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  • Due Process by Scott Pratt

    Due Process by Scott Pratt

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    An Amazon Top 30 bestseller.A young exotic dancer claims she was sexually assaulted at a party thrown by a university football team.Three players stand accused.In the ninth installment of the bestselling Joe Dillard series, Dillard finds himself defending one of the players accused of assaulting the young woman...
  • 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...
  • Judgment Cometh (And That Right Soon): A Legal Thriller by Scott Pratt

    Judgment Cometh (And That Right Soon): A Legal Thriller by Scott Pratt

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    A Supreme Court Justice is found cut into pieces in the back of a pick-up truck. Three other judges have already gone missing. In the eighth installment of Scott Pratt’s bestselling Joe Dillard Series, Dillard is hired to represent the man driving the pick-up. As Dillard delves into the case, he comes to believe his client is not guilty...
  • Blood Money: A Legal Thriller by Scott Pratt

    Blood Money: A Legal Thriller by Scott Pratt

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    In the sixth volume of the bestselling Joe Dillard series, Dillard does something he has never done before -- he hires a young associate. Her name is Charleston Story, she is bright and beautiful, and in her very first case, she winds up inheriting an item so valuable that it threatens to destroy her and everything she cares about...
  • Conflict of Interest by Scott Pratt

    Conflict of Interest by Scott Pratt

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    A six-year-old girl is kidnapped from her bed in Tennessee's oldest town. The ransom note demands millions. In this fifth installment of the highly-acclaimed and bestselling Joe Dillard series, Dillard is hired to represent the parents of a child who has gone missing...
  • Injustice For All by Scott Pratt

    Injustice For All by Scott Pratt

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    A criminal court judge is found hanging from a tree. A young employee of the district attorney's office goes missing. In this third book of the best selling Joe Dillard series, Dillard finds himself in the middle of two volatile mysteries. The primary suspect in the judge's murder is Dillard's son's best friend, and Dillard's wife may have destroyed evidence...
  • Reasonable Fear by Scott Pratt

    Reasonable Fear by Scott Pratt

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Three young women are found floating in a lake. The suspect is one of the richest and most powerful men in Tennessee. "Reasonable Fear" is the fourth of the bestselling Joe Dillard series offered by Scott Pratt. In this novel, Dillard has become the district attorney in Northeast Tennessee...
  • Justice Redeemed by Scott Pratt

    Justice Redeemed by Scott Pratt

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Two years ago, Darren Street made a name for himself as the man who rooted out corruption in the district attorney’s office. Now the hotheaded young lawyer is in the public eye yet again—this time, accused of murder.Jalen Jordan retained Street for what seemed to be a minor traffic violation, but when evidence turned up linking Jordan to the death of two boys, Street wanted out of the case...
  • The Professor by Robert Bailey, Eric G. Dove

    The Professor by Robert Bailey, Eric G. Dove

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    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 left unsure what to do next.Meanwhile, a devastating trucking accident in Henshaw, Alabama, leaves a young family dead...
  • A Crime of Passion by Scott Pratt

    A Crime of Passion by Scott Pratt

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    A beautiful, young, rising star in the country music world is found dead in a Nashville hotel room. The owner of her record company is charged with murder. In the seventh installment of Scott Pratt's bestselling Joe Dillard series, Dillard is hired to travel to Tennessee's capital city to defend Paul Milius, a record company baron accused of strangling Kasey Cartwright, his label's young star...
  • The Conviction by Robert Dugoni

    The Conviction by Robert Dugoni

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    In this exhilarating legal thriller from Robert Dugoni, the #1 Kindle bestselling author of MY SISTER'S GRAVE, attorney David Sloane must take the law into his own hands to save his son from a corrupt juvenile detention center. As David Sloane continues to piece his life back together in the wake of his wife's vicious murder, he also struggles to handle his difficult teenage son, Jake...
  • 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...
  • Negeri di Ujung Tanduk by Tere Liye

    Negeri di Ujung Tanduk by Tere Liye

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Di Negeri di Ujung Tanduk kehidupan semakin rusak. Bukan karena orang jahat semakin banyak, tapi semakin banyak orang yang memilih tidak peduli lagi. Di Negeri di Ujung Tanduk para penipu menjadi pemimpin, para pengkhianat menjadi pujaan. Bukan karena tidak ada lagi yang memiliki teladan, tapi mereka memutuskan menutup mata dan memilih hidup bahagia sendirian...
  • Origami Man by Matthew FitzSimmons

    Origami Man by Matthew FitzSimmons

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    To stop a terrorist threat, Gibson Vaughn must trust a man who can’t be trusted.Former Marine, brilliant hacker, and wanted fugitive Gibson Vaughn is off the grid in the Caymans. Until the ice-cold assassin Tinsley draws him out of the shadows. Complying with the man who murdered his father and left Gibson for dead? In the war against terror, never say never...
  • Misjudged by James Chandler

    Misjudged by James Chandler

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    When a disabled veteran takes a new job as an attorney in a small Wyoming town, he is thrust into a mysterious murder case.Sam Johnstone was hoping for renewal when he took a job at a boutique law firm in rustic Wyoming. The mountains and streams of the west would be a refreshing, quiet place to start over after years of war and turmoil in his personal life...
  • Wrongful Death by Robert Dugoni

    Wrongful Death by Robert Dugoni

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    New York Times bestselling author Robert Dugoni tackles hot-button issues in this riveting legal thriller featuring attorney David Sloane. When a widow asks Sloane to take her case against the military, Sloane knows it's a lost cause but can't turn her down, even if it puts his own life--and the lives of his family--in dire jeopardy.Just minutes after winning a $1...
  • An Innocent Client by Scott Pratt, Khaled Nokib

    An Innocent Client by Scott Pratt, Khaled Nokib

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    ASIN moved from less recent editionA preacher is found brutally murdered in a Tennessee motel room. A beautiful, mysterious young girl is accused. In this Mystery Readers International finalist for "Best Debut Mystery," criminal defense lawyer Joe Dillard has become jaded over the years as he's tried to balance his career against his conscience...
  • 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...
  • Flesh and Bones by Paul Levine

    Flesh and Bones by Paul Levine

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    SPELLBINDING  THRILLER FROM EDGAR NOMINEE PAUL LEVINE"I was sitting at the end of the bar sipping single-malt Scotch when I spotted the tall blond woman with the large green eyes and the small gray gun." The next thing Jake Lassiter knows, the woman pumps three bullets into the man on the next bar stool. Lassiter, the linebacker-turned-lawyer, has a new client...
  • 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...
  • Debris Line by Matthew FitzSimmons

    Debris Line by Matthew FitzSimmons

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    The stakes are higher than ever as the Wall Street Journal bestselling series continues.Lying low on the sun-kissed coast of Portugal is a far cry from twenty-four-hour lockdown in a CIA black-site prison. But even in paradise, Gibson Vaughn is a long way from being home free. With the feds hot on his heels, he and his crew of fellow fugitives know they can’t hide in a sunny beach town forever...
  • Incriminating Evidence by Sheldon Siegel

    Incriminating Evidence by Sheldon Siegel

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    With his terrific first novel, Special Circumstances , Sheldon Siegel delivered legal fiction so exciting, it drew comparisons with the very top tier of courtroom thrillers. Now he has a new challenge for defense attorney Mike Daley--ex-priest, ex-husband, ex-public defender--and it’s a high-profile zinger: a case he doesn’t think he can win for a client he can’t stand...
  • 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...
  • Hard Knocks by Zoë Sharp

    Hard Knocks by Zoë Sharp

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    ‘Perhaps if the army had known what was inside me, what I would eventually turn into, they might not have been so keen to let me go.’Charlie really didn’t care who shot dead her traitorous ex-army comrade Kirk Salter during a bodyguard training course in Germany...
  • Sins of the Father by Jen Blood

    Sins of the Father by Jen Blood

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Alternate Cover Edition for ASIN B008OKBNOK. Sins of the Father finds Erin Solomon continuing her quest to find her father by investigating a convicted murderer's claim of innocence. Her investigation leads her down a path of dark secrets, painful truths, and deadly obsessions, as she struggles to reconcile her memories of her father with the cold, ruthless portrait others paint...
  • 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...
  • Executive Order by Max Allan Collins

    Executive Order by Max Allan Collins

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    A riveting novel by MWA Grand Master Award winner Max Allan Collins. In Eastern Europe four CIA agents are dead—geopolitical pawns caught in border dispute cross fire. Why were they there? Who sent them? Not even the President knows.Back in Washington, the Secretary of the Interior dies from an apparent allergic shock. As details emerge, so do suspicions that she was murdered...
  • Fate of the Union by Max Allan Collins, Dan John Miller

    Fate of the Union by Max Allan Collins, Dan John Miller

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins When a retired colleague dies of an apparent suicide, ex–Secret Service agent Joe Reeder knows there must be far more to the story...
  • Trial by Clifford Irving

    Trial by Clifford Irving

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    A thrilling adventure into the real world of criminal law, a rich and powerful novel that deals with murder, the morality of justice and the perils of love, Clifford Irving's novel sets a new standard for courtroom fiction. A twisting, relentless thriller, Trial follows Texas lawyer Warren Blackburn as he defends two accused murderers in two separate cases...
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  • Sleeping Bear by Connor Sullivan

    Sleeping Bear by Connor Sullivan

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Army veteran seeking solitude in the Alaskan wilderness after her husband’s death—only to find herself a pawn in a deadly game with Russia.After her young husband’s untimely death, Army veteran Cassie Gale decides to take a few days of solitude in the Alaska wilderness before she starts her new job...
  • Free Fall in Crimson by John D. MacDonald, Carl Hiaasen

    Free Fall in Crimson by John D. MacDonald, Carl Hiaasen

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    McGee tracks killers who brutally murder an ailing millionaire. He renews unfinished adventure with Hollywood actress who leads him into a nasty nest of murderers involving a motorcycle gang, porn movies, and mad balloonists. And Mcgee relearns old lesson. Only close to the edge of death does he feel completely alive...
  • Cold Harbor by Matthew FitzSimmons

    Cold Harbor by Matthew FitzSimmons

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    A Wall Street Journal bestselling series.After a period of brutal isolation in a CIA black-site prison, former Marine and gifted hacker Gibson Vaughn is free—but with no idea where he was or how much time he’s lost. Struggling to maintain his grip on reality, he races to return to the life he left behind...
  • The Abduction by Mark Gimenez

    The Abduction by Mark Gimenez

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Ben Brice lives alone in the New Mexico wilderness where he battles memories of Vietnam with oceans of Jim Beam. Miles away in Texas, his estranged son, John, an Internet geek-turned-billionaire, half watches his daughter Gracie's soccer game while conducting business on his cell phone. When her mother Elizabeth arrives, the coach reports that her uncle has already collected Gracie...
  • The Detachment by Barry Eisler

    The Detachment by Barry Eisler

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    John Rain is back. And “the most charismatic assassin since James Bond” (San Francisco Chronicle) is up against his most formidable enemy yet: the nexus of political, military, media, and corporate factions known only as the Oligarchy...
  • Shadow Tyrants by Clive Cussler, Boyd Morrison

    Shadow Tyrants by Clive Cussler, Boyd Morrison

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    "Nearly two thousand years ago, an Eastern emperor charged a small group with safeguarding secrets powerful enough to change the history of mankind. They went down in legend as the Nine Unknown Men--and now two rival factions of their descendants are fighting a mighty battle. Both sides think they are saving the world, but their tactics could very well bring about the end of humankind...
  • Dark Purpose by Mary Stone

    Dark Purpose by Mary Stone

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Everyone has a purpose. Some are just darker than others.Always calm, cool, and collected, Savannah PD Detective Charli Cross compensates for her petite five-foot frame with an impenetrable exterior and pragmatic competence. It’s an approach that catapulted her to the rank of detective at twenty-three and contributes to her and her partner’s unequaled murder clearance rate...
  • 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 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...
  • Never Come Back by Joe Hart

    Never Come Back by Joe Hart

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Needing to help the most vulnerable is in Nora McTavish’s DNA. Living within the echoes of her own traumatic past, she spends her days as a family advocate providing comfort and justice for those without anyone else to turn to. So when a long lost childhood friend calls asking for help and promising clues to the location of Nora’s missing mother, she has no choice but to say yes...
  • Rampage by John Sandford

    Rampage by John Sandford

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    John Sandford and Michele Cook complete their New York Times bestselling thriller series in this explosive finale! Fans of James Dashner, Harlan Coben, and James Patterson will love this nail-biting trilogy. Shay Remby and her band of renegade activists have got the corrupt Singular Corporation on the run. Their expos' is finally working...
  • Lassiter by Paul Levine

    Lassiter by Paul Levine

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    "Take John Grisham's courtroom skills, add a dash of James Patterson's action and a pinch of Harlan Coben's humanity...and you've got LASSITER."Eighteen years ago, Jake Lassiter crossed paths with a teenage runaway who disappeared into South Florida's sex trade...
  • Her Last Wish by Blake Pierce

    Her Last Wish by Blake Pierce

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    FBI Agent Rachel Gift, 33, unparalleled for her ability to enter the minds of serial killers, is a rising star in the Behavioral Crimes Unit—until a routine doctor visit reveals she has but a few months left to live.Not wishing to burden others with her pain, Rachel decides, agonizing as it is, not to tell anyone—not even her boss, her partner, her husband, or her seven-year-old daughter...
  • The President's Henchman by Joseph Flynn

    The President's Henchman by Joseph Flynn

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    According to the polls, it's only a matter of time - and not that long a time - before the United States elects its first female president. Which will make her husband - what? Well, if he's the ex-cop who solved the murder of the president's first husband and brought the killers to justice ... and if he's not the kind of guy to stand on formality ..
  • Stranger in Town by Cheryl Bradshaw

    Stranger in Town by Cheryl Bradshaw

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    He only needed her to look away for a few seconds... Six-year-old Olivia Hathaway tiptoes down the center aisle of Maybelle's Market, stopping once to glance over her shoulder and make sure her mother isn't watching. But Mrs. Hathaway is too preoccupied to notice her daughter has slipped away. Moments later, a frantic Mrs...
  • Bad To The Bones by James Harper

    Bad To The Bones by James Harper

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    **Alternative cover edition for ASIN: B076H9C28F here: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...**What would you give, how far would you go, to find a lost child and redeem your soul? And will it ever be far enough? Ten years ago, Linda Clayton's son Daniel disappeared. The love and support of her husband Robbie was all that kept her sane—until the day he ran away...
  • Blind Run by Patricia Lewin

    Blind Run by Patricia Lewin

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Decker was a specialized hunter for a CIA Shadow Organization, working deep undercover to track down and capture ruthless international mercenaries and fugitives. Then a daring mission takes a lethal turn, leaving innocents dead in its wake, and Ethan’s wife a prime target of a ruthless assassin...
  • 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...
  • Roses Are Blood Red by Novoneel Chakraborty

    Roses Are Blood Red by Novoneel Chakraborty

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    I'll gift you a love story that every girl desires, but few get to live.'He'd told me once. And boy, did he stick to his words! Vanav Thakur is the perfect boyfriend that any girl can have. He ticks every box you can ever have for your Mr Right. Trust me on this...
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