legal stories

Colonel Chabert, a decorated hero in the Napoleonic War, returns home after a long convalescence from a disfiguring wound to find he has been declared dead, his wife remarried and his pension gone, and hires a popular young lawyer in an attempt to regain his life and wealth.

Michael Ashworth, legal counsel for an airline, finds himself fighting for his life, reputation, and family when his brother Charlie, a pilot, is involved in a fatal plane crash and it is discovered that Michael had earlier suppressed a positive drug test that would have kept his brother out of the air.

A prominent doctor's inexplicable failure to diagnose a devastating disease takes a disillusioned lawyer and his gutsy client on separate quests for the final shocking truth in this edge-of-the-seat legal thriller of medical malpractice.

Philadelphia defense attorney Ellie Hathaway, unsatisfied with the course of her career and personal life, leaves her job for an open-ended stay at her great-aunt's home in Paradise, Pennsylvania, arriving just in time to become embroiled in the case of a young, unmarried Amish woman accused of killing her newborn baby.

New York District Attorney Roger "Butch" Karp faces one of his most challenging and dramatic cases when his wife Marlene Ciampi learns that his office has indicted the wrong man for murder.

Sergeant Vince Paulo held his best friend's daughter, McKenna, bleeding in his arms as she uttered the name of her murderer and ex-boyfriend, Jamal. That was minutes before a blast made everything go black for vince--forever. Now Miami criminal defense lawyer Jack Swyteck has been called in to save Jamal from the death penalty.