A thirty-minute on-camera interview of a researcher connecting the most popular anti-wrinkle cream in the market to autoimmune disease triggers an uncontrollable barrage of mass tort lawsuits against Pearl-Line, Inc., the nation's premiere cosmetics company. Despite the absence of any credible evidence the cream causes this disease, the convincing accusations of the researcher drives juries throughout the United States to want to punish Pearl-Line. The best of the best products liability d...

Tom Rose had waited eight long years to get to this point when he is about to be promoted to become a partner at Stern & Hobbs. At this critical juncture of his career, he is urged to represent Hope Kane, a pro bono client who is awaiting trial for the murder of her husband and daughter. Hope had been the topic of headline news just a year before, not only for her horrific crime, but also because she had refused to utter a single word from the moment of her arrest. Her identity is a comple...

The demise of Ian Ramsey did nothing to halt Odin or his criminal empire, which continued to devastate the lives of innocent women. That grim reality haunts Tom Rose and drives him to embark on a relentless mission to bring Odin down once and for all. Odin, tormented by the murder of his own son, is consumed by vengeance. He sets his sights on Tom and his allies, determined to exact retribution against anyone he believes played a role in his son's death. Though Tom is resolved to face this...

Despite all that was revealed about Ian Ramsey's crimes during the Hope Kane criminal trial, Ramsey is still walking the streets as a free man. Prosecutors are hesitant to indict a powerful man like Ian Ramsey, unless they are presented with irrefutable evidence that will guarantee a conviction. Until Ramsey is tried and convicted of his crimes, Hope and her friends, Edward Miller and Annie Sharpe, must live each day in fear of Ramsey taking revenge against them for derailing his scheme to...

In this original short story from #1 New York Times bestselling author Michael Connelly, LAPD Detective Harry Bosch seeks justice for the forgottenNOTE: This file includes a preview of Michael Connelly's novel The Crossing.In "Switchblade," an anonymous tip puts Bosch on a case that has remained unsolved for decades, the vicious stabbing of a teenage boy whose body was found in an abandoned Old Hollywood restaurant.

“A crackling legal thriller. . . . Burke is a former prosecutor, so she knows what she's writing about, getting the details all in place. She's also a gifted storyteller, which makes Close Case suspenseful, thought-provoking and a lot of fun.”—Chicago Sun-TimesDeputy District Attorney Samantha Kincaid likes to be where the action is: at the scene of a crime, at the arrest of a suspect, with the cops on the Major Crimes Team...

Every 9 seconds in the US a woman is assaulted or beaten. Every day in the US, more than three women are murdered by their husbands or boyfriends.Best friends, Kim and Trina get a big reality check when the men they love have more love of money, the streets, sex, and revenge. Total denial sneaks into the forefront and causes them to be blinded. Physical & mental abuse, death and the penitentiary delivers them a hand that’s too hard to play.Will the truth of their reality sm...

Detective Eva Murphy always gets justice, whatever the consequences.After a month long suspension from the LAPD, Eva is back and on the search for a missing woman.The woman appears to have it all, a loving husband and a precocious child. But when Eva digs deeper, the missing woman’s perfect life unravels and it’s not too long before another woman, with an equally appearing perfect life, goes missing. Then, a female torso, reminiscent of the infamous Black Dahlia murder from...

Her eyes bulge out. Her mouth is open in a silent scream. The filming begins.Sara Caine wants nothing more to do with murder and ghosts. Catching the bad guys is for people like former LAPD Detective Eva Murphy. But when Johan Luken shows up at the film set she’s working on with a snuff film in hand, he plunges her back into danger and then promptly disappears.Aided by Eva Murphy, Sara uncovers a series of missing actresses stretching back decades, their bodies never found....

Back cover:"I'm taking pleasure in your screams…beg me again for mercy!"In Southern California, a low-profile serial killer has enjoyed relative anonymity and killed without consequence in the Hollywood Hills and the Hollywood Lake area since the great fires. The predator prayed on transients and prostitutes working the hard streets of tinseltown, but his tactics have recently changed, and his victims now include high profile modeling talent. Once again, Jim O'Brian and Joh...

Captain George Martin, with the occasional help of his partner Mike Foster, has handled many difficult cases during his career in law enforcement. When an employee of one of Mike's clients reaches out to them for help, they find themselves immersed in the complex world of money-laundering. George launches an investigation that ultimately exposes a money-laundering enterprise that is national in scope.Meanwhile, the Sheriff is planning yet another reorganization of the department, o...

"Full of revelations, surprises and shocks," the fifth Leo Maxwell mystery pits the underdog defense attorney against an unforgiving prison gang ( Bookreporter).Lachlan Smith's Shamus Award–winning series continues with attorney-detective Leo Maxwell seeking an exit strategy from his family's deepening entanglement with a ruthless prison-based gang. Caught between the criminals and the FBI, Leo charts his own path in defending a young wom...