Jay Brandon Bücher

In der von dunklen Wäldern umgebenen Kleinstadt Galilee wird die Idylle durch einen Doppelmord und die Entführung eines Babys erschüttert. Kelsey Thatch, Sonderanklägerin, muss sich zwischen den Intrigen der Stadt und dem Druck der Matriarchin Alice Beaumont entscheiden, während sie die Wahrheit über ihren Schwager Billy Fletcher herausfinden will.

Als Bezirksstaatsanwalt Mark Blackwell erfährt, daß sein Sohn David verhaftet wurde, bricht eine Welt für ihn zusammen. David wird beschuldigt, eine schwarze Frau vergewaltigt zu haben. Zwei Sonderstaatsanwälte nehmen sich des Falles an, schließlich kommt es zum Prozeß und David wird als schuldig verurteilt. Selbst Mark Blackwell mag nicht mehr an die Unschuldsbeteuerungen seines Sohnes glauben. Da taucht plötzlich ein Fremder auf und behauptet, David sei das Opfer einer Intrige geworden.

Im texanischen San Antonio wird ein Prozeß zur Kraftprobe zwischen zwei ehemaligen Freunden: dem Staatsanwalt Marc Blackwell und dem Verteidiger Eliot Quinn. Mit juristischen Schachzügen soll ein durch Machenschaften korrumpiertes Justizsystem gedeckt werden . . .

Ein renommierter schwarzer Anwalt in Texas vertritt einen wegen seiner brutalen Methoden berüchtigten weißen Drogenfahnder vor Gericht. Der Polizist soll einen schwarzen Verdächtigen zu Tode geprügelt haben. Die Beweise erscheinen erdrückend. Doch er streitet die Tat ab und stellt die Fairneß seines Verteidigers auf eine harte Probe. Ein Justiz-Thriller, unsentimental und überraschend bis zur letzten Seite.

Fresh out of prison, former lawyer Edward Hall thinks his days in the courtroom are behind him. Until his sister, Dr Amy Hall, is arrested for murder…She’s been accused of shooting the ex-husband she supposedly reconciled with and is convinced that her ex-convict brother is the only one able to save her. To make matters worse, the media won’t ignore Amy’s high-profile case; an example needs to be made of a doctor murdering another doctor. So Edward promises to do everything he can to protect his sister, because she is innocent, isn’t she?Edward finds himself back in the courtroom facing Cynthia, the judge responsible for his arrest and imprisonment all those years ago. With personal grudges heavy in the air, can Edward spare his sister from a brutal sentencing that could cost her her life?

The plot revolves around a peculiar terrorist attack aimed at tarnishing a secret society, thrusting Jack Driscoll and Israeli security expert Rachel Green into a high-stakes scenario. They team up with an alluring yet enigmatic woman to thwart a subsequent attack targeting a crucial global economic summit in Europe. As they navigate the complexities of espionage, alliances, and hidden agendas, the tension escalates, revealing the intricate web of international intrigue.

Disbarred defence attorney Edward Hall discovers that in order to win his case he has to lose in this tense and twisting legal thriller."You want me to represent the most hated man in Houston?"Disbarred Texas lawyer Edward Hall returns to the courtroom after accepting an offer from the District Attorney to represent the most obviously guilty defendant in town. It's a poisoned chalice. Not only is his client charged with kidnapping the DA's sister, he is already well-known for the previous kidnapping of a celebrity's son.But if Edward handles this well, he has a chance to regain his law licence. And Edward understand that by 'handling the case well', the DA means he needs to lose. Labouring under this impossible conflict of interest, Edward prepares for the trial with the help of his resourceful girlfriend Linda. But as the trial approaches, Edward finds himself having to solve and prove a completely different one of cold-blooded murder.

Jordan Marshall is an ex-DA from San Antonio who, in exchange for being let off a minor motoring offence, agrees to take on an apparently cut-and-dried assault. However, the case becomes more complicated, and nobody will tell Marshall what he needs to know.

Raymond Boudro, San Antonio's best black criminal lawyer, has publicly branded white police detective Mike Stennett a racist. But now Boudro has accepted Stennett as a client, with one warning: The truth or I ruin you. Stennett is accused of beating a black drifter to death; an eyewitness claims to have seen the whole thing. With his own hard-won reputation at stake, and a client even other cops distrust, Boudro is driven by a gut feeling for justice. Even Stennett, he believes, would not stubbornly insist he is innocent against such odds unless something in this perplexing case were not what it seemed to be.Combing through the evidence, working his network of childhood buddies, informers, and dealers on San Antonio's east side, Boudro unearths a witness who can probably determine the outcome of the trial. But he still has nagging doubts about his client's character and his plea. As the curtain rises on the courtroom drama, the stage is set for a double and deadly duel--not simply Prosecution v. Defense, but a community's volatile emotions v. the raw and shattering truth.