William Bernhardt, Author . Ballantine $26 (320p) ISBN 978-0-345-50299-5
Ben Kincaid is back in Tulsa, Okla., after finishing a term as an appointed U.S. senator at the start of Bernhardt's solid 17th thriller to feature the humane, principled lawyer (after Capitol Conspiracy
). Dr. Joslyn Thomas spends seven days...
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William Bernhardt, Author Ballantine Books $23.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-345-42814-1
Perhaps fans of Bernhardt's Silent Justice will welcome the return of Tulsa defense attorney Ben Kincaid in a twist-filled sequel, but others will find little to cheer for in this clumsy, implausible courtroom thriller. After the gory,...
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William Bernhardt, Author Ballantine Books $23 (400p) ISBN 978-0-345-42812-7
Ninth in Bernhardt's popular series (Primary Justice; Perfect Justice) starring crusading Tulsa attorney Ben Kincaid, this thriller mines the same territory covered by the film A Civil Action and Jonathan Harr's bestseller on which it was based....
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William Bernhardt, Author Ballantine Books $22.5 (400p) ISBN 978-0-345-40738-2
The eighth in a series of popular courtroom cliffhangers, Bernhardt's newest Ben Kincaid novel (after Extreme Justice) finds the savvy defense attorney in a tiny logging town in the Pacific Northwest. The sinister forces at work behind Magic Valley's
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William Bernhardt, Author Ballantine Books $14.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-345-42810-3
In a new twist in holiday fare, Bernhardt, better known for his Oklahoma-set courtroom thrillers (Blind Justice; Deadly Justice), fashions a suspenseful tale of domestic violence with a plot-worn spin on the usual villains. On Christmas Eve, Megan...
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William Bernhardt, Author Ballantine Books $22 (416p) ISBN 978-0-345-38685-4
Wallace Barrett is a former star college quarterback with an acting background who is now the first black mayor of Tulsa, Okla. In the prologue of Bernhardt's sixth Ben Kincaid novel (after Cruel Justice), the Barrett family visits the local Baskin-R
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William Bernhardt, Author Ballantine Books $21.95 (369p) ISBN 978-0-345-38028-9
After a promising beginning, Bernhardt's latest thriller starring Oklahoma attorney Ben Kincaid, seen last in Deadly Justice , drifts into formulaic TV-movie scripting that slights its serious subject. When a young Vietnamese refugee is brutally...
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William Bernhardt, Author Ballantine Books $21.95 (374p) ISBN 978-0-345-38683-0
Two lawyers on the lam from a rape victim's family, the mob, the cops and the FBI move this tale through Dallas neighborhoods and corrupt institutions faster than a hanging judge can bang a gavel. Forsaking his popular series hero, attorney Ben...
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William Bernhardt, Author Ballantine Books $6.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-345-37483-7
Lawyer Ben Kincaid has been fired from Tulsa's toniest law firm and is out on his own on the wrong side of town. His clients pay him with live chickens, and a divorce client's ex-husband threatens him with a gun that shoots a flag saying ``Boom.''...
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William Bernhardt, Author Ballantine Books $7.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-345-37479-0
In his fiction debut, Bernhardt, a lawyer, delivers an appealing mystery with a wry perspective on corporate law and unlikely moments of high adventure. Sanguine Enterprises v-p Jonathan Adams and his wife Bertha want to adopt Emily, whom Jonathan...
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William Bernhardt, Author . Ballantine $26 (338p) ISBN 978-0-345-50301-5
Ben Kincaid has lost his bid to be elected to the U.S. Senate in Bernhardt's less than credible 18th thriller to feature the honorable Oklahoma lawyer (after Capitol Offense
). Ben's wife, Christina McCall, also a practicing attorney, has...
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William Bernhardt, Author . Ballantine $26 (368p) ISBN 978-0-345-48758-2
Framed by an older Eliot Ness reminiscing with a biographer in 1957, this uneven imagining of the later career of the famed lawman by Bernhardt (Capitol Conspiracy
) takes place mostly in mid-1930s Cleveland. Hired as the city's new safety...
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William Bernhardt, Author . Ballantine $25.95 (399p) ISBN 978-0-345-48756-8
In Bernhardt’s improbable 16th political thriller to feature Ben Kincaid (after 2007’s Capitol Threat
), President Franklin Blake survives an audacious terrorist attack at a ceremony marking the anniversary of the Murrah Federal...
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William Bernhardt, Author . Ballantine $25.95 (355p) ISBN 978-0-345-47019-5
Bernhardt’s dysfunctional Las Vegas cop, Susan Pulaski, tracks another maniacal serial killer in this circuitous and graphically violent sequel to 2005’s Dark Eye
. When the grisly murders—in which the victim is branded and...
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William Bernhardt, Author . Ballantine $25.95 (385p) ISBN 978-0-345-47017-1
Set in a near future in which "the Christian Congregation, one of the most powerful lobbies in the country... helped put the last three Presidents in office," Bernhardt's 15th political thriller (after Capitol Murder
) to feature...
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William Bernhardt, Author . Ballantine $25.95 (365p) ISBN 978-0-345-45149-1
In Bernhardt's somewhat predictable 14th thriller to feature ace Oklahoma trial lawyer Ben Kincaid (after 2004's Hate Crime
), Ben goes to Washington, D.C., to defend his home state's senior senator on a murder charge. Sen. Todd K....
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William Bernhardt, Author . Ballantine $25.95 (480p) ISBN 978-0-345-47015-7
An alcoholic Sin City police profiler goes in hot pursuit of a demented serial killer with an unusual fixation in Bernhardt's (Hate Crime
) lengthy, serpentine thriller. Intuitive cop Susan Pulaski emerges from six days in rehab to find herself...
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William Bernhardt, Author . Ballantine $25.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-345-45147-7
Bernhardt sticks to his tried-and-true formula in his 13th novel to feature Tulsa defense attorney Ben Kincaid. An odious criminal defendant is foisted on Kincaid's practice: Johnny Christensen, a hate-filled frat boy accused of beating a gay...
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William Bernhardt, Author . Ballantine $25.95 (305p) ISBN 978-0-345-44174-4
An arresting opening sequence gets this latest crime thriller by bestselling Bernhardt (Criminal Intent, etc.) off to a running start, with Oklahoma lawyer Ben Kincaid back for another high velocity courtroom adventure. Seven years before the...
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William Bernhardt, Author . Ballantine $23.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-345-44962-7
Connor Cross, golf pro/first-time sleuth, is a Peck's bad boy whose antics are threatening to get him kicked out of the Masters tournament at Georgia's snooty Augusta National Golf Club in this entertaining if implausible whodunit from...
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William Bernhardt, Author, Leslie Glass, With, Gini Hartzmark, With . Ballantine $23.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-345-43768-6
First there was Naked Came the Stranger, a novel written round-robin by Newsday
staff, then Naked Came the Manatee, a serial crime caper from Miami-based writers. Now, here's a legal thriller wherein each succeeding chapter has been created by...
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