Legal Thrillers

Law students Mark, Todd and Zola wanted to change the world - to make it a better place....

You want to believe your husband. She wants to destroy him. Gripping psychological drama for fans of Apple Tree Yard, The Good Wife and Notes on a Scandal....

One dark secret. One act of revenge. When Emma Joseph met her husband, David, he was a man shattered by grief....

It's supposed to be a romantic weekend for Jake and Pamela Baylins. Then they quarrel, and Pamela - who's Jake's banker as well as lover - accuses him of stealing from clients....

In this prequel to the series, Jake Lassiter gets fired from his law firm, dumped by his girlfriend, and charged with ethical violations by the Florida Bar....

Danny Padgitt was tried before a packed courthouse in Clanton, Mississippi. The trial came to a startling and dramatic end when the defendant threatened revenge against the jurors if they convicted him....

The irrepressible, audacious defence barrister Horace Rumpole is back with seven marvelous stories by John Mortimer....

They watched Danilo Silva for days before they finally grabbed him. He was living alone, a quiet life on a shady street in Brazil....

Six months ago Harry Bosch left the LAPD before they could fire him and then hired maverick defense attorney Mickey Haller to sue the department for forcing him out....

Perfect home, perfect family, perfect murder....

Jake Brigance has never met Seth Hubbard, or even heard of him, until the old man's suicide note names him attorney for his estate....

News cameraman, Ted Phillips, captured the plunge of therapist and best selling author, Gina Davenport, from an eighth story window - live - on what had begun as a slow news day....

A compelling thriller introducing a driven young detective trying to prove herself in the LAPD....

The hotly anticipated fourth installment in the action-packed thriller series guaranteed to appeal to Matthew Reilly fans. Water promises to be to the 21st century what oil was to the 20th....

At the top of his class at Harvard Law, he had his choice of the best in America. He made a deadly mistake....

As a young conscripted soldier, Rufus Harms was jailed for the brutal killing of a schoolgirl. Yet after 25 hard years of incarceration, a stray letter from the US Army reveals new facts....

Donovan Gray is ruthless and fearless. Just the kind of lawyer you need, deep in small-town Appalachia....

Trumble is a minimum-security federal prison, a 'camp', home to the usual assortment of relatively harmless criminals....

Rumpole often speaks of the great trial which revealed his talents as an advocate and made his reputation down at the Bailey when he was still a young man....

Fiona Gardner was murdered six years ago in what appeared to be an open-and-shut case. The man condemned pleaded guilty. But Fiona's sister, Allegra, is convinced he is innocent....

Sebastian Rudd takes the cases no one else wants to take: the drug-addled punk accused of murdering two little girls; a crime lord on death row; a homeowner accused of shooting at a SWAT team....

Michael was in a hurry. He was scrambling up the ladder at Drake & Sweeney, a giant D.C. law firm with eight hundred lawyers....

Marta Richter is just hours away from winning an acquittal for her latest client, millionaire businessman Elliot Steere....

The multi-million copy best-selling thriller that introduced Jake Brigance to Clanton and inspired a sequel....

She doesn't remember that night. But she will never be the same. One moment, Dahlia is a successful Harvard student; the next, she wakes up from a party, the victim of a brutal assault....

Late one October night, Justice Abe Rosenberg, at 91 the Supreme Court's liberal legend...

U.S. Vice President Tom Bradshaw is the perfect candidate, a presidential "sure thing". But then he turns up dead....

Disillusioned with her corporate legal career, attorney Charlotte Ambler volunteers to handle the final appeal of Christopher Ritter, a Florida death row inmate whose execution is imminent. Ritter had been a prominent biologist before being convicted 10 years earlier for the brutal murder of a prostitute. He denies killing the woman but is tormented by guilt for other, secret transgressions. The only appeal he will allow is to prove that he is innocent - a kind of appeal which is almost impossible to succeed.

Second-string linebacker turned disillusioned defense attorney Jake Lassiter finally switches teams. Appointed special prosecutor in a high-profile murder case, he vows to take down a prominent surgeon accused of killing his wife. There’s just one problem...or maybe three: no evidence, no witness, and no body. 

Alex has been an executioner for most of his adult life. He has experienced the final moments before life is drained from hardened criminals, though he has never yet executed a woman. Following the case of Sara Grainger, Alex is shocked to find that regardless of a seeming lack of evidence, the mother and father of the victim are able to buy a result. Alice, a nurse in the hospital, knows that Sara is innocent. To all intent and purposes, the accident was a quirk of fate. However, will the execution take place? Will there be a reprieve? Will justice be served?