasis Auto Marvel garage - and when he's not trying to persuade his sisters to play football, Dylan is in charge of the petrol log.

What do you get when you mix some albino terrier fur and sand from Alum Bay? Timothy Pinkerton knows, and he’ll do anything to get his grubby hands on more of what he needs for his secret formula. Anything, including hypnotising the town’s residents and stealing their homes.

Beatrice and Henry - the parents of the protagonist of Dale Peck’s debut novel, Martin and John—are first drawn together when the teenage Henry is battling a brain tumor he believes will soon claim his life. But forty years later they’re still a couple, in a story that moves from Long Island to the Finger Lakes of upstate New York, and from love to hate and back again.

All Alpine's marshal, Boyd Cooper, wants is a nice retirement, not to get a posse together to track outlaws. However, when an altercation leads to the exchange of gunfire and the spilling of outlaw blood, he doesn't have much of a choice. The outlaws fear their reputation might be at stake, so they declare revenge on the tin stars of Alpine. They're mad enough to break their own no-kill rule, and Boyd Cooper knows things could end as bloody as they started.

"Bist du in Noah verliebt?" Bei jeder anderen hätte Mercedes die Arme verschränkt, die Brust herausgeschoben und ihre Gefühle herausposaunt. Doch es war Cora, die fragte, Cora – tapfer, zerbrochen und wunderschön. Es war Cora, die Noah ebenso sehr liebte wie sie selbst. Und deshalb log Mercedes – und mit dieser Lüge verlor sie ihn. Sie war Freundin, Brautjungfer, Patentante. Sie war der Fels in der Brandung für ihre beiden besten Freunde – bis zu dem Augenblick, als das spröde Fundament ihrer Welt in sich zusammenbrach und sie alle fielen und fielen.

David Taggert steht, so oft er kann, im Ring und hat doch nichts, wofür es sich zu kämpfen lohnt. Aber das ändert sich schlagartig, als sich Millie Anderson trotz ihrer Blindheit als Tänzerin in seiner Bar bewirbt. Nichts an Millie ist gewöhnlich, und David ist vom ersten Augenblick an fasziniert von ihr. Auch Millie hat in ihrer Vergangenheit Dinge erlebt, an denen sie beinahe zerbrochen wäre. Und so lässt sich David auf den wichtigsten Kampf seines Lebens ein...

Dies ist eine Geschichte über Schmerz und Hoffnung. Über Leben und Tod. Über Neuanfänge und nie Endendes. Aber vor allem ist es eine Geschichte über die Liebe. "Moses ist gefährlich." Alle warnen Georgia vor dem geheimnisvollen Jungen, dessen Geschichte jeder kennt. Doch Moses ist auch aufregend, faszinierend und wunderschön. Als er in das Haus nebenan einzieht, kann Georgia ihn nicht ignorieren, selbst wenn sie es noch so sehr versucht. Noch nie hat jemand solche Gefühle in ihr hervorgerufen. Und obwohl sie spürt, dass sie mit dem Feuer spielt, lässt Georgia sich auf Moses ein.

When Megan loses her beloved husband, Rick, in a tragic car accident, she feels like it’s her own life that has ended. She feels too young to be a widow. Walking around the house that had been their home – so quiet without him – nothing feels the same. But at his funeral, she sees a face she doesn’t recognise. A heavily-pregnant young woman, with a sweet heart-shaped face that is somehow a little familiar. This stranger introduces herself as Emily, Rick’s estranged sister. She explains how she’s been searching for her brother for years, but she knows she’s too late now.

A taunting text from a serial killer gives FBI agent Nolan Dalton only minutes to save the next victim. Former cop Adalyn Baxter—and Nolan’s ex-girlfriend—receives the same message. That’s just the beginning of a cunningly orchestrated plan that unearths a shocking secret about Nolan. As the Texas lawman struggles to come to terms with his past and protect Adalyn, a madman’s end game could bury them both.