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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3.9 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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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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"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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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...