18 books like Next of Kin
The devil's half mile
"Seven years after a financial crisis nearly toppled America, traders chafe at government regulations, racial tensions are rising, gangs roam the streets and corrupt financiers make back-door deals with politicians... 1799 was a hell of a year. Thanks to Alexander Hamilton, America has recovered from the panic on the Devil's Half Mile (aka Wall Street), but the young country is still finding its…
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Death Walks the Woods
Also published as That Yew Tree's Shade
The archdruid's yew, Yew Hill, Markshire, had provided cover in its day for a variety of activities, but never before had it been shelter for murder. Then one day, in the calm of Eastertide, murder was found; and overnight, as the police began their remorseless questioning, Yewbury was shocked out of admiring foliage.
Detective Superintendent Trimble had…
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Depraved Indifference
A DRUNK DRIVING CASE IS ONLY A DRUNK DRIVING CASE... UNTIL SOMEONE DIESAn Audi sports car, speeding in the wrong lane, forces an oncoming van off the road. The van bursts into flames, killing all nine occupants...eight of them children.Criminal defense attorney Harrison J. Walker, known simply as Jaywalker, is trying to keep his nose clean while serving a three-year suspension. But when a woman…
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A Hallowed Place
Beneath the calm exterior of the elite barristers' chambers at 5 Caper Court rumour and uncertainty begin to take their toll. Cameron Renshaw, the head of chambers, is dying, and Leo Davis, the QC with the charmed but amoral life, is about to find his dubious past catching up with him.
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Prey to All
"Trish Maguire joins the fight to free Deb Gibbert from a life sentence for the murder of her father." "Trish's own father is lying in intensive care after a heart attack, she has a heavy workload and a full life, but Deb's agonising story pulls her deeper and deeper into the campaign. Having visited the prison to hear Deb's account of what happened the night her father died, Trish cannot believe…
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The D.A. Draws a Circle
A California D.A. investigates a corpse without clothes and bloody clothes without a body in this classic mystery by the author of the Perry Mason series."The bestselling author of the century . . . a master storyteller." —The New York TimesAlphonse Baker Carr is the smooth-talking defense lawyer murderers and gangsters turn to when they want to win in court. To escape the hustle…
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Daisychain
Over the course of three days, the paths of three people's lives will intersect and change forever ... Logan Finch is sitting pretty, with his penthouse apartment and a shot at making partner in Glasgow's largest law firm. Yet he still pines for the woman he thought was 'the one' and who left him with no word of explanation twelve years ago. Alex Cahill is a client and friend of Logan. The…
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Big Shots
Vast shoplifting ring operating in Britain'A highly organised gang of Australian shoplifters is at work in Britain stealing goods worth hundreds of thousands of pounds a year. New members of the gang are flown from Australia whenever the organisers want replacements.'The Guardian, 15 August 1968From the mid 1960s, a brazen band of Australian thieves ran riot in London for more than a decade,…
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Proof positive
Defense attorney Doug Weaver believes his client, Jacob Cohen, is innocent--but the forensic evidence proves beyond the shadow of a doubt that the meek, mentally ill homeless man killed and dismembered a woman.. Hired to defend gangster Art Prochaska against charges that he murdered an informer, lawyer Amanda Jaffe and her father, Frank, have their work cut out for them--because, as improbable as…
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Dark Harbour
When his former lover is killed, a lawyer is drawn into a murder investigation alongside a female detective in this debut thriller.When the body of his co-worker and ex-lover is found in Boston Harbor, attorney Sean Finn becomes a suspect in her murder. With an ambitious female police detective after answers, Finn is unaware of what's at stake if the truth about the killing is finally uncovered.
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City of Stairs
The city of Bulikov once wielded the powers of the gods to conquer the world, enslaving and brutalizing millions — until its divine protectors were killed. Now, Bulikov’s history has been censored and erased, its citizens subjugated. But the surreal landscape of the city itself, forever altered by the thousands of miracles its guardians once worked upon it, stands as a haunting reminder of its…
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A chain of evidence
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Matters of doubt
"Cal Claxton is determined to reinvent himself as a small town lawyer in the aftermath of his wife's suicide. Once a hardcharging L.A. prosecutor, he now lives in an old farmhouse overlooking the Oregon wine country. When a scruffy, tattooed kid shows up asking for help in solving his mother's cold case murder, Cal wants to say no. But the kid, who calls himself Picasso, has ridden a bike from…
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A Burial at Sea
In March 1873 aristocratic sleuth Charles Lenox undertakes a delicate espionage mission to Egypt, where five British agents have been killed, apparently by the French. But soon after Charles's ship sets sail, the captain calls on him to dust off his deductive skills when a crew member is murdered and left eviscerated on the deck.
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Sovereign
The third installment of C. J. Sansom's acclaimed Matthew Shardlake mystery seriesC. J . Sansom has garnered a wider audience and increased critical praise with each new novel published. His first book in the Matthew Shardlake series, Dissolution, was selected by P. D. James in The Wall Street Journal as one of her top-five all-time favorite books. Now in Sovereign, Shardlake and his loyal…
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Ghost Shadow
"There are those who walk among us who are no longer alive, but not yet crossed over. They seek retribution, vengeance, to warn. Among the living, few intuit their presence. Katie O'Hara is one who can. As she's drawn deeper and deeper into a gruesome years-old murder, whispered warnings from a spectral friend become more and more insistent. But Katie must uncover the truth: could David Beckett…
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The Good Rat LP
"I didn't tell anyone that I was going to Santa Fe to kill myself."On the outside, Terri Cheney was a highly successful, attractive Beverly Hills entertainment lawyer. But behind her seemingly flawless facade lay a dangerous secret—for the better part of her life Cheney had been battling debilitating bipolar disorder and concealing a pharmacy's worth of prescriptions meant to stabilize her moods…
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An Innocent Client
A preacher is stabbed to death in a Tennessee motel. The suspect is a waitress at a strip club.Defense attorney Joe Dillard's too burnt out to defend anyone he knows in his heart is guilty.Then he meets the vulnerable Angel—the accused, incriminated by circumstantial evidence. Dillard's sure she's not capable of killing anyone. What Dillard doesn't count on are the others drawn into the storm of…
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