legal stories

Twenty-two years ago, author David Etheridge and the state senator Robert McCrutchen were suspected murderers. Now, Etheridge is back in Eugene, Oregon, just before McCrutchen is found dead in his home. Etheridge is looking at a double charge and a cold case file about to become hot. Attorney Barbara Holloway has her work cut out for her to get him off the hook.

Detective Alex Cross recounts the story of his great-uncle Abraham, who, with the help of his beautiful daughter, introduces Washington, D.C., attorney Ben Corbett to the dark side of their small Southern town in the early 1900s, where Ben has been sent to investigate a resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan.

The terrifying tale of Joseph K, a respectable funtionary in a bank, who is suddenly arrested and must defend his innocence against a charge about which he can get no information. A nightmare vision of the excesses of modern bureaucracy wedded to the mad agendas of twenthieth-century totalitarian regines.

Jamie McDonald turns himself in after killing his terminally-ill wife, and his cousin Cam, the chief of police, finds himself at odds with his own wife, Allie, over the ethics of the situation. Their marriage is further strained by the arrival of Mia, a new assistant at Allie's shop who captures Cam's attention.

Public defender Arch Gold finds his professional abilities being put to the test when he agrees to defend a young man accused of murder.

Harvard law professor Claire Heller Chapman's world is blown apart when her husband is arrested by federal agents for a crime he claims he did not commit. Her husband has been living under an alias and appears to be a secret military operative on the run.

Attorney Maggie Blaine is forced to take desperate action when her husband Grant, a Los Angeles psychatrist, falls under the hypnotic spell of Jules Bois, a patient who claims to have a compulsive need to influence others to perform illegal, immoral, and destructive acts.

Cut off from the hospital and rescue squad by an ice storm, midwife Sibyl Danforth makes the decision to perform a cesarean section on a patient she believes has died of a stroke during labor, but when her assistant tells police the mother was alive during the surgery, Sibyl and the entire community are drawn into a gripping trial.

Manhattan prosecutor Rick Cornith is forced into hiding when evidence mounts against him in a series of rapes, and while his ex-wife was initially sure he could not be the rapist, after she is assaulted, she too joins the hunt, determined to bring Cornith to justice.

Joseph K. is suddenly arrested and must spend the rest of his life fighting a charge against him about which he can get no information.