Assistant DA Kate Stone has just suffered the biggest loss of her career. She’d worked so hard to prosecute a serial assaulter of women, and it was a case she should have won. But a corrupt judge allowed Max James to walk free. When he confronts her outside the courthouse, she punches James, and he goes down hard. After the footage is plastered across every TV screen, Kate’s boss demands that she either attend anger management meetings or give up the job she lives for.
Begrudgingly, Kate attends her first meeting. Inside is a group of people all failed by the justice system. Their mission: to do everything in their power to help right wrongs, even if outside the law. Unsure who to trust among this unlikely team of renegades, Kate begins to dig into Max James’s secret life, and she unknowingly ignites a battle that will rage across the city that never sleeps.

Gabriel Soto is a social recluse accused of murdering the free-spirited Melina Mora. At the center of the media spotlight is Sandy Grunwald, an ambitious young prosecutor whose political fortunes depend on her using the limited evidence to secure a conviction. But the criminal justice system is complicated, and everyone has a story—especially the jury.
With striking originality and expert storytelling, the ensemble cast comes alive on the page, and as their stories are revealed, their own experiences, biases, and beliefs—not the facts of the case—are what ultimately shape the verdict. You’ve never read a legal thriller quite like this. There’s never been a thriller writer quite like Robin Peguero. And you will not be able to predict how it all ends.

The world's #1 best-selling author James Patterson is back with a new thriller co-written with Nancy Allen—The Jailhouse Lawyer. Erva, Alabama, is a sleepy town where very little crime seems to happen, aside from misdemeanors. Speeding tickets and shoplifting are about as wild as the crimes get in this small town. But if that's the case, why is the jail so crowded? When lawyer and single mother Martha Foster tries to figure out what's going on in her town, she finds herself facing off against a corrupt judge. And potentially landing in jail herself.

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Michael Connelly's The Law of Innocence is the sixth novel in the Mickey Haller series. When defense attorney Mickey Haller is pulled over, the police find the body of one of his clients in the trunk of his Lincoln. Immediately, Mickey Haller is charged with murder, and Mickey decides to defend himself. Now, he must strategize and build his case while being detained in the Twin Towers Correctional Center in downtown Los Angeles. Mickey knows he's been framed, but how will he be able to prove his innocence?

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Susan R. Sloan's Guilt by Association is a provocative legal thriller that remains just as exciting and engaging over 20 years after it was first published. This is the stunning story of Karen, a woman struggling to recover after a vicious rape leaves her traumatized. This is her story of overcoming her trauma, rebuilding her life, and finally confronting the man who tried to take everything away from her.