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She has a loving husband and a successful career–who says you can’t have it all? Miranda Quinn is living her very best life… until she’s not. It’s been two years since her legal advice TV show was canceled, but the former Assistant District Attorney has rebounded with a late-night radio show, Miranda Nights.

Night club owner Rick Cowan approaches criminal defense attorney Tex Hunter and presents an offer Hunter can't refuse. But Rick Cowan isn't a regular client. He isn't faultless, he isn't friendly, and he isn't clean—his past is littered with violence, agony, and decades of fraudulent behavior. Cowan claims he's innocent of the felony drug charges and has been set up from the inside, but the evidence against him continues to mount.

A midnight bombing in 1966 Mississippi rocks a rural community, and its echoes reverberate down the decades. Fifty years later, a midnight knock on his door in Oxford drags former cold case detective Arlan Trahan back to that dark night. His visitor is a mysterious Ole Miss law student who calls herself Lennie, and she wants him to reopen the case of a black man she believes was wrongly accused of murdering a white family in the bombing. He initially refuses—and within days the girl is missing. More strangely, the midnight knockings on his door continue, but no one is there. The eerie ...

Say hello to the dashing and otherwise charming estate attorney named Marty Wheeler. Attorney Wheeler is a prominent member of the community of Brentwood, whose life is about to turn upside down when he takes on his most baffling client to date, the very rich, yet, quite mysterious and aloof Jameson Bradford.

Seattle, 1933. The city is in the grips of the Great Depression, Prohibition, and vice. Cutting his teeth on a small-time beat, hungry and ambitious young reporter William “Shoe” Shumacher gets a tip that could change his career. There’s been a murder at a social club on Profanity Hill—an underworld magnet for vice crimes only a privileged few can afford. The story is going to be front-page news, and Shoe is the first reporter on the scene.

Suzy and her daughter are on a bus, heading for London and safety. She knows her partner will be hunting them down. It's what he does for a living. He hunts people. Suzy's plans go awry when armed robbers storm the bus on an isolated road and rob the passengers. She loses her entire savings—money she desperately needs to build a new life for herself and her daughter, far away from her psychotic partner. With the sound of approaching sirens in the distance, Suzy makes a split-second decision.

Trace is a prosecutor whose world revolves around putting criminals in prison...until the love of his life that he lost long ago appears as one of his Defendants. Will he betray his office or allow her to go to prison?

Facts are Stubborn Things is the story of Chance Cormac, a litigator , boxer and lapsed Catholic who confronts some hard facts about the law and himself when he agrees to take a case he wants no part of and agrees to represent a client in a divorce action as a favor to another attorney. It is a story of corporate intrigue, international money laundering and corruption. Chance is forced to face a professional and personal crisis and learns that pride often goes before a fall.

"A finely executed legal thriller that fans of John Grisham’s The Innocent Man will fall for." –BestThrillers.com In 1980s East Texas, Luther Holman, a local janitor, awaits trial for the murder of a prominent local, the same man potentially responsible for the murder of Luther's young daughter, Summer. Unexpected help arrives with a new legal aid attorney, who replaces the pliable local defender. As the trial opens, the certainty of Luther's conviction crumbles as the capable defense attorney exposes the state's falsified and contrived evidence. Determined that Luther will be convicted...

When a shocking exposé uncovers labs putting profits ahead of patients, Sophie's world is shaken to its core. While regulatory action may promise to restore faith in the system, Sophie suspects a hidden agenda remains at play. On a journey to uncover the truth, Sophie is taken from the serene beaches of Jamaica to snow-covered forest trails and even to the Argentine tango dance floor. Alongside unexpected allies and the brilliant biochemist Dr. Novikov, who she’s had her eye on for ages, Sophie is willing to do anything if it means protecting her patients.

Lassen Sie sich diesen spannungsgeladenen, historisch angehauchten Kriminalroman von Thomas Breuer auf keinen Fall entgehen und lüften Sie das Geheimnis um die grausamen Wewelsburg-Morde! Nachdem die gewalttätig zugerichtete Leiche eines alten Mannes in der Nähe der Wewelsburg aufgefunden wurde, begeben sich Hauptkommissar Lenz und Journalist Heller auf die Suche nach dem erbarmungslosen Täter. Doch nichts ist so, wie es scheint: Weitere Morde werden im Bürener Altersheim verübt und eine immer populärer werdende rechtsextreme Partei breitet sich in der Stadt aus.

Hot on the heels of his latest courtroom victory, his wife is brutally murdered. Devastated, Stafford Lee spirals into a losing streak that forces him to abandon his once brilliant career. But his wife's killer is still on the loose and they seem determined to frame Stafford Lee for their crimes. Rising from rock bottom, he makes a bold return to court - to defend himself in the biggest murder trial this town has ever seen. Stafford Lee must crack the toughest case of his career. And this time, it's personal.

Kieran Harrison's life is outwardly perfect. He's a young, hardworking CEO of a fast rising eco company. He has friends, money, and a life of opportunities. When Kieran meets the charismatic and beautiful Serena, he believes he has met his perfect mate. What he fails to notice is the narcissistic encounters that underpin their relationship. They bounce from one toxic encounter to another, escalating the terms at each turn, unconsciously bound by the sexual energy it creates.

Jack Kendrick is fired from his job as sales manager for a high-power commercial real estate agency because he will not compromise his ethics and agree to an illegal sale. He lands on his feet and is hired by another firm. One of the agents working under him is a rapacious and ambitious woman named Liz Peterson. She has no ethics and will stop at nothing to close a deal. She exploits the ambitions of a young trainee, forces him to have sex with a client, which drives him to suicide. Jack Kendrick, investigating the young man's death, uncovers the illegal aspects of Liz's dealing, and a ...

"The Millionaire" is in jail on a murder charge. Violent inmates beat him savagely, trying to extort money. To save his life, Maureen Gould must find the truth and free her client.

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.

Seit 2007 erobert die Thriller-Reihe um Carl Mørck, Spezialermittler des Sonderdezernats Q bei der Kopenhagener Polizei, und seinen syrischen Assistenten Hafez el-Assad die Bestsellerlisten der Welt. Abgeschoben in den Keller des Polizeigebäudes, um sich dort den scheinbar unlösbaren Cold Cases zu widmen, gelang ihnen in spektakulären Ermittlungen immer wieder die Aufklärung der brutalsten Verbrechen, die bis in die Gegenwart hineinreichten.

What would happen if the world’s leading social media company cut a deal with the Chinese government to use its Social Credit surveillance data to build an AI so accurate it could predict your every move? Emilie Buhart, a senior associate at a prestigious New York law firm, is about to find out when she’s loaned to the firm’s most important client in Silicon Valley. An ambitious novel with a sympathetic heroine and a timely subject—how big data can be used to violate our privacy in unprecedented ways—CONFUCIUS IN SILICON VALLEY takes readers on a journey from high-powered ...

Lacey Bond is a 13-year-old girl in New Hampshire growing up in the tranquility of her hippie parents’ rural daycare center. Then the Satanic Panic hits. It’s the summer of 1990 when Lacey ’s parents are handcuffed, flung into the county jail, and faced with a torrent of jaw-dropping accusations as part of a mass hysteria sweeping the nation. When a horrific murder brings Lacey to the breaking point, she makes a ruthless choice that will haunt her for decades.

The suspect's family turns to Tony Valenti for help. The case is a bewildering maze, with multiple potential killers and a mountain of contradictory evidence that points both to and away from the ex. Is he innocent? Even Tony isn't sure. Tony is fully immersed in the battle to win the case when a lethal terror from his past surfaces and shakes his faith in himself. Now desperate to protect himself and his family as he fights to free his client, Tony fears that he is being pulled in too many directions to save anyone. He'll need every trick he knows to get everyone out alive.