Legal Crime Fiction

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.

Gethin Grey is back in the game. His wife may have left him and he's struggling with life as a single father, but now he's got his biggest case in years. The brutal murder of a young woman called Kelly Rowland has been the talk of the South Wales valleys. Even the conviction of a neighbour, a builder called Morgan Hopkins, failed to stop the gossip. There were too many other suspects still around, among them a pair of coppers: brother and sister.

In this thriller that will grip you from the first minute until the very last twist, a young lawyer suffering from traumatic memory loss peels back her past to discover that she might be a killer.

Andrew Deacon is young, fit, and single, a junior prosecutor at the WA DPP with a bright future and a sense of entitlement to match. That future starts to look darker when he spends the night with an attractive stranger, Lily Constantine, and she is found murdered in her apartment the following day. Based on a conversation with Lil, Andrew believes he knows who killed her –a senior criminal law barrister, Sam Godfrey SC, who is also Lil's brother-in-law. Andrew tells the police everything he knows, but his quest to bring Godfrey to justice provokes retaliation.

A Boston law school graduate, new to Alaska and in over his head with his first big case, must defend an innocent man accused of murdering a kindergarten teacher whose naked, half-frozen body he spotted along the shoulder of an isolated highway. As Preston Mills adjusts to life on the Last Frontier, he falls hard for the defendant’s spunky and appealing daughter. The crime very nearly goes unsolved due to the unique method of murder.

Top global technology lawyer Tornait “Torn” Sagara knows he shouldn’t get involved with his beautiful client, Saya Brooks, whose revolutionary lightning-on-demand invention will solve climate change and render all other energy sources obsolete. But their shared connection as hafu (half Japanese, half American) draws them irresistibly together. Saya’s technology could save the world, but what’s good for the planet is bad news for those who profit from the status quo. Now, someone wants to stop Saya from commercializing her invention and will go to any lengths to do so.

Eine junge Frau wird in ihrer Wohnung überfallen und bestialisch ermordet. In scheinbar blinder Wut hat der Täter unzählige Male auf sie eingestochen. Schnell fällt der Verdacht auf ihren Ex-Freund, der die Trennung offenbar nicht überwunden hat. Doch seine Anwältin Annabelle Hart glaubt nicht, dass er der Täter ist, auch wenn alles auf ihn hindeutet. Gemeinsam mit dem Privatdetektiv Felix Hertzlich macht Annabelle sich daran, die Unschuld ihres Mandanten zu beweisen und stößt dabei auf einen kranken Killer, der eine Frau nach der anderen hinrichtet.

Joy Stapleton is Ireland’s most infamous prisoner. She was incarcerated for two life sentences after the bodies of her two young sons were found buried in a shallow grave in the Dublin mountains. But she has always maintained her innocence and argues the only reason she was ever arrested in the first place comes down to mere coincidence.

Jacopo Brancas, detto Ticchie, è stato trovato morto dalla polizia. Ticchie, un classico topo di biblioteca, stava studiando "Historia Fiorentina", un vecchio manoscritto al cui interno si celerebbero delle sconvolgenti rivelazioni sulla morte del grande pittore Masaccio. Il tutto dovrebbe essere collegato a un quadro dell’artista, ‘La Sagra’, andato misteriosamente perduto. L'indomito avvocato fiorentino Corrado Scalzi si trova assegnato al caso e dovrà, ancora una volta, usare tutto il suo ingegno per risolvere l'enigma.

È un torrido luglio quando Gilda Orefice, pensionata scorbutica e solitaria, viene ritrovata senza vita nel suo appartamento in centro a Bari. Sembra morte naturale – la casa è in ordine e il cadavere composto – ma la giovane piemme Elisabetta Ciraci ha la sensazione che la scena sia troppo perfetta, e ordina l'autopsia. Il referto è inequivocabile: strangolamento. L'indagine corre, e i sospetti si concentrano su Giovanni Campanaro, un commercialista molto noto in città, la cui deposizione mostra contraddizioni sospette.

She said…all three men got her drunk, led her to a hotel room, and took advantage of her. Three said…she was a willing participant and consented to sex with each of them. But after five weeks of listening to all of the evidence and all of the arguments in a celebrity rape trial that has gripped an entire nation, the jury sits down to begin their deliberations. Only they don’t know who to believe…will you?

Ten years ago, Sebastian Croll was found not guilty of murdering his playmate. Criminal solicitor Daniel Hunter defended the 11-year-old in a trial that gripped the nation, but the past is unearthed when Daniel gets a call from his old client. Sebastian's university professor has been brutally murdered, and everyone who knew her is in the frame. As Daniel steps in to represent Sebastian for the second time, rumour of his client's identity spreads like wildfire.

That’s what Luke Archer had to decide. Although it was more of a reaction than a decision. The police officer was Lizzie Lambert’s husband. She had argued with him that morning, sending him to work with an edge. Police accountability activist Curtis Mays happened to be filming the traffic stop. Well, filming and then heckling Officer Lambert. It started with verbal insults back and forth, but it escalated.

Eric Ward agrees to represent the interests of a local environmental campaign. Then an explosion at the industrial-waste plant leaves his client dead. Joe Paulson wasn’t exactly a criminal. But his after-hours activities—gathering the secrets of everyone from politicians to high-flying businessmen—created a long list of enemies. But who feared the nightwalker enough to kill him? And could Ward be next? When an old favor is called in, Ward may have no choice but to put his own life in danger.

Considerato uno dei capostipiti del legal thriller all'italiana, "Tre giorni nella vita dell'avvocato Scalzi" non è solo un giallo avvincente per quanto atipico ma anche un percorso illuminante nel labirinto della giustizia e burocrazia italiane. Seguendo le vicissitudini del burbero avvocato fiorentino Corrado Scalzi, veniamo immersi in una storia al cardiopalma fatta di terrorismo e carceri di massima sicurezza sullo sfondo di una Toscana tanto bella quanto complessa.

Franco Rama è un chimico genialoide, divorziato e padre assente di un figlio adolescente con cui non ha quasi alcun rapporto. Viene licenziato dall'importante azienda farmaceutica per cui lavorava, a causa della sua tendenza ad assumere alcool e sostanze stupefacenti. Decide allora di cambiare rotta, di "mettersi in proprio” e di creare molecole non più terapeutiche, ma "fantastiche". Sostanze in grado di esaltare ed amplificare al massimo i sensi e le potenzialità del cervello, da mettere in vendita sul mercato del Deep Web.

In this pulse-pounding thriller that will keep you guessing to the very last minute, Denver homicide detective Nick Teffinger finds himself in a deadly game with an elusive killer who has given a young lawyer a chance to save his next victim.

Den förmögne änklingen Cornelius Barringtons största nöje är att spela schack ihop med bästa vännen Frank. Han börjar dock bli till åren kommen och en kväll bestämmer han sig för att be Frank, som även är advokat, om en tjänst. Han vill skriva om sitt testamente, men innan dess måste han räta ut några frågetecken. En noggrant uttänkt plan ska en gång för alla avslöja huruvida Cornelius närstående faktiskt bryr sig om honom, eller om de bara är där för pengarna. Och spelpjäserna har ingen aning om vad det är som väntar.

In this pulse-pounding thriller that will keep you guessing until the very last minute, a beautiful young lawyer is hired by a colleague to find out if one of his clients is trying to kill him.

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.