legal stories

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.

His career derailed by the vengeful billionaire Curtlee family for his part in convicting one of their number for murder, former homicide detective Abe Glitsky learns that the killer has won a retrial at the same time a star witness has been murdered.

Blaming himself for the deaths of his wife, his infant daughter, and an informant a year earlier, vigilante Jason Kolarich is forced by the FBI to bring down the organization of a corrupt governor of Illinois, a case that reveals devastating truths about his family's deaths.

"Sharif Jabbar, the demagogic founder of a Harlem mosque, is being held on new terror allegations, and New York District Attorney Roger 'Butch' Karp is determined to bring him down. But Karp faces formidable competition in defense attorney Megan O'Dowd, a radical activist enthralled with revolutionary rhetoric. Meanwhile, Karp's wife, Marlene Ciampi, is investigating the murder of society beauty Michelle Oakley. As Ciampi explores a sordid underworld of upscale call girls and the price paid for indulging the wealthiest of men, Karp discovers that even the city's most powerful, unimpeachable players have secrets that could set them free or cost them more than they ever feared."--back cover.

Assistant U.S. attorney Vicki Allegretti becomes convinced that what appear to be random murders in a West Philly neighborhood are deliberate slayings by a brutal murderer.

Astonished when a childhood rival begs her for protection from a violent drug-dealer boyfriend, an attorney finds her family, her career, and eventually her life placed on the line when she investigates the woman's subsequent disappearance.

Federal judge Cate Fanta finds her own double life coming to light when the defendant in a high-profile lawsuit ends up dead, revelations that threaten her future on the bench as well as her life when the killer comes after her.