Patterson, Richard North

Lawyer Christopher Paget represents his son's mother, television journalist Mary Carelli, while she stand trial for the murder of famous author Mark Ransom and questions whether she is telling the truth when she claims Mark was trying to rape her and she killed him in an act of self-defense.

Tony Lord, having left town at the age of seventeen under a cloud of suspicion after his girlfriend was found raped and murdered, finds himself enmeshed in conflicts from the past when he returns over twenty years later to act as lawyer for his old friend Sam Robb who has been accused of killing a female student.

When attorney Tony Lord comes back to his hometown Lake City to defend his closest high school friend Sam against a charge of murder, he discovers that Sam is the father of a baby born to Tony's girlfriend who was also murdered twenty-eight years earlier. But Tony learns that others also had motives for her murder and the past can repeat itself.

Military lawyer Paul Terry defends young Lieutenant Brian McCarran, who is accused of shooting his commanding officer, who claimed McCarran was having an affair with his wife.

Adam Blaine arrives at the funeral of his estranged father, Ben Blaine, a famous and charismatic writer who left behind him a string of secret legal and financial arrangements. Using his training as a CIA operative, Adam seeks to find the truth of his father's death, even if it means exposing one or more of his own family members as the killer and discovering secrets about himself that he was never supposed to know.

David Wolfe's life is approaching an exhilarating peak: he's a successful San Francisco lawyer, he's about to get married, and he's being primed for a run for Congress. But when the phone rings and he hears the voice of Hana Arif, the Palestinian woman with whom he had a secret affair in law school, he begins a completely unexpected journey. The next day, the prime minister of Israel is assassinated by a suicide bomber while visiting San Francisco; soon, Hana is accused of being the mastermind behind the murder. Now David faces an agonizing choice: will he, a Jew, represent Hana, who may well be guilty, or will he turn away the one woman he can never forget?.

Novice president Kerry Kilcannon becomes caught up in a dangerous power struggle when his brother-in-law goes on a killing spree, sparking Kilcannon to mount a vigorous campaign to wipe out gun violence, a quest that pits him against the powerful Sons of the Second Amendment group.

Novice president Kerry Kilcannon becomes caught up in a dangerous power struggle when his brother-in-law goes on a killing spree, sparking Kilcannon to mount a vigorous campaign to wipe out gun violence, a quest that pits him against the powerful Sons of the Second Amendment group.

When two prominent men are found dead within days of each other, it is up to Assistant County Prosecutor Stella Marz to determine if their deaths were coincidence or not.