Political / legal thriller
Grand Central Publishing Presumed Innocent
Book Synopsis NOW AN APPLE ORIGINAL SERIES FROM APPLE TV+ STARRING JAKE GYLLENHAALFrom #1 New York Times bestselling author and hailed as the most suspenseful and compelling novel in decades, this story brings to life our worst nightmare: that of an ordinary citizen facing conviction for the most terrible of all crimes. Rusty Sabich, family man and the number-two prosecutor of Kindle County, is handed an explosive case--the brutal murder of a woman who happens to be his former lover. A shocking turn of events suddenly transforms him from the accuser into the accused... and plunges him into a nightmare world where nothing seems real and no one can be PRESUMED INNOCENT. It's the stunning portrayal of one man's all-too-human, all-consuming fatal attraction for a passionate woman who is not his wife, and the story of how his obsession puts everything he loves and values on trial--including his own life. It's a book tha
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Bookshots The Trial Bookshots Womens Murder Club
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Archway Publishing The Peoples President In the Nations Service
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Gallery / Saga Press Going Dark
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iUniverse Dead Water
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iUniverse The Judge
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Authorhouse Addiction on Trial Tragedy in Downeast Maine
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Sourcebooks, Inc House of Cards 1
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Sourcebooks, Inc To Play the King 2 House of Cards
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Sourcebooks, Inc The Final Cut House of Cards 3
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Sourcebooks What Happened That Night
Book SynopsisFrom 'a promising new thriller writer' (Booklist) comes a dark, addictive story about a woman's hunt for revenge and the awful truths she never saw coming.Trade Review"Sandra Block's heroine is smart, heartbreakingly vulnerable, and laugh-out-loud funny. I am a forever-fan of the Zoe Goldman series and will read anything Block writes. You should too." - Lisa Scottoline, New York Times bestselling author"Sandra Block's What Happened That Night is an unflinching exploration of the fine line between justice and revenge. Block expertly compels readers to examine a diverse number of issues through the eyes of Dahlia and James, who are bound together by personal tragedy, heartache and the search for justice. What Happened That Night is a visceral thrill that will keep you reading late into the night. Perfect for book clubs." - Heather Gudenkauf, New York Times bestselling author of The Weight of Silence and Not a Sound"Block expertly navigates the emotional landscape of trauma survivors in this deeply satisfying thriller. What begins as a quest for revenge becomes so much more as Dahlia fights to uncover the truth and reclaim her life after a brutal attack. Block handles the weighty subject matter with a deftness I've come to expect from her work-she never disappoints." - Laura McHugh, award-winning author of The Weight of Blood and Arrowood"A satisfying page-turner." - Publishers Weekly"Emotional thriller...An apt read in the #MeToo era, this also pairs nicely with Paullina Simons' The Girl in Times Square, which also involves a couple-versus-world theme." - Booklist
£14.97
Sourcebooks Until the End
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Sourcebooks, Inc Death Has Deep Roots A Second World War Mystery
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Xlibris Corporation Tattooed Trees
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Tyndale House Publishers Without Warning
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Tyndale House Publishers Rule of Law
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Tyndale House Publishers The Libyan Diversion
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Tyndale House Publishers The Libyan Diversion
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Tyndale House Publishers The Beijing Betrayal
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£23.99
Kensington Publishing Corporation Remain Silent
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Open Road Distribution Rogues March
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Atria Books Poison
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Atria Books The Rule of Law
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Howard Books Unquiet Ghosts
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Scribner Book Company We Eat Our Own
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Atria Books The Sleeping World
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Scribner Book Company The Kremlins Candidate
Book SynopsisRed Sparrow is now a major motion picture starring Jennifer Lawrence and Joel Edgerton! In the final, thrilling New York Times bestselling installment of the Red Sparrow Trilogy, Russian counterintelligence chief Dominika Egorova and her lover, CIA agent Nate Nash, must find a Russian agent about to be appointed to a very high office in the US government.With a plot ripped from tomorrow''s headlines, Jason Matthews''s high-powered, seductive third novel not only continues the dangerous entanglements of Dominika and Nate but reveals with chilling authenticity how Russian espionage can place agents in the most sensitive positions of power. The novel opens with Russian president Vladimir Putin planning the covert assassination of a high-ranking US official with the intention of replacing him with a mole whom Russian intelligence has cultivated for more than fifteen years. Catching wind of this plot, Dominika, Nate, and their CIA colleagues must unmask the traitor before he or she is able to reveal that Dominika has been spying for years on behalf of the CIA. Any leak, any misstep, will expose her as a CIA asset and result in a one-way trip to a Moscow execution cellar. Along the way, Matthews, a thirty-three-year veteran of the CIA and winner of the Edgar Award for Best First Novel, sets vivid, unforgettable scenes in Moscow; Washington, DC; Hong Kong; New York; the Sudan; and Turkey, and introduces two cold-blooded killers: Iosip Blokhin, a brilliant Spetsnaz military officer, and Grace Gao, ravishing Chinese spy, master of Kundalini yoga, and Beijing-trained seductress. Ultimately, the lines of danger converge on the spectacular billion-dollar presidential palace on the Black Sea during a power weekend with Putin''s inner circle. Does Nate sacrifice himself to save Dominika? Does she forfeit herself to protect Nate? Do they go down together? This dazzling finale to Jason Matthews''s New York Times bestselling Red Sparrow Trilogy, called ''a primer in twenty-first-century spying...terrifically good'' (The New York Times Book Review), confirms the critical acclaim he received for the first two novels, praise that compared Matthews to John le Carré and Ian Fleming.
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Scribner Book Company The Kremlins Candidate
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37 Ink The Cutaway
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Scribner Book Company Live from Cairo
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Simon & Schuster Rules of War
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Simon & Schuster A Spy in Exile
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A different kind of spy novel by a one-time Mossad agent writing under a pen name, this follow-up to de Shalit's Traitor . . . hums with drama and authenticity." * Kirkus Reviews *"Well developed and multidimensional . . . quite enjoyable. The author, himself a former officer in Israeli intelligence, tells a story that is believable and authentic." * San Francisco Review of Books *
£14.45
Simon & Schuster Seducing the Defendant
Book SynopsisSynopsis coming soon.......Trade Review"A slow burn that left me wanting more!" * --Fresh Fiction *
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Simon & Schuster The Terminal List 1 A Thriller
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Simon & Schuster True Believer
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Atria Books Kill Shot
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Amazon Publishing The Final Reckoning
Book SynopsisHis last challenge: live long enough to save the lives of those he loves. Cold-blooded killer JimBone Wheeler blames Tom McMurtrie for putting him on death row. He once vowed that he’d bring “a reckoning” on Tom and everyone the southern lawyer holds dear. When Wheeler escapes from prison, he aims to fulfill his promise. Victim by victim, he’s getting closer to his ultimate target. But for Tom, who’s dying of cancer, the role of savior and protector is a struggle that is becoming more desperate by the hour. As the body count mounts, Tom, his partner, Rick Drake, and his best friend, Bocephus Haynes, brace for a confrontation like nothing they have ever faced before. This battle will be waged not in a courthouse but on the streets and fields of north Alabama. With all those he loves at risk, Tom must save his family, his friends, and his legacy from a killer whose hunger for retribution knows no bounds. Now, as time ticks down and fate and vengeance close in, who will survive Wheeler’s final reckoning?
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Amazon Publishing The Shotgun Lawyer
Book SynopsisFrom the bestselling author of The Neon Lawyer comes a page-turning thriller about a scrappy lawyer and his fight for justice. Personal injury attorney Peter Game has a reputation: cynical, untroubled by ethics, and willing to take any case, anytime, in his pursuit of the win. He dreams of a sweetheart score that’ll make his name and net him millions. Then comes the lightning rod: a school shooting just outside of Salt Lake City. His client: the devastated mother of one of the victims. What she wants is understandable—just not simple: to sue the manufacturers of the automatic weapon used in the mass killing. Game’s opponent, brilliant lawyer Brennen Garvin, is the least of his problems: the entire legal system, influenced by decades of pressure from powerful gun lobbies, is stacked against him. For Game, this is the case of a lifetime. He’s just not sure his trademark rules will work in his favor. And he’s not sure he wants them to. As Game’s lust for victory gives way to a hunger for justice, he could lose everything—or win back his soul.Trade Review“What would you have if John Grisham wrote Better Call Saul? Answer: You’d have The Shotgun Lawyer by Victor Methos.” —New York Journal of Books
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Amazon Publishing Hunt the Lion
Book SynopsisIt’s the most important mission of his life—because it’s the most personal. Once a key player in a clandestine CIA squad, Sam Callahan thought he had finally found a safe, normal life as a rookie lawyer in DC with the woman he loves. But when called to a covert intelligence mission in the heart of Russia, he can’t refuse risking it all once more. This time, he’d be joining his estranged father, the Lion, a deep-cover agent Sam never even knew existed. When the operation goes wrong and his team is ambushed, Sam fears a setup. At least he escaped with his life. And so did his father. But why? With a target on his back, he must hunt down the truth behind the betrayal in Moscow—and find the Lion again. Now, crisscrossing Europe under the cover of shadow, Sam is about to come face-to-face with his past—and it’s never looked so dangerous.
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Amazon Publishing The Man in the Lighthouse
Book SynopsisAll his life, Viggo Larssen has been haunted by the same troubling dream, which he calls the Omen—a vision of a woman beckoning to him from the surface of a churning sea. Now, as he broods over his shipwrecked existence in a remote lighthouse off the outermost coast of Denmark, he is about to be borne backward by the current to a past he thought he had escaped forever. On the Danish mainland, the widowed mother of the nation's prime minister mysteriously vanishes from her prestigious nursing home. As the police search for clues, evidence mounts that her disappearance is tied to an unsolved crime from Viggo's childhood. Told through the eyes of multiple characters from Viggo's old neighborhood, Erik Valeur's dark, serpentine mystery is a profound meditation on the persistence of memory, the power of dreams, and the secrets we hide from one another—and ourselves.
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Amazon Publishing Little Boy Lost
Book SynopsisAn Amazon Charts bestseller. A broken city, a missing young man, and a lawyer searching for truth when nobody else cares. Attorney Justin Glass’s practice, housed in a shabby office on the north side of Saint Louis, isn’t doing so well that he can afford to work for free. But when eight-year-old Tanisha Walker offers him a jar full of change to find her missing brother, he doesn’t have the heart to turn her away. Justin had hoped to find the boy alive and well. But all that was found of Devon Walker was his brutally murdered body—and the bodies of twelve other African American teenagers, all discarded like trash in a mass grave. Each had been reported missing. And none had been investigated. As simmering racial tensions explode into violence, Justin finds himself caught in the tide. And as he gives voice to the discontent plaguing the city’s forgotten and ignored, he vows to search for the killer who preys upon them.Trade ReviewSt. Louis Post-Dispatch Summer Books Selection “Trafford delivers…” —Booklist “J.D. Trafford’s smart, nuanced and highly entertaining new legal thriller…Little Boy Lost is a thoughtful look at the American legal and political systems and how they serve, or increasingly fail, the public. Alive with fascinating details of the implementation of the law, it provides an even-handed look at all sides…Above all, it is a fine piece of entertainment!” —Criminal Element “J.D. Trafford does for St. Louis what author Michael Harvey does for Chicago. Both writers make the Midwest cities, where their crime/mysteries are set, come to life with brilliant detail. Trafford shines his literary light on St. Louis in Little Boy Lost, a fast-paced paperback liberally spiced with recognizable places in the city—restaurants, bars, suburbs, neighborhoods and parks are described with the expertise of a local, which Trafford once was. This, combined with a crackerjack narrative, make the mystery a must read.” —The Missourian “Little Boy Lost is an exciting and thoughtful read. Trafford’s writing style is brisk and no-nonsense with a dash of introspection and a lot of keen observations…” —Bookreporter “J.D. Trafford has penned a satisfying mystery with social justice at its heart.” —The Gazette “A tense and punchy legal thriller with a great lead, a visceral setting, and a compelling plot.” —Crime Thriller Hound “[J.D. Trafford’s “Little Boy Lost] sparkle[s] with local color—even if that color sometimes looks drab…But for St. Louisans, the local color will grab them—everything from Crown Candy and Clementine’s Creamery to KMOX and the Post-Dispatch.” —St. Louis Post-Dispatch “Little Boy Lost isn’t just an engrossing novel; it’s one that enlightens as well.” —William Kent Krueger, New York Times bestselling author and Edgar winner
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Amazon Publishing Reckoning
Book SynopsisA sister kidnapped. A journalist in danger. A killer out for revenge. After taking out a covert facility run by the Commission, a deep-state syndicate, Nathan Stone has made powerful enemies. He’s a black-ops asset—and he’s gone rogue. But the organization wants payback. Kidnapping Stone’s sister from a Florida psychiatric hospital, the Commission have their asset exactly where they want him. They instruct him to neutralize journalist Mark Mahoney, to whom Stone had previously leaked documents about the Commission and their deadly conspiracy. Now, Nathan Stone has a choice: neutralize Mahoney and kill the story for good, or lose the only family he has left. Stone knows that these men will stop at nothing to get what they want. Killing Mahoney is just the beginning. And when Stone learns the identity of their final target, he knows he has to stop the Commission once and for all—no matter the cost.
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Amazon Publishing Justice Redeemed
Book SynopsisTwo years ago, Darren Street made a name for himself as the man who rooted out corruption in the district attorney’s office. Now the hotheaded young lawyer is in the public eye yet again—this time, accused of murder. Jalen Jordan retained Street for what seemed to be a minor traffic violation, but when evidence turned up linking Jordan to the death of two boys, Street wanted out of the case. To ensure his lawyer’s cooperation and silence, Jordan threatened to make Street’s son the next victim. Shortly after, Jordan’s own body turned up with a bullet hole in his chest. Now Street is on trial for his life, and the enemy he made in the DA’s office is clearly out for blood. It’s one lawyer out to frame another. Can a desperate father escape punishment for a crime he didn’t commit?
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Amazon Publishing The Last Trial
Book SynopsisFormer law professor Tom McMurtrie has brought killers to justice, and taken on some of the most infamous cases in Alabama’s history. Now he’s tackling his greatest challenge. McMurtrie’s old nemesis, Jack Willistone, is found dead on the banks of the Black Warrior River. Willistone had his share of enemies, but all evidence points to a forgotten, broken woman as the killer. At the urging of the suspect’s desperate fourteen-year-old daughter, McMurtrie agrees to take the case. But as seasoned as McMurtrie is, even he isn’t prepared for how personal and dangerous this case is going to get. With the trial drawing near and his sharp young partner, Rick Drake, dealing with a family tragedy, he recruits his best friend, Bocephus Haynes, to help investigate. As key witnesses disappear and old demons return, time becomes McMurtrie’s most fearsome opponent. Soon loyalties will be tested and the boundaries of law will be broken as McMurtrie fights to save his legacy—and his client’s life—before the truth is buried forever in the muddy waters of the Black Warrior.Trade Review“Take a murder, a damaged woman, and a desperate daughter and you have the recipe for The Last Trial, a complex and fast-paced legal thriller. Highly recommended.” —DP Lyle, award-winning author
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Amazon Publishing Ultimate Power: A Thriller
Book SynopsisAmerican financial and political powers collide and conspire in a breakneck thriller from New York Times bestselling author Stephen Frey. Andrew Falcon Jr. is the youngest hedge-fund manager to make partner at a powerful investment bank on Wall Street. His career is soaring, and his financial future is secured. But with fortune comes a high price. Just as Falcon thought life couldn’t get better, his niece Claire is kidnapped—yet her abductors have no interest in money. They want information. In exchange for Claire’s safe return, Falcon must dig deep into his firm’s affairs, uncovering secrets worse than he could ever imagine. He discovers a conspiracy tied to the US government—a rogue faction is manipulating the American people to establish a new order. Now facing impossible odds and a plot that goes all the way up to the nation’s leaders, Falcon must find a way to save not only his family but also his country.
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Amazon Publishing The White Tigress
Book SynopsisNearly being indicted convinced Benn Bluestone to quit drug lawyering. Now he just wants to sleep well and turn an honest buck. A case as trustee for an unstable young woman seems like just the ticket…but this ride began in World War II, continued through the Golden Triangle heroin trade, navigated a serpentine trail of spies and international corruption, and ended up on a remote South China Sea atoll, where nuclear war between the United States and China threatens to destroy the world. Now Benn has no choice but to draw on the maneuvers of the past he escaped. It’s more than a last shot at redemption. It’s the only way to get everyone out alive.
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Open Road Distribution Number One A Novel
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Open Road Media Hard Target
Book SynopsisAfter an assassination attempt on the president-elect, the OPSIG team is on the hunt in this “terrific thriller” from the USA Today–bestselling author (Lee Child).Hard Target by Alan Jacobson is a ticking time bomb that will keep you clinging to the edge of your seat . . . and turning the pages. An explosion pulverizes the president-elect’s helicopter on election night. It soon becomes clear that the group behind the assassination attempt possesses far greater reach than the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force has yet encountered—and a plot so deeply interwoven in the country’s fabric that it threatens to upend America’s political system.
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