When the recently paroled sister of a powerful banker is accused in the disappearance of a young boy, criminal defense lawyer Jackie Flowers searches for clues in the murder case for which the woman was previously imprisoned.

When the body of Jamal Cousin, president of the pre-eminent black fraternity at the Florida's flagship university, is discovered hogtied in the Stygian water swamps of the Suwanee River Valley, the death sets off a firestorm. When Mark Towson, the president of a prominent white fraternity, is accused of the crime, defense attorney Jack Swyteck knows that the stakes could not be higher. Jamal's gruesome murder bears disturbing similarities to another...

A spirited and headstrong young attorney, Sarah Woolson flaunts the conventions of nineteenth-century society and feminine behavior to take on the case of a woman whose husband has died in a sweatshop fire.

Defending a man who has been accused of the murder of his wife, attorney Victor Carl finds himself pitted against a corrupt police detective and a dentist who has suspiciously transformed the defendant into a well-dressed, successful man.

"Dismas Hardy is looking forward to cutting back his work hours and easing into retirement after recovering from two gunshot wounds. He is determined to spend more time with his family and even reconnect with his distant son, Vincent. But Dismas just can't stay away from the courtroom for long and soon he is pulled into an intense family drama with fatal consequences. Grant Wagner, the vigorous patriarch of the Wagner family and its four-generations...