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It has been a difficult year for Lewiston attorney Billy Cole. Personal family loss and a battle with alcohol have brought him to the edge of ruin. All seems hopeless. And then events take over on Lisbon Street, the main drag in a decaying downtown in central Maine, where Billy's law office...

KATIE AT 18: Katie Rose Fowler, the celebrated kidnap victim of three years earlier in her small coastal hamlet, becomes involved in a major murder mystery when the body of a wealthy co-owner of a suburban daily newspaper is recovered at sea by fishermen, the victim of a shooting. Lead investigator Bob...

In this brooding, atmospheric mystery, John DeCure once again brings the seemingly disparate worlds of law and surfing together with engaging results. For J. Shepard, prosecuting attorney with the California State Bar Association, only one thing in his life keeps him centered: riding waves. When the...

Dynamite defense attorney Joseph Antonelli has never lost a case--or felt the sting of conscience for letting the guilty go free. "I can deceive anyone," he says, "and no one more quickly or more completely than myself." Now the man he most admires, the honorable Judge Rifkin,...

Three men attacked Angie Bradford, a nurse on her way to work. She killed two of them and hospitalized the third. Based on a true story, the prosecutor then charged her with murder. She is fired, her friends betray her and she turns to alcohol for solace. But with the help of a radical women's group,...

In this tense novel of legal and political intrigue, Tim Quinn, the former judge previously seen in The Majority Rules, is assigned to investigate and compile a dossier on the newly appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court before his Senate confirmation hearing. The President has achieved...

Total relaxation proves elusive for a promising trial attorney residing in an idyllic beach town. His pursuit of success unexpectedly yields to a deadly hunt for a pirate treasure. Brennan turns to his uniquely talented friends, along with a heavy dose of intense recreation, to help maintain his focus while he navigates emotional and legal landmines.

The "code of silence" remains sacred in Charlestown, one of the most historic yet insular neighborhoods of Boston. Gangster Billy Malone stand accused of killing Trevor Shea, a suspected FBI informant, with a potent dose of heroin. Prosecutor Annie Fitzgerald must crack the infamous...

What does it feel like to be a Judge? Read these stories and you can almost feel you are looking at proceedings from the lofty position of the Bench. With a collection of eccentric and amusing characters, Henry Cecil brings to life the trials in a County Court and exposes the complex and often contradictory workings of the English legal system.

Chloé Krakowski is a glamorous business lawyer who loves to shop online during conference calls and juggles her busy life with what her best friend Isabella calls ‘supersonic’ energy. When the single mother is recruited by top law firm Pratt & Wonkey, she is initially excited to work for...

This richly layered novel is about secrets, conflicts, discovery, friendship, nostalgia, history and culture woven around family and complex legal issues involving business acquisitions, insider trading, tax evasion and fraudulent transactions. Come and experience Montréal in the 1960s as law students...

A Tale of Two Lawyers is a combination of an entertaining fictional story with the educational revelations of informative nonfiction. After practicing law for forty seven years in Chicago, the author has a lot to say about the profession, and he says it in this book. It describes the colorful lives...

When attorney Matt Stevenson returns to his hometown to attend his mother's funeral, he inadvertently becomes embroiled in a homicide involving an old and trusted friend.  Matt and his friend, along with two other witnesses, are confronted with both a moral and legal dilemma: Do they tell what they...