John Grisham
1) The whistler
Author
Series
Lacy Stoltz volume 1
Language
English
Description
Lacy Stoltz never expected to be in the firing line. Investigating judicial misconduct by Florida's one thousand judges, her cases so far have been relatively unexciting. That's until she meets Greg Myers, an indicted lawyer with an assumed name, who has an extraordinary tale to tell. Myers is representing a whistle blower who knows of a judge involved in organised crime. Along with her gangster associates this judge has facilitated the building of...
Author
Language
English
Description
One week ago, Samantha Kofer was a third-year associate at New York City's largest law firm. Now she is an unpaid intern in a legal aid clinic deep in small-town Appalachia. When Lehman Brothers collapsed, she lost her job, her security, her future. As she confronts real clients with real problems, she finds herself a world away from her past life of corporate fat cats and fatter bonuses. This is coal country. Meth country. The law is different here....
Author
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Language
English
Description
He was framed for murder.
Now he needs a miracle.
22 years ago Quincy Miller was sentenced to life without parole. He was accused of killing Keith Russo, a lawyer in a small Florida town. But there were no reliable witnesses and little motive. Just the fact that Russo had botched Quincy's divorce case, that Quincy was black in a largely all-white town and that a blood-splattered torch was found in the boot of Quincy's car. A torch he swore was planted....
Author
Language
English
Description
Malcolm Bannister is a lawyer. He is in prison. Five years ago, the FBI set him up as the fall guy for a crime he did not know he was committing. He has exhausted every avenue of appeal, and any hope of acquittal. Until now. Judge Raymond Fawcett is found dead in a remote lakeside cabin. There are no witnesses, no fingerprints, no evidence. The investigators have no leads. Bannister didn't know the judge. But he knows who killed him, and why. It could...
Author
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
CAN A KILLER EVER BE ABOVE THE LAW?
Deputy Stuart Kofer is a protected man. Though he's turned his drunken rages on his girlfriend, Josie, and her children many times before, the police code of silence has always shielded him.
But one night he goes too far, leaving Josie for dead on the floor before passing out. Her son, sixteen-year-old Drew, knows he only has this one chance to save them. He picks up a gun and takes the law into his own hands.
In...
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Kyle McAvoy is one of the outstanding legal students of his generation. But he has a secret from his past, a secret that threatens to destroy his fledgling career and, possibly, his entire life. That secret has fallen into the hands of the wrong people, and the only way Kyle can protect it is to play their game.
7) Rogue lawyer
Author
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Sebastian Rudd takes the cases no one else wants to take: the drug-addled punk accused of murdering two little girls; a crime lord on death row; a homeowner accused of shooting at a SWAT team. Rudd believes that every person accused of a crime is entitled to a fair trial - even if he has to cheat to get one. He antagonises people from both sides of the law: his last office was fire-bombed, either by drug dealers or cops. He doesn't know or care which....
Author
Language
English
Description
Oscar Finley: street cop turned street lawyer. Wally Figg: expert hustler and ambulance-chaser. David Zinc: Harvard Law School graduate. Together, this unlikely trio make up Finley & Figg: specialists in injury claims, quickie divorces and DUIs. They are about to take on one of the biggest pharmaceutical companies in the States.
9) The exchange
Author
Series
The Firm volume 2
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Language
English
Description
What became of Mitch and Abby McDeere after they exposed the crimes of Memphis law firm Bendini, Lambert and Locke and fled the country? The answer is in 'The Exchange', the riveting sequel to 'The Firm'. It is now 15 years later, and Mitch and Abby are living in Manhattan, where Mitch is a partner at the largest law firm in the world. When a mentor in Rome asks him for a favour that will take him far from home, Mitch finds himself at the centre of...
10) Camino winds
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Series
Camino Island volume 2
Language
English
Description
When Hurricane Leo threatens Florida's Camino Island, the Governor is quick to issue an evacuation order. Most residents flee but a small group of diehards decide to ride it out. Amongst them is Bruce Cable, proprietor of Bay Books in downtown Santa Rosa. The hurricane is devastating: homes and condos are levelled, hotels and storefronts ruined, streets flooded, and a dozen people are killed. One of the victims is Nelson Kerr, a friend of Bruce's...
11) Sooley
Author
Language
English
Description
17-year-old Samuel Sooleyman comes from a village in South Sudan, a war-torn country where one third of the population is a refugee. His great love is basketball: his prodigious leap and lightning speed make him an exceptional player. And it may also bring him his big chance: he has been noticed by a coach taking a youth team to the United States. If he gets through the tournament, Samuel's life will change beyond recognition. But it's the longest...
12) Sycamore Row
Author
Series
Jake Brigance volume 2
Language
English
Description
Jake Brigance has never met Seth Hubbard, or even heard of him, until the old man's suicide note names him attorney for his estate. The will is dynamite. Seth has left 90% of his vast, secret fortune to his housemaid. The vultures are circling even before the body is cold: the only subject more incendiary than money in Ford County is race, and this case has both. As the relatives contest the will, and unscrupulous lawyers hasten to benefit, Jake searches...
13) The judge's list
Author
Series
Lacy Stoltz volume 2
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
As an investigator for the Florida Board on Judicial Conduct, Lacy Stoltz sees plenty of corruption among the men and women elected to the bench. In 'The Whistler', she took on a crime syndicate that was paying millions to a crooked judge. Now, in 'The Judge's List', the crimes are even worse. The man hiding behind the black robe is not taking bribes - but he may be taking lives.
15) Camino Island
Author
Series
Camino Island volume 1
Language
English
Description
The most daring and devastating heist in literary history targets the five manuscripts of F. Scott Fitzgerald's only novels. After an initial flurry of arrests, both they and the ruthless gang of thieves who took them have vanished without trace. Dealing in stolen books is a dark business, and few are initiated to its arts - which puts Bruce Kable right on the FBI's Rare Asset Recovery Unit's watchlist. A struggling writer burdened by debts, Mercer...
17) Calico Joe
Author
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
'Calico Joe' tells the story a 13-year-old boy caught in a conflict of loyalties when his baseball-playing father comes face-to-face with the greatest young player of his age and the terrible consequences that follow. Decades later, with his father dying, Paul attempts to bring the two men together for a final meeting.