Given the importance of what they do, and the controversies that often surround them, and the violent people they sometimes confront, it is remarkable that in the history of this country only four active federal judges have been murdered. Judge Raymond Fawcett has just become number five. Who is the Racketeer? And what does he have to do with the judge's untimely demise? His name, for the moment, is Malcolm Bannister. Job status? Former attorney....

Beautiful young attorney Anne Murphy, shocked to find her picture and a report of her death on the front page of the newspaper, realizes that Willa, the new friend who was caring for Anne's cat while she vacationed at the shore, was murdered in her place, most likely by a stalker who had tried to kill Anne once before.

The explosion of racial hate and violence in a small Alabama town is viewed by a little girl whose father defends a black man accused of rape.

Lawyer Mary DiNunzio investigates the case of an Italian immigrant sent to an internment camp in Montana during World War Two in order to seek reparations for his son's estate, but someone does not want Mary to find out the truth about the man's mysterious death.

Ambitious young lawyer Samantha Sweeting stumbles into an entirely new way of life when a costly error at work has her fleeing to the countryside where she is mistakenly hired as a housekeepr--despite a complete lack of domestic skills--and finds love with the handsome gardener.

"Eighteen years ago Jeanine was the happy, pregnant wife of a Key West cop. But it turned out he harbored a secret that forced her to change her identity and run. As if that weren't enough, during her desperate escape Jeanine was nearly captured by a serial killer. Now the day of reckoning has arrived for the successful New York lawyer and single mother known to all as Nina Bloom: The notorious Jump Killer is awaiting death and Nina, given the task...

Mary DiNunzio is trying to make partner in her cutthroat Philadelphia law firm. She's too busy to worry about the crank phone calls that she's been getting-until they fall into a sinister pattern. Mary can't shake the sensation that someone is watching her. Following her every move. Then the shadowboxing turns deadly, and she has to fight for something a lot more important than a partnership-her life.

Philadelphia attorney Bennie Rosato and her colleagues, having taken on a class-action suit that could save the firm from financial disaster, find their efforts complicated when Bennie is arrested for crimes committed by her ex-con twin sister, and her client, Robert St. Amien, is murdered.

Sebastian Rudd is not your typical street lawyer. He works out of a customized bulletproof van, complete with Wi-Fi, a bar, a small fridge, fine leather chairs, a hidden gun compartment, and a heavily armed driver. He has no firm, no partners, no associates, and only one employee, his driver, who$1 (Bs also his bodyguard, law clerk, confidant, and golf caddy. He lives alone in a small but extremely safe penthouse apartment, and his primary piece...

"Through all their missions and adventures, the tightknit group of friends who make up the Sisterhood have learned one vital lesson: everybody has a weak spot. In the case of Yoko Wong's dear friend Garland Lee, the multimillion-selling performer known as America's beloved songbird, that weak spot was trusting her lawyer, Arthur Forrester. For years, he's taken advantage of her faith in him to amass a secret fortune. And now, in the deepest betrayal...