Books like Black Water Rising
In 1981 Jay Porter, a struggling Black lawyer in Houston who was once a student radical, takes his pregnant wife on a cheap birthday boat ride on the bayou, hears gunshots, and pulls a white woman out of the water.
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Bluebird, Bluebird
Darren Mathews, a Black Texas Ranger on suspension, drives up Highway 59 to the small town of Lark, where a Black lawyer from Chicago and a local white woman have both been found dead in the bayou.
Cimarron Rose
Billy Bob Holland, a former Texas Ranger turned defence lawyer, haunted by the partner he killed by accident, defends a teenage boy accused of murder who is his own illegitimate son.
A Time to Kill
A small-town Mississippi lawyer takes the case of a black father who killed the two white men who raped his daughter, and the Klan starts showing up in the parking lot.
The Firm
Mitch McDeere, near the top of his class at Harvard Law, accepts an offer too good to refuse from a small, rich Memphis tax firm, and learns that no lawyer has ever left it alive.
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
A disgraced journalist and a young hacker investigate the disappearance of a woman from a wealthy Swedish family, uncovering decades of violence hidden behind respectability.
Absolute Power
Luther Whitney, an ageing master burglar, is hiding in the vault of a billionaire's Virginia mansion when he watches the President of the United States and his Secret Service agents take part in a woman's death, and then finds himself hunted for what he saw.
Briarpatch
Benjamin Dill, a Senate investigator, goes home to his southern city for the funeral of his sister, a homicide detective killed by a car bomb, and starts asking questions.
The Man from Beijing
After nineteen people are massacred in a remote Swedish village, a judge related to one of the victims follows the trail back to nineteenth-century railroad labour in America and forward to modern China.
Presumed Innocent
Rusty Sabich, chief deputy prosecutor in a Midwestern county, is put in charge of investigating the murder of a colleague with whom he once had an affair, and soon finds himself charged with the crime.
March: Book One
Congressman John Lewis's graphic memoir of the civil rights movement, from his Alabama childhood to the march on Selma.
The Lincoln Lawyer
Mickey Haller, a Los Angeles defence lawyer who works out of the back of his Lincoln Town Car, lands a rich client accused of assault and starts to suspect the man is guilty of far worse, including a crime one of Haller's old clients went to prison for.
Ace of Spades
At Niveus Academy, an elite private school, the only two Black students, Devon, a quiet musician, and Chiamaka, the ambitious head girl, are targeted by an anonymous texter called Aces who begins exposing their secrets to the whole school.