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It starts with the body of a Hollywood producer in the trunk of a Rolls-Royce, shot twice in the head at close range - what looks like "trunk music", a Mafia hit....

Winner of the British Book Awards, Lifetime Achievement Award, 2007.
The Judge dies too soon, and in doing so leaves behind a shocking secret known only to Ray. And perhaps someone else....

Winner of the British Book Awards, Lifetime Achievement Award, 2007.
Luke sees and hears things no seven year old could possibly be prepared for, and finds himself keeping secrets that not only threaten the crop but will change the lives of the Chandlers forever....

To celebrate the 25th anniversary of Thomas Harris’ legendary best-seller, Audible presents The Silence of the Lambs, with a new introduction written and read by the author himself....

Winner of the British Book Awards, Lifetime Achievement Award, 2007.
In Mississippi in 1970, 'life' didn't necessarily mean 'life', and nine years later Danny Padgitt managed to get himself paroled. He returned to Ford County, and the retribution began....

An innocent man is about to be executed. Only a guilty man can save him....

Niamh and Conor Ryan are the perfect power couple: smart, successful and beautiful, they have an enviable relationship and an idyllic family life. But then the unthinkable happens....

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The Office of the Public Defender is not known as a training ground for bright young litigators. Clay Carter has been there too long....

On his way to finding out, Mason meets Mrs. Milfield, a barely distraught widow, and a slew of suspicious characters all intimately connected to the recently deceased....

After catching his shady son-in-law, Jack Hardisty, in the act of embezzling, wealthy banker Vincente Blane plans to hang him out to dry....

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When Carl Lee Hailey guns down the hoodlums who have raped his ten-year-old daughter, the people of Clanton see it as a crime of blood and call for his acquittal....

Lorraine Elmore is a well-to-do widow who's ready to marry again. But nervous Linda Calhoun is certain that the man her aunt Lorraine has fallen for is a fortune-hunting Bluebeard....

In Silverview, John le Carré turns his focus to the world that occupied his writing for the past 60 years - the secret world itself....

A spanking-new tin can, secretly placed among the rows of Mrs. Florence Gentrie's preserves, contains not a speck of food - but it does carry one very damning clue to a murder....

Joan Kirby doesn't believe her husband's story about picking up a stranded woman in the middle of the night and dropping her off at a hotel....

Andy Barber's job is to put killers behind bars....

A talented but overprotective young man has his hands full as trustee of the inheritance of a beautiful blonde but very naive young woman....

When crime lord Jimmy Nunzio is caught, knife in hand, over the body of his daughter’s lover and his own archenemy, he turns to Mick McFarland to take up his defense. Usually the courtroom puppeteer, McFarland quickly finds himself at the end of Nunzio’s strings....

Winner of the British Book Awards, Lifetime Achievement Award, 2007.
Rudy Baker's world collapses when the law firm he was due to join is taken over....

Winner of the British Book Awards, Lifetime Achievement Award, 2007.
A U.S. State Senator is dead, and Mark Sway is the only one who knows where the body is hidden....

When a billionaire dies, an innocent woman is blamed. One lawyer must fight a wealthy family for justice....

Peter Guillam, staunch colleague and disciple of George Smiley of the British Secret Service, is living out his old age when a letter from his old Service summons him to London....

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As the CIA watches him closely, the question is not whether he will be killed, but rather who will kill him first....

When Cora is savagely murdered with a hatchet, the extraordinary remark she made the previous day at her brother Richard's funeral suddenly takes on a chilling significance....

A notorious loan shark is shot dead, in broad daylight, right outside the front doors of the Old Bailey. The killer is arrested at the scene and Adrian Stanford is lined up to take on the toughest defence case of his career....

Nella famiglia Pitt, borghese e benestante, qualcosa comincia a non funzionare quando la maestra della piccola Lucy legge nei comportamenti della bambina qualcosa che non va. Per suo padre Mike Pitt è l'inizio di un incubo che lo costringe a rivolgersi a un avvocato specializzato in diritto di famiglia che dovrà difenderlo da una rete di accuse che diventerà via via sempre più fitta. Romanzo giudiziario e thriller sociale e familiare in cui innocenza e colpevolezza si dividono la scena fino all'ultima pagina.

Presley Carter is a bright, hungry young defense attorney plying her trade in the areas in and around Nashville. Though she’s haunted by a horrifying event from her past, she’s achieved local renown as a savvy, resourceful lawyer adept at handling–and winning–tough cases. After being approached to file a clemency petition by a father whose son committed a gruesome double-murder, Presley reluctantly agrees to file the document, knowing full well the request has no chance of being granted. Then she receives a phone call informing her the convict’s release has been approved.

Public defender Ashley Montgomery is shocked when a well-known local is found in a lake at the outskirts of Brine County, dead and locked inside a large toolbox. Ashley has represented the victim and her boyfriend, Noah, for many years. The Brine County sheriff's department goes after Noah as their main suspect, but Ashley is intent on his innocence, and she injects herself into the investigation to protect him. A search of his house turns up a series of letters addressed to Erica. The letters prove that someone else was in contact with the victim before her death.

Packend, humorvoll, berührend. Erstmals legt der Meister des Justizthrillers drei Kurzromane vor: Vor drei Jahren hat der Anwalt Mack Stafford eine große Summe Geld veruntreut und ist untergetaucht. Nun liegt seine Frau im Sterben, und Jake Brigance soll ihm dabei helfen, zurückzukehren. Seit zwölf Jahren sitzt Cody in der Todeszelle, und an diesem Tag soll das Urteil vollstreckt werden. Doch er hat noch einen Wunsch. Zwei Brüder führen gemeinsam eine Kanzlei, obwohl sie sich gegenseitig zutiefst verabscheuen. Einig sind sie sich nur in ihrem Hass auf den Vater.

Vor drei Jahren hat der Anwalt Mack Stafford eine große Summe Geld veruntreut und ist untergetaucht. Nun liegt seine Frau im Sterben, und Jake Brigance soll ihm dabei helfen, zurückzukehren. Seit zwölf Jahren sitzt Cody in der Todeszelle, und an diesem Tag soll das Urteil vollstreckt werden. Doch er hat noch einen Wunsch. Zwei Brüder führen gemeinsam eine Kanzlei, obwohl sie sich gegenseitig zutiefst verabscheuen. Einig sind sie sich nur in ihrem Hass auf den Vater. Sie spinnen eine Intrige gegen ihn – mit verhängnisvollen Folgen.

After more than twenty years away from the law, Joe Hennessy is forced back into the courtroom. Trying to save his vineyard after years of drought, Hennessy returns to practice in Charleston, South Carolina–the city he walked away from after the murder of his ten-year-old son. When one of South Carolina’s most powerful men is charged with possessing stolen artwork, Hennessy steps forward to defend him. But as Hennessy digs into the evidence, as he navigates the truth, he finds that the criminal charges are only the start of their problems.

Eric Ward is still uneasy on the board of merchant bankers Martin & Channing. Their defense against a hostile takeover is pushing the limits of the law. But Eric soon has problems nearer home: his wife’s colleague is charged with the murder of his fiancée in his London flat. He asks Eric to represent him. Eric discovers some very interesting facts about the dead woman. Then Eric is called back to London to deal with the takeover gone wrong.

The night before they plan to move in together, Quille finds the man she loves dead in his apartment. Police point to his failed medical career as evidence of suicide or accidental overdose. His ex-wife agrees. But Marco’s son insists his father was stable, sober, and excited about his future with Quille. Suspicious of the police based on bitter experience, Quille vows to find the truth and help Marco’s son. Using her skills as an attorney and former stage actress, she investigates a world filled with fraud and corrupt Chicago politics.

On a steaming night in 1977, New York City is plunged into darkness and two boys, Joe and Robbie, are abandoned by their mother, Lois. Forty years to the day after this unforgivable moment, Joe is a hard-drinking ADA and Lois has resurfaced: Joe wakes from another alcoholic fog to learn she’s been found murdered on a Coney Island beach. 

22 febbraio 2018. All'avvocato Giacomo Meroni pare una mattina come tante, fredda e limpida. I rituali di sempre: la colazione con sua moglie Rossana e il bacio, prima che lei e la sua sedia a rotelle spariscano nel taxi che le porta a scuola. E in quel bacio ci sono due sapori: l'amaro per non aver ancora individuato il pirata della strada che ha investito Rossana l'11 settembre 2001, e il piccante di una donna che non ha perso la voglia di insegnare, di fare l'amore, di essere felice e di sciare.

As changes in Wyoming banking law bring an influx of crypto entrepreneurs to small-town Custer, attorney Sam Johnstone doesn’t think much of the new arrivals. But when a shocking crime throws him straight into the epicenter of the digital world, there’s no turning back. The death of crypto exchange magnate Max Kovalenko shatters the community, sparking local outrage and a long list of suspects. With many betrayed partners, jealous competitors, and bitter family members left in his wake, Max has stepped on plenty of toes since his arrival, and finding his killer is no easy task.

Eric’s wife, Anne, has followed the advice of handsome lawyer Mark Fenham and invested a small fortune in a merchant bank also involved in underwriting marine insurance. Now her company must pay out a vast insurance claim for the Sea Dawn, a ship sunk in Spanish waters. Eric Ward smells fraud. His wife could lose everything. And then, one by one, people connected to the Sea Dawn start to die. The murderous trail takes Ward to sunny Spain—where he comes face-to-face with his arch enemy. Will Ward uncover the truth about the sinking of the Sea Dawn?

When Charlie Blair left Chicago behind—and her old life as Lauren Claybourne—for a gig in the Santa Cruz DA's office, things were supposed to be easier. Or at least nothing that a couple of Xanax and a tumbler of vodka couldn't handle. The plan had been working, until the murder of a local bail bondsman Shelly Hansen. Enter: hotshot prosecutor Erika Lorman, she of the stellar record and unfailing touch with juries, a veritable legend in her own right. 

Attorney Nate Shepherd’s newest client stands accused of a fatal hit and run. While Nate doesn’t believe that the CEO of Carrefour’s largest charity would ever smash into a person and flee the scene, a blood-streaked van says otherwise. A freewheeling prosecutor is certain that Nate’s client did it, and more, that the killing wasn’t an accident at all. With help from old friends and an intriguing new one, Nate uncovers incriminating acts, secret relationships, and a massive motive that has him scrambling for answers.

On takeoff from Denver during a winter blizzard, an airliner piloted by veteran Captain Marty Mitchell overruns a commuter plane from behind. Bizarrely, the fuselage of the smaller aircraft is tenuously wedged onto the wing of his Boeing 757, leading Mitchell to an impossible life-or-death choice. Mitchell’s decision will land the former military pilot in the crosshairs of a viciously ambitious district attorney determined to send him to prison for doing his job.