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The Heart of Justice
Par William J. Coughlin. 1995
Hope Scott...She's a beautiful New York heiress who will do anything for love, including pulling strings with a ruthless power…
broker to advance her husband's judicial career. But she doesn't know the hidden price; a blackmail, the rape of her trust fund, and perhaps the ruin of her marriage.Judge Paul Murray...He fought his way up from his working-class Irish roots to the Federal bench. Tough and honest, dedicated to the law, he relishes sitting on the case before to rival some of America's biggest corporate takeovers.The heart of justice..The outcome is worth billions, the tactics cutthroat, and suddenly, with the threatened exposure of a ruinous secret, everything Paul cares about is on the line--his marriage, his career, his reputation. Now faced with choices he never thought he'd have to make, he must confront what truly lies at the heart of justice...With lighting dialogue and authentic courtroom action, William J. Coughlin, former prosecutor and bestselling author of In the Presence of Enemies and Shadow of a Doubt, spins another superb legal thriller filled with emotions on the fire, intellects at war, and an outcome exploding with excitement and surprise.Triple Homicide: A Novel
Par Charles J. Hynes. 2007
The debut novel from longtime Brooklyn district attorney Charles "Joe" Hynes, Triple Homicide is the gritty saga of two generations…
of New York City police officers fighting to stay on the right side of the law.In the early 1990s in New York, easy money stands to be made at every turn, and temptation proves a bitter struggle for the young and much-decorated NYPD Sergeant Steven Holt---and for Steven and his uncle Robert, an officer before him, an increasingly violent mess endangers their careers and the reputation of the entire department.Born out of real stories of corruption and centered around two men who ultimately dare to challenge the fabled "blue wall" of silence, the novel works toward a majestic courtroom on Long Island, where Sergeant Holt is about to stand trial for triple homicide and where, as he comes to know his past, he'll learn that nothing he's known has ever been as it seemed.In its intense telling by one of the only writers who could write it with such realism, the story uncovers decades of deceit and corruption that infiltrate families and threaten to ruin the force. Reflecting the proud yet troubled history of the NYPD, Charles Hynes's debut is a searing, up-close portrait of the men and women who live---and die---in the pursuit of criminal justice.La Vittima Innocente: 1 & 2
Par McDowell Brains. 2022
Dopo diciotto anni in carcere, la verità è diventata improvvisamente pubblica. Nicholas non ha ucciso una studentessa universitaria, accusa di…
omicidio per cui è stato imprigionato. Ora, Nicholas non vuole lasciare la prigione. Dice che è l'unica casa che conoscerà per sempre. Dice che la sua vita è cambiata completamente durante la sua esperienza in prigione. Se dovesse tornare a vivere con la gente comune nella società civile, sarebbe molto pericoloso. Ma lo Stato dice che una volta che non ha più accuse contro una persona, non ha più l'autorità per tenerla in custodia. Lo stato dovrebbe seguire il processo e rilasciare Nicholas pur essendo il peggior incubo della gente? Oppure il diritto di Nicholas di vivere e di scegliere il luogo in cui vorrebbe vivere dovrebbe essere rispettato dallo stato e permettergli di rimanere in prigione?La Noche de la Libertad
Par McDowell Brains. 2021
Elias Nicholas se siente consumio por este dulce bono de venganza. Pero después que el millonario ex prisionero desarrolla un…
elaborado plan, la operación del mismo no resulta como estaba previsto. Asi que es seguro que el antiguo Señor de la Prisión, muera en los proximos diez minutos. Pero antes de eso, Nicholas siente que hacer una última solicitud a sus asesinos, no es mucho pedir. Al igual que sus enemigos, usted se preguntará por que su último deseo es, entender su muerte. Y como esto lo ayudará a asumir su muerte. Lo mas destacado de la vida en prisión de Nicholas: •Acusación Falsa •Venganza por los inocentes •Saneamiento de la Justicia •Justicia servida en frioVítima Inocente: 1 e 2
Par Mcdowell Brains. 2021
Após dezoito anos de serviço na prisão, a verdade de repente se tornou pública. Nicholas não matou uma universitária, acusação de…
homicídio pela qual foi preso. Agora, Nicholas não quer sair da prisão. Ele diz que é a única casa que conhecerá. Ele diz que sua vida mudou completamente por causa de sua experiência na prisão. Se ele for viver novamente com as pessoas comuns da sociedade, ele será muito perigoso. Mas o estado diz que, uma vez que não haja mais acusações contra uma pessoa, não tem mais autoridade para mantê-la sob custódia. O estado deve seguir o processo, liberar Nicholas para ser o pior pesadelo do povo? Ou o direito de Nicolau de viver e de escolher o lugar que gostaria de viver deve ser respeitado pelo Estado e permitir que ele permaneça na prisão?En un mundo donde ella cree que la mujer y el hombre no son iguales ante la ley, Los días…
de libertad de Emelisa parecen pocos. Ella ha confiado por un tiempo que se le apoya, la defensa de Barrister Humphrey triunfó, un activista de los derechos humanos y la mano derecha de una organización poderosa, Salven a la Mujer Negra. Pero mientras su persecusión da revuelos y giros, Emelisa pronto encuentra las olas del odio y prejuicio contra ella al intentar matar a su esposo para ser más fuerte que Humphrey y que ella misma. A pesar de que Humphrey aún cree en sus destrezas legales para sacarla del problema, Emelisa está aún intentando verlo a medio camino. Y ella se pregunta si Humphrey podría convencerla de confiar en él.Em um mundo no qual ela acredita que homens e mulheres não têm direitos iguais perante a lei, dias de…
liberdade de Emelisa estão contados. Como defesa, Emelisa deve confiar no advogado de defesa Humphrey, um ativista dos direitos humanos e membro de longa data de uma organização poderosa, Salve as Mulheres Negras.Muerte en el Canal
Par McDowell Brains. 2021
El antiguo depòsito de esclavos africanos, es la ubicaciòn de la mas extraña prisiòn en el mundo. Elìas Nicholas creciò…
de ser un prisionero a un magnate. El cruel y retorcido joven magnate, no se siente vivo a menos que satisfaga el sàdico placer de usar la tortura fìsica y emocional para obtener dramàticos resultados de sus victimas. Y nadie en el mundo lo entiende exepto su esposa. Cuando la horrible verdad sobre su injusta condena se hace pùblica, existen dudas sobre si Nicholas, calladamente anida sentimientos de venganza contra el Estado. Nicholas sabe que sus reformadores estan empeñados en averiguar esto. Y el esta determinado en darles algo de que preocuparse. Pero cuanto tiempo podrà mantener esto?Victima Inocente: Ilegal. No es culpable:
Par McDowell Brains. 2020
Después de dieciocho años de servicio en la prisión, la verdad de repente se hizo pública. Nicholas no mató a…
una chica universitaria, el cargo de asesinato por el cual fue encarcelado. Ahora, Nicholas no quiere salir de la prisión. Él dice que es el único hogar que conocerá. Él dice que su vida ha cambiado por completo a través de su experiencia en la prisión. Si vuelve a vivir con la gente común en la sociedad, sería muy peligroso. Pero el estado dice que una vez que no tiene más cargos contra una persona, no tiene más autoridad para mantenerlo bajo custodia. ¿Debería el estado seguir el proceso, liberar a Nicholas para que sea la peor pesadilla de la gente? ¿O debería Nicholas tener derecho a vivir y elegir el lugar donde le gustaría experimentar que el estado respetara la vida y le permitiera permanecer en prisión?Trophy Widow: A Rachel Gold Novel (Attorney Rachel Gold Mysteries #7)
Par Michael A. Kahn. 2002
Budapest, 1956. In this darkest year in the modern history of Hungary, a national uprising against Soviet occupiers and their…
reign of terror is underway. Eleven-year-old Evike and her firebrand mother steal deep into battle zones in support of civilian freedom fighters armed only with primitive weapons and desperate courage against the heavy artillery of trained Russian troops. Taken in for interrogation by the secret police, little Evike spins a story to deflect attention from her mother's revolutionary activities. A story that will irrevocably alter a number of lives and reach its tentacles, thirty years later, into the life of Ildiko Palmay.Chicago, 1986. Ildiko, 37, a librarian and ESL teacher, the American-born daughter of Hungarian refugees, is caught in a web of guilt and regret over her mother's mystifying death. Unsettled by her life and her romantic failures, she finds herself suddenly and unexpectedly drawn back to her roots, first to the Hungarian neighborhood of her youth in Chicago—and eventually to the Russian-occupied city of Budapest. Along the way, she meets a magnetic man who may not be what he seems, uncovers a trail of secrets and betrayals that eventually intersect with the tangled knot of the mother-daughter participants in the Revolution—and she discovers the shocking truth about her mother's death.Triptych is the suspenseful unfolding of two parallel stories of mother and daughter relationships forged in the brutalities of the 1956 Hungarian revolution. Triptych is about survival, displacement, the corrosive power of secrets, and, ultimately, the healing power of forgiveness.No Way to Die (Cal Claxton Mysteries #7)
Par Warren C Easley. 2019
The third English language case for Mexico City independent detective Hector Belascoaran Shayne, No Happy Ending, is Paco Ignacio Taibo…
II at his subversive, darkly comic best. First, Hector discovers the body of a dead actor, dressed like a Roman in full breastplate and regalia, propped up on the toilet in his office. Shortly thereafter, he receives a threatening letter and a snapshot of another murdered corpse. As Hector investigates the killings, he discovers that both share a connection to a dead stuntman named Zorak who apparently perished while training a government-backed paramilitary group. Once again, the one-eyed anarchist detective finds himself up against the very institutions which persecute the downtrodden and oppress the masses. In typical Taibo fashion, Hector appears destined to lose: the ending to this remarkable absurdist tale shows his bullet-ridden body lying face down in the gutter during a rainstorm.Immoral Certainty: No Lesser Plea, Depraved Indifference, And Immoral Certainty (Butch Karp and Marlene Ciampi #3)
Par Robert K. Tanenbaum. 1991
From a New York Times–bestselling master with over one million copies in print: Prosecutor Butch Karp hunts a psychopath targeting…
the innocent. He is the Bogeyman: a remorseless monster stalking the streets of New York in search of fresh victims—his chosen prey being children. The killings are ghastly enough to shock lawyer Butch Karp, who thought he&’d already seen the absolute worst of humanity in his work. So when a child abuse case and a homicide case seem to be connected, Karp and his colleague Marlene Ciampi find themselves delving into the darkest corners of New York&’s underworld. Their chosen prey? A cold-blooded predator whose twisted work has only just begun—and whose true motives will force Karp to decide how far he is truly willing to go to stop the horror. Known to his fans as &“one hell of a writer,&” (New York Post) Robert K. Tanenbaum lends truthful, gritty authenticity to his legal thrillers as one of the most successful prosecuting attorneys in America, having convicted hundreds of violent criminals. This is one of the most intense and haunting of the popular series that includes Infamy, Tragic, and No Lesser Plea. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Robert K. Tanenbaum including rare photos from the author&’s personal collection.Bad Trust (Attorney Rachel Gold Mysteries #11)
Par Michael A. Kahn. 2020
Next book in the Attorney Rachel Gold Mystery SeriesIn this fascinating and fast-paced legal thriller, attorney Rachel Gold learns that…
family doesn't always come first…An emotionally propulsive legal thriller, Bad Trust is:Perfect for fans of Sue Grafton and Linda FairsteinFor readers who enjoy courtroom dramas and St. Louis based mysteriesAn ugly trust fund dispute among siblings turns deadly when Isaiah, CEO of the family firm he stole from their father, is murdered in his office. Jewish lawyer Rachel Gold, hired to bring suit against Isaiah on behalf of his sisters, must now defend one against the charge of fratricide. But playing at detective for her legal case means getting entrenched in the complex dynamics of the Jewish family.As Rachel and her team seek essential evidence, the widowed Rachel struggles with family issues of her own, including relationships with her young son Sam and her boyfriend Abe. The jury is still out on whether or not Rachel can create the work-life balance she is seeking.Bad Trust, the newest addition to these riveting lawyer mysteries, is the perfect pick for fans of Lisa Scottoline and Sara Paretsky.Moving Targets (Cal Claxton Mysteries #6)
Par Warren C Easley. 2018
"With Moving Targets, Warren Easley delivers another humdinger of a tale featuring the City of Roses. But there's so much…
more to like about this story than just its evocative Portland setting. Cal Claxton is a guy worth rooting for, and the gang who aid him in solving the complex and dangerous mystery involved are a fun bunch to follow. If you're not familiar with these gems out of Oregon, now's the perfect time to give Warren Easely and Cal Claxton a try. You won't be disappointed." —William Kent Krueger, award-winning, bestselling author of Ordinary Grace and the Cork O'Connor seriesWhen a young woman walks into Caffeine Central, Cal Claxton's law office in downtown Portland, he has no idea that agreeing to help her will turn his life upside down. His new client is the adopted daughter—"I'm brown and they're white"—of a Portland power couple famed for their real estate development firm and charitable work.Sculptor Angela Wingate, once a wild child, and her recently widowed mother, Margaret, had grown close after years of estrangement. A grieving Angela is hesitant but nonetheless determined to learn if Margaret's recent death was a hit-and-run while out on her morning jog in her ritzy neighborhood, or something more—like murder. Angela is frustrated at the lagging police investigation and by her growing sense of something sinister at work.As the ever-curious Cal begins to poke the principal players at Wingate Properties and to question Margaret's will, links surface between a lucrative riverfront project and a ruthless Russian ring. With a possible deadly foreign assassin in play, the threat level rises and the body count starts to grow.Decidedly outgunned, Cal enlists his Cuban friend Nando, an enterprising investigator with an on-call hacker, and a bouncer at a strip club who knows the Russian underworld. And Cal gradually develops other allies—a skeptical police captain and a city councilwoman who opposes the massive riverfront project. In a separate battle, he recruits neighbors and officials who may help him kill the reboot of a quarry operation that threatens his beloved farmhouse home in rural Dundee, a loss that would also be tragic for his beloved dog, Archie.Beneath this story run the narratives of several strong women connected to Cal who are learning just how powerful they can be as they change up their lives.Trophy Widow: A Rachel Gold Novel (Attorney Rachel Gold Mysteries #7)
Par Michael A. Kahn. 2002
Budapest, 1956. In this darkest year in the modern history of Hungary, a national uprising against Soviet occupiers and their…
reign of terror is underway. Eleven-year-old Evike and her firebrand mother steal deep into battle zones in support of civilian freedom fighters armed only with primitive weapons and desperate courage against the heavy artillery of trained Russian troops. Taken in for interrogation by the secret police, little Evike spins a story to deflect attention from her mother's revolutionary activities. A story that will irrevocably alter a number of lives and reach its tentacles, thirty years later, into the life of Ildiko Palmay.Chicago, 1986. Ildiko, 37, a librarian and ESL teacher, the American-born daughter of Hungarian refugees, is caught in a web of guilt and regret over her mother's mystifying death. Unsettled by her life and her romantic failures, she finds herself suddenly and unexpectedly drawn back to her roots, first to the Hungarian neighborhood of her youth in Chicago—and eventually to the Russian-occupied city of Budapest. Along the way, she meets a magnetic man who may not be what he seems, uncovers a trail of secrets and betrayals that eventually intersect with the tangled knot of the mother-daughter participants in the Revolution—and she discovers the shocking truth about her mother's death.Triptych is the suspenseful unfolding of two parallel stories of mother and daughter relationships forged in the brutalities of the 1956 Hungarian revolution. Triptych is about survival, displacement, the corrosive power of secrets, and, ultimately, the healing power of forgiveness.No Witness: A Cal Claxton Mystery (Cal Claxton Mysteries #8)
Par Warren C Easley. 2021
When nothing is as it seems, can the truth survive?Attorney Cal Claxton, now well-established in his Oregon law practice after…
breaking off his career as a high-powered LA prosecutor, just wants to go fishing with his daughter, Claire, and he knows the best place—the coastal area south of Coos Bay. But their vacation takes a dark turn with the discovery of a body in the river.As an investigation is launched into the suspicious death, Cal and Claire find themselves drawn into the life of the local bookshop owner and vocal environmental activist, whose grandson was convicted for murder at age sixteen. She believes he was wrongly accused and convinces Cal to reexamine the case. Together, Cal and Claire dig deep into the secrets and crumbling alliances that form the foundation of this small coastal community, and what they find could spell doom for them both...Due Diligence (Attorney Rachel Gold Mysteries #0)
Par Michael A. Kahn. 1995
The past is never past on the mean streets of Phoenix, especially when the mercury hits a hundred and it's…
only April. Half a century after the unsolved murder of an FBI agent, the missing badge is found on the body of a dead transient. The case seems a perfect fit for David Mapstone, history professor turned Maricopa County deputy sheriff. That is, if he can get past a forced partnership with rival cold-case expert Sgt. Kate Vare and the FBI's strange stonewalling about the details of the agent's killing.To complicate matters, there are the crimes making history today, like the arrest of Russian mafia members in a multimillion-dollar fraud case. David's wife, Lindsey, star of the sheriff's Cybercrimes Bureau, was on the task force that busted the case wide open. But her triumph is short-lived when a hit in Scottsdale leaves three task-force members dead. Lindsey's life in danger, Sheriff Peralta stashes Lindsey and David in a safe house. That doesn't get the good "History Shamus" off the hook, though, as Sheriff Peralta inexplicably demands that David solve the cold caseThe trail will take Mapstone to the most forlorn parts of Phoenix, as well as to San Francisco and picturesque southern Arizona, as he slowly uncovers the bloody secrets surrounding the mysterious FBI badge. He's got the brains and the leads. Now all he and Lindsey have to do is live long enough to bring justice to a fifty-year-old crime.The Dead Hand: A Rachel Gold Mystery (Attorney Rachel Gold Mysteries #10)
Par Michael A. Kahn. 2016
St Louis lawyer Rachel Gold deals with many a family drama, mostly of the dysfunctional variety. Divorce. Paternity. And death.…
Occasionally, all three combine into a "dead hand" trifecta, where the deceased seeks to control the living—and especially his descendants—from beyond the grave.Rachel calls them "zombies." The legal term for such inheritance plans is "the dead hand," the English translation of the Old French term "mortmain." The term refers to the attempt by wealthy individuals to exert perpetual ownership over property (and future generations) through legal documents prepared before they die. But not even the most obsessed tycoon or his skilled attorneys can foresee every future contingency. To quote the old Yiddish maxim, "Man plans, and God laughs." And angry descendants sue.It's so true. Rachel suddenly finds herself representing two women—one a young widow, one an older divorcee—in a pair of nasty zombie cases where the outcome of each hinges upon a clause in a contested estate plan.Client Cyndi Mulligan is the trophy widow of the late Bert Mulligan, a billionaire entrepreneur whose last will and testament left his estate to Cyndi's unborn daughter. The challenge comes from Bert's angry first wife and her angrier only son. Their claim: Cyndi's daughter—born eleven months after Bert's death—cannot possibly be Bert's child.In the other case, Rachel represents Marsha Knight, the first wife of the wealthy founder of a women's lingerie manufacturer. Marsha has been sued by his young widow, who seeks to invalidate Marsha's divorce settlement and, in the process, impoverish her through invocation of the ancient and nearly inscrutable Rule Against Perpetuities.As the trial date approaches in each lawsuit, the threats to Rachel and her two clients begin to escalate. Zombies, as Rachel discovers, are hard to kill. And even worse, they can still kill—and where least expected.The Dead Hand is written with the verve, humor, and legal smarts that are trademark Michael Kahn.Death Benefits: A Rachel Gold Mystery (Attorney Rachel Gold Mysteries #0)
Par Michael A. Kahn. 2015
"A fresh-voiced heroine, down-and-dirty legal detail, and more honest detection than you'd expect make this a winner." —Kirkus ReviewsThe smart…
and savvy Rachel Gold has established herself in Chicago legal circles as a tough litigator, when a case calls for moxie, and a discreet counselor, when a client faces what the chairman of her former firm, Abbott & Windsor, labels an "awkward situation."The odd disappearance and messy suicide of Stoddard Anderson, the managing partner of the St. Louis office of Abbott & Windsor, certainly qualifies as an "awkward situation," especially when the firm learns that the only way Anderson's widow can collect the full life insurance proceeds is to prove that his death was an accident, and the only way a suicide can be an "accident" is if the decedent was clinically insane at the time of his death. Abbott & Windsor is, to say the least, reluctant to argue in court that the managing partner of one of its offices was clinically insane.And thus Rachel Gold is retained to represent the widow in what all hope will be a quick resolution of a straightforward matter. But Rachel soon discovers that the supposedly stodgy Stoddard Anderson was into some decidedly unstodgy activities—sexual and otherwise. Incredibly, he may have actually located Montezuma's Executor, a legendary treasure linked to a series of grisly deaths dating back to the last Aztec emperor himself. Even more incredible, Anderson may have hidden the cursed relic in St. Louis.With her best buddy, Benny Greenberg, in tow, Rachel sets off in search of both the Aztec treasure and a trail of evidence suggesting Stoddard Anderson's demise was not a suicide but a homicide. Rachel soon learns that she is not the only one in pursuit of Montezuma's Executor—and that she could be the next one to die for it!Blood for Wine (Cal Claxton Mysteries #5)
Par Warren C Easley. 2017
Nero Wolfe Award Finalist for 2018"Oenophiles and aspiring vintners will enjoy the wine lore in this well-wrought tale of love…
and betrayal." —Publishers WeeklyCal Claxton's old farmhouse sits high in Oregon's Red Hills, home of scores of wineries and some of the most coveted acreage for growing the pinot noir grape in the world. Former Los Angeles prosecutor Cal settled in this haven to reboot his life as a widower, growing a small practice that includes some pro bono work in nearby Portland. Life is good, filled with food, wine, and friends. But this beautiful area is not the idyllic haven it appears to be.When Cal's neighbor, Jim Kavanaugh, the owner and gifted vintner of an up-and-coming winery, is accused of murdering his wife, his freedom—and the grape harvest—is suddenly in jeopardy along with his reputation, and his business begins to slide. No gentleman farmer, this puts the rugged winemaker's property, his only financial asset, in play. When a blackmail plot is hatched against the owner of adjacent land, it begins to look like a brutal game of real-life Monopoly is underway.Cal agrees to defend Jim, a good friend, which pulls him reluctantly into the blackmail plot. Emotions are running high over Lori Kavanaugh's bloody death. There is no shortage of suspects. There may be more than the one game in play. And defending Jim might well make Cal the next target of a vicious, cunning killer.