Category: courtroom-drama
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The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky is a Russian literary novel first published in 1880. The version I’ve read, newly translated in 2024, is from Michael R. Katz. I first heard of this novel after having read The Emperor of Gladness by Ocean Vuong, in which the main character attempts to read the hefty novel.…
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Zenith Man: Death, Love, and Redemption in a Georgia Courtroom by McCracken Poston Jr. goes over a highly bizarre case in the mid-90s in Ringgold, Georgia, where Alvin Ridley, a much-feared man in his neighborhood and a recluse, was accused of murdering his wife, whom no one has claimed to have seen in public for…
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A Killing on the Hill by Robert Dugoni is a tale of greed, secrets, jealousy and murder set in the Seattle’s Prohibition era of the 1930s. Truth be told, I found the story to be completely average. Average enough, you could draw a line straight down the middle. There wasn’t really anything inherently breathtaking with…
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The Southern Lawyer by Peter O’Mahoney is book one of four in the Joe Hennessy Legal Thriller Series. This was a great introductory novel into Joe Hennessy, our main protagonist, a lawyer in South Carolina. Not only is it a great introduction into Joe himself, but also to the great port city of Charleston, South…
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Thirteen by Steve Cavanaugh is Book 3 in the Eddie Flynn series. I’ve read high praises for this book and it was high time I read another courtroom drama. Thirteen has a very interesting story twist that I don’t remember having recall from memory. The killer is actually on the jury? Sign me up please!…
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The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness is a book with a very intriguing sell: there are no women left in the world and all the men can actually hear and see each others thoughts! That alone got me to pick up the book and seeing how its the first in a trilogy,…
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