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Erin McCabe’s years as a criminal defense attorney have prepared her for almost anything, except being on the opposite side of the interrogation table. A new client—a successful financial adviser—was found stabbed to death on the beach near his palatial Jersey Shore home. The time of death is estimated to be during Erin’s one and only consultation with him, during which he revealed that he was secretly transgender. As the last person to see him alive, Erin’s now the prime suspect.

New Jersey State Trooper Jon Mazer has been charged with killing Black investigative reporter Stewart Marshall in a racially charged, headline-making murder. The evidence against criminal defense attorney Erin McCabe’s new client is overwhelming. The gun used is Mazer’s off-duty weapon. Fingerprints and carpet fibers link Mazer to the crime. And Mazer was patrolling Marshall’s neighborhood shortly before the victim took three bullets to the chest. Mazer’s argument? He’s a gay officer being set up to take the fall in an even bigger story.

Stan is asked to defend a college student accused of killing her baby. It's a pretty hopeless case, as she has no memory of what happened. Stan knows he shouldn't even be taking the case since he's only been in practice for a year and has never handled a murder trial. But the client's father insists, claiming "God" has sent him to Stan.

Trial lawyer Jimmy “Royal” Payne was his own worst enemy - until now. Haunted by personal tragedy and wanted by the cops, Payne needs to skip town. What he doesn’t need is Tino Perez, a gutsy twelve-year-old Mexican boy in search of his missing - and undocumented - mother. But Payne’s ex-wife, an L.A.P.D. detective he still loves, makes him a deal: help the boy or go to jail. Soon Payne is following Tino into the darker side of the American dream.

A beautiful woman paid it with her body. A seedy lawyer used somebody else's money. It's the vig - the exorbitant interest mob loan sharks take on their money. Now, in the city by the Bay, everyone has to pay.

In his new life as a bartender at the Little Shamrock, Dismas Hardy is just hoping for a little peace. He's left both the police force and his law career behind. Unfortunately it's not as easy to leave behind the memory of a shattering personal loss - but for the time being, he can always take the edge off with a stiff drink and a round of darts.

Erin McCabe has been referred the biggest case of her career. Four months ago, William E. Townsend, Jr., son of a New Jersey state senator, was found fatally stabbed in a rundown motel near Atlantic City. Sharise Barnes, a 19-year-old transgender prostitute, is in custody, and given the evidence against her, there seems little doubt of a guilty verdict. Erin knows that defending Sharise will blow her own private life wide open, and doubtless deepen her estrangement from her family. Yet as a trans woman, she feels uniquely qualified to help Sharise.

Up-and-coming Mission County, Pennsylvania, prosecutor Kate Magda has been given the assignment of a lifetime: lead counsel on a string of murders rocking the community. As the privileged daughter of a powerful local judge, Kate views the case as her chance to show her boss, her family, and the public that she is more than just “the judge’s daughter". As Kate delves into the case, she becomes convinced that she shares a personal link with the killer, who seems to know intimate details about a tragic childhood event from Kate’s past.

Seriemorderen er ikke under anklage. Han sidder i juryen … De var Hollywoods hotteste par. Verden lå for deres fødder. Men nu er en af dem død, og filmstjernen Robert Solomon er tiltalt for det brutale mord på sin smukke, unge kone. Det er århundredets retssag på Manhattan, og forsvaret vil have en bestemt mand med på holdet: svindleren, der blev advokat, Eddie Flynn. Alle beviser peger på, at Robert Solomon er skyldig, men da retssagen begynder, får en række alvorlige hændelser Eddie til at tvivle på, hvad sandheden er.

Hvordan fanger man en morder, der ikke efterlader nogen spor?

En kvinde er blevet dræbt med ét enkelt, præcist knivstik, og ved første øjekast ligner det et røveri, der har udviklet sig fatalt. Men kommissær Kim Stone føler, at der er noget, der ikke rigtig hænger sammen.

Da en stofmisbruger bliver fundet myrdet med et identisk sår, ved Kim instinktivt, at der er tale om den samme morder. Men når intet forbinder de to ofre, står hun måske over for sin hidtil vanskeligste sag.

Liget af en kvinde ligger på landevejen.

Først ligner det en tragisk ulykke. Men da Helen Grace ankommer til stedet, står det klart, at hun står over for et koldblodigt mord. Men hvorfor skulle nogen ønske en elsket hustru og mor død?

I en anden del af byen bliver en butiksindehaver dræbt, mens hans kunder får lov til at slippe uskadt. Men hvad ligger bag morderens valg?

HVEM SKAL LEVE? HVEM SKAL DØ? HVEM BLIVER DEN NÆSTE? URET TIKKER.

Låst inde. Jaget vildt. Sat fast for et mord, hun ikke har begået…

Som en af de mest højprofilerede indsatte i Holloway-fængslet kan Helen Grace ikke gemme sig. Hun har fået mange fjender i løbet af sin karriere, og nogle af dem sidder bag tremmer inden for de selv samme mure. Da en af Helens medfanger bliver fundet skamferet og myrdet i sin aflåste celle, står det klart, at morderen er en indefra.

Bedrageri. Afpresning. Mord. Alt sammen hverdag for ex-svindler og advokat Eddie Flynn.

I årevis har advokatfirmaet Harland & Sinton haft gang i et globalt svindelnummer. FBI har dem i søgelyset, men skal bruge vidner. En af firmaets klienter, milliardæren David Child, bliver anholdt for mord på sin kæreste.

FBI vil have Eddie Flynn, ex-svindler og advokat, til at få en tilståelse ud af Child og tvinge ham til at vidne mod firmaet. Hvis Eddie nægter, vil det gå ud over hans kone, Christine.

En ung kvinde vågner op i en kold, mørk kælder uden nogen anelse om, hvordan hun kom derned, eller hvem hendes kidnapper er. Således begynder hendes værste mareridt.

I nærheden bliver liget af en anden ung kvinde opdaget, hvor hun er blevet begravet på en afsidesliggende strand. Men den døde pige blev aldrig meldt savnet – hendes fremmedgjorte familie havde modtaget regelmæssige beskeder fra hende igennem årene. Nogen har holdt hende i live hinsides graven.

Kommissær Helen Grace har oplevet mange tragedier i sit liv, men da der bliver fundet et lig i en S/M natklub i Southampton, kommer døden pludselig alt for tæt på. Helen skjuler sin personlige forbindelse til offeret – og et dobbeltliv, der bør hemmeligholdes for enhver pris. Hun bliver som besat og sætter sine folk på arbejde i døgndrift for at efterforske hvert et spor. Da morderen slår til igen, slider det ikke kun hårdt på Helen, men også på hendes medarbejdere. Bølgerne går højt på stationen, venskaber kommer under pres, og Helen står over for et umuligt valg.

Det forældrepar, der tilbyder den største løsesum, kommer til at se deres datter igen. Det par, der taber, gør ikke. Tag ikke fejl. Et barn kommer til at dø. Da bedsteveninderne på ni år, Charlie og Amy, forsvinder, bliver to familier kastet ud i et mareridt. En sms bekræfter det utænkelige: at pigerne er blevet ofre for en frygtelig kidnapning. Da endnu en sms spiller familierne ud mod hinanden for at redde deres børn, begynder uret at tikke for kommissær Kim Stone og hendes team.

When two teenagers - Johannes and Mari - are found murdered inside their school, in the small Norwegian village of Fredheim, the finger is soon is pointed at 18-year-old Even, whose relationship with Mari ended just before she died. Mari was writing a story for the school newspaper about Even and his dad, who died in a car accident 10 years earlier. But was it really an accident? And had Mari uncovered information that someone was willing to commit murder to protect?

The crime: murder. The accused: a wealthy Texas congressman. The victim: a young intern with whom he was having an affair. Attorney Sharon Hays is reluctant to defend this charismatic politician - for highly personal reasons. Now she must either withdraw from the case, confessing to the secrets of her own past, or remain silent and defend a man she has every reason to hate.

J.D. Scrbacek has just won the biggest trial of his career, but even as he crows to the press, his entire life blows sky-high. Was the bomb meant for him, or for his mobster client? In this seaside casino town where the tables run hot and the tensions run high, the odds say the attorney is a marked man. Alone and on the run, Scrbacek flees into the city's forgotten underbelly, a ruined corridor called Crapstown, where he is forced to confront the ghosts of his past, his present, and his future.

It's a routine fraud trial in Miami, until... A witness is murdered... And Jake Lassiter is the prime suspect. The mystery leads Lassiter and his wisecracking delinquent nephew to an abandoned silver mine deep beneath the Aspen ski slopes. The evidence that can clear the lawyer--or bury him--is revealed in an explosive finale.