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Take it Back
by Kia Abdullah
Leaving her high-profile law position for a job at a crisis center, Zara Kaleel becomes involved in the case of a deformed teenage girl who accuses four boys in her class of rape, tearing the community apart.
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While Justice Sleeps
by Stacey Abrams
Plunged into an explosive role she never anticipated, Avery Keene, now the legal guardian and power of attorney for the legendary Justice Howard Wynn, must unravel the clues he left behind in regards to a dangerous conspiracy that has infiltrated the highest power corridors of Washington.
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Defending Britta Stein
by Ronald H. Balson
A husband and wife team of lawyers take on opposing sides in a defamation case against a local Danish American war hero and a protestor in the latest addition to the series following The Girl from Berlin.
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A Good Mother
by Lara Bazelon
Returning from maternity leave, LA attorney Abby Rosenberg agrees to defend a young mother accused of murdering her husband, a decorated combat veteran, and as evidence mounts against her client, the case careens toward an outcome no one expects, especially Abby.
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Aftermath
by Terri Blackstock
Framed for shocking acts of violence, Dustin, the owner of a security firm, turns to criminal attorney and friend Jamie Powell for help in finding out who is behind all this–and why.
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Twenty
by James Grippando
A nightmarish shooting at their daughter's school finds Jack Swyteck and his law-enforcement officer wife, Andie, investigating a chief suspect's alleged ties to Al Qaeda amid growing anti-Muslim fervor.
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The Local
by Joey Hartstone
When the judge on his case is murdered and all evidence points to his client, wealthy Pakistani-American businessman Amir Zawar, patent lawyer James Euchre sets out to prove Zawar's innocence in a town where everyone knows everyone and bad blood has a long history.
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The Missing Piece
by John T. Lescroart
When Paul Riley, who served 11 years for the rape and murder of his girlfriend, is released, he soon turns up murdered and master attorney Dismas Hardy hires PI Abe Glitsky to find the truth, which causes him to question his own moral compass.
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The Darkest Place
by Phillip Margolin
After a pro bono case upends her life, defense attorney Robin Lockwood retreats home to Elk Grove where she defends a surrogate accused of kidnapping the baby she carried for another couple–a case that may result in unexpected, deadly consequences.
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The Murder Rule
by Dervla McTiernan
A young woman, posing as an idealistic law student, tricks everyone into believing she is working to save an innocent man on death row when she is really there to bury him.
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Mad Honey
by Jodi Picoult
Her life upended when her husband revealed a darker side, Olivia MacAfee and her teenage son Asher move back to her New Hampshire hometown for a new beginning until Asher is implicated in the death of his girlfriend and she realizes he has hidden more than he has shared with her.
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The Perfect Marriage
by Jeneva Rose
Sarah Morgan is a successful and powerful defense attorney in Washington D.C. As a named partner at her firm, life is going exactly how she planned. The same cannot be said for her husband, Adam. He's a struggling writer who has had little success in his career and he tires of his and Sarah's relationship as she is constantly working. Out in the secluded woods, at the couple's lake house, Adam engages in a passionate affair with Kelly Summers. But one morning everything changes. Kelly is found brutally stabbed to death and now, Sarah must take on her hardest case yet, defending her own husband, a man accused of murdering his mistress.
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Holy Chow
by David Rosenfelt
A retired lawyer running a dog rescue must make good on a promise to an elderly woman to take in her Chow Chow if she died, in the latest novel of the series following Best in Snow.
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Loyalty
by Lisa Scottoline
Set during the rise of the Mafia in 19th-century Sicily, this epic story of good versus evil follows four individuals—a desperate lemon grower; an idealistic lawyer with a secret life; a new mother; and a reclusive goatherd under constant threat of being discovered as a Jew—as their lives collide.
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False Witness
by Karin Slaughter
Defense attorney Leigh Collier is taken aback when she discovers her new, high profile case will be defending her childhood abuser in this novel from the New York Times best-selling author of Pieces of Her.
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