Jay Brandon, Author . Forge $25.95 (464p) ISBN 978-0-312-87425-4
A San Antonio divorce lawyer is surreptitiously hired by the First Lady to serve papers on the president of the United States, but his dream case turns to nightmare when his client and her son disappear. The emphasis falls on "thriller"...
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Jay Brandon, Author . Forge $25.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-7653-0892-4
A San Antonio criminal lawyer, Brandon is among the best in the legal thriller business at catching the real atmosphere of a trial—that combination of tedium and terror that makes the courtroom such a popular literary arena. His latest book...
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Jay Brandon, Author . Forge $24.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-7653-0893-1
Edgar finalist Brandon's compelling novel may be low on humor, but it's high on legal twists and turns. Soon after starting his career, San Antonio lawyer Chris Sinclair defended his longtime friend, high school teacher Henry Claremont,...
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Jay Brandon, Author Forge $24.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-312-86541-2
Edgar nominee Brandon's (Fade the Heat) taut legal thriller pits an infinitely evil criminal against a preeminently good district attorney. When recently elected San Antonio DA Chris Sinclair convicts African American community activist Malachi...
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Jay Brandon, Author Forge $23.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-312-86542-9
Although Brandon's latest isn't quite up to the high standards of his Edgar-nominated Fade to Heat, it's still an engrossing legal thriller, dominated by three complex and original female characters. San Antonio District Attorney Chris Sinclair is...
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Jay Brandon, Author St. Martin's Press $17.95 (277p) ISBN 978-0-312-03413-9
The most interesting part of Brandon's hardcover debut (after Deadbolt ; Tripwire ) is the juxtaposition of Houston's ``Little Vietnam'' with the downtown area that resembles ``the Emerald City of Oz.'' When a Vietnamese pawnbroker opens a shop...
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Jay Brandon, Author Pocket Books $22 (290p) ISBN 978-0-671-88408-6
An overeager sheriff's deputy sparks the quirk of fate that finds Jordan Marshall, former prosecuting attorney in San Antonio, acting as defense for a young man accused of murder in a tiny Texas town. Hauled in to the Green Hills courthouse on a...
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Jay Brandon, Author Pocket Books $23 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-53654-1
An unexpected twist energizes this exemplary legal thriller: the reader is thrown right into the middle of the story, along with special prosecutor Kelsey Thatch, when she arrives in Galilee, Tex., to investigate a double murder and a kidnapping in...
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Jay Brandon. Severn, $28.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8770-2
Implausibilities undermine this series kickoff from Edgar-finalist Brandon (Running with the Dead). During a trial, Edward Hall, a well-known Houston defense attorney, and Cynthia Miles, the prosecutor he’s trying a drug case against, help...
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Jay Brandon, Author, Bill Gross, Editor Pocket Books $18.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-70260-1
Mark Blackwell has been district attorney of a Texas city for only a few months, but already a crisis threatens to ruin his career. His son has been framed for a vicious rape, and the prosecutor's office must decide how to proceed. The cynical...
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Jay Brandon, Author, Bill Grose, Editor Pocket Books $5.99 (400p) ISBN 978-0-671-76033-5
San Antonio DA Mark Blackwell returns in this high-powered, courtroom drama involving a well-connected attorney accused of child molestation. (Nov.)
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Jay Brandon, Author, Bill Grose, Editor Pocket Books $20 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-73174-8
Just as cops break the rules to fight crime in the streets, lawyers may disregard them completely in their search for truth in the courtroom--and feel pious about doing it. Raymond Boudro, the foremost black defense attorney in San Antonio, Tex.,...
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Jay Brandon, Author, Bill Grose, Editor Pocket Books $22 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-76032-8
First introduced in Brandon's Edgar-nominated Fade the Heat , San Antonio district attorney Mark Blackwell has his back to the Alamo when he prosecutes a well-connected attorney for child molestation in this dynamic courtroom drama. In the midst of...
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Jay Brandon. Severn, $28.99 (240p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8900-3
Edgar-finalist Brandon’s lame sequel to 2018’s Against the Law, which introduced Houston attorney Edward Hall, who lost his law license and did time after burglarizing a judge’s chamber to steal cocaine, offers more improbabilities. Donald Willis,...
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