Years ago, Oliver Garland--an African-American judge--was nominated to the Supreme Court, but was unable to accept because of a shocking scandal. Now he is dead, and one of his legacies is another scandal, the details of which are enc...

Attorney Paul Madriani is called in to defend Dr. David Crone, a brilliant, respected medical researcher and leader in the mapping of the human genome, after Crone is accused of killing a young colleague, Kalista Jordan, an African-Am...

Dismas Hardy agrees to take an appeal to overturn the murder conviction of National Guard reservist Evan Scholler. Scholler had plenty of reasons for revenge—but as Dismas delves into the case, he begins to uncover a terrible truth ...

Attorney Dismas Hardy is hurled into a world of greed and violence when he makes a horrifying discovery, which threatens his family and his long-standing friendship with homicide lieutenant Abe Glitsky, while representing Dr. Eric Ken...

Assistant DA Alexandra Cooper returns in the new breakneck thriller by the New York Times bestselling author of Death Angel who once again captures the essence of New York City—its glamour, its history, its possibilities, and its en...

Second ChancesTen years have passed since young nurse Sophie Lee was accused of murdering her wealthy patient, Audrey Star. Georgia attorney Mikala Aulani believed her innocence--and Adam Star's guilt--but the prosecution convinced...

Jack Skinner, a thrice-divorced southern Alabama criminal defense lawyer with alimony problems, finds himself representing Brad Caine, a stranger with a positive cash flow indicted for the murder of wealthy Haddie Charles, an elderly ...

Bored with his life as a legal consultant, lawyer Dismas Hardy agrees to be the second chair for a case being tried by his associate, Amy Wu. Having made a serious legal error, Amy is dependent on Dismas to save her client--a 17-year-...

Young attorney Daniel Ames is fired from his firm after mistakenly giving out damaging, top-secret documents that could cause a major client, Geller Pharmaceuticals, to lose a gargantuan lawsuit. Ames feels that he was set up, and, fu...

In Nina O'Reilly's tenth suspenseful outing, the attorney is temporarily away from her home turf in Lake Tahoe, staying with her boyfriend, P. I. Paul van Wagoner, in Monterey, and sorting out how to respond to his marriage proposal. ...

Working as a pilot for cocaine smugglers in Mexico, Teresa Mendoza's boyfriend G'ero flirts with death on a daily basis, and they both know his days are numbered. When the inevitable occurs, Teresa is forced to flee for her life--and ...

In her seventeenth Alexandra Cooper thriller, New York Times bestselling author Linda Fairstein takes readers where they have never been before: Inside the mind of NYPD Detective Mike Chapman.The Manhattan waterfront is one of New Yo...

When Dr. Caryn Dryden is found floating dead in her hot tub, homicide inspector Devin Juhle targets a suspect close to home: her husband, Stuart Gorman. After all, Stuart was recently asked for a divorce . . . and he stands to gain mi...

Jodi Picoult has touched readers deeply with her acclaimed novels, such as Keeping Faith and The Pact. Gifted with 'a remarkable ability to make us share her characters' feelings' (People), Picoult now explores the complex choices of ...

An Dismas Hardy, Abe Glitsky, and Wyatt Hunt return When high-grade marijuana is found on a coffee-shop manager murdered in San Francisco, it suggests that the shop's owner, Maya Townshend, may be behind more than a caffeine fix. But ...

After turning down a lucrative partnership in a prestigious Miami law firm to start her own business, Gail has become engaged to Anthony--her longtime friend and lover. Embarking on this new life together inevitably opens the door to ...

Meet Lily White, Long Island criminal defense lawyer. Smart, savvy, and down-to-earth, Lee can spot a phony the way her haughty mother can spot an Armani. Enter handsome career con man Norman Torkelson, charged with strangling his la...

In a melange of OLIVER TWIST and GANGS OF NEW YORK, Elizabeth Gaffney's novel brings to life the Five Points neighborhood of mid-19th-century New York City, complete with pickpockets, whores, immigrants, murderers, and variously twist...

A former criminal defense attorney, George Mason, serving as a judge on Kindle County's Court of Appeal, is faced with a troubling rape case involving a horrific case of sexual assault that forces him to question the very nature of th...

Law professor Thomas Jackson McMurtrie literally wrote the book on evidence in the state of Alabama. But when a power-hungry colleague uses a recent run-in between McMurtrie and headstrong student Rick Drake to end his career, he is l...

When nothing is as it seems, can the truth survive?Attorney Cal Claxton, now well-established in his Oregon law practice after breaking off his career as a high-powered LA prosecutor, just wants to go fishing with his daughter, Claire...

In the days after Hurricane Katrina, Mississippi attorney and author Michael Hewes returned to his former home only to find it destroyed. Sitting amongst the wreckage was a binder that contained intimate photos of a couple he didn't k...

A murder at a seaside estate brings a wealthy family’s buried conflicts to the surfaceMarcia Lloyd and her brother Arthur have spent every summer of their lives exploring the grand halls and seaside grounds of their family&rsqu...

The New York Times bestselling author of Cane and Abe and Black Horizon blends Goodfellas and Elmore Leonard in this wild, suspenseful caper inspired by actual events, in which a band of amateur thieves pulls off one of the biggest ai...

When the police find Cole Burgess crouched over Elaine Wager's body on a deserted San Francisco street, they don't have to look very far for means, motive, and the assumption of guilt. The heroin junkie is carrying the gun that kil...

Assigned to a desk job after recovering from a near-fatal gunshot wound, lieutenant Abe Glitsky becomes involved in the investigation into a murdered family friend when the prime suspect's lawyer turns to him for help, a request that ...

A sexy cocktail waitress accused of killing her abusive husband...A hard-hitting female lawyer taking on the toughest case of her career...In their fight for justice, they must also fight a system where women rarely win. Nonstop excit...

Stuart Woods has created no better known or loved character than the ex-cop, Manhattan attorney, and investigator, Stone Barrington, whose work treads the thin line between the respectable practice of law and the dark side of humanity...

Lemaster Carlyle, the president of the country's most prestigious university, and his wife, Julie, the divinity school's deputy dean, are America's most prominent and powerful African American couple. Driving home through a swirling b...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLEREleven-year-old Mark Sway and his younger brother are sharing a forbidden cigarette when a chance encounter with a suicidal lawyer leaves Mark knowing a bloody and explosive secret: the whereabouts of the m...