Kevin O’Donnell’s Hostage follows Morris “Mo” Miller, a commercial lawyer at Melbourne firm Tucker & Frood, whose Tuesday changes when his assistant reports a gunman in reception. Barney Peterson has arrived furious over the firm’s handling of his estranged wife Leila’s family-law case, leaving receptionist...

Part character study, part medical mystery, part legal drama, Always Hope by Heather Frimmer is a difficult novel to classify. In it, three flawed people are brought together by the birth of a child gone wrong. Kendall Carlson’s uneventful pregnancy turns into a harrowing delivery...

Justice is not always neat. It can be quite chaotic. Melvin E. Edwards’ Nuremberg, Mississippi is set against the background of one of America’s most tumultuous times – the Civil Rights era. When Henry Logan is arrested for violating a local law about after-dark restrictions...

In Nola Z's Divide by Shunya, after senior product manager Maya is fired from a Seattle technology company, every digital record of her employment disappears. She soon learns that Project Kala, the mental wellness platform she helped build, has been transformed into a system that...

Jaxon Quinn gradually develops a change of heart when he receives a parcel containing evidence indicting his client, mob boss Vincent Morelli, for a gruesome murder. His conscience pricks him even more, seeing as he just aided Vincent to beat tax evasion charges and walk...

Devil's Name by Lori B. Duff follows small-town Georgia lawyer Jessica Fischer as she takes on the case of Alexander, a transgender teenager fighting to legally change his name and birth certificate before heading off to college. While Jessica navigates a hostile small-town court system...

Jonathan Miller’s The Breakdown Docket: Rattlesnake Lawyer is a unique legal thriller that follows Dan Shepard and his frenzied world. The beleaguered New Mexico lawyer is popularly referred to as the “Rattlesnake Lawyer,” who takes cases from colleagues who can’t handle them. Because of the...

Lori Duffy Foster brings us a historical novel set deep in the Adirondack Mountains and the surrounding villages in Spring Melt. Ella Devine’s entire existence is turned upside down when a crime from nineteen years back suddenly comes to light. The three men who stepped...

Blood Rivalry is the third book of Paul Attaway’s Atkins Family Low Country Saga series. In this story, two brothers, Walker and Eli Atkins, are living in Charleston, South Carolina. Eli is a well-known chef, and Walker is a lawyer. A murder that happened fifteen...

After a hard time processing loss and change, Chance Cormac, an attorney and author, was now volunteering with the Immigrant Defense Project, filing habeas petitions for immigrants detained by ICE. His latest client is Lyla Abda, a Lebanese doctor on a visa, arrested and detained...