By Paul Levine

Atlantica Airlines president Max Wanaker, the wealthy benefactor who transformed her from stripper to Supreme Court law clerk, insists that Lisa Fremont use her influence to secure a favorable ruling for his airlines, or face the consequences.

By Perri O’Shaughnessy
Series Nina Reilly Mysteries

When defense attorney Nina Reilly takes the case of Jim Strong, a member of one of South Lake Tahoe’s most prominent families, who has been accused of killing his brother, she finds her life threatened by a terrifying confrontation with a psychopath.

By Richard North Patterson
Series Kerry Kilcannon Novels

The marriage of President Kerry Kilcannon and TV journalist Lara Costello is marred by a massacre of innocent civilians by gunfire, setting in motion events that reveal the hidden connections among guns, money, and power in Washington.

By Lisa Scottoline
Series Rosato & Associates Novels

Judy Carrier struggles with torn feelings about her friend Mary DiNunzio’s happiness, as well as racing to the side of her cancer-striken aunt, whose close friend, an undocumented worker at a local farm, has died under suspicious circumstances.

By James Grippando
Series Jack Swyteck Novels
Recommended By Ed Goldberg, Head of Reference

When a corrupt President is narrowly reelected by the Electoral College but not the popular vote, Miami attorney Jack Swyteck is embroiled in a political frenzy involving an opponent’s refusal to concede and a lobbyist’s fateful decision.

By Alice Hoffman
Recommended By Pam Strudler, Programming & Arts Librarian

The revelation of a dark secret about Ethan Ford’s true identity and his past threatens to turn a small Massachusetts town upside down as the truth shatters Monroe’s small-town peace and tests the bonds between family and friends.

By Greg Iles
Series Penn Cage Novels

Southern lawyer Penn Cage desperately struggles to protect his father from false charges and corrupt officers by confronting the puppet master behind the Double Eagles terrorist group.

By Krysten Ritter
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

Successful environmental lawyer Abby Williams is forced to confront her small-town past while investigating a high-profile corruption case back home.

By Phillipa Bornikova
Series Linnet Ellery Novels
Recommended By Sonia Grgas, Reference Librarian

“When exquisitely beautiful elves start getting all of the roles in Hollywood, a furious lawsuit by human actors compels the Screen Actors Guild to force the two sides into arbitration, prompting human lawyer, Linnet Ellery to uncover sinister forces that are working to shatter the fragile peace between human and supernatural races (From the Publisher).”

By Michael Connelly
Recommended By Nancy Lowenstein, Library Page

“Connelly is firing on all cylinders in this epic page-turner. The intriguing story line, the chance to view Bosch from another perspective, and Haller's reappearance as a main character add up to a fantastic read. One of the best thrillers of the year (Library Journal).”

By John Grisham

In a maximum security federal prison, three former judges who call themselves “ the brethren” meet daily in the law library to run a rougher form of justice inside their new community, and make a little money, but when one of their scams derails, they are forced to confront the world of their own creation.

By David Rosenfelt
Series Andy Carpenter Novels
Recommended By Nancy Lowenstein, Library Page

“Asked to help safeguard the innocence of a reporter who has been selected as the mouthpiece for a serial killer, defense attorney Andy Carpenter finds his job getting more difficult when the reporter is arrested for the murders (From the Publisher).”

By John Grisham
Recommended By Susan L., Library Page, John Shea, Library Page

“An innocent man is about to be executed. Only a guilty man can save him (From the Publisher).”

By Lisa Scottoline
Series Rosato & Associates Novels

Taking the case of a former classmate who has been wrongly accused of murdering a bully who sent him to juvenile detention when they were children, Bennie is forced to relive some of the darkest memories of her life in order to defend the boy she once failed.

By Fern Michaels
Series Sisterhood Series

The women of the Sisterhood are united by their mission to help those unable to help themselves, but now they’ve encountered opponents who share a unique bond of their own – the ruthless law firm of Queen, King, Bishop & Rook as the Chessmen.

By David Rosenfelt
Series Andy Carpenter Novels
Recommended By Nancy Lowenstein, Library Page

"Attorney Andy Carpenter reluctantly returns to the side of his Wisconsin cop ex-girlfriend to assist in the defense of a young man who may be innocent, a case that is complicated by the secrets of a mysterious religious group (From the Publisher).”

By James Grippando
Series Jack Swyteck Novels
Recommended By John Shea, Library Page

When the president of a black fraternity is murdered, defense attorney Jack Swyteck navigates a maelstrom of racial uprisings as he investigates the chief suspect.

By William Landay
Recommended By Alisa Fogel, Librarian-Programming, Rosemarie Germaine, Senior Library Clerk, Audrey Honigman, Library Clerk, Amy B., Children's Librarian, Pam Strudler, Programming & Arts Librarian, Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

His happy life and long-time respectability as a suburban Massachusetts assistant district attorney shattered when his 14-year-old son is charged with the murder of a fellow student, Andy Barber faces a wrenching decision about family loyalty when the facts increasingly suggest that the boy is guilty.

By Richard North Patterson

The spellbinding story of an American lawyer who takes on a nearly impossible case--the defense of an African freedom fighter against his corrupt government's charge of murdering three PetroGlobal workers.

By Alafair Burke
Recommended By Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian

After agreeing to defend her ex-fiance when he is arrested for a triple homicide, top criminal lawyer, Olivia Randall begins to have doubts as the evidence mounts against him.

By Elizabeth L. Silver

Death-row inmate Noa is slowly persuaded to share the events surrounding a murder in spite of her reluctance to reveal the whole story.

By Richard North Patterson

David Wolfe's life is thrown into turmoil when he is asked to defend a Palestinian woman with whom he had a secret love affair.

By Richard North Patterson
Series Christopher Paget Novels

A high powered San Francisco defense attorney becomes the defendant in a scandalous murder case involving accusations of adultery and sexual abuse, divorce, an ugly custody battle, extortion, and conflicting loyalties.

By William Lashner
Series Victor Carl Thriller

Defending a man who has been accused of the murder of his wife, attorney Victor Carl finds himself pitted against a corrupt police detective and a dentist who has suspiciously transformed the defendant into a well-dressed, successful man.

By Lisa Scottoline
Series Rosato Association Novels
Recommended By Marie McLaughlin, Head of Circulation

When nemesis Nick Machiavelli targets her family with frivolous legal claims and slander that escalate to an unthinkable tragedy, Mary DiNunzio discovers her own unsettling capacity for dark retaliation.

By John Grisham

Mitch McDeere, a Harvard Law graduate, becomes suspicious of his Memphis tax firm when mysterious deaths, obsessive office security, and the Chicago mob figure into its operations.

By Nelson DeMille
Series John Sutter Novels
Recommended By Audrey Honigman, Library Clerk

“Along the wealthy North Shore of New York’s Long Island, the once-affluent Wall Street attorney John Sutter meets Mafia kingpin Frank Bellarosa and finds himself drawn into a seductive world of money and violence (From the Publisher).”

By James Grippando
Series Jack Swyteck Novels
Recommended By John Shea, Library Page

Learning that a man on death row who is days away from being executed may be innocent, Jack Swyteck races against time to discover the truth about the victim, the accused, and the victim’s parents.

By Gillian McAllister
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

When Martha finds herself struggling to manage her business and early motherhood, her sister Becky steps in to help out, but when Becky is charged with the murder of Martha's child, she must choose to believe her sister or the police.

By John Grisham

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.

By John Grisham

In the small north Florida town of Seabrook, a young lawyer named Keith Russo was shot dead at his desk as he worked late one night. The killer left no clues behind. There were no witnesses, no real suspects, no one with a motive. The police soon settled on Quincy Miller, a young black man who was once a client of Russo's.

By Joseph Finder
Series Nick Heller series
Recommended By John Shea, Library Page

Summoned to investigate potentially explosive charges of corruption levied by a gossip website against the chief justice of the Supreme Court, private intelligence operative Nick Heller is given forty-eight hours to prove that the story is baseless.

By Richard North Patterson

In this thriller, military lawyer Paul Terry takes on the case of a young lieutenant accused of fatally shooting his commanding officer with the man’s own gun.

By Kermit Roosevelt

A group of attorneys is assigned to two controversial and difficult cases, a pro bono death penalty case in Virginia and a class action lawsuit against a Texas chemical plant following an on-site explosion that killed dozens of workers.

By John Grisham

While on the hunt for a serial killer, Lacy Stoltz, an investigator for the Florida Board on Judicial Conduct, discovers that a man hiding behind the black robe may not only be taking bribes but may be taking lives.

By Graham Moore
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

When electric light innovator Thomas Edison sues his only remaining rival for patent infringement, George Westinghouse hires untested Columbia Law School graduate Paul Ravath for a case fraught with lies, betrayals, and deception.

By John Grisham
Recommended By John Shea, Library Page

“The novel will satisfy those with an appetite for legal thrillers and those who believe Grisham possesses more talent than those breathless page-turners sometimes reveal. It ranks among his best-written and most atmospheric novels (USA Today).”

By Christopher Bohjalian
Recommended By Betty Petreshock, Reference Librarian

A Vermont state prosecutor, raising his daughter alone after the death of his wife, falls in love with a homeopathic physician. He is faced with a moral and ethical dilemma when Carissa comes under investigation after one of her patients falls into an allergy–induced coma.

By Michael Connelly
Series The Lincoln Lawyer

Mickey Haller, who represents some unsavory characters in his work as a defense lawyer, takes on his first high-paying and possibly innocent client in years, but finds the case complicated by events that suggest a particularly evil perpetrator.

By John Grisham
Recommended By John Shea, Library Page

“Law firm partners Oscar Finley and Wally Figg see a chance for huge financial gain when they learn of a pending class action lawsuit against the makers of Krayoxx, a popular cholesterol-reducing drug suspected of causing heart attacks (From the Publisher).”

By Adam Mitzner

Influential attorney Aaron Littmann is hired to represent a Russian businessman who is being tried for financing terrorist acts and who threatens to expose Aaron’s torrid affair with the case’s judge.

By Douglas Brunt

An incisive portrait of ambition, power and today’s ruthless political world follows the experiences of a conservative trial attorney, a president-elect and a child-actor-turned journalist who triggers a scandal with a decade-old story.

By Angie Kim
Recommended By Audrey Honigman, Library Clerk

A dramatic murder trial in the aftermath of an experimental medical treatment and a fatal explosion upends a rural Virginia community where personal secrets and private ambitions complicate efforts to uncover what happened.

By Greg Iles
Series Penn Cage Novels

Penn Cage must investigate when his father, a beloved family doctor and pillar of the community, is accused of murdering Violet Davis, the beautiful nurse with whom he worked in the dark days of the early 1960s.

By David Rosenfelt
Series Andy Carpenter Novels
Recommended By Nancy Lowenstein, Library Page

 “In Rosenfelt's excellent 7^th legal thriller to feature Paterson, N.J., defense attorney Andy Carpenter, Andy takes on another canine client-Waggy, a Bernese mountain puppy, who's somehow connected to the murder of Walter Timmerman, a semi-titan in the pharmaceutical industry (From Publishers Weekly).”

By Ronald H. Balson
Recommended By Susan L., Library Page
With Jackie Ranaldo, Head of Readers' Services

Tuesday, April 25, 2017. 1:30 PM.

Elliot Rosenzweig, a wealthy Chicago philanthropist, is attending opening night at the opera. Ben Solomon, a retired Polish immigrant, makes his way through the crowd and shoves a gun in Rosenzweig's face, denouncing him as former SS officer. Rosenzweig uses his enormous influence to get Solomon released from jail, but Solomon commences a relentless pursuit to bring Rosenzweig before the courts to answer for war crimes.

By Scott Turrow
Series Kindle County
Recommended By Audrey Honigman, Library Clerk

When a beautiful lawyer from the prosecuting attorney’s office, Carolyn Polhemus, is brutally murdered, assistant prosecutor Rusty Sabich is entrusted with the case. But he and Carolyn were much more than colleagues, and a zealous fellow prosecutor becomes convinced that Sabich is guilty of the crime

Became the movie: Presumed Innocent.

By Giolito Persson
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services, Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

Maja Norberg, a wealthy Swedish prep school student, describes her trial for her involvement in a mass murder that killed her boyfriend and her best friend, detailing her life and the circumstances surrounding the event.

By John Grisham
Recommended By John Shea, Library Page

When a federal judge and his secretary fail to appear for a scheduled trial and panicked clerks call for an FBI investigation, a harrowing murder case ensues and culminates in the imprisonment of a lawyer who imparts the story of who killed the judge and why.

By John Grisham

The intricacies of the American legal system come alive in a suspenseful tale of courtroom drama, corporate greed, intrigue, and danger.