Legal Thrillers

Lawyers, judges, and other staff involved in the legal sector make up the storylines and characters of these fast-paced novels centered around intrigue. Crusading lawyers fighting against corruption, and detecting attorneys and their staff are paramount to these novels, and are often accompanied by the nitty gritty procedural aspects of the law.

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3.5 stars
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A GRIPPING THRILLER OF TWO CHILDHOOD FRIENDS WHO FIND THEMSELVES ON OPPOSITE SIDE OF THE LAW AS ADULTS.
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For most of the last hundred years, Biloxi was known for its beaches, resorts, and seafood industry. But it had a darker side. It was also notorious for corruption and vice, everything from gambling, prostitution, bootleg liquor, and drugs to contract killings. The vice was controlled by small cabal of mobsters, many of them rumored to be members of the Dixie Mafia. Keith Rudy and Hugh Malco grew up in Biloxi in the sixties and were childhood friends,...
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3.9 stars
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GET READY TO HAVE YOUR HEART AND SOUL TOUCHED
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"When two wealthy white landowners are found dead, the whole country immediately thinks it must be Jerome Washington, the hired help, who killed them. He was standing over the bodies when the police responded to an anonymous call and the only one on the property at the time of death. As far as the state is concerned, it's an open and shut case. Jack Lee, born and raised in Freeman County, knows that every man deserves a solid defense and agrees to...
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4.2 stars
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ENJOY THE LINCOLN LAWYER IN PRINT
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Defense attorney Mickey Haller is back, taking the long shot cases, where the chances of winning are one in a million. He agrees to represent a woman in prison for killing her husband, a sheriff's deputy. Despite her conviction four years earlier, she still maintains her innocence. Haller enlists his half brother, retired LAPD Detective Harry Bosch, as investigator. Reviewing the case, Bosch sees something that doesn't add up, and a sheriff's department...
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3.3 stars
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"Avery Keene is back, trying to get her feet on solid ground after unraveling a conspiracy that took down the President of the United States. But as the sparks of impeachment hearings and political skirmishes swirl around her, Avery is approached at a legal conference by Preston Davies, an unassuming young man and fellow law clerk to a federal judge in Idaho. Davies believes his boss, Judge Francesca Whitner, was being blackmailed in the days before...
Book cover for "The truth about the Devlins"
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3.6 stars
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SCOTTOLINE CONTINUES IN THE STYLE OF WHAT HAPPENED TO THE BENNETS IN THIS THRILLER OF DOMESTIC JUSTICE
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TJ Devlin is the charming disappointment in the prominent Devlin family, all of whom are lawyers at their highly successful firm--except him. After a stint in prison and rehab for alcoholism, TJ can't get hired anywhere except at the firm, in a make-work job with the title of investigator. But one night, TJ's world turns upside down after his older brother John confesses that he murdered one of their clients, an accountant he'd confronted with proof...