The Best People: A Tale of Trials and Errors by Marc Grossberg is a spellbinding thriller with exceptional characters. The first thing that gripped me and kept me turning the pages is the way the author uses the subplot to create suspense. The narrative builds...

Author Joel Burcat’s credentials reassured me that Drink to Every Beast, with its plot centered on the illegal disposal of dangerous chemicals, wouldn’t be a flight of fictional fantasy...and it wasn’t. Not only is it a captivating legal thriller, but it’s also a rather delightful...

Boll Weevil by James Radford is a fictional novel set in the American South. Michael Drummond is a tenacious black lawyer fighting Darby Tobacco in an important compensation case. If it goes well, it will advance his career and his bank balance. The company is...

The Scavenger Hunter: The Untold Story of a Serial Murderer by P.D. Platt was a book I could not put down, reading it in a day. The reader has the privilege of walking through the entire case step by step with Matt Stallworth, the FBI...

The first thing I liked about Jack Gold and Marc Debbaudt’s Jurisdiction Denied is that it focuses on a topic that arouses much controversy. A sequel of Jurisdiction Terminated, it has been published after California has passed laws that make it difficult, almost impossible, to...

Ronald L. Ruiz's 120 Days is a crime thriller that revolves around a brilliant California attorney named Barbara Blake, who is on a meteoric rise as a public defender, with rapid promotions and lucrative job offers that could set her financially for life. Her professional...

The Advocate's Justice (The Advocate Series) by Teresa Burrell is a murder mystery. Sabre Brown is an attorney with a job on her hands – to save Conner from a life behind bars. Fifteen-year-old Conner is accused of murdering Bullet, his grandma’s abusive boyfriend. The...

Hallowed Halls by H.E. Kline is an engrossing crime thriller with a lot of courtroom drama featuring an exceptional female protagonist. Becky Lawrence graduated from Harvard Law School and lands her dream job. She is the Assistant U.S. Attorney. But she has a huge problem....

This classic legal thriller by N. Lombardi Jr. takes place between New Jersey and New York. Justice Gone shows from the start the huge flaws in the American legal system, based on politics, which most of the time doesn’t care about justice. And as we...

Liana Cohen works as a Public Defender in New York City, but she has lost faith in the system and in her clients. She no longer has any passion for the job. And her love life isn't going too well either, with her boyfriend, Jakob,...