Legal Thriller Crime Fiction

Boston, pochi giorni a Natale. La città è imbiancata dalla neve, serrata dal gelo in attesa delle festività. Ma la morte non ha rispetto per luoghi sacri o ricorrenze: Maura Isles, patologa della polizia metropolitana soprannominata la Regina dei Morti, viene convocata dal detective Jane Rizzoli a ora tarda, nella cappella del convento di Nostra Signora della Divina Luce. A terra giacciono due corpi massacrati: la novizia Camille e suor Ursula, più anziana e con un passato nelle missioni del Terzo mondo.

When old-school journalist William Carver is tipped off by a trusted Whitehall source that climate scientists have begun to go missing in suspicious circumstances, his gut instinct tells him to follow the story. It rapidly becomes clear that scientists, green campaigners and well-intentioned politicians are in the firing line; William Carver and his colleagues must move fast to find out who is behind the disappearances. They know the journalist's job is to speak truth to power - but first you must uncover that truth and this time it's buried deeper than ever.

Esattamente un anno dopo la cattura di Warren Hoyt, il serial killer soprannominato il Chirurgo, un nuovo incubo è calato su Boston. Come uno spettro, l’assassino si introduce nelle case. Per giorni studia giovani coppie, poi le sorprende nel sonno, stordisce il marito, lo lega costringendolo a guardare le violenze subite dalla moglie e alla fine gli taglia la gola. Della giovane donna, nessuna traccia. Rimane solo la firma del serial killer che giornalisti e poliziotti chiamano già il Dominatore: la camicia da notte della vittima macchiata di sangue ma ordinatamente ripiegata su una sedia.

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.

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.

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.

Life is good for Assistant DA Jessie Black. She just brought another murder trial to a successful conclusion. Her reputation is growing as a top prosecutor in Philadelphia. And she's engaged to a strong, handsome man she loves. Now it's time to step back, plan her wedding, and look forward to a bright future. But when a young man is brutally butchered in his own home, the courtroom calls to her.

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.

Eric Ward is still uneasy on the board of merchant bankers Martin & Channing. Their defense against a hostile takeover is pushing the limits of the law. But Eric soon has problems nearer home: his wife’s colleague is charged with the murder of his fiancée in his London flat. He asks Eric to represent him. Eric discovers some very interesting facts about the dead woman. Then Eric is called back to London to deal with the takeover gone wrong.

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.

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.

Chi ha detto che tra moglie e marito non è mai il caso di mettere il dito? C’è chi lo fa e pure con discreto successo. Quando nella fiacca routine di Joe ed Elizabeth, che insieme gestiscono l’unico cinematografo della cittadina di Stoneville, irrompe la giovane e apparentemente ingenua Carol, assistente tuttofare, nessuno penserebbe mai che una storia di corna possa trasformarsi nella più improbabile delle finzioni shakespeariane, per giunta nella sonnolenta provincia americana. Eppure, è proprio Elizabeth a proporre al marito e alla giovane amante un patto di ferro.

Denver, 1992. Claudette Cooper, Moses King, and Dexter Diaz have been failed by the justice system. Claudette was sexually assaulted. Blinded by her perpetrator, she’s not able to identify him until she has a dream. As a result of that dream, Moses is wrongfully convicted. Dexter gave a false confession to murder after a grueling and unethical interrogation. Now, he faces a sentence of life without the possibility of parole.