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Travis Boyette is a murderer. Nine years ago, he strangled a high-school cheerleader and buried her body so it could never be found. Then, he watched and waited as police arrested Donte Drumm, a local football star with no connection to the crime. Tried, convicted, and sentenced, Drumm was sent to death row whilst Boyette walked free.

Theodore Boone's best friend April has disappeared in the middle of the night. The only suspect is an escaped convict, and he won't give them any answers. Thirteen-year-old Theo - the son of two lawyers - knows the criminal justice system. Terrified that he'll never see April again, he begins his own investigation. But as the days drag on with no new leads, Theo starts to think the police are chasing the wrong person. Can he hunt down the truth and find his friend - or is it really too late?

In the baseball draft of 1971, Ron Williamson was the first player chosen from Oklahoma. Signing with Oakland, he said goodbye to his small home town and left for California to pursue his dreams of glory. Six years later he was back, his dreams broken by a bad arm and bad habits - drinking, drugs and women. He began to show signs of mental illness. Unable to keep a job, he moved in with his mother and slept 20 hours a day on her sofa.

Gracias a un indulto presidencial, Joel Backman es liberado tras seis años de confinamiento por uso indebido de una información altamente confidencial. Backman había obtenido un programa capaz de poner en peligro el sistema de vigilancia por vía satélite mas sofisticado del mundo, cuando dirigía un poderoso bufete de abogados, y era conocido como "El Intermediario".

Kyle McAvoy is one of the outstanding legal students of his generation: he's good looking, has a brilliant mind and a glittering future ahead of him. But he has a secret from his past, a secret that threatens to destroy his fledgling career and, possibly, his entire life. One night that secret catches up with him in the form of some bad men in a dark alley -- they have a deeply compromising video of the incident that haunts him. The men make it clear to Kyle that he no longer owns his own future.

Muchas personas pasan años en la cárcel sin haber cometido ningún crimen. Esta injusticia, que sirve de premisa a tantas novelas, se hace real en este libro en el que John Grisham ha decidido contar diez desgarradores casos de inocentes que fueron obligados a sacrificar amigos, familias, parejas y décadas de sus vidas en prisión mientras los culpables seguían libres.

Michael was in a hurry. He was scrambling up the ladder at Drake and Sweeney, a giant Washington law firm. He was a rising star, with no time to waste, no time to toss a few coins into the cups of panhandlers, no time for a conscience. But a violent encounter with a homeless man stopped him cold. Michael survived; his assailant did not. Who was this homeless man?

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'...

Winner of the British Book Awards, Lifetime Achievement Award, 2007.
An eccentric, reclusive billionaire looking for a way to die, a burnt-out Washington litigator just out of rehab for the fourth time, and a woman who left the modern world to live and work with a primitive tribe of Indians in the jungles of Brazil. They are all brought together by the startling secret of The Testament.

Sebastian Rudd ist kein typischer Anwalt. Seine Kanzlei ist ein Lieferwagen, eingerichtet mit Bar, Kühlschrank und Waffenschrank. Er arbeitet allein, sein einziger Vertrauter ist sein Fahrer, der zudem als Leibwächter und Golfcaddie fungiert. Sebastian Rudd verteidigt jene Menschen, die andere als den Bodensatz der Gesellschaft bezeichnen. Warum? Weil er Ungerechtigkeit verabscheut und überzeugt ist, dass jeder Mensch einen fairen Prozess verdient

The once idyllic coastal plain of North Carolina is home to a close-knit, rural community that for more than a generation has battled the polluting practices of large-scale farming taking place in its own backyard. After years of frustration and futility, an impassioned cadre of local residents, led by a team of intrepid and dedicated lawyers, filed a lawsuit against one of the world’s most powerful companies—and, miraculously, they won. Wastelands takes us into a legal battle over the future of America’s farmland and the lives of the people who found the courage to fight.

Clay Carter ist ein junger Rechtsanwalt und er träumt von einer lukrativen Stelle in einer der großen Kanzleien. Nur zögernd nimmt er einen Fall an, der für ihn schlicht ein weiterer Akt sinnloser Gewalt in Washington, D.C., ist: Ein junger Mann hat mitten auf der Straße scheinbar wahllos einen Mord begangen. Doch als Clay sich routinemäßig mit dem Umfeld des Angeklagten befasst, stolpert er über eine Verschwörung, die seine schlimmsten Befürchtungen weit übertrifft.

On February 2, 2002, Stephen King, Pat Conroy, John Grisham, and Peter Straub gathered at New York's Town Hall for a very special evening. These four best selling authors stepped up to the microphone to raise money for one of the most recognizable voices in audiobooks, Frank Muller, an actor who sustained terrible injuries from a motorcycle accident. All profits will be donated to The Wavedancer Foundation, a nonprofit organization that supports artists who fall prey to illness or injury.

Lo encontraron en un pequeño pueblo de Brasil. Tenía otro nombre y otro aspecto, pero estaban seguros de haber dado con él. Cuatro años antes se llamaba Patrick S. Lanigan. Había muerto en un accidente de tráfico en febrero de 1992. Estaba enterrado en un cementerio de Biloxi, Mississippi.

Kein Recht, keine Gnade: wenn der Mord an einem Polizisten eine Stadt spaltet. Jake Brigance, Held der Bestseller "Die Jury" und "Die Erbin", ist zurück. Diesmal steht er als Pflichtverteidiger im Zentrum eines aufsehenerregenden Mordprozesses in Clanton, Mississippi. Sein Mandant Drew Gamble soll einen örtlichen Deputy umgebracht haben. Die Mehrheit von Clanton fordert lautstark einen kurzen Prozess und die Todesstrafe. Dabei ist Drew Gamble gerade einmal 16 Jahre alt. Jake Brigance arbeitet sich in den Fall ein und versteht schnell, dass er alles tun muss, um den Jungen zu retten.

An unforgettable novel about childhood, family, conflict and guilt from America's greatest storyteller John Grisham. Thirty years have passed since 11-year-old Paul Tracy watched his troubled father, Warren, a pitcher for the New York Mets, clash with his childhood hero, the Cubs' golden-boy Joe Castle, in a contest from which no winners emerged. Now the news that his father is dying brings the memory of that day flooding back.

Winner of the British Book Awards, Lifetime Achievement Award, 2007.
The Office of the Public Defender is not known as a training ground for bright young litigators. Clay Carter has been there too long, and, like most of his colleagues, dreams of a better job in a real firm. When he reluctantly takes the case of a young man charged with a random street killing, he assumes it is just another of the many senseless murders that hit D.C. every week.

Winner of the British Book Awards, Lifetime Achievement Award, 2007.

Ray Atlee is a professor of law at the University of Virginia. And he has a father, a very sick old man who lives alone in the ancestral home in Clanton, Mississippi. He is known to all as Judge Atlee, a beloved and powerful official. No longer on the bench, the Judge has withdrawn to the Atlee mansion and become a recluse.

Clanton, Mississippi, 1990. Stuart Kofer, ayudante del sheriff, se considera intocable. Aunque, cuando bebe más de la cuenta, algo bastante habitual, vuelca sus ataques de ira en su novia, Josie, y los hijos adolescentes de esta, el código de silencio de la policía siempre le ha protegido.