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Steve Cavanagh · 2018 · UK · thriller
★ 4.20 Goodreads · 133,124 ratings

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.

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12 books for readers of Thirteen

The Lincoln Lawyer

Michael Connelly · 2005 · US 98% match ★ 4.23 Goodreads · 266,951 ratings
Book 1 of 8 in The Lincoln Lawyer
shares: lawyer, legal, courtroom · fast-paced, intricate plot

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.

The Perfect Marriage

Jeneva Rose · 2020 · US 97% match ★ 3.97 Goodreads · 1,314,711 ratings
shares: lawyer, legal, courtroom · fast-paced, suspenseful

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.

The Firm

John Grisham · 1991 · US 96% match ★ 4.07 Goodreads · 640,518 ratings
Book 1 of 2 in The Firm
shares: lawyer, legal, cat and mouse · easy read, story-driven

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.

Absolute Power

David Baldacci · 1996 · US 96% match ★ 4.21 Goodreads · 117,119 ratings
shares: lawyer, cat and mouse, propulsive, legal · suspenseful, fast-paced

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.

Along Came a Spider

James Patterson · 1993 · US 96% match ★ 4.13 Goodreads · 501,818 ratings
Book 1 of 34 in Alex Cross
shares: cat and mouse, serial killer, propulsive · fast-paced, suspenseful

Washington detective and psychologist Alex Cross is pulled off the murders he is working in his own Southeast DC neighbourhood to hunt Gary Soneji, a mild-mannered maths teacher who has kidnapped two children from an elite private school and wants the whole country watching.

The Poet

Michael Connelly · 1996 · US 96% match ★ 4.23 Goodreads · 113,425 ratings
shares: cat and mouse, serial killer, propulsive · intricate plot, suspenseful

Jack McEvoy, a crime reporter in Denver, sets out to write about the apparent suicide of his twin brother, a homicide detective, and finds other police deaths across the country that look the same.

Rules of Prey

John Sandford · 1989 · US 95% match ★ 4.11 Goodreads · 97,497 ratings
Book 1 of 35 in Prey
shares: cat and mouse, serial killer, propulsive · suspenseful, story-driven

A killer the Minneapolis papers call the maddog leaves a note of his rules with each victim, and Lieutenant Lucas Davenport, a rich, restless detective who designs war games on the side, decides to beat him at his own game.

A Time to Kill

John Grisham · 1989 · US 95% match ★ 4.13 Goodreads · 835,218 ratings
Book 1 of 3 in Jake Brigance
shares: legal, courtroom, propulsive · easy read, suspenseful

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.

Presumed Innocent

Scott Turow · 1987 · US 94% match ★ 4.09 Goodreads · 128,953 ratings
shares: lawyer, legal, courtroom · intricate plot, suspenseful

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.

Darker Than Night

John Lutz · 2004 · US 94% match ★ 3.88 Goodreads · 2,014 ratings
Book 1 of 12 in Frank Quinn
shares: serial killer, New York · easy read, story-driven

Frank Quinn, a New York homicide detective whose career was ended by a frame-up, is offered a way back when a killer the papers call the Night Prowler starts slipping into couples' homes.

Tell No One

Harlan Coben · 2001 · US 94% match ★ 4.05 Goodreads · 201,862 ratings
shares: twisty, propulsive, New York · fast-paced, intricate plot

Eight years after his wife Elizabeth was abducted and murdered at their childhood lake, paediatrician David Beck receives an anonymous email containing a phrase only she knew, and a link to a street camera in which a woman who looks like her stares back.

Fool Me Once

Harlan Coben · 2016 · US 94% match ★ 3.97 Goodreads · 145,557 ratings
shares: twisty, propulsive · fast-paced, intricate plot

Two weeks after burying her husband Joe, shot in front of her in Central Park, former Army helicopter pilot Maya Stern checks the nanny cam she hid to watch her daughter's sitter and sees Joe playing with their little girl.