James Williams, a prominent businessman and pillar of Derrick, Oklahoma, has been shot and killed. His son, Frank, who has just earned his MBA, returns home in time to attend his father’s…
Legal Thrillers
Lawyer Dutch Francis faces an impossible situation—search for your missing wife or defend your high-profile client. Dutch Francis is a defense attorney in the case of a judge accused of killing his…
By Azam Gill Prolific author R. Barri Flowers’s 100-plus novels have left Stephen King’s 60 and Isaac Asimov’s 37 well behind and could, one day, even overtake Brazilian author Ryoki Inoue’s Guinness…
By José H. Bográn On the surface, Joel Burcat’s new novel STRANGE FIRE is about fracking and the harm it causes to the residents of a small town. But below the surface,…
No one knows when and how the magic was reborn. Maybe it never went away. After all, some people have always seen, experienced, and … sometimes … feared the supernatural, from pixies…
By Terry DiDomenico The truth is, THE TRUTH OF IT ALL languished for more than a year before it was pulled out of storage and given a relook thanks to a publisher’s…
By Dawn Ius As a practicing environmental lawyer, Joel Burcat knows a thing or two about issues that impact the environment—some of them with dangerous consequences. As a writer, Burcat knows just…
By Austin S. Camacho You might not expect boats, beaches, and bars to be the ingredients for a gripping legal thriller, but THE VENTURI EFFECT by Sage Webb will surely change your…
At the easternmost end of Long Island lies a seaside town known as Montauk. Ground Zero on the Eastern Seaboard for all manner of conspiracy theories involving its hidden Cold War military…
“The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers.” –Dick the Butcher, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 2, Act IV, Scene 2 Ron Rellick agrees. Simple and sweet. We all know…
Alaskan attorney Maeve Malloy isn’t sure she’s cut out to be a lawyer anymore. So she takes a kitchen job at a remote lodge while she sorts out her life, hiding her…
By David Healey In her ambitious new novel, author Cara Putman takes on so many topics that this thriller is hard to classify. The story touches on human trafficking, the issue of…
By Austin S. Camacho Tragedy and loss have been the basis of many great thrillers. Greed, jealousy, and murder have sparked many great mysteries. At the intersection of murder mystery and suspenseful…
By Nish Amarnath The legal thriller genre has transcended the contours of Mary Higgins Clark’s thrill killings and John Grisham’s courtroom drama to combine history, adventure, fantasy, and Gothicism in ways that…
She says she’s innocent. DO YOU BELIEVE HER? 2013 Melissa Slade had it all: beauty, money, a successful husband, and beautiful twin babies. But, in the blink of an eye, her perfect…
By Rick Reed LAY BARE THE LIE is Diana Deverell’s sixth novel in her Nora Dockson legal thriller series, which centers on an ex-con who pulls herself out of the gutter and…
By Robert Rotstein Justice rarely comes easy, even in a fair legal system. But what if the country were drifting toward dictatorship? What if the entrenched powers were jailing the opposition and…
By Robert Rotstein Late one August night, attorney Jessie Martin, seven months pregnant, receives a phone call from her mentor/confidante, popular high school teacher Terrence Butterfield. A frantic Butterfield confesses he’s killed…
In Anchorage, Alaska, Yup’ik Eskimo chief financial officer and single mother, Esther Fancyboy, walks out of a party and into a blizzard. She is never seen again, leaving behind a seven-year-old son,…
By Austin S. Camacho The psychological thriller might be the most challenging type to write well, but Laurie Stevens has cracked that code as she demonstrates with her new release, THE MASK…
By Austin S. Camacho Legal thrillers seem to be making a comeback—and if you’re looking for a twisty one with heart, check out the latest by William L. Myers, Jr., A KILLER’S…
Jodi McGee, narrator of THE ANSWER TO EVERYTHING, has a 17-year-old daughter, a husband in prison, and a deep affection for Clifford Hickey, a San Diego journalist. When Clifford’s brother Alvaro assists…