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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"Robin Lockwood is now a prominent defense attorney in Portland, Oregon but a decade ago, she was a ranked and rising MMA fighter. Her career came to a quick end when she was knocked out and concussed in the first round by Mandy Kerrigan, a much more talented fighter. Now the situation couldn't be more different, with Kerrigan on her last legs, her career nearly over, arrested for the quadruple murder of the entire Finch family...and Kerrigan's only...
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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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CONTINUING WITH THE SAMANTHA BRINKMAN SERIES, SHE IS DRAWN INTO A MURDER INVESTIGATION THAT HAS HER INVESTIGATING HER BOY FRIEND'S PAST.
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"When it comes to relationships and self-preservation, defense attorney Samantha Brinkman has always been cut and run. But it's different with her new lover Niko, an ambitious and globally famous entrepreneur. Sam is putting her faith in him. She has to: he's also her new client, a suspect in the murder of an investor whose shady dealings turned Niko's good life upside down"--Dust jacket flap.
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4.5 stars
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WHILE THIS IS THE 18TH NOVEL IN THIS SERIES IT CAN BE READ ALONE AND GRIPPANDO KEEPS COMING UP WITH COMPLEX AND TIMELY CASES
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Jack Swyteck's latest client is Grammy-winning popstar Imani Nichols, who urges fans to pirate her music because her royalties go mostly to ex-husband Shaky Nichols. The result is blazing litigation and the indictment of both for the long-ago murder of Imani's extramarital lover.
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5 stars
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START WITH THE FIRST IN THIS SERIES AND YOU'LL BE HOOKED AND READY TO READY THE NEXT TWO/
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"Keera Duggan was building a solid reputation as a Seattle prosecutor, until her romantic relationship with a senior colleague ended badly. For the competitive former chess prodigy, returning to her family's failing criminal defense law firm to work for her father is the best shot she has. With the right moves, she hopes to restore the family's reputation, her relationship with her father, and her career. Keera's chance to play in the big leagues...
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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...
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5 stars
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"Dismas Hardy knows something is amiss with his secretary, Phyllis. Her out-of-character behavior and sudden disappearances concern Hardy, especially when he learns that her convict brother--a man who had served twenty-five years in prison for armed robbery and attempted murder--has just been released. Things take a shocking turn when Phyllis is suddenly arrested at work for allegedly being an accessory to the murder of Hector Valdez, a coyote who'd...
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2.8 stars
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"For as long as Lucia Gomez has been the police chief in the city of Highland Isle, ... she has known that any woman in law enforcement must walk a precarious line between authority and camaraderie to gain respect. She has maintained a spotless reputation--until now. Three male police officers have accused her of soliciting sex in exchange for promotions to higher ranks. With few people left who she can trust, Chief Gomez turns to an old friend, Rik...
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ENJOY THIS SUSPENSEFUL THRILLER WHEN THE SERIAL KILLER IS NOT ON TRIAL BUT IN THE JURY
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"It's the murder trial of the century. And Joshua Kane has killed to get the best seat in the house--and to be sure the wrong man goes down for the crime. Because this time, the killer isn't on trial. He's on the jury. But there's someone on his tail. Former-conman-turned-criminal-defense-attorney Eddie Flynn doesn't believe that his movie-star client killed two people. He suspects that the real killer is closer than they think--but who would guess...

10. Trial

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4 stars
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"In a propulsive narrative that culminates in a nationally televised murder case, Trial explores America's most incendiary flashpoints of race. A Black eighteen-year-old voting rights worker, Malcolm Hill, is stopped by a white sheriff's deputy on a dark country road in rural Georgia. His single mother, Allie, America's leading voting rights advocate, restlessly awaits his return before police inform her that Malcolm has been arrested for murder....
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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...