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'Scott Turow is master of the legal thriller' – The Guardian Full of suspicion and half-truths, The Burden of Proof is Scott Turow's second Kindle County legal thriller. His first Kindle County thriller, Presumed Innocent, is now a major TV series from Apple TV+ starring Jake Gyllenhaal. One...

Brought to you by Penguin. NOW THE INSPIRATION FOR THE ORIGINAL SERIES 'CROSS' ON PRIME VIDEO The charges: explosive Alex Cross has never been on the wrong side of the law - until now. Charged with killing in cold blood, Cross is being turned into the poster child for trigger-happy cops. The...

Defending a client accused of killing her father, attorney Paul Madriani is drawn into a treacherous conspiracy dating to World War II in this enthralling installment in the New York Times bestselling series. Paul Madriani and Harry Hinds have a new client: Emma Brauer, a woman accused in the...

Bloomsbury presents Beyond Reasonable Doubt by Gary Bell, read by Hugh Kermode. LONGLISTED FOR THE CWA GOLD DAGGER AWARD 2020 The start of a thrilling new legal series, perfect for fans of Robert Galbraith and The Secret Barrister, written by an acclaimed QC. Elliot Rook QC is one of the...

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Anything You Do Say by Gillian McAllister, read by Katie Clarkson-Hill. 'A Sliding Doors thriller with a moral dilemma at its heart. Brilliant' Claire Doulas, bestselling author of Last Seen Alive It's the end of the night. You're walking home on your...

Legal investigator Finley O’Sullivan searches for evidence the police overlooked, wading through secrets, lies, and betrayal to find answers. With the unsolved murder of her husband still very much on her mind, Finley must confront her own personal trauma on a daily basis. Lies are part of her livelihood, but they’re also the reason she can’t get justice for the man she loved. When a man imprisoned for murder recants his confession, claiming he cleaned up the mess for his girlfriend—the victim’s own daughter—Finley takes on the case.  

Seattle, 1933. The city is in the grips of the Great Depression, Prohibition, and vice. Cutting his teeth on a small-time beat, hungry and ambitious young reporter William “Shoe” Shumacher gets a tip that could change his career. There’s been a murder at a social club on Profanity Hill—an underworld magnet for vice crimes only a privileged few can afford. The story is going to be front-page news, and Shoe is the first reporter on the scene.

America's greatest storyteller brings us a new masterpiece of legal courage and gripping suspense - and his finest heroine since The Pelican Brief. Donovan Gray is ruthless and fearless. Just the kind of lawyer you need, deep in small-town Appalachia. Samantha Kofer is a world away from her...

If America had a royal family, the Taylor Winthrops would wear the crown. The popular, charismatic Winthrops have captured the imagination of the world with their public service, their enormous charity, and their glamorous lives. But in the period of one year, all five members of the family are...

Nick Stone, fra det engelske elitekorps SAS, fanges mellem SAS og IRA i USA, men også mellem professionel følelseskulde og medfølelse, da han tager ansvar for en lille pige. Andy McNab har tryllebundet flere millioner læsere med 'Bravo To Nul' og 'Elitesoldat' - dokumentarskildringer af...

Et vidne bliver slået ihjel midt i politiets opklaring af drabet på en advokat. Den unge vicepolitikommisær Malika sættes på sagen, og det viser sig hurtigt, at den er mere mangefacetteret end som så; der er ikke tale om endnu et bandemord, men om international kriminalitet, der sender...

En kold novembermorgen år 79 f. Kr. banker en mand på den romerske senator Ciceros dør. Han er kommet til Rom for at bede den dygtige jurist om hjælp mod Siciliens guvenør, Verres, som nådesløst udplyndrer befolkningen. Da Cicero hører hans historie, øjner han en mulighed for at bruge...

Nick Stone er ikke populær i Secret Intelligence Service. Men han skal bruge penge og accepterer et freelancejob til 300.000 dollars. Jobbet er at kidnappe en russisk mafiaboss og aflevere ham i Sankt Petersborg. Nick tror, at hans problemer er løst, men de er først ved at begynde. Nick skal...

The next verdict could be her last…When a crushing courtroom defeat shatters her dreams of making partner, corporate attorney Rebecca Mason retreats to Widmere Island to settle her late mother’s estate. But instead of finding peace, she’s drawn into the fight of her life.A county judge has...

A prison guard is found dead in a women's correctional facility. A fellow guard—bewildered and betrayed—is the only suspect.Attorney Lily Greco never meant to practice law again. After a career-ending mistake, she retreated to her small Pennsylvania hometown, haunted by her sister’s murder...

She was looking for a story. She stumbled onto something much bigger.Retired from true crime podcasting and determined to write a novel, Janet Dellanova talks her way into shadowing defense attorney Maryanne Blake, who is representing Daniel Evans, a man convicted of killing his girlfriend...

Leah Sutter has one job: make sure the county's old case files match their digital scans. It's tedious, unglamorous work — until she finds a docket number that doesn't add up. Then a second. Then a pattern that stretches back over a decade, hidden in plain sight by a records system built to be...

Newly elected Prime Minister Francis Urquhart takes on the new King, in the controversial No 1 bestselling second volume in the Francis Urquhart trilogy – now reissued in a new cover. After scheming his way to power in ‘House of Cards’, Francis Urquhart made a triumphant return in ‘To...

It's been a long time since criminal defence attorney David Cavanaugh has heard his childhood friend Chris Kincaid speak of Marilyn Maloney; for hers is a name from the past, from a time when David, Chris, and the third in the gang of three, Mike, vowed never to let a girl get in the way of their friendship. But now Chris is the "successful, happily married US Senator for New Jersey", and when he pleads with David to return home to help him locate the girl he "used" to love, David reluctantly agrees..

Diese Trickbetrüger-Thriller machen süchtig! Die ersten drei Fälle des außergewöhnlichen Anwalts Eddie Flynn. Als ehemaliger Betrüger und jetziger Spitzenanwalt kennt Eddie Flynn alle Tricks, mit denen man Gegner hinters Licht führen kann. Seine ersten drei Fälle sind spannend bis zum Schluss:Eddie Flynn muss die Geschworenen von der Unschuld seines schuldigen Mandanten überzeugen – in nur 48 Stunden. Denn der Angeklagte ist der berüchtigte Pate der New Yorker Russenmafia und droht, Eddies Tochter umzubringen.Dann soll Eddie den Angeklagten David Child vertreten.