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Gleich die erste Mandantin ihrer neugegründeten Kanzlei stellt die Anwältin Linn Geller vor gewaltige Probleme: Grace Riccardi ist wild entschlossen, den Mord an ihrem Ehemann zu gestehen - ein gefundenes Fressen für den Staatsanwalt. Linn findet jedoch bei genauerem Hinsehen Hinweise auf die Unschuld ihrer Mandantin. Aber warum sollte eine Unschuldige freiwillig ins Gefängnis gehen? Oder ist Grace Riccardi doch die Mörderin? Linn beginnt auf eigene Faust zu ermitteln, nicht ahnend, wie nahe sie dem Bösen kommen wird und dass sie selber von der Jägerin zur Gejagten wird.

L'avvocato californiano è alle prese con una strana cliente, che si presenta con due guanti diversi, e con un delitto ancora più strano. Tutto si gioca nell'aula del tribunale. Un racconto alla maniera di Erle Stanley Gardner

Can this wrongful conviction be overturned? A teenager was found guilty as an accomplice in a robber murder. His brother has tried unsuccessfully for years to get the case reopened. Now a University Law Center has taken it on. It's the boy's last chance.

Mødre ved altid bedst... Men hvem vil lytte til dem? Kriminalassistent Jane Rizzoli og retsmedicineren Maura Isles fra Boston Politi står over for et tilsyneladende meningsløst mord. Sofia Suarez, en enke og sygeplejerske, som var vellidt af alle omkring hende, ligger med kraniet knust i sit eget hjem. Men alt kan ske bag lukkede døre, og Sofia virker til at have haft mange hemmeligheder i perioden op til sin død, hvor hun foretog skjulte opkald til telefoner med taletidskort, der ikke kan spores.

Duncan Cochrane quit politics to escape the sins of his past, but two years later, he's pulled back in to protect his imprisoned son, and a death row inmate who just might be innocent. To do so, he must find new sources of power and new ways to inspire the voters who turned on him.

Join prosecutor Mia Quinn as she tries to bring justice to Seattle in the Mia Quinn Mysteries: A Matter of Trust, A Deadly Business, and Lethal Beauty—now available as a 3-in-1 audiobook! “Wiehl’s experience as a former federal prosecutor gives the narrative an authenticity in its...

I should never have gone to her house. But I was desperate to ask her some questions about that night. About what she saw when Joe fell from the bridge. All I wanted was some honesty, for someone else to have seen what I saw. I never meant to hurt her. To push her. As she lay at the bottom of the stairs, blood pooling around her head, I knew it was the end for me too. I kept expecting the knock on the door, the police, the handcuffs. But it never came. On the news, they are reporting someone has come forward and confessed to her murder. But that can't be true. Because her killer is me.

“Patterson and Lupica make a great team” (Carl Hiaasen) who get “deep into the lives of strong women” (Louise Penny) and Jane Smith is their greatest creation—a badass lawyer with a year to live. “Jane Smith is the best character we’ve ever created. Bar none.” —James Patterson...

Single mother Shei Rivera volunteers herself to a plan orchestrated by her father, Liam Rivera, who is a criminal defense prosecutor for the state of Virginia. The situation requires Shei to commit an unimaginable crime of her own—homicide. Liam has ordered her to murder the man that he prosecuted years prior over a reckless-driving-related death of a child.

When Broker Assistant Kathy Jenkins overhears a suspicious conversation between her boss and an unknown person, she's thrust into a dangerous situation, leading to her wrongful termination. Hiring Scott Winslow, Kathy aims to expose the wrongdoing, while Lee Henry's unconventional investigation uncovers a network of seasoned brokers dealing in non-public information without a paper trail.

Mitchell Roth is a billionaire hedge fund mastermind whose life turns into a nightmare in the blink of an eye. But his fate is just the tip of the iceberg of a larger and more sinister plot lurking beneath the surface. Now he’s framed for insider trading, and Mitchell becomes the target of a ruthless manhunt that involves powerful government agencies and those he trusts. Turned into a hunted fugitive, Mitchell transgresses the boundary between right and wrong. His only chance to make it out alive is to fight back with his financial expertise, money laundering skills, and even murder.

A lawyer's race to reveal a wrongful conviction collides with the dark shadow of a murder in his own home in this propulsive and perfectly-plotted thriller from "one of our best crime writers at the top of his game" (William Kent Krueger, New York Times bestselling author). When Boady Sanden...

""In this stellar debut thriller from playwright Robinson, London-based interpreter Revelle Lee considers the consequences of sabotaging a murder investigation."" —Publishers Weekly, starred review With the taut psychological drama of The Silent Patient and the propulsive storytelling of The...

Um seine Unschuld zu beweisen, taucht er in die Geheimnisse des Vatikans ein … Die Abenteuerthriller-Reihe um den waghalsigen Archäologen geht spannend weiter! Als Archäologe Konstantin Nikolaidis seinen Freund, den Historiker und Mittelalter-Experten Professor Adam, ermordet in seinem Hotelzimmer in Kairo findet, wird er selbst Hauptverdächtiger im Mordfall. Es dauert nicht lange und nicht nur der wahre Mörder, der religiöse Fanatiker Robert Lorenzo, sondern auch die ägyptischen Behörden verfolgen ihn.

When lawyer Kit Chase loses her job, a three-month job with an international law team in post-conflict Kosovo seems like the perfect distraction from the boring comfort of her life—and fiancé—in New Zealand. But with her first case, hunting down the head of an organized crime group, Kit realizes the conflict in Kosovo is far from over. And she’s right in the middle of it.

For seventeen years, small-town public defender Andy Hughes has been underpaid to look after the poor, the addicted, and the unfortunate souls who constantly cycle through the courts, charged with petty crimes. Then, in the summer of 2020, he’s assigned to a grotesque murder case that brings national media focus to rural Patrick County, Virginia—Alicia Benson, the wife of a wealthy businessman, is murdered in her home. The accused killer, Damian Bullins, is a cunning felon with a long history of violence, and he confesses to the police.

Ein Anwalt verliert seine Familie durch Mord und Totschlag – aber die Justiz lässt die Täter laufen. Er will zur Selbstjustiz greifen, aber abgebrühte Gangster stellen ihm eine Falle. Leutnant Irmgard Richter von der SOKO Wien löst diesen Fall auf ihre Art.

As they speed to the end of the trial, Michelle and Phillip Hicks find that the issues in the court take a back seat to an attack on their daughter. Watching her slip deeper and deeper into herself, they can only stand by, helplessly searching for a way to reach her. Recovering from her own tragedy, Judge Tara Miles questions whether or not she is the right person to deliver a verdict, if the trial can even get to that point. S. F. continues to do everything he can to earn his place in the ranks of his master by destroying the first test case of The Universal Court.

Als der Fernsehmann Ladislav Honsack seine Jugendliebe, die berühmte Malerin Rosa Lefschitz aus früheren DDR-Zeiten, besucht, um einen Film über sie zu drehen, befürchtet Rosas Mann Arne, ein Tierarzt, dass die alte Liebe zwischen beiden wieder aufflammen könnte. Von Neugier und Eifersucht getrieben, lässt er zu, dass sein Freund Stugge, ein ehemaliger Stasi-Oberst, eine Abhöranlage in Rosas Atelier installiert. Danach brechen die emotionalen und ideologischen Geheimnisse früherer Jahre wieder auf. Arnes Leben mündet in einem Desaster und endet mit einem Mord.

Dismantling the Blood Trade wasn't the end, but the beginning. Everything the Magistrates do has been called into question. Do they have probable cause? Are they respecting a suspect's right against self-incrimination? The ambassadors have questions, and they think they know the answers, but only the Magistrates know the truth. Called before the Federation Council, the collective body for discussing matters that affect all member planets, Magistrate Rivka Anoa is put under the spotlight to answer for all she had done.