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#1 New York Times Bestseller! Read by Academy Award–winning actress Viola Davis. “Davis is a force of nature, and her performance is riveting.” — Kirkus Reviews Viola Davis and the world's #1 bestselling author James Patterson’s Judge Stone "delivers first-class courtroom drama...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER John Grisham is the acclaimed master of the legal thriller. Now, he’s back with his first-ever whodunit, even more suspenseful than his courtroom dramas, as a small-time lawyer accused of murder races to find the real killer to clear his name. “A classic...

Sarah Morgan is one of the best criminal defense attorneys in Washington, DC. With a perfect case record and having made named partner before the age of thirty-five, her life is going exactly as she planned.

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Michael Connelly, the Lincoln Lawyer is back with a case against an AI company whose product may have been responsible for the murder of a young girl. Following his “resurrection walk” and need for a new direction, Mickey Haller turns to public...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A disgraced corporate attorney ventures into a potentially lethal jungle, on a job no one wants, in this “entertaining page-turner” (USA Today) from the master of the legal thriller. In a plush Virginia office, a rich, angry old man is furiously rewriting his...

Spencer doesn’t know the meaning of the word “quit,” and he’s willing to ruffle some feathers in his quest to uncover the truth. But in the course of unraveling the mystery of Osborn’s murder, he’s making some very powerful enemies.

This bestselling legal thriller follows the charismatic defense attorney, Mickey Haller, as he takes on a slam-dunk court case involving a Beverly Hills playboy—but as it spirals into a nightmare, he finds himself in a fight for his life. Inspiration for the #1 Netflix series The Lincoln...

Biloxi’s best criminal defense attorney has never lost a case. Then his client’s beautiful wife is murdered, and America’s #1 lawyer suddenly becomes its #1 suspect. Stafford Lee Penney is a small-town lawyer with a big-time reputation for winning every case he tries. In his sharp suits...

Leigh Collier has worked hard to build what looks like a normal life. But Leigh’s ordinary life masks a childhood that was far from average...a childhood tarnished by secrets, broken by betrayal, and finally torn apart by a devastating act of violence....

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A tremendously entertaining legal thriller, filled with the kind of courtroom strategies, theatrics, and suspense that have won John Grisham acclaim as “an absolute master” (The Washington Post). After leaving a fast-track legal career and going on a serious...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER John Grisham returns to Florida, where The Whistler’s Lacy Stoltz takes on a cold case that reveals a judge’s darkest secrets. “One of the best crime reads of the year . . . a world-class shocker, worth staying up all night to finish.”—The Wall Street...

In this bestselling thriller, after DNA evidence frees a sadistic killer, defense attorney Mickey Haller and LAPD Detective Harry Bosch must put him behind bars before he strikes again. Inspiration for the #1 Netflix series The Lincoln Lawyer.​ Longtime defense attorney Mickey Haller is...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A high-stakes thrill ride through the darkest corners of the Sunshine State, from the author hailed as “the best thriller writer alive” by Ken Follett “Riveting . . . an elaborate conspiracy.”—The New York Times Book Review We expect our judges to be...

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Michael Connelly: Lincoln Lawyer Mickey Haller enlists the help of his half-brother, Harry Bosch, to prove the innocence of a woman convicted of killing her husband. Inspiration for the #1 TV show on Netflix, The Lincoln Lawyer series. Defense attorney...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From “a legal literary legend” (USA Today) comes a gripping thriller of two childhood friends who find themselves on opposite sides of the law as adults, with all of John Grisham’s trademark twists and turns. For most of the last hundred years, Biloxi was...

In this action-packed legal thriller, Defense attorney Mickey Haller and Detective Harry Bosch must either work together—or die—as they investigate a Hollywood lawyer's murder. Inspiration for the #1 Netflix series The Lincoln Lawyer. Things are finally looking up for defense attorney Mickey...

In this #1 New York Times bestselling thriller, after taking on a foreclosure case, defense attorney Mickey Haller fights to prove his client’s innocence—but first he must follow a trail of black market evidence to its sinister end. Inspiration for the #1 Netflix series The Lincoln Lawyer...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Jake Brigance is back! The hero of A Time to Kill, one of the most popular novels of our time, returns in a “riveting” (The New York Times) courtroom drama from “the best thriller writer alive” (Ken Follett). There is a time to kill and a time for justice...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Once he was a well-liked, well-paid young partner in a thriving Mississippi law firm. Then he stole ninety million dollars from his own firm—and ran for his life. “One terrific book—smart, fast, stingingly satiric, and almost criminally entertaining...

From a New York Times bestselling author, and the inspiration for the #1 Netflix show The Lincoln Lawyer, defense attorney Mickey Haller is forced to bend the law until it breaks when he's hired to defend a man accused of killing a prostitute in this suspenseful novel, the "best one yet" (The...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “An original, gripping, penetrating novel . . . Grisham is not only the master of suspense but also an acute observer of the human condition.”—David Grann, author of Killers of the Flower Moon and The Wager October 1946, Clanton, Mississippi Pete Banning...

The Dollmaker was the name of the serial killer who had stalked Los Angeles ruthlessly....

The inspiration for the hit Netflix series The Lincoln Lawyer. Lincoln Lawyer Mickey Haller is back on the job in this heart-stopping thriller from a renowned #1 New York Times bestselling author. “One of the finest legal thrillers of the last decade.” —Associated Press On the night he...

Defense attorney Hank Luger leaves a high-powered D.C. career to return home to Savannah. He opens a practice under the moss-draped oaks, hoping for slower days and time with his ailing mother. But his return unsettles the city's legal elite—especially his estranged father, former DA George Luger.

“Brilliantly tense, this is another clever page turner from Kia Abdullah that I couldn’t put down. Just superb.” Louise Hare, author of This Lovely City * * * * ON AN ORDINARY WORKING DAY… Leila Syed receives a call that cleaves her life in two. Her brother-in-law’s voice is filled...

#1 New York Times Bestseller! Read by Academy Award–winning actress Viola Davis. “Davis is a force of nature, and her performance is riveting.” — Kirkus Reviews Viola Davis and the world's #1 bestselling author James Patterson’s Judge Stone "delivers first-class courtroom drama...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In this gripping thriller, truth and justice are called into question when a Black man is gunned down in cold blood—the first novel in a riveting series from renowned civil rights attorney Ben Crump. “A sensationally good crime and legal thriller . . . This is...

When Dean Lincoln takes on the high-profile appeal of a man accused of killing a respected South Carolina judge, he knows the case is stacked against him. But as Lincoln digs deeper, he uncovers more than procedural missteps—he finds a conspiracy that reaches the highest levels of power. With dangerous men closing ranks and witnesses going silent, Lincoln must risk everything to unravel a web of corruption before it buries him next.

A local business owner is shot and disappears under mysterious circumstances. Another man goes on a hit-and-run rampage. And a horrifying day care incident sends innocent children to the ER. At first glance, the events appear unrelated. But as he investigates, local attorney Spencer Dunn begins to think otherwise. When Spencer digs beneath Autumn Harbor’s idyllic surface, he uncovers a dark thread weaving the cases together—a thread that leads straight to Jack Butcher, the flashy civic leader whose shiny public persona masks a rotten core.

When Deputy Attorney General Eleanor Vance dies in an apparent suicide, DOJ prosecutor Alex Hayes is left holding fragments of a conspiracy—evidence of a covert network placing corrupt judges on the federal bench. Vance had hinted at a link to Alex’s own mother, then vanished before revealing the truth.

A judge's wife is dead, and the public are demanding blood. It's the sort of case that will end a defense attorney's career. But Michael Gresham doesn't have much left to lose and when he smells a rat in this headline grabbing story, it's the justice establishment that needs to be worried. A brilliant legal mind with nothing to lose becomes a formidable adversary to those who abuse their power.

Michael Gresham's career is hanging by a thread. The lawyer who stops at nothing to defend others is in the defendant's chair, alone. Enter Harley Sturgis, a lawyer whose own career is on the brink of collapse. But Gresham's case could be her salvation. Save Gresham, save his legacy, and save her own job. There's only one problem. According to the greatest legal minds in the city, Gresham is guilty.

When Michael Gresham and his wife offer to help their priest, life takes a dark turn. The holy man has a son, illegitimate of course, and he's on a first degree murder charge. It's time for Gresham to step up, and this time it includes having the boy in their home. Neither he or his wife were prepared for what happened next.

Una mujer desaparece. Su hermano tiene seis días para salvarla. En una tranquila noche de lunes en Key West, Lucia Álvarez entra a un pequeño bar de Duval Street para tomar una bebida sin alcohol. Minutos después apenas puede mantenerse en pie. Al día siguiente, su hermano Nico recibe un mensaje que le paraliza la sangre: 20,000 dólares. Una semana. No llames a la policía. Desesperado y sin dinero, Nico toma una decisión que arruina su vida en cuestión de minutos: cometer un robo para reunir el rescate. Pero todo sale mal. Ahora está arrestado… y su hermana sigue desaparecida. ...

When fifteen-year-old Trayvon Clapper is murdered by a guard at Camp B in Florida, his fringe-living mother and boyfriend come to Bergman-Deketomis to file a lawsuit against the facility. Details of the case trigger in Deke memories of his own troubled childhood. As a boy, Deke had no stable parents around him, so he lived with several different families over the years as he grew up, avoiding the foster care system. However, his best friend, Bucky, was not so fortunate.

Ashley Corbin, a former tennis prodigy turned prosecutor, finds herself entangled in a high-profile rape case in the small town of Freeman’s Gate. After the rapist, Daniel Lockhart, is acquitted by a jury, the victim, Sheila Fanning, having lost the protection of the rape exception in the abortion law, is arrested on the courthouse steps for having procured an illegal abortion.

A popular president. A constitutional loophole. A country holding its breath. When legal theories surface suggesting a president might serve beyond two terms, the idea of a third run shifts from rumor to strategy. Elena Park, a White House communications aide, helps shape language meant to reassure the public—until she realizes those words are being used to rewrite the rules.

Tom Berte, a former Department of Justice lawyer, thought he'd left his past behind when he moved to Castle Ridge with his family. But when a brutal attack leaves him fighting for his life, Tom and his family find themselves at the epicenter of an unfolding conspiracy that stretches from the local ski resort to a desert compound on the other side of the world.

A consulting firm sells “zero tolerance” to the biggest banks in South Africa. Umkhombe Integrity Advisory is paid to make risk disappear: harassment policies, executive conduct frameworks, whistleblower programs—packaged as certainty and delivered in polished decks. Their clients don’t buy feelings. They buy protection. Then the firm’s star rainmaker is accused. A new hire files a formal complaint against Thabo Ndlovu—the man who brings in the largest contracts, owns the most powerful relationships, and knows exactly where every body is buried. He’s not just valuable. He’s ...

Deutschland, 2033. Die rechtsextreme Partei AUFSTAND stellt die Bundeskanzlerin. Als die junge Anwältin Marie Wigand ihrer Chefin bei einem neuen Strafprozess assistieren soll, ahnt sie noch nichts von seinem historischen Ausmaß. Die Generalsekretärin der einzigen Oppositionspartei REFORM wird angeklagt, hinter einem Bombenanschlag auf die Parteizentrale des AUFSTANDs zu stecken.

Die Stockholmer Investigativjournalistin Julia verfolgt eine heiße Spur: Alles deutet darauf hin, dass der charismatische, beliebte Ministerpräsident Schwedens auch dunkle Seiten hat. Als Julia von ihrem Chefredakteur kaltgestellt wird, ahnt sie, wie hochbrisant die Sache ist. Erst recht, als ihr politisch unerfahrener Ehemann, Windkraft-Experte Alfred, plötzlich zum Pressesprecher des Ministerpräsidenten ernannt wird. Julia kann Alfred nicht sagen, was sie sofort vermutet: Dieser Job wurde ihm nur angeboten, um sie endgültig zum Schweigen zu bringen.

Seven women. No active investigations. No one asking why. Investigative journalist Rachel Kim is used to stories that powerful people want buried. But when Mara Vega appears at her door with a folder and eleven months of research her sister can no longer do for herself, Rachel finds something she didn't expect: a pattern. The women worked for the same staffing company. They moved through the same venues. They disappeared into the same silence — a silence that someone spent a great deal of money to maintain. The deeper Rachel goes, the more she finds. A shell company. A venue empire. A ...

In New Orleans, the heat doesn’t just make you sweat. It makes you sour. Cherry Grayson knows that better than anyone. As a boutique attorney for the city’s most prestigious families, she’s seen the jasmine-scented rot behind the wrought iron. But Cherry isn’t interested in justice. She’s interested in the Audit. Thirty years ago, her mother went to the electric chair, her crime etched forever in a crimson stain on the marble foyer. Cherry learned the lesson well: violence isn’t the problem — evidence is. From her climate-controlled sanctuary on Royal Street, Cherry treats ...

The fog doesn't hide the truth. It just makes the truth harder to prove. Nolan Cross has spent his career preserving other people's secrets. As a senior archivist at the California State Archives in Sacramento, he catalogs the past with the same careful distance he keeps from everything else in his life. Then a federal judge presses a flash drive into his hand — and turns up murdered the next morning. The drive contains fifteen years of buried evidence: thirty-seven Delta landowners stripped of their properties, fourteen people imprisoned for crimes they never committed, five people dead....

In the Harlem of 1969, justice wears many faces — and some of them hide secrets. When Eleanor Wright and her husband, James, founders of The Wright Law Firm, take on the case of a young Black man framed for a crime he did not commit, they ignite a battle that reaches from the streets of Harlem to the heart of the city’s corrupt police force.