Kate, a forty-three-year-old single mother of three, is trying not to panic. As she hobbles down the street to the courthouse in her new high heels, she quickly realizes that law school has done nothing to prepare her for the real world of practicing law. Ready to embark on a year of articling as part of her last steps toward attorney accreditation, Kate finds herself in the midst of a balancing act she fears she will never get right.As she immerses herself in her new corporate lif...

Shanghaied into jury duty and placed on a hopelessly boring civil case, Stanley Hastings swings into action when a juror is murdered, and engineers a most unusual courtroom climax. An amusing inside look at the jury selection system and a must for any prospective juror.   "This unlikely private detective operates in an exquisitely refined state of paranoia ... he manages to effect a pretty astonishing resolution to the mystery ... (the case) turns out to have a surpr...

Frank Burrows is a two-bit, small-town lawyer in anybody's book, including his own, and now he finds himself center stage in a case involving murder, arson, and computer crimes. This time, however, he isn't representing an accused, he is the accused. A state fire marshal investigator wants him for arson. A Georgia state police investigator wants him for murder, and someone wants him out of the way bad enough to kill, and all for a reason Frank can't fathom. Everywhere Frank turns for answe...

When a homeless mans greedy relatives get him committed, Steve has to prove a multimillionaire who sold his mansion and went to live in the subway is sane. Then he has to prove who killed him.   "Highly entertaining courtroom drama." —Publishers Weekly   "...fine detective work and brilliance in the courtroomsort of remindful of Perry Mason at his best." —Abilene Reporter News   "... puts Hailey in a class with the very best writers of the mys...

What young attorney wouldnt be delighted to get a 10,000 cash retainer in the mail? Steve Winslow might have been if he knew who sent it. As it is, it gets him arrested for murder, grilled by the cops, and hauled before the grand jury. And he still doesnt know who his client is.   "The trial sequence is flashy and great fun." —Kirkus Reviews   "[Hits] the bulls eye." —Publishers Weekly   "Another winner from the author of The Baxter Trust."

New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author Diane Capri Returns!For fans of Lee Child, John Grisham, and Michael Connelly"Full of thrills and tension - but smart and human too." — Lee Child, #1 World Wide Bestselling Author of Jack Reacher ThrillersDarla Nixon is one of Tampa’s most responsible citizens. Principal at the local elementary school, single mother of two grown sons, Darla has served her com...

It started with a haunting image: a Ford Explorer, iridescent in the moonlight and alone on a desolate stretch of beach. Its owner, Melissa Gibbons, has gone missing. Her husband says she flew the coop. But Los Angeles Deputy DA Rachel Knight is convinced otherwise: Melissa Gibbons has been murdered.So begins the confounding case that Rachel must present before a disbelieving jury. A dissatisfied heiress and her philandering husband -- what really happened? The husband has a fiendis...

Jack Allen is a computer nerd from rural Indiana, newly hired by the National Security Agency, and living and working in Washington DC. Jack loves only his work until he does his supervisor a favor and finds unexpected romance with the daughter of the President of the United States. However, the President and the Secret Service aren't feeling romantic and although Jack has finally found something better to look at than his computer screen, he faces one of the toughest challenges of his lif...

Edgar Award Finalist: This Miami crime thriller by a New York Times–bestselling author is "an exhilarating debut [and] a sizzling page-turner" ( Publishers Weekly).Gail Connor is a fast-rising attorney in a major South Florida law firm, about to make partner—until her life is derailed by the discovery of her sister's body in the Everglades. What at first appears to be a suicide soon becomes a homicide investigation with Gail as the prime suspect. ...

Stanley comes to the aid of a soccer mom who's been tricked into working for an escort service, and finds himself engulfed in a world of prostitution, pornography, blackmail, and murder.   "Hair-raising and hilarious." —Publishers Weekly   "A gem of a novel...loaded with warmth, wit, and plot...real fear, and a strong sense of justice." —Rave Reviews   "Hall's swift, spare prose captures the grit of Manhattan...He has also created a thoroughly...

Stanley Hastings tries to prove his client didn't kill her lover, and gets shot for his trouble. He also gets fired, summoned before the grand jury, and embroiled in such a legal mess that his boss, negligence lawyer Richard Rosenberg, will have to cut a deal to save him.   "An endearing hero ... unorthodox mysteries ... forever-fresh series. Stanley ... plays a game of basketball that is pure poetry." —Marilyn Stasio, New York Times Book Review   "Another fin...

A political race against time, life, and death in the nation's capital."Failed Succession" is the much requested and long-awaited sequel to "The First Suitor".Jack Allen, now married to the President's daughter and still the lead trouble-shooter for the National Security Administration, is back, and he has a problem. Jack has happened across some data on the White House Chief of Staff's computer that indicates someone may have stolen the last U.S. Presidential election. Whe...