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Brought to you by Penguin. John Grisham's first and most shocking novel, adapted as a film starring Samuel L. Jackson and Matthew McConaughey When Carl Lee Hailey guns down the violent racists who raped his ten-year-old daughter, the people of the small town of Clanton, Mississippi see it as...

It's summer in Memphis. The sweat is sticking to Rudy Baylor's shirt and creditors are nipping at his heels. Once he had aspirations of breezing through law school and punching his ticket to the good life. Now he doesn't have a job or a prayer-except for one: an insurance dispute that leaves a...

***THE GRISHAM YOU'VE BEEN WAITING FOR*** The riveting sequel to THE FIRM, the blockbuster thriller that launched the career of the world's bestselling author. What became of Mitch and Abby McDeere after they exposed the crimes of Memphis law firm Bendini, Lambert and Locke and fled the country?...

Attorney Michael Gresham has a new go-to person. Her name is Annie and she's twelve. Annie is a savant. She can look at you and, like her idol, Sherlock Holmes, tell you where you're from, whether or not you're happily married, and where you went to school. But now she must use her skills to...

Meet Assistant District Attorney Lettie Portman, a sex-crimes prosecutor whose past demands justice. When a 14-year-old girl is savagely attacked by her mother's live-in boyfriend, Lettie is called to the hospital. There, she meets a sweet young girl whose only goal is to go to school and come home to a safe environment. But mom's boyfriend makes the girl's world anything but safe. Soon, the abuse gets worse, and Lettie, the prosecutor, goes to the grand jury with the case. Two juries later, the abuser is still loose on the streets.

He was framed for murder. Now he needs someone on the outside to save him. For 22 years Quincy Miller has sat on Death Row without friends, family or legal representation. He was accused of killing a Keith Russo, a lawyer in a small Florida town. But there were no witnesses and no motive. Just...

THE LAW HAS FAILED THEM. SEBASTIAN RUDD WILL NOT. Sebastian Rudd take the cases no one else wants. As a result, his last office was firebombed - either by drug dealers or cops. And things are about to get even more complicated. Arch Swanger is a criminal lowlife and the prime suspect in the...

Yoko ist eine gesuchte Mörderin auf der Flucht. Unter einer neuen Identität lebt sie als John auf einer kleinen griechischen Insel, arbeitet in einem Restaurant hoch über dem Meer, sie hat Freunde gefunden und ist zur Ruhe gekommen. Doch während John sich in Sicherheit wähnt, wird in Deutschland immer noch nach Yoko gefahndet. In einer Fernsehsendung wird der "Fall Yoko" wieder aufgerollt und es werden neue Beweise gefunden. Ihre Akte wird erneut geöffnet und wovor Yoko sich immer gefürchtet hat, geschieht: John wird enttarnt. Und noch fataler: Es kommt ans Licht, was John getan hat.

Nina can never forgive Maggie for what she did. And she can never let her leave. They say every house has its secrets, and the house that Maggie and Nina have shared for so long is no different. Except that these secrets are not buried in the past. Every other night, Maggie and Nina have dinner together. When they are finished, Nina helps Maggie back to her room in the attic, and into the heavy chain that keeps her there.

Celebrate 35 years of The Firm: John Grisham's enduring classic At the top of his class at Harvard Law, he had his choice of the best firms in America. He made a deadly mistake. When Mitch McDeere signed on with Bendini, Lambert & Locke of Memphis, he thought he and his beautiful wife, Abby...

Thirty years since the release of the iconic film adaptation starring Matthew McConaughey and Samuel L. Jackson, revisit Clanton and the story that introduced the world to Jake Brigance. When Carl Lee Hailey guns down the hoodlums who have raped his ten-year-old daughter, the people of Clanton...

Finalist for the 2023 AUDIE AWARDS for Thriller/Suspense The next astonishing thriller from the master of the legal thriller. Sunday Times No 1 bestseller John Grisham returns to Mississippi in his most gripping thriller yet. For most of the last hundred years, Biloxi was known for its beaches...

Brought to you by Penguin. In The Night Manager, an ex-soldier helps British Intelligence penetrate the secret world of ruthless arms dealers. At the start of it all, Jonathan Pine is merely the night manager at a luxury hotel. But when a single attempt to pass on information to the British...

A patriotic IAS officer, Vikram, decides to expose a corrupt and powerful minister, Rudra Pratap Rana (aka RPR), during the latter’s visit to the IAS training academy. The video of Vikram asking the minister some highly embarrassing questions in front of a packed auditorium goes viral. Instead of having Vikram suspended from service, a vengeful RPR unleashes violence on the officer’s family, and to continue the torture, RPR gets Vikram posted as the sub-divisional magistrate in Laxmipur - the politician’s backyard.

In the long-awaited successor to the novel that launched his phenomenal career, John Grisham brings us the powerful sequel to A Time to Kill. As filled with page-turning twists as it is with legal mastery, Sycamore Row proves beyond doubt that John Grisham is in a league of his own. Jake...

Incapace di superare il trauma dell'uccisione della moglie e della figlia, il detective Charlie Parker si è ritirato nelle campagne del Maine, dove è nato. Quella parvenza di tranquillità che sperava di trovare viene però orrendamente turbata dal ritrovamento dei cadaveri di una giovane donna, Rita Ferris, e del suo bambino. I sospetti ricadono subito sull'ex marito di Rita, Billy Purdue, un uomo schivo e violento, dileguatosi nel nulla. Sulle sue tracce non c'è solo la polizia: a quanto pare Billy ha dei conti in sospeso con la mafia locale, a cui ha sottratto parecchi soldi.

Si racconta che in un bosco del Maine vaghi il fantasma di una bambina; è vestita di nero e ha gli occhi incavati. Durante una battuta di caccia in quei luoghi, due uomini incappano nei rottami di un piccolo velivolo, e forse non si tratta di un semplice caso. Tra le lamiere non trovano cadaveri, solo un borsone pieno di denaro, dei fogli che recano una lunga lista di nomi e un paio di manette spezzate legate al bracciolo di un sedile.

È primavera e il corpo semi-preservato di una giovane donna ebrea viene trovato sepolto nella foresta del Maine. Risulta chiaro fin da subito che ha partorito poco prima della morte, ma non c'è traccia del bambino. Il detective privato Charlie Parker è ingaggiato dall'avvocato Moxie Castin per seguire l'indagine della polizia e per trovarlo. Ma non è l'unico che lo sta cercando, qualcuno sta seguendo le tracce lasciate dalla donna, qualcuno con un altro interesse oltre ad un bambino scomparso, qualcuno disposto a seminare cadaveri ovunque lascia il segno.

In convalescenza in una cittadina del Maine in seguito alle ferite provocate da un colpo d'arma da fuoco che stava per costargli la vita, il detective Charlie Parker fatica a superare le angosce legate all'esperienza drammatica recentemente vissuta. La clinica in cui è ricoverato ospita una vedova di nome Ruth e la giovane figlia di lei, Amanda, donne tormentate e sfuggenti, testimoni e vittime di un passato tragico che risale agli anni della Seconda guerra mondiale e a una città polacca, Lubsko, dove sorgeva un campo di concentramento nazista.

Jerome Burnel un tempo era stato un eroe. Molte persone, destinate a morire in circostanze tragiche e violente, devono a lui il fatto di essere ancora vive. Ma aver aiutato quella gente ha significato per Jerome la perdizione, la condanna a una vita di privazioni e umiliazioni, dolore e sofferenza. Ora, giunto al crepuscolo della propria esistenza, braccato da chi ne desidera la fine, Jerome racconta la sua storia al detective Charlie Parker.