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He was framed for murder. Now he needs someone on the outside to save him. For 22 years Quincy Miller has sat on Death Row without friends, family or legal representation. He was accused of killing Keith Russo, a lawyer in a small Florida town. But there were no witnesses and no motive. Just the fact that Quincy was black in an all-white town and that a blood-splattered torch was found in the boot of his car. A torch he swore was planted. A torch that conveniently disappeared from evidence just before his trial.

Claire McBride, a lawyer dedicated to justice, receives devastating news—her cancer has returned, and this time, it’s terminal. Desperate to take control of her final days, she embarks on a dangerous mission to punish those from her past who have escaped the law.

Efter en fødselsdagsfest i Det Hvide Hus bliver præsidentens 12-årige niece bortført fra sit hjem. Hendes mor bliver dræbt under bortførelsen, mens resten af familien bliver fundet bevidstløse. Sean og Michelle kaster sig ud i et kapløb mod tiden, mens de seksuelle spændinger mellem dem stiger.

It’s the night of November 4, 2008. America's first Black president has just been elected. And fifty-three-year-old Hollis Montrose—a Black ex-police officer from the suburbs of Chicago—has become the latest victim of a brutal attack. He was shot ten times in cold blood by four white men who otherwise would have been colleagues back in his police days.

В маленьком городке за Уральскими горами жил простой парень Ринат Гильдеев. Но тихая жизнь закончилась раз и навсегда: пьяный Ринат сбил на своем старом грузовике четырех женщин. Защита убийц не входит в жизненные правила московского адвоката Ольги Шеметовой. Но, изучив детали дела Гильдеева, она понимает, что, возможно, он не совершал это ужасное преступление, а просто оказался в ненужном месте в ненужный час.

Ana Robbins was an Olympic star in the making—until tragedy forced her to leave that world behind. At the age of sixteen, she gave up her dream and never looked back. Fourteen years later, she’s a successful defense attorney, revered for her work with minors. But when her former coach turns up dead, Ana lands right back where it all began, and abruptly ended: The Palace, a world-renowned skating facility nestled high in the mountains of Colorado.

Four best friends. Three terrible secrets. One deadly night. Two years ago, law student Daria Moreau was murdered during her graduation party. Her classmate Andrew Doyle was convicted of the crime. Now, his desperate family convinces small-town lawyer Cass Leary to take another look at his case. The moment she does, she walks straight into a minefield of lies, betrayal, and buried truths. Though Andrew has never stopped claiming his innocence, Cass senses he’s hiding something that could exonerate him. But he refuses to fight for himself. Won’t name names. Won’t betray a friend…

Paul Nelms's quiet life is thrown into turmoil when his wife, Katherine, returns home late one night shattered and barely able to speak. What she reveals will test the limits of Paul's love, his faith in justice, and his belief in what it means to be a protector. When Katherine refuses to involve the police, Paul is left to navigate a world of unanswered questions and unbearable rage. As he begins to dig deeper, his search for the truth spirals into obsession—and a dangerous confrontation that could cost him everything.

At first glance, Heather Gordon's death looks like suicide. But a single clue points to something far darker—and it leads straight to her ex-boyfriend, Dwayne Fogle. With a history of controlling behavior and jealous outbursts, even Dwayne's own mother doubts his innocence. Still, she turns to criminal defense attorney Brad Madison to give her son a fighting chance.

Aidan Collins has his very first large case when his client, Marina Vasiliev, a drop-dead gorgeous mental patient, is accused of killing her wealthy husband. Marina insists that she didn't do it, but Aidan can't trust her. After all, he met Marina in the mental hospital–he originally obtained her as a client when she was involuntarily committed, and he assisted her with getting out. Diagnosed with borderline personality disorder, Marina's view of reality shifts from day to day. Marina has no memory of what happened the night that her husband died.

Abraão é um juiz federal com mais de 25 anos de magistratura. A chegada de um juiz substituto jovem e de métodos heterodoxos leva Abraão a refletir sobre a vida, o trabalho, a lei e a justiça, a família, e se depara com perguntas para as quais as antigas respostas não servem mais. Valores que mudaram com o tempo. Posições das quais se arrepende, e não pode mais voltar atrás. Não demora para que o juiz entre numa espiral de pensamentos e ideias que o levam a uma intensa crise de identidade, que desencadeia eventos e ações com consequências catastróficas e irreversíveis.

Keera Duggan was building a solid reputation as a Seattle prosecutor, until her romantic relationship with a senior colleague ended badly. For the competitive former chess prodigy, returning to her family’s failing criminal defense law firm to work for her father is the best shot she has. With the right moves, she hopes to restore the family’s reputation, her relationship with her father, and her career.

A movie director is charged with murdering an actress during sex, and then staging her death to make it look like a suicide. In a seemingly unrelated case, a loner is murdered, leaving the sheriff's department with no clues. One unsettling revelation after another leaves a retired FBI agent and an L.A. detective thinking they've unmasked a most frightening killer with almost inconceivable calculation.

Brigham Theodore is a courtroom brawler, a criminal defense attorney who spends his time slugging it out with the government in court. A year after winning his biggest case, he finds himself at a new firm defending clients of every kind. Drug dealers, gangsters, con men, and thugs are the people he defends every day. For him, the fight is what matters. As the new hotshot lawyer in town, Brigham is referred an engineer accused of euthanizing his wife who was dying of pancreatic cancer.

In a plush Virginia office, a rich, angry old man is furiously rewriting his will. With his death just hours away, Troy Phelan wants to send a message to his children, his ex-wives, and his minions—a message that will touch off a vicious legal battle and transform dozens of lives.

Winner of the British Book Awards, Lifetime Achievement Award, 2007.
With fourteen years left on a twenty-year sentence, notorious Washington powerbroker Joel Blackman receives a surprise pardon from a lame duck President. He is smuggled out of the country on a military cargo plane, given a new identity, and tucked away in a small town in Italy. But Backman has serious enemies from his past.

Winner of the British Book Awards, Lifetime Achievement Award, 2007.
The murderer, Danny Padgitt, was tried before a packed courtroom in Clanton, Mississippi. The trial came to a startling and dramatic end when the defendant threatened revenge against the jurors if they convicted him. Nevertheless, they found him guilty, and he was sentenced to life in prison. But in Mississippi in 1970, 'life' didn't necessarily mean 'life'...

Seth Hubbard is a wealthy man dying of lung cancer. He trusts no one. Before he hangs himself from a sycamore tree, Hubbard leaves a new, handwritten, will. It is an act that drags his adult children, his Black maid, and Jake into a conflict as riveting and dramatic as the murder trial that made Brigance one of Ford County's most notorious citizens, just three years earlier. The second will raises far more questions than it answers. Why would Hubbard leave nearly all of his fortune to his maid? Had chemotherapy and painkillers affected his ability to think clearly?

Mickey Haller gets the text, "Call me ASAP - 187," and the California penal code for murder immediately gets his attention. Murder cases have the highest stakes and the biggest paydays, and they always mean Haller has to be at the top of his game. When Mickey learns that the victim was his own former client, a prostitute he thought he had rescued and put on the straight and narrow path, he knows he is on the hook for this one. He soon finds out that she was back in LA and back in the life. Far from saving her, Mickey may have been the one who put her in danger.

Harry is back, assigned to the LAPD's Open-Unsolved Unit with his former cop ally and partner, Kizmin Rider. These detectives are the Closers. They are thrown into a politically sensitive and dangerous case when a white supremacist is connected to the 1988 murder of a mixed-race girl. The police department has changed, but one thing hasn't--Harry's nemesis, Irving. The former deputy chief has been pushed from power and given a virtually meaningless new role. Full of vengeance, Irving calls Harry a "retread".