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Marko Bauer and Allee Smith thought defending James Innis on a simple charge would be straightforward. But when he confesses to a murder, it’s clear that this case will be anything but easy. Bound by the law, they can't expose him, even when he leads them to the body. Desperate to escape the ethical trap they've fallen into, Marko and Allee search for a loophole to report him, weighing the options of dropping the case or outright defying the rules.

Attorney Nick Justin is riding high until he gets alarming news following a case. His wife Andrea has been in a devastating car accident and has been rushed to the hospital. Disturbing details follow that she had alcohol on her breath and fentanyl in her purse.

She wants to learn everything about you. Mel has practised law for twenty years. She is well-regarded by her peers. Her clients are happy. But behind the scenes her life is disordered. Her son grows increasingly distant from her. The married man she is sleeping with fails to give her what she...

When a middle-aged businessman enters the office of Ben Carter and hires him for a murder case, nothing could have prepared the lawyer for the cat-and-mouse game that follows. Tasked with defending a woman accused of killing local businessman Dale Rich, Carter soon finds himself asking more questions about the man who hired him than the woman he’s been sent to defend.

Avery Collins isn't your typical attorney. After years behind bars for a murder she didn't commit, she's now a relentless defender of the innocent. Her latest case? A ticking time bomb of secrets and lies. Esme Guitierrez, an El Salvadoran refugee, stands accused of murdering Aria Whitmore, the talented daughter of a billionaire hotelier. Avery unearths a web of disturbing truths hidden within the Whitmore mansion: the disappearance of Aria's birth mother, her unlikely friendship with a schizophrenic man, and threatening emails containing insider information point to a much darker reality.

Told in the voice of a twisted legal treatise, A Restatement of Murder is a razor-edged noir thriller that blends courtroom strategy, moral ambiguity, and Southern grit. As Eliot navigates corrupt cops, vengeful clients, a relentless ex-lover in the DA’s office, and a city full of hidden bodies, the question isn’t just whether he’ll get away with it.

In "True Crime - Die grausamsten Mörder" öffnet Alexander Dragone die Tür zu einer Welt unvorstellbarer Grausamkeit und psychologischer Abgründe. Bekannt für seine True Crime-Bücher, die nach Jahrzehnten geordnet die dunkle Geschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts beleuchten, schlägt Dragone diesmal einen neuen, globalen Pfad ein: Statt chronologischer Reihenfolge fasst er die abscheulichsten Serienmörder-Fälle aus aller Welt zusammen – von den eisigen Straßen Russlands über das Rotlichtviertel Pattayas bis hin zur neonbeleuchteten Metropole New York.

This latest pulse-pounding installment in Vince Flynn's #1 New York Times bestselling series takes Mitch Rapp back to his fledgling assassin days, completing the trilogy begun with American Assassin and Kill Shot. The Central Intelligence Agency is in crisis. Following the collapse of the Soviet...

Imogen Duffy is an up-and-coming Irish jump jockey making her mark in steeplechase racing. But not all is well in Imogen's life. Jealous of her success, Imogen's controlling boyfriend Liam is stalking her, and when she tries to break it off with him, he turns violent. Fleeing to England, Imogen hopes to leave Liam behind. But Liam vehemently refuses to let her go – until he's found dead, stabbed with a knife bearing Imogen's fingerprints. Imogen's father, convinced of her innocence, seeks out Sid Halley to ask for his help uncovering the truth, and Sid reluctantly agrees to investigate.

Un hombre inocente fue condenado por asesinato hace veintidós años. Su abogado no parará hasta verle libre. Pero quienes le encerraron ya mataron una vez. Y están preparados para volver a hacerlo. En la pequeña ciudad de Seabrook, Florida, un prometedor abogado llamado Keith Russo fue asesinado a tiros una noche mientras trabajaba hasta tarde en su despacho. El culpable no dejó pistas. No hubo testigos, nadie tenía un motivo. Pero la policía pronto sospechó de Quincy Miller, un joven negro que había sido cliente de Russo.

Baseball sleuth Adam Wallace finds himself on two seemingly independent quests. The Hall of Fame asks him to research the details of the very first Congressional Baseball Game -- now an annual charitable event in the nation's capital -- for a new exhibit on baseball and politics. And the Commissioner of Baseball asks him to examine the newly legitimized relationship between Major League Baseball and companies that facilitate gambling on the games. His tasks have more in common than he had realized, and neither leads quite where he had expected.

Una piscina abbandonata piena di cadaveri. Un serial killer che ha agito per anni senza destare sospetti. Barcellona è il terreno di caccia di un nuovo predatore, che diventa l'obiettivo principale della polizia. Il Commissariato di Travessera de les Corts riceve l'incarico di risolvere il caso. Riusciranno a identificarlo e catturarlo prima che colpisca di nuovo?

The year is 1990. A shocking murder of the star quarterback upends a sleepy Georgia town. After his father Jack decides to risk everything by defending the accused, young Chance Meridian—along with his three best friends—must grow up fast when the uglier lessons of life interrupt their...

Power. Corruption. Murder. One election. One impossible case. One attorney who thought he'd argued his last trial. On election night, rising congressional candidate Marcus Blanchard is found standing over the body of a murdered woman. The evidence is overwhelming. The witnesses are convincing. The verdict seems inevitable. Only one man believes Marcus is innocent. Edward Mead, a brilliant but aging law professor who hasn't entered a courtroom in thirty years, reluctantly returns to defend a former student while caring for his wife as she battles terminal cancer.

Edgar nominee Victor Methos delivers the next high-stakes case for Detective Lazarus Holloway and Piper Danes, where a kidnapping at a Vegas chapel unveils a sinister plot that hits close to home. The abduction of two teenagers from their Vegas wedding isn’t a case Detective Lazarus Holloway...

Coroner Fenway Stevenson is distraught. Not only is her father on trial for murder, but a huge conspiracy is wrecking the coastal town she calls home. And with two gunshots in a crowded courtroom, everything changes. A dead body. Thirteen people. A set of locked doors. As the hours tick by, one thing becomes clear: the killer is still in the courtroom and will stop at nothing to ensure the truth never comes out. With nothing but a fingerprint kit, an Ethernet cable, and her wits, can Fenway catch the killer before becoming a victim herself?

'Scott Turow is master of the legal thriller' – The Guardian Full of suspicion and half-truths, The Burden of Proof is Scott Turow's second Kindle County legal thriller. His first Kindle County thriller, Presumed Innocent, is now a major TV series from Apple TV+ starring Jake Gyllenhaal. One...

Fanget i en rigmands soveværelse overværer indbrudstyven Luther Whitney et brutalt overfald og mord på millionærens unge kone. Overfaldsmanden er USA's præsident. Whitney flygter med en blodig papirkniv, der kan forbinde præsidenten til mordet, og snart er han jaget vildt. Jack Graham er en succesrig advokat for finansverdenens top. Alligevel bliver han blandet ind i den lyssky affære, da Whitney kontakter ham. Med kontakten følger et møde med Whitneys datter, en idealistisk kvinde og Jacks tidligere forlovede. Jack kastes ud i et kapløb mod tiden for at afsløre magtens korruption.

Former Green Beret turned history teacher Michael Bennit likes to inspire his students. After losing a bet to one of his classes, he finds himself running for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. Partnering with his students to campaign exclusively on social media, the race turns into a national sensation, and a sleazy incumbent fanatical about hanging onto his power becomes desperate to destroy it- at any cost.

Nina has just received a last-minute call from her old boss and mentor in Monterey County, California, where she is enjoying the breathtaking scenery and spending time with her boyfriend, P.I. Paul van Wagoner. Klaus Pohlmann is in desperate straits and begs Nina to take over a seemingly unwinnable case: A luckless two-time felon named Stefan Wyatt has robbed a grave and made off with the long-buried bones of a Russian émigré. When he is caught and arrested, further devastating evidence found in the grave suggests that Stefan is guilty of a far more deadly crime.