***Winner of the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Best Debut Novel of 2012 ***Wall Street Journal 10 Best Fiction Books of 2012 ***2014 Folio Prize Shortlist A Naked Singularity tells the story of Casi, a child of Colombian immigrants...
Legal fiction (Literature)
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Author:De La Pava, SergioSummary: - Author:Estleman, Loren D.Summary:
This suspenseful courtroom drama is based on the actual historical trial of Jack McCall, who shot James Butler Hickok from that most dishonorable position - behind.
- Author:Patterson, James, DiLallo, RichardSummary:
The year is 1906, and America is segregated. Hatred and discrimination plague the streets, the classroom, and the courts. But in Washington, DC, Ben Corbett, a smart and courageous lawyer, makes it his mission to confront injustice at...
- Author:Field, RachelSummary:
The heroine, Henriette Deluzy-Desportes, governess to the children of the Duc de Praslin, found herself strangely drawn to her employer; when the Duc murdered his wife in the most savage fashion, she had to plead her own case before the...
- Author:Hosp, DavidSummary:
In 1990, $300 million worth of paintings are stolen from a museum in Boston, and are never recovered. Twenty years later, as criminals connected with the heist begin to turn up dead, lawyer Scott Finn discovers one of his clients was...
- Author:Stanton, MarySummary:
Lawyer Brianna Winston-Beaufort is finally getting a case that should pay the bills--because her client is the living daughter of a recently dead millionaire. But when the ghost of the dead millionaire shows up needing Bree's help too,...
- Author:Stanton, MarySummary:
Bree Winston-Beaufort is happy for a break from her job as an advocate for the otherworldly when she finally gets a living, breathing client. But aging actress Justine Coville didn't walk into Beaufort & Company just to change her...
- Author:Deverell, WilliamSummary:
Arthur Beauchamp, the scholarly, self-doubting legend of the B.C. criminal bar, is enjoying his retirement on B.C.’s Garibaldi Island when he is dragged back to court to defend an old client. Nick “The Owl” Faloon, one of the world’s...
- Author:Dickens, CharlesSummary:
Bleak House opens in the twilight of foggy London, where fog grips the city most densely in the Court of Chancery. The obscure case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce, in which an inheritance is gradually devoured by legal costs, the romance of...
- Author:Dickens, CharlesSummary:
Bleak House follows the fortunes and relationships of three characters whose fates are tied to the obscure inheritance case of Jarndyce v. Jarndyce, which is tied up in endless litigation. While many deserving and undeserving claim the...
- Author:Bala, Sharon, Charron, Marc, Lessard, VéroniqueSummary:
Traduit de l'anglais par Véronique Lessard et Marc Charron Résumé Mahindan et son fils de six ans accostent en Colombie-Britannique avec cinq cents compatriotes réfugiés, portés par le rêve de laisser derrière eux la...
- Author:Grippando, JamesSummary:
Bestselling author James Grippando is back with another innovative and action-packed thriller featuring the ever-popular Jack Swyteck. Miami criminal defense lawyer Jack Swyteck guards his own family secrets as closely as anyone, and...
- Author:Locke, Hillary BellSummary:
Before her Wall Street dream is again within her grasp, Cynthia Jakubek will come to appreciate Robert F. Kennedy's memorable advice: ''Forgive your enemies, but remember their names.'' Eight colonists were killed at the original Battle...
- Author:Singer, RandySummary:
As the Avenger of Blood systematically executes guilty rapists and the lawyers who finagled their freedom, a reporter has visions of this relentless vigilante in action. To her amazement, she soon finds herself in the slammer, accused...
- Author:Batten, JackSummary:
The smart-talking, wise-cracking, jazz-loving criminal lawyer has got a taste for straight vodka and a nose for trouble. No one could ever accuse Crang of being a superhero, but with his usual mixture of innate cool and naive enthusiasm...
- Author:Hosp, DavidSummary:
Scott Finn, rising star at a Boston law firm, has worked hard to pull himself out of the Charlestown projects. When the body of his co-worker and old flame, Natalie Caldwell, floats to the surface of Boston Harbor, Finn is grief...
- Author:Koestler, ArthurSummary:
Fictional portrayal of the nightmare politics of our time. Its hero is an aging revolutionary, imprisoned and psychologically tortured by the Party to which he has dedicated his life. As the pressure to confess preposterous crimes...
- Author:Singer, RandySummary:
Lawyer and ex-convict Landon Reed, desperate to prove his worth, takes a high-profile murder case, but when his boss and other lawyers in the firm are murdered, Landon must find the killer before he become the next target.
- Author:Zener, Naomi ElanaSummary:
Deathbed Dimes exposes the reality that if you can outlive your relatives, friends, and sometimes even strangers, your odds of hitting the inheritance jackpot are better than playing the lottery. Joely Zeller is a beautiful and...
- Author:Stanton, MarySummary:
After taking over her uncle's law practice in the much-haunted city of Savannah, Georgia, young lawyer Brianna Winston-Beaufort is itching for her first case. That is, until she gets an otherworldly phone call from Benjamin Skinner, a...
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