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A Zibby's Most Anticipated Book of Fall 2025! From New York Times bestselling author Jacquelyn Mitchard comes a page-turning drama that explores the beauty of female friendship; the relationship between money, power, and sex; and the very human desire to protect the ones we love most. When she...

Madison und Garret sind einst ein Paar gewesen. Garret war glücklich, aber Madison anscheinend nicht – von einem Tag auf den anderen machte sie mit ihm Schluss, ohne sich zu erklären. Eiskalt kehrte sie ihm den Rücken, und Garret sah sie nie wieder. Bis heute. Jetzt stehen sie sich als gegnerische Anwälte in einem wichtigen Fall gegenüber.

Shannon Cramer lebt für ihren Job. Den Männern hat die junge Anwältin abgeschworen, nachdem sie einige äußerst schlechte Erfahrungen mit ihrem Exmann gemacht hat. Doch ausgerechnet er ist der Grund, warum sie einen neuen Job bei der jungen Kanzlei "Padget, Knight, Woods & Collins" anfängt.

Assistant District Attorney Lettie Portman charges a US senator with the murder of his wife. The wife was found dead, sitting in her Mercedes with a garden hose from the exhaust into her window. Suicide? Maybe, except the detectives learn the wife's fingerprints are nowhere on the hose. She appears to reach from the grave and point an accusing finger at her husband. And there's another twist: The senator's million-dollar lawyer is involved in a deadly conspiracy against Lettie.

*The #1 Irish bestseller* The latest gripping new thriller featuring DS Maeve Kerrigan and DI Josh Derwent from the Top Ten Sunday Times bestselling author ‘The most dangerously addictive series in crime fiction’ ERIN KELLY ‘Oh. My. God.’ RUTH WARE ‘I LOVE it – it is completely...

Attorney and recovering cocaine addict Sam DiCiccio didn't think she was ever going to see her ex-wife Amy Igarashi again, much less wind up defending her against felony insider trading charges. But Amy's been falsely accused, and Sam, who's still in love with her, can't bear to watch her take the fall for a crime she didn't commit. Amy is holding on to resentment from their broken relationship and is hesitant to let Sam back into her life. But that all changes when her assets are frozen by a judge, and Sam is the best and only lawyer she can afford.

A violent past leads to a present danger… When an old college roommate invites Claire Britten to join her on an archaeological dig at a Florida peat bog, it’s an offer the renowned forensic psychologist can’t refuse. Claire’s husband, criminal lawyer Nick Markwood, is comforted to see...

Star defense lawyer Grace Cockburn was a lioness in the courtroom – until her life turned into a total mess. Turns out marrying your best friend’s brother and then breaking his heart is not the best career move when both best friend and ex-husband are also very well-liked lawyers in Adelaide’s small legal fraternity. Within weeks, Grace is blacklisted from any decent cases, and reduced to taking dull medical insurance claims. It’s a far cry from the glamorous, high-profile criminal law career she envisioned.

Seeing the future isn’t all it’s cracked up to be—especially when you can’t change it. Even more so when your Talent nearly kills you. I’ve searched the world for a guru—a magickal monk—who could help me tame my divination powers, but most were frauds or worse. Being young and female is precarious when you’re consorting with powerful adepts. But then I met Eliphas Storm, and everything changed...

There’s a madman who calls himself a scientist...and I have to stop him. Never mind that his med-magick drugs might be the key to my own research. Never mind that his red-and-yellow pill tempts me with the promise of turning off a Talent I’d give anything to erase. The madman developed his med-magick with an illegal drug trial, performing experiments on people like my father - and using my own family’s company to do it! The madman will pay for that, even if I have to hunt him down myself.

Ever Strange is the first book in a new paranormal romantic suspense series from best-selling romance author Alisa Woods. The first three books in the series follow the three Strange sisters, each powerful witches in an influential magickal family embroiled in a mysterious plot to change everything about the magickal world.

La sera in cui la vita sentimentale del magistrato Anna Curtis sta per cambiare per sempre, la sua carriera subisce una svolta così violenta da far barcollare ogni sua certezza. Mentre si sta godendo una cena romantica con l'uomo che ama, ancora turbata per la proposta di matrimonio appena ricevuta, a qualche chilometro da lì due diverse bande stanno per dare assalto a un bordello. Una delle due bande è guidata da un criminale noto come Diablo. Pochi minuti dopo, il team investigativo di Anna, in prima linea contro i reati a sfondo sessuale, è sul posto.

Anna Curtis è un sostituto procuratore alle prime armi a Washington DC, ma ha già una certa dimestichezza con la brutalità degli abusi domestici di cui si occupa ogni giorno. Il caso di Laprea Johnson, però, ha qualcosa che la scuote nel profondo. Laprea è stata martoriata dal fidanzato, D'marco Davis, la mattina dopo San Valentino. Ma davanti ai giudici la ragazza inaspettatamente ritratta per scagionare D'marco, che viene rilasciato: Anna teme di non aver insistito abbastanza nel convincere Laprea ad andare fino in fondo.

Washington, D.C. Una giovane donna precipita da un balcone del Campidoglio. L'assistente procuratrice Anna Curtis è convocata sulla scena del crimine. Tutti gli indizi portano a un'unica conclusione: la vittima è stata violentata e poi uccisa. La ragazza era una delle escort più famose della città e l'abitazione in cui si è consumato il delitto risulta essere di proprietà di un potente politico, impegnato nella campagna per le imminenti primarie. L'uomo, interrogato, si dichiara subito innocente.

Vera “Nick” Nicholson is an overtaxed and underpaid attorney wasting away on the bottom rung of the gilded ladder at Turner, Witherspoon, Anders, and Tyler, PA in Winston-Salem, NC. When a high-priced luxury car belonging to one of the firm’s top clients goes missing, Nick gets saddled with the unenviable job of recovering the vehicle - and its mysterious contents - without involving the cops. Enter Fast Eddie and his quirky band of misfits at the National Recovery Bureau, a repo agency located in a sleepy town called K-Vegas.

Three intrepid princesses find themselves targets in a deadly plot against the crown—until their uncle devises a brilliant plan to keep them safe... Of all her sisters, Princess Stefanie is by far the least amenable to law and order, which is why she’s appalled to find herself masquerading...

New York Times bestselling author Sandra Brown's latest romantic thriller is set against the lively and decadent backdrop of New Orleans--where, to avenge the acquittal of his partner's murderer, a policeman kidnaps the defense lawyer's wife...

Jen Beeny is leaving her turbulent past behind and now it's time to start living. Or at least she's trying to. Between her dead-end job, live-in-landlord and disastrous dates, life in London is not quite turning out as she'd planned. When her dates start to go missing, Jen is determined to ignore the sense of dread building inside her. She continues on with life...until the police come knocking. All signs suggest Jen is the culprit, and the internet sleuths are gaining traction. But Jen didn't do anything wrong, did she?

San Francisco judge Ramsey Hunt, longtime friend to FBI agents Lacey Sherlock and Dillon Savich, begins the murder trial of Clive and Cindy Cahill, only to have federal prosecutor Mickey O’Rourke, known for his relentless, aggressive style, suddenly turn tentative and distracted. Hunt suspects that something is very wrong - and then O’Rourke goes missing and Judge Hunt gets shot in the back. Savich and Sherlock receive news of the attack as a mysterious note is delivered to Savich at the Hoover Building.

When the love of his life is accused of murder, a university professor will stop at nothing to prove her innocence. On a late night drive home, Ike Goldman, a retired Columbia University law professor, saves a woman from killing herself by jumping off the George Washington Bridge. The woman's name is Elizabeth Hopper, and Ike, a widower, unexpectedly finds himself falling in love. Everything changes when Elizabeth's estranged husband, a rich Wall Street executive she claims abused her, is found murdered, and Elizabeth is the prime suspect.