Legal Thriller

The legal thriller is a sub-genre of thriller and crime fiction in which the major characters are lawyers and their employees. The system of justice itself is always a major part of these works, at times almost functioning as one of the characters. In this way, the legal system provides the framework for the legal thriller much as the system of modern police work does for the police procedural.

New Releases Tagged "Legal Thriller"

The Truth about the Devlins
Finding Sophie
The #1 Lawyer
The Exchange: After The Firm
The Truth about the Devlins
The #1 Lawyer
Resurrection Walk (The Lincoln Lawyer, #7; Harry Bosch Universe, #38)
False Witness
The Trial
The Boys from Biloxi
The Judge's List (The Whistler, #2)
Blood Orange
12 Months to Live (Jane Smith #1)
Camino Winds (Camino Island, #2)
The Guardians
The Intern
The Law of Innocence (The Lincoln Lawyer, #6; Harry Bosch Universe #35)
A Time for Mercy (Jake Brigance, #3)
A Time to Kill (Jake Brigance, #1)
The Pelican Brief
The Client
The Runaway Jury
The Lincoln Lawyer (The Lincoln Lawyer, #1; Harry Bosch Universe, #16)
The Rainmaker
The Street Lawyer
The Firm
The Partner
Sycamore Row (Jake Brigance, #2)
The Chamber
The Testament
The Confession
The Last Juror
The King of Torts

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I’m in this plot because you took my lot.
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Morley Swingle
By 'Perry Mason moment,' I mean that climactic instant during a trial when you have just done something fantastic and everyone in the courtroom knows it. Your brilliant question or some stunning admission you coerced from a witness has left the opposing lawyer reeling, his mouth agape, and jurors amazed and entertained. The case is won; the rest of the trial is a formality. Your friends and colleagues are itching to congratulate you as soon as a recess is called. Only a supreme effort of will on ...more
Morley Swingle, Scoundrels to the Hoosegow: Perry Mason Moments and Entertaining Cases from the Files of a Prosecuting Attorney

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