Vail/Stampler Series by William Diehl

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  • Primal Fear (Vail/Stampler #1)
    #1

    Primal Fear (Vail/Stampler #1)

    William Diehl

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings · published 1992

    Martin Vail, the brilliant "bad-boy" lawyer every prosecutor and politician love to hate, is defending Aaron Stampler, a man found holding a bloody butcher's knife near a murdered archbishop. Vail is certain to lose, but Vail uses his unorthodox ways to good advantage when choosing his legal team—a tight group of men and women who must uncover the extraordinary truth behind the archbishop's slaughter. They do, in a heart-stopping climax unparalleled for the surprise it springs on the reader...

  • Show of Evil (Vail/Stampler #2)
    #2

    Show of Evil (Vail/Stampler #2)

    William Diehl

    Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings · published 1995

    It begins with a shocking, unsolved murder. In small town in southern Illinois, the butchered body of Linda Balfour--with a cryptic code printed in blood on the back of her head--forges a gruesome link to the brutal murder of Bishop Rushman, the beloved Chicago clergyman who had been dismembered years before by the angelic-looking altar boy, Aaron Stampler. The same Aaron Stampler whom defense attorney Martin Vail saved from the electric chair.. more

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