Prosecuting a murder case, Roger Karp, an assistant D.A., is determined to insure that Mandeville Louis, the killer, does not escape justice.
Ordinary heroes
Stewart Dubinsky knew his father had served in World War II. And he’d been told how David Dubin (as his father had Americanized the name that Stewart later reclaimed) had rescued Stewart’s mother from the horror of the Balingen concentration camp. But when he discovers, after his father’s death, a packet of wartime letters to(…)
Outrage
Months after a brutal double homicide in uptown Manhattan shocks the city, sensational newspaper headlines herald the arrest and indictment of Felix Acevedo, a shy Bronx teenager who confessed to the horrific crimes. But downtown, in the district attorney’s office, Butch Karp is seething. No sooner does he bask in the relief of successfully closing(…)
Personal Injuries
Robbie Feaver is a successful personal injury lawyer, with a burgeoning practice, a way with the ladies and a beautiful wife he loves — who is dying of an irreversible illness. He also has a secret bank account where he occasionally deposits funds which make their way into the pockets of judges who decide Robbie’s(…)
Pleading Guilty
Mack Malloy is a partner in one of Kindle County’s top law firms. An ex-cop who joined the firm on a wave of enthusiasm and optimism, he now feels himself to be on the way down, and possibly out. Bert Kamin, gifted, erratic and combative, is one of the firm’s star litigators and he has(…)
Presumed Innocent
Set in America, this story draws on crime, police procedure and the courtroom. The central character, working in the State Prosecutor’s office of a large American city, is investigating the murder of one of his colleagues, a woman.
Reckless Endangerment
Resurrects Butch Karp and Marlene Ciampi in a legal thriller in which the murder of an elderly Jewish couple may be connected to a sixteen-year-old Arab runaway who kills her pimp in self-defense.
Resolved
“A convicted killer named Felix Tighe has escaped from prison and has vowed to hunt down and execute the NYPD detectives who arrested him years ago. But there’s more – Tighe’s also planning a fight to the death with Chief Assistant District Attorney Butch Karp, the man who put him away.” Felix Tighe’s laser-focused, obsessive(…)
Reversible Error
As major New York drug dealers are murdered one by one, Assistant D.A. Butch Karp launches an investigation and begins to suspect that the police department’s senior detective on the case, Clay Fulton, is corrupt.
Reversible Errors
A supercharged, exquisitely suspenseful novel about a vicious triple murder and the man condemned to die for it. Rommy “Squirrel” Gandloph is an inmate on death row for a 1991 triple murder. His slow progress toward execution is nearing completion when Arthur Raven, a corporate lawyer and Rommy’s reluctant representative, receives word of new evidence(…)
Silent Partner
“Angela Day has survived a rough past – from a hardscrabble childhood scarred by the tragic deaths of her father and best friend, to losing custody of her only child to her adulterous ex-husband and his powerful family. But despite it all, at thirty-one she’s carved out a good career with Sumter Bank, one of(…)
The Abduction
In the small city of Strattenburg, there are many lawyers, and though he’s only thirteen years old, Theo Boone thinks he’s one of them. Theo knows every judge, policeman, court clerk – and a lot about the law. He dreams of a life in the courtroom. But he finds himself in court much sooner than(…)
The Burden of Proof
Alejandro “Sandy” Stern, the most celebrated defence lawyer in the Mid-western city where he lives, comes home from a business trip to find that Clara, his wife of 30 years, has committed suicide.
The Snow Tiger
A small mining community in New Zealand is devastated when ‘the snow tiger’ (an avalanche) rips apart their entire township in a matter of minutes, killing fifty-four people. In the course of the ensuing enquiry, the antagonisms and fears of the community are laid bare, and a ruthless battle, for control of a multi-million pound(…)
Theodore Boone. A Kid Lawyer
In the small city of Strattenburg, there are many lawyers, and though he’s only thirteen years old, Theo Boone thinks he’s one of them. Theo knows every judge, policeman, court clerk – and a lot about the law. He dreams of being a great trial lawyer, of a life in the courtroom. But Theo finds(…)
True Justice
For Butch Karp, chief assistant district attorney for New York County, the nightmare begins with the discovery of a newborn baby, apparently murdered, then casually discarded with the city’s refuse. Goaded by the media’s sensational publicity, the public is screaming for blood, and Karp’s boss, D.A. Jack Keegan, is listening. He has ordered the prosecution(…)