Books like 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.
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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.
Black Cherry Blues
Dave Robicheaux, a former New Orleans cop grieving his murdered wife, runs a bait shop in New Iberia with his adopted daughter, until an old friend draws him into trouble with oil men and the mob.
The Neon Rain
Fishing in a bayou outside New Orleans, Detective Dave Robicheaux finds the body of a young woman in the water, and when he refuses to let the case go, he is warned off by people from both sides of the law.
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.
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.
Silent Joe
Joe Trona, scarred as a baby when his father threw acid in his face, works as a deputy in Orange County and as bodyguard to the county supervisor who adopted him, until the man is shot dead in front of him.
Down the River Unto the Sea
Joe King Oliver, a New York detective framed and thrown off the force, now a private investigator, gets a letter that sets him looking into his own case and that of a Black journalist on death row.
Blacktop Wasteland
Beauregard 'Bug' Montague runs an honest garage in rural Virginia and has left behind the getaway driving that made him a legend. With the garage failing and bills mounting, he agrees to drive for one last job, a jewellery store robbery.
The Bottoms
In East Texas during the Depression, eleven-year-old Harry Crane finds the mutilated body of a Black woman in the river bottoms, and his father, the local constable, sets out to find the killer.
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.
Down River
Adam Chase, acquitted of murder five years ago but cast out by his family, comes home to Rowan County, North Carolina, when an old friend asks for help, and bodies start turning up.
Paris Trout
In 1949 in Cotton Point, Georgia, Paris Trout, a white storekeeper and moneylender, shoots a fourteen-year-old Black girl over a debt, and cannot see why the town thinks he has done anything wrong.