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Cram Down: A 3J Legal Thriller book #4 by Mark Shaiken

A deeply engrossing and riveting legal thriller… Shaiken’s fourth installment in the 3J Legal Thriller series features a winding crime plot that’s enriched and deepened by touching on issues of human greed, power play, violence, class, and race. James and…
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Nine Popes with Nine Gavels: A Star Gwiazda legal thriller by Alex Charns & Basia Gwiazdowska

A juicy, rip-roaring courtroom drama…. Laws to sexual privacy and abortion provide the base for another complex and thrilling case for Star Gwiazda and Zenko Luczek. 2025. Masturbation is now criminalized under the law after privacy protections fell in the…
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The Girl Who Wore A Hockey Helmet: A Star Gwiazda Public Defender legal thriller by Alex Charns

Smart, exciting… Ripe for web adaptation. Murder of a bigoted trial judge in a car explosion provokes a conspiracy and Assistant Public Defender Star Gwiazda charged with first-degree murder in Charns’ exhilarating latest instalment in A Star Gwiazda Public Defender…
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Power Blind (A Dana Hargrove Legal Mystery) by V.S. Kemanis

An intricate, top-drawer legal thriller… Kemanis’s latest novel, the sixth in Dana Hargrove series, is a solid, fascinating legal thriller that explores the limits of love, guilt, and punishment. Former prosecutor Dana Hargrove, who has been appointed as an appellate…
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Barrio Butterfly by Alex Charns

Cleverly plotted, carefully nuanced, and immensely readable… A page-turner. Star and Zenko find themselves fighting the Durham, N.C. criminal justice system to save an innocent undocumented Salvadoran refugee from life imprisonment in Charns’s latest, an utterly engrossing courtroom drama. When…
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A Scandal of the Particular by Steve Hamilton

An unbearably tense legal thriller… Vivid and intense, Hamilton’s dark debut adeptly articulates the challenges and complexities of love and violence. Attorney Hyman Kazan is at his lowest point in life: with a struggling legal career and a failed relationship,…
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The Black Madonna by Alex Charns

Outrageously entertaining… A total page-turner. Devious power plays, corrupt bureaucratic system, and hidden alliances set readers’ pulse racing in Charns’s hard-edged, smart satiric latest featuring the endearing pair of law partners Zenko and Star.  It’s just another day for the…
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Demented by Joe Clark

Intense, dark, and an absolute page-turner… As much social commentary as crime drama, Clark’s solid latest finds a rape victim trying to deal with her past trauma. Cindy Foster was gang raped fifteen years ago after her then-boyfriend, the handsome…
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Blood on Their Hands by Bob Brink

A deliciously readable crime drama… With a grim picture of racism embodied in the theme, Brink’s latest introduces a racist and miserly alcoholic yet endearing hero, a criminal defense attorney who finds himself in the middle of violent conspiracies involving…