Legal Thrillers

Try these books if you're looking for:

• Legal thrillers, similar to those by John Grisham

Absolute Power
By David Baldacci
F BALDACCI
Although David Baldacci does not write legal thrillers, his books have intricate plots that deal with conspiracy and corruption. He offers sympathetic protagonists, multiple plot twists and ethical dilemmas similar to John Grisham. In Absolute Power a likable professional cat burglar is on his last case when he witnesses the murder of the president’s mistress and becomes the one piece the subsequent cover-up can’t seem to eliminate or control.

Compelling Evidence
By Steve Martini
F MARTINI
In a courtroom drama, Talia Porter, indicted for the murder of her judge husband, turns to Paul Madriani—her husband’s ex-law partner—to defend her. This is book one in the Paul Madriani series.

Dead Even
By Brad Meltzer
F MELTZER
Legal skullduggery abounds as husband and wife face each other in court, forced into this situation by blackmail and politics. How they extricate themselves from the threats of their powerful foes and effect justice makes exciting, satisfying storytelling.

Everywhere That Mary Went
By Lisa Scottoline
F SCOTTOLI
While trying to become a partner at the cutthroat Philadelphia law firm where she works, Mary DiNunzio receives threatening phone calls from a dangerous stalker. This is the first title in the Rosato and Associates series.

And Then You Die
By Iris Johansen
MYSTERY JOHANSEN
When Bess Brady gets the assignment to photograph the small Mexican village of Tenajo for a travel magazine she expects it to be a nice, easy job. She even takes her sister along with her and is planning to make a vacation of it. The “vacation” is cut short when she arrives in Tenajo to find everyone has been killed by a new form of Anthrax.

Action Thrillers

Try these books if you're looking for:

• Action
• Thriller
• Read-alikes for Dan Brown or John Grisham

Honor among Thieves
By Jeffrey Archer
F ARCHER
Saddam Hussein, in his ongoing desire to humiliate the U.S., arranges for the theft of the Declaration of Independence from the National Archives. His aim is to destroy the document in front of CNN cameras on July 4th for all the world to see, and so destroy the credibility of his arch-enemy.

Eye of the Storm
By Jack Higgins
F HIGGINS
Elusive master terrorist Sean Dillon reemerges during the Gulf War when Saddam Hussein hires him to assassinate Margaret Thatcher, and only Martin Brosnan can stop him.

The Spy who Came in from the Cold
By John le Carre
F LE CARRE
Alec Leamas wants to stop being a spy but he agrees to take a final assignment in order to prove to the enemy that their leader is a double agent.

The Hades Factor
By Robert Ludlum
F LUDLUM
People are horribly and painfully dying from the effects of a hitherto unknown viral agent, and Lt. Col. Jonathan Smith is assigned to solve the mystery of the virus' abrupt appearance. An old friend from the FBI, who may or may not be on the same side, warns him off, and Smith begins to take the warnings seriously when the disease strikes too close to home.

The Brotherhood of the Holy Shroud
By Julia Navarro
F NAVARRO
A catastrophic fire at the Turin cathedral, where the Holy Shroud is kept, and the discovery of a dead man without a tongue set off an investigation by the elite Italian Art Crimes Department that leads back to the mysterious origins of the relic.

The Unburied
By Charles Palliser
F PALLISER
Invited to spend the holidays with his old friend, Austin, in the cathedral close of Thurchester, unworldly academic Dr. Courtine becomes engrossed in a haunting, two-hundred-year-old mystery with ties to both a medieval manuscript and to terrifying events in the present.

The Confessor
By Daniel Silva
F SILVA
In the wake of a Munich writer's assassination, Mossad agent Gabriel Allon and Vatican priest Pietro embark on dangerous journeys that reveal long-buried secrets affecting the fates of millions of people.

And Then You Die
By Iris Johansen
MYSTERY JOHANSEN
When Bess Grady gets the assignment to photograph the small Mexican village of Tenajo for a travel magazine she expects it to be a nice, easy job. She even takes her sister along with her and is planning to make a vacation of it. The “vacation” is cut short when she arrives in Tenajo to find everyone has been killed by a new form of Anthrax.

Compelling Evidence
By Steve Martini
F MARTINI
In a courtroom drama, Talia Potter, indicted for the murder of her judge husband, turns to her lover, Paul Madriani--her husband's ex-law partner--to defend her.