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Blue Diary

Alice Hoffman

A small Massachusetts town is turned upside-down when it is discovered that a respected resident is wanted for the rape and murder of a teenage girl fifteen years earlier.

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Unfit to Practice

Perri O'Shaughnessy

Attorney Nina Reilly finds her career in jeopardy when someone steals her confidential case files and begins revealing the secrets in them.

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Reversible Errors

Scott Turow

Arthur Raven, the reluctant court-appointed attorney for Rommy Gandolph, a death-row prisoner convicted of triple murder, must face down an ambitious prosecutor, crooked cops, and a disgraced judge wh

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Nuremberg

William F. Buckley

Sebastian, a young German-American, seeks to find closure in his life at the Nuremberg trials in 1945, hoping to find out more about his father's mysterious disappearance and his ancestors he never kn

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Criminal Intent

William Bernhardt

When a priest with radical ideas and a parish council with traditional values lock horns over the beliefs they hold most sacred, someone crosses the line and commits murder, leaving Tulsa attorney Ben

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The Testament

John Grisham

A lawyer searches the Brazilian jungle for a missionary doctor working with Indians, the illegitimate daughter of an American tycoon who left her his fortune.

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Pudd'nhead Wilson

Mark Twain uses his insight and wit to explore the issues of slavery, mother/son relationships, justice, and the many shapes of human folly.

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The Client

John Grisham

Eleven-year-old Mark Sway witnesses the bizarre suicide of a New Orleans attorney and is left with a deadly secret concerning the recent murder of a Louisiana senator.

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