Patterson's most stunning novel to date offers a powerful portrayal of the complexities of male friendship, of the darkest recesses of love, and of the ways in which the past stakes it claim upon the present. When attorney Tony Lord returns to his hometown to defend his former high school best friend who's been accused of murder, Tony is plunged into the unfinished business of his past.

Taking sides on gun control, Brady ends up in the line of fire Over drinks one night at his Boston waterfront apartment, goodhearted lawyer Brady Coyne finds himself disagreeing with an old friend about a divisive subject: gun control. Wally Kinnick is no gun nut. But, an environmental activist and hunting expert, he believes so strongly in the right to bear arms that he has come to Boston to testify against an assault weapons ban. When he changes...

Charley Sloan, a lawyer and recovering alcoholic, is retained by Robin Harwell, a woman he once loved, to defend her stepdaugher, Angel, accused of brutally murdering her industrialist father, a multimillionaire.

Trail lawyer Barbara Holloway is known for taking on difficult cases, but she finds herself without a fragment on which to build an argument when Vinny Jessup, a cancer survivor who had just entered an apparently happy marriage with a much younger woman, is found dead of a gunshot wound that could be suicide or murder.

"You can pick your friends, they say, but you can't pick your family. And lately, Mike Daley's family has been keeping him very busy. An ex-priest, ex-public defender, and ex-corporate lawyer, Daley and his former wife, Rosie Fernandez, run their own San Francisco criminal defense firm -- they weren't so good at being married, they discovered, but they are a pretty good legal team. Most of their cases are fairly small-time, which is why it is surprising...

Jessica's accused rapists were acquitted and Stephen, her husband, threatened to take justice into his own hands. After they are found murdered, she turns to Matthew Hope to defend her husband.

Newly licensed attorney Aspen Wilde joins Denver's largest law firm to discover that an attractive, up-and-coming associate mysteriously vanished several months earlier and is presumed dead. She secretly embarks upon a brilliant but dangerous plan to trap the killer, only to find herself increasingly intertwined in a complex web of murders involving several different women killed in very different ways. As she frantically searches for answers, not...

Working for a prominent member of the NAACP in 1946 when a request comes from her favorite childhood author to investigate the murder of a black war hero, Regina Robichard travels to Mississippi, where she navigates the muddy waters of racism, relationships, and her own tragic past.

Deputy district attorney Rachel Knight takes the case of a murdered homeless man, over the objections of potentially backstabbing rivals. With the help of Detective Bailey Keller, she finds a missing piece of the puzzle, and realizes that the case is connected to the vicious murder of a LAPD cop a year earlier. The primary suspect in that case had been acquitted, but now Rachel and Bailey are hot on the trail of new leads.