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Tough-as-nails criminal defense attorney Jane Smith is hip-deep in the murder trial of the century. Actually, her charmless client might’ve committed several murders. She’s also fallen in love with a wonderful guy. And an equally wonderful dog, a mutt. But Jane doesn’t have much time. She’s just received a terminal diagnosis giving her twelve months. Unless she’s murdered before her expiration date.

Thanks to a nomadic childhood, Revelle Lee is fluent in ten languages, which she puts to use at crime scenes and in courtrooms across London. Being a court interpreter is a stressful job, one that makes her privy to the most personal and often dark details of others’ lives. In the meantime, she’s close to adopting a six-year-old boy named Elliot from foster care. Revelle is determined to be the mother she never had, and to make up for a terrible mistake she made years ago.

Twenty years ago, a nine-year-old boy was swept away by powerful waves on a remote Oregon beach, his body lost to the sea. Only a stone memorial remains to mark his tragic death. For most of her life, Amanda Dufresne had no idea she had an older brother named Dennis Owens, or that he had died. Adopted as a baby, she learned about him while looking into her late birth mother, and is curious to know more about this lost sibling. A solitary young woman, Amanda has always felt distanced from the world around her. Her brain works differently from others, leaving her feeling set apart.

Against the backdrop of growing civil rights turmoil in a sultry border town, the hard-drinking ex-POW attorney Hackberry Holland yields to the myriad urgings of his wife, his brother, and his so-called friends to make a bid for a congressional seat - and finds himself embroiled in the seamy world of Texas powerbrokers.

When a soldier is found stabbed through the heart at a US Army base, there is no doubt that his wife, Luz, is to blame. But was it an act of self-defense? An attempt to save her infant daughter? Or the cold-blooded murder of an innocent man? Ambitious public defender Abby is determined to win at all costs. As a new mother herself, she wants to keep Luz out of prison and with her daughter. But when the surprises stack up and shocking new evidence emerges, Abby realizes the task proves far more difficult than she suspected and will require a terrible sacrifice.

It is the summer of 1989, and a controversial Supreme Court ruling has opened the door for states to enact stricter abortion laws. Pro-Life Florida Governor Michael Romano, who has built his political platform on morality, is determined to lead the nation in exploiting this first crack in Roe v Wade. But when his extramarital affair results in an unintended pregnancy, Romano is faced with the frightening prospect of losing all that defines his life—a beautiful, loving wife, a brilliant political career, and enormous wealth.

Only a window knows if Robin Moore was robbin’ more! With no things stolen, and one gunshot in the dark, was this really dad’s burglary to steal child custody? And why is this little girl still missing? The seniority of suspicion attracts the legal fight in Miles Turner and the Jury Whisperer for another "street fight on a chessboard".

The consequences of fighting for justice in a quiet New Mexico community are unfathomable in this intense medical thriller where powerful enemies hide the truth—no matter the human cost.

Tres emocionantes historias del maestro Grisham con el mundo de la ley como hilo conductor.

En form for retfærdighed er tiende bind i serien om kriminalkommisær Adam Dalgliesh fra Scotland Yard.

Advokaten Venetia Aldridge påtager sig at forsvare den unge Gary Ashe, som står anklaget for at have myrdet sin tante med koldt blod. Hun opfatter opgaven som rent rutinearbejde, en triviel lejlighed blandt mange til at brillere i retten og til at fremme sin i forvejen lysende karriere. Men sagen mod Gary Ashe udløser en kæde af frygtelige begivenheder, ingen havde kunnet forudse.

Seriemorderen er ikke under anklage. Han sidder i juryen … De var Hollywoods hotteste par. Verden lå for deres fødder. Men nu er en af dem død, og filmstjernen Robert Solomon er tiltalt for det brutale mord på sin smukke, unge kone. Det er århundredets retssag på Manhattan, og forsvaret vil have en bestemt mand med på holdet: svindleren, der blev advokat, Eddie Flynn. Alle beviser peger på, at Robert Solomon er skyldig, men da retssagen begynder, får en række alvorlige hændelser Eddie til at tvivle på, hvad sandheden er.

Benjamin Joel was a fatherless eleven-year-old boy when he found his mother dead of a heroin overdose in a run-down Kansas trailer home. Doing his best to shutter away her memory and his own violent past, Ben is now an attorney trying to make a life for himself and his family.

Eddie Flynn plejede at være en svindler. Efter det, blev han advokat. Det viste sig at de to ting ikke var så forskellige. Det er over et år siden, at Eddie svor, at han aldrig ville sætte benene i en retssal igen. Men nu har han ikke noget valg. Olek Volchek, den russiske mafias famøse overhoved i New York, har sat en bombe fast til Eddies ryg, og har kidnappet hans tiårige datter, Amy. Eddie har kun 48 timer til at forsvare Volchek i en umulig drabsretsag, og vinde, hvis han vil redde sin datter.

Leonard Howell gennemlever sit livs mareridt: Hans datter, Caroline, er blevet kidnappet. Han har ikke tiltro til politiet, så Howell ringer til den eneste mand, han stoler på kan få hende tilbage. Eddie Flynn ved, hvordan det er at miste en datter, og lover at bringe Caroline sikkert hjem. Flynn er nu en anerkendt forsvarsadvokat, men har en fortid som professionel svindler, og New Yorks dunkle underverden er ikke ukendt for ham. Men da Flynn træder ind i sit gamle liv igen, går det op for ham, at spillereglerne har ændret sig, og at nogen laver numre med ham.

Zoe Paul never had much. Abandoned as an infant, her grandmother Marilyn raised her, until a tragic accident left Zoe all alone. Now, 16 years later, Zoe discovers an unclaimed check worth millions among her grandmother’s things. With no explanation of why Marilyn never cashed the check or what it was for, Zoe's curiosity quickly turns to suspicion, and she goes to Cass for help.

Seriemorderen er ikke under anklage. Han sidder i juryen … De var Hollywoods hotteste par. Verden lå for deres fødder. Men nu er en af dem død, og filmstjernen Robert Solomon er tiltalt for det brutale mord på sin smukke, unge kone. Det er århundredets retssag på Manhattan, og forsvaret vil have en bestemt mand med på holdet: svindleren, der blev advokat, Eddie Flynn. Alle beviser peger på, at Robert Solomon er skyldig, men da retssagen begynder, får en række alvorlige hændelser Eddie til at tvivle på, hvad sandheden er.

I byen Promise Falls er det lige så let at få hævn som at tælle til 1, 2, 3 ...

Dagen begynder som en helt almindelig lørdag – et bad, en kop kaffe, morgenmad. Men pludselig bryder helvede løs i Promise Falls.

Folk falder døde om på gaden, hospitalerne og beredskabet bliver lagt ned af det høje antal ofre. Er det massemord gennem madforgiftning, en virus eller noget endnu mere dystert? Er der mon nogen, der står bag?

De er ude efter dig. Efter at se dig død. Tom Meron, en lykkelig gift far til to, som aldrig har været i vanskeligheder, modtager et telefonopkald, der vil ændre hans liv for altid. Hans ven, Jack Calley, en højtflyvende storby-advokat, skriger ind i telefonen om hjælp. Mens Meron lytter med, bliver Calley myrdet. Han siger sine sidste ord til sin drabsmand: de to første linjer af Merons adresse.

HAN ER SYMPATISK OG UDNYTTER DET

Joe har tjek på alt i sit enkle liv. Han vågner af sig selv hver morgen, glemmer aldrig at fodre sine to fisk og besøger sin mor mindst en gang om ugen, hvor det hænder, at han kommer til at putte rottegift i hendes kaffe.

Om dagen har han arbejde som rengøringsassistent på politistationen.

Kommissær Helen Grace har oplevet mange tragedier i sit liv, men da der bliver fundet et lig i en S/M natklub i Southampton, kommer døden pludselig alt for tæt på. Helen skjuler sin personlige forbindelse til offeret – og et dobbeltliv, der bør hemmeligholdes for enhver pris. Hun bliver som besat og sætter sine folk på arbejde i døgndrift for at efterforske hvert et spor. Da morderen slår til igen, slider det ikke kun hårdt på Helen, men også på hendes medarbejdere. Bølgerne går højt på stationen, venskaber kommer under pres, og Helen står over for et umuligt valg.