Margolin, Phillip

A beleaguered judge presiding over the trail of a tough-talking state congresswoman suspects that the defendant was framed.

While representing the alleged murderer of a U.S. senator who was killed just before his party was going to nominate him for the presidency, Amanda Jaffe uncovers a ruthless fraternity of powerful and dangerous men involved in a political cabal.

Lawyer Tracy Cavanaugh is investigating two murder cases when she stumbles across information that uncovers a bizarre plot, and she no longer knows who she can trust.

Twelve-year-old Madison Kincaid is determined to help her defense attorney father defend a man accused of murdering his wife, but the murder case is not her only mystery to solve when she realizes that her best friend, Ann, is missing and Madison teams up with the new boy, Jake Stephenson, to scour the streets of Portland in order to find her friend.