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Jacopo Brancas, detto Ticchie, è stato trovato morto dalla polizia. Ticchie, un classico topo di biblioteca, stava studiando "Historia Fiorentina", un vecchio manoscritto al cui interno si celerebbero delle sconvolgenti rivelazioni sulla morte del grande pittore Masaccio. Il tutto dovrebbe essere collegato a un quadro dell’artista, ‘La Sagra’, andato misteriosamente perduto. L'indomito avvocato fiorentino Corrado Scalzi si trova assegnato al caso e dovrà, ancora una volta, usare tutto il suo ingegno per risolvere l'enigma.

Almost two years ago, Faith and Grace Tiddle arrived home from their Saturday morning dance class to find both of their parents face down in pools of blood. Five days later, the twins—only nine years old at the time—were arrested for the double homicide. And now, twenty months on, the entire country awaits with bated breath as the jury is dismissed to deliberate their verdict on a case that has become a national phenomenon. But if Lead Detective Denis Quayle—the man who knows the case better than anybody else—isn’t fully convinced of the twins’ guilt, can a jury be?

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Presumed Innocent and The Last Trial returns with a riveting legal thriller in which a reckless private detective is embroiled in a fraught police scandal. For as long as Lucia Gomez has been the police chief in the city of Highland Isle, near Kindle...

Franco Rama è un chimico genialoide, divorziato e padre assente di un figlio adolescente con cui non ha quasi alcun rapporto. Viene licenziato dall'importante azienda farmaceutica per cui lavorava, a causa della sua tendenza ad assumere alcool e sostanze stupefacenti. Decide allora di cambiare rotta, di "mettersi in proprio” e di creare molecole non più terapeutiche, ma "fantastiche". Sostanze in grado di esaltare ed amplificare al massimo i sensi e le potenzialità del cervello, da mettere in vendita sul mercato del Deep Web.

Michael Jameson is a successful, 40-something, African American husband and father. And he's just been charged with a 25-year-old cold case murder, a gang-related drug deal gone horribly wrong. Talon agrees to take the case, but the one question she needs answered is the one question Michael refuses to answer: Did he do it?

Kylie Tate and Alex finally have the life they have been dreaming of. Happily married, they are enjoying their honeymoon in the Colorado Rockies. But when Kylie is kidnapped, their lives are thrown into turmoil once again. Once rescued, the kidnapper disappears, but not without leaving behind clues to his identity. The man who escaped from prison…Alex’s father, James Wells. Soon, his body is discovered on Alex Stone’s estate. The cause of death—murder. When James Wells’ body is found in the boathouse on the Stone estate, all the evidence points to one man—Alex.

Six Mitch Turner legal thriller short stories in one book!

È un torrido luglio quando Gilda Orefice, pensionata scorbutica e solitaria, viene ritrovata senza vita nel suo appartamento in centro a Bari. Sembra morte naturale – la casa è in ordine e il cadavere composto – ma la giovane piemme Elisabetta Ciraci ha la sensazione che la scena sia troppo perfetta, e ordina l'autopsia. Il referto è inequivocabile: strangolamento. L'indagine corre, e i sospetti si concentrano su Giovanni Campanaro, un commercialista molto noto in città, la cui deposizione mostra contraddizioni sospette.

En spänningsladdad politisk deckare skriven av före detta partiledaren Jonas Sjöstedt. En spansk EU-parlamentariker och en kvinnlig tjänsteman hittas mördade i en lägenhet i Bryssel. När polisen kommer till mordplatsen möts de av scen som påminner om en slaktplats. Parlamentarikern har torterats och mördats genom garrottering – en fruktad spansk avrättningsmetod som inte använts sedan Francos tid vid makten.

She said…all three men got her drunk, led her to a hotel room, and took advantage of her. Three said…she was a willing participant and consented to sex with each of them. But after five weeks of listening to all of the evidence and all of the arguments in a celebrity rape trial that has gripped an entire nation, the jury sits down to begin their deliberations. Only they don’t know who to believe…will you?

#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...

Emma Parker and Morgan Price are Glock-toting, high-kicking divorce lawyers. In the course of investigating a child custody case, Parker and Price step on the toes of more than one crime syndicate, uncover a murder plot, and lock horns with the FBI. The duo meets the challenge with humor, wit, aplomb, and more than a little strip-mall karate-studio-acquired kickboxing.

Dutch Francis is a defense attorney in the case of a judge accused of killing his wife. Just as the trial is about to begin, Ginnie Turner, Dutch's wife and TV news broadcaster, goes missing. Under extreme duress, Dutch tries to extricate himself as the judge's attorney—or at least postpone the trial. The judge insists that the trial proceed without delay and that Dutch remain his attorney. Exhausted by the murder trial, Dutch confronts an ineffectual police department. He takes matters into his own hands as he struggles to balance both responsibilities, pushing him to the brink.

When her shocking new case hits too close to home, can Kenzi prevent a miscarriage of justice? Kenzi Rivera wants her day in the sun. Now the highest-earning name at her father’s firm, the spitfire attorney is furious her brother was chosen to manage the practice. But she steps up anyway to handle her dad’s messy divorce...only to see his wife charged with his mistress’s murder. Facing a smug prosecution team that has compiled a mountain of incriminating evidence, Kenzi once again calls on her tight-knit group of unique female friends to dig up the facts.

Daniel Ames gelang in seinem Leben der Sprung vom Underdog zum angesehenen Rechtsanwalt. Doch ehe er sich versieht, findet er sich wieder in einem Geflecht aus Habgier, Intrigen und Gewalt. Er verliert seinen Job nach der Mitarbeit an einem Rechtsstreit um ein Medikament und wird wenig später auch noch verdächtigt, seinen ehemaligen Chef ermordet zu haben. Doch es gibt auch Menschen, die ihm in dieser schweren Zeit zur Seite stehen und ihm helfen wollen seine Unschuld zu beweisen.

"- Det här som jag säger nu är mycket känsligt. Ni måste lova att inte sprida uppgifterna vidare." David, Johannes och Carina sitter på ett möte inför Västsaharakonferensen när de hör nyheten. Agenten Ali från den marockanska säkerhetstjänsten har hoppat av och tagit kontakt med Polisiaro. Han har ett viktigt avslöjande att förmedla på konferensen: han kan bevisa att högt uppsatta officerare i den marockanska säkerhetstjänsten organiserar och tjänar stora pengar på narkotikasmuggling. Men alla är inte lika entusiastiska över situationen.

Lo encontraron en un pequeño pueblo de Brasil. Tenía otro nombre y otro aspecto, pero estaban seguros de haber dado con él. Cuatro años antes se llamaba Patrick S. Lanigan. Había muerto en un accidente de tráfico en febrero de 1992. Estaba enterrado en un cementerio de Biloxi, Mississippi.

Charles Piper has been a respected judge in the small town of Fairmont, but there is little he can do to sway the courts of public opinion. When Martha Davidson's marriage fell apart, he was quick to offer her his help, and she was quick to return his kindness with his favorite chocolate pie—and that's when the town's whispers began to swirl....

It had been a gang rape. As bad as that was, it was not the turning point. Her life turned around when Cindy Smith put it behind her and started over. She got her degree and a good job. She married a great guy. Then she discovered that one of the rapists was a coworker. When Adan Jackson begins harassing her, Cindy tries to protect her secret past by ignoring him. When he escalates, she turns to Private Investigator Nickey Arnold for help. The PI quickly finds herself caught up in unfinished business from the past. When she confronts Adan, things spin out of control.

Travis Boyette es un asesino. En 1998, en una pequeña ciudad de Texas, raptó, violó y estranguló a una de las chicas más guapas y más populares del instituto. Enterró el cadáver en un lugar donde nadie lo encontraría nunca y luego esperó. Observó impasible mientras la policía detenía a Donté Drumm, la estrella del equipo de fútbol que nada había tenido que ver con el crimen. Donté fue acusado, declarado culpable y condenado a muerte.

When Roman Anderson, a renowned professor, is invited to a weekend retreat at a remote hotel with the Hollywood actors set to star in a new movie based on his book, he feels like he is living the dream. But Anderson is unaware that his enchanting weekend is about to take a sinister turn. Staying at the hotel with them is a group of women from a public relations firm, one of whom, Amy Rogers, accuses Anderson of rape. Anderson immediately pleads his innocence, but the evidence is stacked against him and the noose around his neck tightens as the days go by.

Cuando Mitch McDeere quedó el tercero de su promoción en la facultad de derecho de Harvard, las ofertas de los mejores bufetes empezaron a llover de todos los rincones de Estados Unidos. Bendini, Lambert & Locke no era el más famoso de ellos, pero sí muy respetado, y estaba dispuesto a satisfacer con creces los deseos de Mitch y su esposa: un sueldo inmejorable, una casa maravillosa y las llaves de un flamante BMW.

En una abarrotada sala de un tribunal del estado de Mississippi el jurado pronuncia un veredicto totalmente inesperado: declara culpable a una empresa química por realizar vertidos tóxicos en el sistema de conducción de agua potable de la ciudad, lo que ha provocado la incidencia de cáncer más alta de la historia.

Rudy Baylor es un abogado recién licenciado: tiene un caso, solamente uno, para saldar sus crecientes deudas. En él, debe enfrentarse a una gigantesca compañía de seguros, que podría haber salvado la vida de un hombre joven pero prefirió negarse a sufragar sus gastos médicos hasta que fue demasiado tarde. El litigio se podría cerrar con una condena de varios millones de dólares, pero hay un problema: Rudy no ha hablado nunca ante un tribunal. Y además debe enfrentarse a los abogados más caros, a profesionales que están acostumbrados a moverse entre mares de dinero.

Lacy Stoltz ermittelt wieder. Lacy Stoltz hat als Anwältin bei der Rechtsaufsichtsbehörde in Florida schon viele Fälle von Korruption erlebt. Seit sie einen Richter, der Millionen abkassiert hat, zu Fall brachte, ist sie sogar zu gewisser Berühmtheit gelangt. Doch nun wird sie mit einem Fall konfrontiert, der jenseits des Vorstellbaren liegt: Denn der Richter, gegen den sie ermittelt, nimmt anscheinend keine Bestechungsgelder von Leuten. Er nimmt ihnen das Leben.

When his girlfriend, Jillian Russo, washes up on the shore of the Merrimack River in Essex County, Massachusetts, Carmen Vaughn immediately finds himself the main suspect in her murder investigation. Desperate, he turns to his college professor and former criminal prosecutor, Timothy Pickering, for help clearing his name and figuring out what really happened. Against his family’s wishes, Pickering decides to help and recruits Adrian Watson, a private investigator who’s worked on other government cases in the past.

En una abarrotada sala de un tribunal del estado de Mississippi el jurado pronuncia un veredicto totalmente inesperado: declara culpable a una empresa química por realizar vertidos tóxicos en el sistema de conducción de agua potable de la ciudad, lo que ha provocado la incidencia de cáncer más alta de la historia. La empresa apela al Tribunal Supremo del estado, cuyos nueve jueces deberán confirmar o revocar el veredicto. Carl Trudeau, el propietario de la empresa, no confía en que emita un fallo favorable para él e investiga a cada juez.

District Attorney Clara Hitchens faces two major battles—exposing a corrupt DA, who might be her boss, while handling a high-profile trial with a victim who isn’t sympathetic. When Hitch runs into Nate Conner, he’s the last person she would expect support from. Newly released from jail, Conner has his own problems. A thug is pressuring him for money, and his little sister Kaylee is missing. Determined to go straight, Conner decides that Hitch is the one person he can trust with his suspicions. They develop a plan, but everything goes sideways.

Nick Teffinger never follows orders, but this time it might cost him his job as a Denver homicide detective. Unsolved murders prey on Teffinger’s psyche, and when an on-the-loose killer taunts him with plans for his next kill, Teffinger has do so something, especially since he ignored the first warning with dire consequences. His unlicensed pursuit of the killer takes Teffinger across three continents and, as series fans have come to expect, into the arms of numerous exotic women along the way.

Clay Carter lleva así demasiado tiempo y, como la mayoría de sus colegas, sueña con un puesto mejor en un bufete de verdad. Cuando acepta, sin muchas ganas, el caso de un hombre joven al que acusan de un tiroteo callejero con víctimas, asume que simplemente es uno más de los tantos asesinatos absurdos que se cometen en Washington D.C. cada semana. Mientras investiga el pasado de su cliente, Clay destapa una conspiración demasiado horrible para ser cierta. De repente se encuentra en medio de un complejo caso contra una de las mayores compañías farmacéuticas del mundo.