legal stories

Aspiring lawyer Theodore Boone takes the stand to protect his political and environmental freedoms in the fourth installment of the series.

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.

"On a field trip to Washington DC, Theo spots a familiar face on the Metro: Duffy, who jumped bail and was never seen again. Theo's quick thinking helps bring Duffy back to stand trial. But now that Duffy knows who he is, Theo is in greater danger than he's ever been in before. Even when everything is on the line. Theodore Boone will stop at nothing to make sure a killer is brought to justice"--Dust jacket.

When the wealthy Seth Hubbard hangs himself on a piece of his land known as Sycamore Row, his adult children, his black maid, and Jake Brigance discover a handwritten, revised will and testament. For reasons unknown, Hubbard has left nearly everything to his maid, and that doesn't sit well with Jake, nor with Hubbard's children. Racial tensions flare, and secrets from the past arise to threaten the very society of Ford County.

When Travis Boyette is paroled because of inoperable brain tumor, for the first time in his life, he decides to do the right thing and tell police about a crime he committed and another man is about to be executed for.

Deep in London's filthy, dangerous slums, Victorians transacted their most secret and shameful business. For a price, a man could procure whatever he wanted, but it happened now and then that the price he paid was his life.

Two small children in a small Alabama town are thrust into an adult world of racial bigotry and hatred when their lawyer father chooses to defend a black man charged with raping a white girl.

Aspiring lawyer Theodore Boone takes the stand to protect his political and environmental freedoms.

Losing her job at New York City's largest law firm in the weeks after the collapse of Lehman Brothers, Samantha becomes an unpaid intern in a small Appalachian community, where she stumbles upon dangerous secrets.

San Diego defense attorney Paul Madriani investigates the murder of legal scholar Terry Scarborough after he hints of a letter written by Thomas Jefferson holding secrets that could divide the nation.