
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.
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Eddie Flynn, a con man turned New York defence lawyer, joins the team defending Robert Solomon, a young film star charged with murdering his wife, without knowing that the real killer has got himself onto the jury.

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.

Sarah Morgan, one of Washington's star defence attorneys, takes the hardest case of her career when her husband Adam, a struggling writer, is charged with murdering the woman he had been seeing at their lake house.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Philip Marlowe befriends Terry Lennox, a scarred, polite drunk married to a millionaire's daughter, and when Terry asks for a ride to Tijuana, Marlowe is drawn into a case that reaches deep into Los Angeles money and power.

Harald and Claudia Lindgard, a comfortable white couple in post-apartheid Johannesburg, learn that their son has been arrested for murder.

LAPD detective Harry Bosch recognises the body found in a drainage pipe near the Mulholland Dam as Billy Meadows, who fought beside him as a tunnel rat in Vietnam, and the case leads to a bank vault robbed from below the city and an uneasy partnership with FBI agent Eleanor Wish.

James Answell is found unconscious in a locked study beside the body of his prospective father-in-law, shot through with an arrow, and Sir Henry Merrivale has to prove at the Old Bailey that he didn't do it.