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  • The Last Trial by Robert Bailey

    The Last Trial by Robert Bailey

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    11 hrs and 12 minsFormer law professor Tom McMurtrie has brought killers to justice, and taken on some of the most infamous cases in Alabama’s history. Now he’s tackling his greatest challenge.McMurtrie’s old nemesis, Jack Willistone, is found dead on the banks of the Black Warrior River. Willistone had his share of enemies, but all evidence points to a forgotten, broken woman as the killer...
  • The Final Reckoning by Robert Bailey, ロバート・ベイリー

    The Final Reckoning by Robert Bailey, ロバート・ベイリー

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    His last challenge: live long enough to save the lives of those he loves.Cold-blooded killer JimBone Wheeler blames Tom McMurtrie for putting him on death row. He once vowed that he’d bring “a reckoning” on Tom and everyone the southern lawyer holds dear. When Wheeler escapes from prison, he aims to fulfill his promise. Victim by victim, he’s getting closer to his ultimate target...
  • Lethal Defense by Michael Stagg

    Lethal Defense by Michael Stagg

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    A client savagely kills a man to protect a friend. A lawyer with secrets must prove it was justified.Attorney Nate Shepherd left a big firm to go out on his own. He sees nothing but opportunity when an out-of-town lawyer wants to hire him as local counsel on a high-profile murder case. Though his family worries that the case hits too close to home, Nate joins the defense team...
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  • Desert Eagle by Alan Lee

    Desert Eagle by Alan Lee

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Book Five in the Sinatra series.Available for pre-order.Arriving late 2022...
  • Final Option by Clive Cussler, Boyd Morrison

    Final Option by Clive Cussler, Boyd Morrison

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    In Final Option, Juan Cabrillo fights the worst enemy from his past to the terrifying and unexpected ending created by the Grand Master of Adventure, Clive Cussler, in the latest action-packed thriller in his #1 New York Times-bestselling series...
  • The Wrong Side by Robert Bailey

    The Wrong Side by Robert Bailey

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    A battle-worn lawyer fights for a young man’s life in this criminally enthralling legal thriller.Teen pop star Brittany Crutcher is found dead in small-town Tennessee. For attorney Bocephus Haynes, it’s just another night in Pulaski. Bo swore off criminal work after his last case, but the beloved singer’s murder demands answers...
  • The Client by Janet McAlpin

    The Client by Janet McAlpin

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Mark Sway is eleven and he knows a terrible secret. He knows where a body is hidden. Some secrets are so dangerous that it's better not to tell. But it's just as dangerous if you don't. So Mark needs help fast - because there isn't much time...
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    crime  legal  suspense  thriller  adult  book  fiction  killer
  • Murder One by Robert Dugoni

    Murder One by Robert Dugoni

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    In this riveting legal thriller from Robert Dugoni, the #1 Kindle bestselling author of MY SISTER’S GRAVE, attorney David Sloane takes on his first criminal case…defending the woman he loves. Recovering from the shock of his wife’s murder the previous year, David Sloane returns to Seattle after some much-needed healing time in Mexico...
  • Bodily Harm by Robert Dugoni

    Bodily Harm by Robert Dugoni

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR ROBERT DUGONI RETURNS WITH HIS MOST EXHILARATING THRILLER TO DATE, A PULSE-POUNDING STORY OF CORPORATE GREED, ESPIONAGE, AND THE LENGTHS ONE MAN IS WILLING TO GO FOR JUSTICE.Bodily Harm opens with a big win for David Sloane and his new partner, Tom Pendergrass, in a malpractice case centered on the death of a young child...
  • The Tracker by Chad Zunker

    The Tracker by Chad Zunker

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Trust no one.Sam Callahan learned this lesson from a childhood spent in abusive foster care, on the streets, and locked in juvie. With the past behind him and his future staked on law school, he is moonlighting as a political tracker, paid to hide in crowds and shadow candidates, recording their missteps for use by their opponents...
  • Legacy of Lies by Robert Bailey

    Legacy of Lies by Robert Bailey

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    A small-town attorney takes on prejudice and corruption in this powerful legal thriller. Small-town lawyer Bocephus Haynes comes home late one night to find District Attorney General Helen Lewis waiting for him. Her ex-husband has just been killed. She’s about to be arrested for his murder. And she wants Bo to represent her.There’s a lot working against them...
  • The Supremacy License by Alan Lee

    The Supremacy License by Alan Lee

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Meet Manny, also known as Agent Sinatra. A US Marshal renowned for his bravura in collaring fugitives. The only thing he loves more than America is a well-tailored sports jacket. An international terrorist slips through the East Coast and takes up residence inside an impregnable mountain chateau—within American borders but beyond legal reach...
  • Purppuraverkko by Carmen Mola

    Purppuraverkko by Carmen Mola

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Satoja tuhansia myynyt Espanjan Varistyttö.Kesän viimeisinä päivinä rikostutkija Elena Blanco ryhmineen tekee rynnäkön Madridin laitamilla sijaitsevaan taloon. He syöksyvät suoraan perheen teinipojan huoneeseen, jossa tietokoneen näytöllä kaksi huppupäistä miestä kiduttaa nuorta tyttöä suorassa lähetyksessä. Poliisit joutuvat todistamaan ruudun välityksellä tytön kuolemaa...
  • Tell No One / Gone For Good by Harlan Coben

    Tell No One / Gone For Good by Harlan Coben

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    From New York Times bestselling author Harlan Coben comes an unforgettable duet of classic novels—two top-notch thrillers filled with the author’s signature storytelling genius.TELL NO ONEFor Dr. David Beck, the loss was shattering. And every day for the past eight years, he has relived the horror of what happened. The gleaming lake. The pale moonlight. The piercing screams...
  • Grant of Immunity by Garret Holms

    Grant of Immunity by Garret Holms

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Current Edition for ISBN-10: 1503114783; ISBN-13: 978-1503114784WHEN EVIL HIDES BEHIND A BADGE, NO ONE IS SAFE . .. It’s 1976, Los Angeles. Sarah Collins, a young mother of two, is brutally raped and murdered at the Hollywood Reservoir. For nineteen years, the murder remains unsolved and the case goes cold...
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    crime  law-enforcement  legal  suspense  thriller  adult  book  family
  • The Advocate's Felony by Teresa Burrell

    The Advocate's Felony by Teresa Burrell

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Sabre Brown’s phone rings at 2 a.m. It’s her brother Ron. After seven years in the Witness Protection Program, someone has discovered his whereabouts, and has tried to kill him. He’s called to warn Sabre that she is in imminent danger. Sabre and her private investigator, J.P., leave sunny San Diego to search for her brother in the cold, wintry Northwest...
  • Cold Kill by Stephen Leather

    Cold Kill by Stephen Leather

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    "While investigating a crew of people-traffickers…Dan Shepherd discovers a cross-Channel currency-smuggling operation. Posing as a low-level criminal, Shepherd infiltrates the gang, befriending its London soldiers and establishing contact with the Albanian gangster who masterminds the business from his swank Paris flat...
  • Night Deception by Tamsen Schultz

    Night Deception by Tamsen Schultz

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    From the award-winning author of The Windsor Series comes the second Tildas Island mystery:When treason isn’t enoughIsiah Clarke may be a former Navy SEAL, but now that he’s retired, he’s more than happy to be passing his time tending to the bar he owns on Tildas Island. That is, until a former teammate sends him a message asking for help in finding and protecting an elusive CIA asset...
  • Next Exit, Three Miles by C.W. Browning

    Next Exit, Three Miles by C.W. Browning

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Alina Maschik was one of the best. She never missed. Yet, two years ago in Cairo, she missed her shot at one of the world’s most wanted terrorists. Now, he’s back. This time, he’s on US soil.Given the opportunity to redeem herself, Alina’s objective is simple: find the terrorist and complete her mission...
  • Accused by Mark Gimenez

    Accused by Mark Gimenez

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    'Scott, it's Rebecca. I need you.'After years of silence, Texan lawyer Scott Fenney receives a devastating phonecall from his ex-wife. She has been accused of murdering her boyfriend, Trey - the man she left Scott for - and is being held in a police cell. Now she is begging Scott to defend her.Scott is used to high-stakes cases, but this one is bigger than anything he has handled before...
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    crime  legal  suspense  thriller  adult  book  fiction  killer
  • The Juror by George Dawes Green

    The Juror by George Dawes Green

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    This is a psychological thriller about a young woman threatened by the Mafia who must return a verdict of 'not guilty' to ensure the safety of her son. The book has been turned into a movie, featuring Alec Baldwin and Demi Moore...
  • Fractured by L.T. Ryan, Brian Christopher Shea

    Fractured by L.T. Ryan, Brian Christopher Shea

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Facing a seemingly insurmountable enemy, Rachel Hatch risks everything for her team. While serving as an interrogator attached to an elite group of Army Green Berets, Rachel Hatch's team comes under heavy fire. She has to rely on grit and instinct to keep herself, and her team, alive. But her actions will leave her forever changed... Fractured...
  • The Time to Kill by Mason Cross

    The Time to Kill by Mason Cross

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    It's been five years since Carter Blake parted ways with top-secret government operation Winterlong. They brokered a deal at the time: he'd keep quiet about what they were doing, and in return he'd be left alone.But news that one of Blake's old allies, a man who agreed the same deal, is dead means only one thing - something has changed and Winterlong is coming for him...
  • 3:34 a.m. by Nick Pirog

    3:34 a.m. by Nick Pirog

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    **WINNER 2015 BEST SERIES!** **THIS IS A DOUBLE LENGTH VOLUME****TWICE THE LENGTH. TWICE THE LASSIE. TWICE THE FUN...
  • Hot Blood by Stephen Leather

    Hot Blood by Stephen Leather

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The fourth book in the bestselling Dan 'Spider' Shepherd series.Dan 'Spider' Shepherd is used to putting his life on the line. It goes with the turf when you're an undercover cop. Now working for the Serious Organised Crime Agency, Shepherd is pitting his wits against the toughest criminals in the country...
  • Inmate 1577 by Alan Jacobson, Christina Traister

    Inmate 1577 by Alan Jacobson, Christina Traister

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    National Bestselling Author Alan Jacobson brings back renowned FBI Profiler Karen Vail in an intelligent thriller that bridges time and space. When an elderly woman is found raped and brutally murdered in San Francisco, Vail heads west to team up with SFPD Inspector Lance Burden and her former task force colleague, Detective Roxxann Dixon...
  • The Perk by Mark Gimenez

    The Perk by Mark Gimenez

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Beck Hardin returns to his Texas hometown - and his estranged father - after the death of his wife leaves him with two children to raise. The town is still reeling from the murder of sixteen-year-old Heidi, whose father - Beck's old college friend - asks Beck to help him find Heidi's killer before the statute of limitations runs out...
  • Obsession by Stuart Woods

    Obsession by Stuart Woods

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Teddy Fay finds his skills put to the test in the latest thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Stuart Woods.While filming on location in scenic Santa Barbara, California, Peter Barrington and Ben Bacchetti look to expand Centurion Picture’s business by making a deal with a young Croatian billionaire...
  • The Driver by Mark Dawson

    The Driver by Mark Dawson

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    An alternate cover edition of ASIN B00HD93V1G can be found here: < a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...hereJohn Milton had started to hope that he might have a future. He has a job driving a taxi around the streets of San Francisco. He has his anonymity and his solitude. Being invisible has become a comfortable habit. He doesn't want to be found...
  • Miami Requiem by J.B. Turner

    Miami Requiem by J.B. Turner

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    A gripping race-against-time crime thriller for fans of Michael Connelly, James Lee Burke, Harlan Coben and Karin Slaughter.She wanted the truth. They wanted her dead.Since her first day on the Miami Herald, rookie reporter Deborah Jones has been agitating for a shot at one particular story. William Craig is on Death Row, convicted of killling Senator Jack O'Neill's only son...
  • Total Control by David Baldacci

    Total Control by David Baldacci

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Sidney Archer thought she had the perfect life - a great family and a great career. Then her husband is killed in a plane crash. But when the FBI think he is still alive, Sidney begins a desperate search for the truth...
  • The No. 1 Lawyer by James Patterson, Nancy Allen

    The No. 1 Lawyer by James Patterson, Nancy Allen

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Stafford Lee Penney is the best defence lawyer in Mississippi - he's never lost a case. Until now.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...
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    legal  crime  suspense  drama  thriller  mystery  fiction  audiobook
  • The Winner by David Baldacci

    The Winner by David Baldacci

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. A woman who gets rich after being forced to participate in a fixed lottery is wanted for murder...
  • The Bannerman Solution by John R. Maxim

    The Bannerman Solution by John R. Maxim

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Paul Bannerman was once his nation's deadliest weapon--a top covert operative heading up the most lethal group of contract agents and network specialists in all of Europe. Now Bannerman is a liability--an unpredictable loose cannon that could irreparably damage America's shaky intelligence structure, if he chose to...
  • Death by Dangerous by Olly Jarvis

    Death by Dangerous by Olly Jarvis

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Death by Dangerous is a compelling legal thriller set in Manchester and Bradford. John Anderson is one of the North West’s most dedicated and successful prosecution barristers. His career is going from strength to strength and he is on the verge of becoming Queen’s Counsel. But the life he once knew suddenly comes crashing down following a fatal road traffic accident..
  • Every Second Counts by Sophie McKenzie

    Every Second Counts by Sophie McKenzie

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Charlie and Nat must expose a public official for who he truly is before he is elected prime minister in the riveting and romantic sequel to the explosive thriller, In a Split Second.Nat and Charlie are on the run and in more danger than ever before. Nowhere is safe and they can’t trust anyone but each other...
  • Severed Relations by Rebecca Forster

    Severed Relations by Rebecca Forster

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Murder behind the gates of Fremont Place was unusual; two children and a nanny slaughtered in the home of a rich young lawyer and his beautiful wife was unheard of. When Detective Finn O'Brien, recently cleared of murder charges in the death of a fellow officer, catches the call it creates a political nightmare...
    Categorized as:
    crime  suspense  thriller  legal  mystery  fiction  murder  book
  • Sharko by Franck Thilliez

    Sharko by Franck Thilliez

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    " Sharko comparait toujours les premiers jours d'une enquête à une partie de chasse. Ils étaient la meute de chiens stimulés par les cors, qui s'élancent à la poursuite du gibier. À la différence près que, cette fois, le gibier, c'était eux. " Eux, c'est Lucie Henebelle et Franck Sharko, flics aux 36 quai des Orfèvres, unis à la ville comme à la scène, parents de deux petits garçons...
  • Secrets Girls Keep by John Ellsworth

    Secrets Girls Keep by John Ellsworth

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    GOT A KILLER IN YOUR GUEST ROOM? Michael Gresham is a criminal attorney whose priest has fathered a son. The boy is now seventeen, acting-out, and arrested for first-degree murder. The priest asks Michael to take his son into his home so he can be released on bail. Michael and his wife agree and the boy, with his snake and mice, moves in...
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    crime  legal  suspense  thriller  adult  book  fiction  financial
  • The Hearing by John Lescroart

    The Hearing by John Lescroart

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Hardy's best friend, Lieutenant Abe Glitsky, has kept a secret from him...and everyone else. Hardy never knew that Abe had a daughter-until she was shot dead. It seems obvious that the heroin addict hovering over her body with a gun is the guilty party, and Glitsky has few qualms about sweating a confession out of him. But there is more to this murder-much more...
  • The Firm / The Pelican Brief by John Grisham

    The Firm / The Pelican Brief by John Grisham

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    THE FIRMThe law student He was young and had dreams. He'd qualified third in his class at Harvard, now offers poured in from every law firm in America The Firm They were small , but well -respected. They we prepared to match, and then exceed Mitch's wildest dreams - eighty thousand a year, a BMW and a low interest mortgage. Soon the house, the car and the job are his...
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    crime  legal  suspense  adult  book  fiction  mystery
  • The Worm in the Bud by Chris Collett

    The Worm in the Bud by Chris Collett

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    A puncture wound in the arm of a local journalist found dead in his home gives testimony to his death by lethal injection, and the cryptic note by his side—“no more”—suggests suicide. To DI Tom Mariner, however, there is something a little too staged about events, especially given that just that evening Mariner had witnessed the journalist—Edward Barham—pick up a prostitute in a bar...
  • The Case Against William by Mark Gimenez

    The Case Against William by Mark Gimenez

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Criminal defence lawyers must make their peace with one harsh fact of life: most of their clients are guilty. Yet when William Tucker, a celebrated and self-centered star college football player, is suddenly arrested and charged with the brutal rape and murder of a college coed two years before, his broken-down, drunken estranged father Frank can't believe he's guilty...
    Categorized as:
    crime  legal  suspense  thriller  adult  book  fiction  mystery
  • Blood in the Bayou by C.M. Sutter

    Blood in the Bayou by C.M. Sutter

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    On her first assignment since her promotion to SSA status in the Serial Crimes Unit of the FBI, Jade Monroe and her new partner, Lorenzo DeLeon, are tasked to southern Louisiana, where disturbing discoveries have been made. Human bones have been found in numerous sites deep in bayou country, and the locals aren’t too excited about having outsiders poking around in their business...
  • Justice Burning by Scott Pratt

    Justice Burning by Scott Pratt

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    A Wall Street Journal bestseller.Former defense attorney Darren Street is desperately trying to put his life back together after spending two years in a maximum-security prison for a murder he didn’t commit. He’s rebuilding his law practice, reconnecting with his son, and falling more deeply in love with his girlfriend, fellow attorney Grace Alexander...
    Categorized as:
    legal  crime  suspense  thriller  justice  mystery  fiction  audiobook
  • Gut Decision by Jeff Carson

    Gut Decision by Jeff Carson

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    After six tours in the Army special forces, David Wolf is finally back home in Rocky Points, Colorado, where he's in his third week of training for the Rocky Points PD...
  • What She Saw by Mark Roberts

    What She Saw by Mark Roberts

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The second DCI Rosen novel finds dark forces at work among the children of the estate—serial killer thriller meets occult thriller in a roller-coaster readWhen a nine-year-old boy is left to die inside a burning car on a sink estate in Peckham, DCI David Rosen is drafted in to investigate. The young boy has been severely burned, and is now fighting for his life...
  • Out on the Rim by Ross Thomas

    Out on the Rim by Ross Thomas

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Would you be wary if someone gave you the assignment of delivering five million dollars to a Philippine terrorist—never mind from whom or why? Booth Stallings, a terrorism expert just fired from his job at a bashful organization that never admitted its mount in the Washington merry-go-round, is wary...
  • A Child Is Torn: Innocence Lost by Dawn Kopman Whidden

    A Child Is Torn: Innocence Lost by Dawn Kopman Whidden

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When Evan Madison fails to show up for work, police go to his home where his ten-year-old son, Brad, is found, unharmed and alone. He is stoic, sitting in front of the TV playing a video game, and covered in blood. In the upstairs bedroom, lie his parents bludgeoned to death. Brad confesses to killing them, but it makes no sense. Is Brad covering some someone else or the evil seed born to kill...
  • The Birthday Girl by Stephen Leather

    The Birthday Girl by Stephen Leather

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Tony Freeman rescued Mersiha when she was fighting for her life in war-torn Yugoslavia. Now she's his adopted daughter, the perfect all-American girl, and it seems like her past is another country.But Mersiha has been trained to kill. And when she discovers that Freeman's company is being subjected to a sinister takeover bid, she decides to help - whatever the risks...
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