Phillip Margolin. Minotaur, $27.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-250-11753-3
More a murder mystery than a legal thriller, bestseller Margolin’s sequel to 2018’s The Third Victim features an intriguing lead, Portland, Ore., defense attorney Robin Lockwood, but offers few genuine thrills. Lockwood becomes entangled in the case
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Phillip Margolin. Harper, $25.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-06-206988-7
PI Dana Cutler and attorney Brad Miller, now working as a congressional legal aide, contend with sex scandals, an escaped murderer, and a looming major terrorist attack on U.S. soil in bestseller Margolin’s busy third Washington, D.C., thriller (afte
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Phillip Margolin, Author Bantam $7.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-553-56979-7
First paperack publication of criminal lawyer Margolin's 1981 courtroom thriller. (Sept.)
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Phillip Margolin, Author Bantam $7.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-553-56908-7
Margolin's legal thriller, in which a killer claims that a local female prosecutor hired him to murder her husband, spent two weeks on PW's bestseller list. (June)
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Phillip Margolin, Author Bantam $7.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-553-57495-1
A fatally ambitious lawyer, a brutal murder and high-stakes adultery are just a few of the ingredients in this legal thriller PW noted for its ""intricate plotting and warp-speed suspense."" (July)
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Phillip Margolin, Author . Harper $25.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-06-192651-8
In this entertaining if predictable sequel to Executive Privilege
(2008) from Margolin, policewoman Sarah Woodruff, who's on death row in Oregon, has been tried twice for murdering her lover, John Finley. Sarah's life depends on an appeal
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Phillip Margolin, Author . HarperCollins $26 (292p) ISBN 978-0-06-019625-7
Another year, another young-attorney-in-peril story from Margolin (Wild Justice). This time, the attorney is Daniel Ames, an earnest, pink-cheeked associate at Portland's most prestigious law firm. Ames gets fired for a paperwork blunder that...
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Phillip Margolin, Author HarperCollins Publishers $26 (362p) ISBN 978-0-06-019624-0
Devious doctors test the ethics of ambitious attorneys in Margolin's (The Undertaker's Widow) latest speed-read, and give a plot already adrenalized by drug deals, serial murders and organized crime an added jolt of grisly medical mayhem. Novice...
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Phillip Margolin, Author Doubleday $23.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-385-48053-6
Unlike the protagonists of Gone, But Not Forgotten and After Dark, the hero of Margolin's latest legal thriller is male. But the intricate plotting and warp-speed suspense that drove those earlier novels up the bestsellers lists are here in force....
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Phillip Margolin, Author Doubleday $23.95 (340p) ISBN 978-0-385-47548-8
Margolin's last legal thriller, Gone, But Not Forgotten, shot up bestseller lists, fueled by obvious characters-including a maniacal male killer and two tough heroines-lots of melodrama and a plot with more twists than a bowl of fusilli. Perhaps it's
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Phillip Margolin, Author Doubleday $22 (376p) ISBN 978-0-385-47002-5
Images of gruesome violence pervade this gripping tale of abduction and serial murder. Affluent housewives in Portland, Ore., are disappearing without a trace. In each case the only clue is a black rose and a note reading, ``Gone, but Not Forgotten.'
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Phillip Margolin, Author . Harper $26.99 (344p) ISBN 978-0-06-123623-5
When the editor-in-chief of World News
magazine offers Amanda Jaffe a $500,000 retainer to defend Charlie Marsh, an ex-con turned bestselling spiritual guru, in bestseller Margolin's entertaining fourth thriller to feature the Portland, Ore.,...
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Phillip Margolin, Author . Harper $25.95 (360p) ISBN 978-0-06-123621-1
The U.S. president becomes a murder suspect in this over-the-top political thriller from bestseller Margolin (Proof Positive
). Young Oregon attorney Brad Miller stumbles on wrongdoing in high places while engaged in a routine pro bono case—the...
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Phillip Margolin, Author . HarperCollins $25.95 (314p) ISBN 978-0-06-073505-0
In bestseller Margolin's third legal thriller featuring feisty defense lawyer Amanda Jaffe (after 2003's Wild Justice
), respected forensic expert Bernard Cashman, who works for the Oregon State Crime Laboratory, has developed a personal...
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Phillip Margolin, Author . HarperCollins $25.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-06-073502-9
Like the lake of its title, Margolin's latest suspense novel (a hybrid with traces of legal thriller and whodunit and a big debt to The Manchurian Candidate
) is smooth on the surface with tumultuous secrets lurking beneath. In Portland, Ore.,...
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Phillip Margolin, Author . HarperCollins $25.95 (329p) ISBN 978-0-06-008326-7
The criminal at the heart of bestseller Margolin's unsatisfying 10th thriller is particularly heinous. Late one night in Portland, Ore., he assaults teenager Ashley Spencer, rapes and kills Ashley's friend Tanya, a sleepover guest, and stabs
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Phillip Margolin, Author . HarperCollins $25.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-06-008324-3
Murder and intricately plotted mayhem are abundant in this latest by attorney-turned-novelist Margolin (Wild Justice), which should satisfy the most discerning and bloodthirsty of legal literati. There's a huge cast of characters, but readers...
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Phillip Margolin, Author, Jonathan Davis, Performed by HarperAudio $39.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-155583-1
What a concept: the President of the United States as a possible serial killer. And ace suspense writer Margolin pulls it off beautifully, with the help of narrator Jonathan Davis, who is the perfect choice to cool off a hot concept and make it...
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Phillip Margolin, read by Christopher Lane, Brilliance Audio, unabridged, seven CDs, 8 hrs., $19.99 ISBN 978-1-61106-219-9
Margolin's second novel, originally published in 1981, finds defense attorney David Nash having qualms about his profession. He's helped free a famous novelist, Thomas Gault, whom he later suspects may actually have beaten his wife to death. And he's
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Phillip Margolin, Author, George Guidall, Read by , read by George Guidall. Harper Audio $34.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-053292-5
Attorney-novelist Margolin's last feverish tale of Portland high crimes and low morals, Wild Justice, exposed defense attorney Amanda Jaffe to such brutal torture that this sequel finds her traumatized and withdrawn. Even rougher, the action is...
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Phillip Margolin, Author, Philip Margoilin, Author Bantam $7.99 (416p) ISBN 978-0-553-56903-2
Margolin's gripping, gruesome whodunit about vanishing Portland housewives was a PW bestseller. (Sept.)
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Phillip Margolin. Harper, $26.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-06-206991-7
Bestseller Margolin’s stylish if shallow fourth suspense novel featuring Washington, D.C., PI Dana Cutler (after 2012’s Capitol Murder) pits her against a particularly slimy and dangerous villain. Dispatched by client Margot Laurent to the Pacific...
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Phillip Margolin. Harper, $26.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-06-219534-0
Based loosely on true events, the latest legal thriller from criminal defense attorney turned bestseller Margolin (Lost Lake) follows Matthew Penny, a pistol-bearing lawyer guided by his own moral compass. Portland, Ore., in the 1860s is a nest of...
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Phillip Margolin, read by Jonathan Davis. HarperAudio, unabridged, seven CDs, 8.25 hrs., $34.99 ISBN 978-0-06-226504-3
Margolin kicks off his latest thriller with a bit of literary legerdemain. He introduces Charles Benedict, a strikingly handsome and charismatic defense attorney and amateur magician who appears to be the novel’s leading man. But Benedict is swiftly
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Phillip Margolin. Harper, $26.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-06-226652-1
Bestseller Margolin (Worthy Brown’s Daughter) stumbles with this overly complicated whodunit. At an exhibit of Kathy Moran’s photographs at Manhattan’s Museum of Modern Art, budding novelist Stacey Kim is transfixed by a picture of a woman standing...
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Phillip Margolin. Harper, $26.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-06-226655-2
In bestseller Margolin’s subpar fifth Amanda Jaffe novel (after 2009’s Fugitive), the Portland, Ore., DA decides to defend paralegal Tom Beatty, a veteran with PTSD, after he becomes the prime suspect in the murder of his boss, Christine Larson,...
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Phillip Margolin. Minotaur, $26.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-250-11750-2
This uneven series launch set in Oregon from bestseller Margolin (Violent Crimes and four other Amanda Jaffe novels) revolves around newly hired lawyer Robin Lockwood and her mentor and boss, legendary criminal defense attorney Regina Barrister, who
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Phillip Margolin. Minotaur, $27.99 (304p) ISBN 978-1-250-11754-0
In the teasing prologue of bestseller Margolin’s convoluted third novel featuring attorney Robin Lockwood (after 2019’s The Perfect Alibi), Lockwood attends the debut of her magician client Robert Chesterfield’s “greatest illusion,” the Chamber of...
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Phillip Margolin. Minotaur, $27.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-250-25842-7
In bestseller Margolin’s lively fourth Robin Lockwood mystery (after 2020’s A Reasonable Doubt), former professional boxer Joe Lattimore, who’s now homeless and desperate to provide for his wife and young child, accepts an offer to participate in an
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Phillip Margolin. Minotaur, $27.99 (304p) ISBN 978-1-250-25844-1
Bestseller Margolin’s mundane fifth Robin Lockwood novel (after 2021’s A Matter of Life and Death) takes Robin, a well-respected Portland, Ore., defense attorney, home to Elk Grove, “a very conservative farming community in the Midwest,” after a...
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Phillip Margolin. Minotaur, $27.99 (288p) ISBN 978-1-250-25846-5
Margolin’s enjoyable sixth novel featuring Portland, Ore., defense attorney Robin Lockwood (after The Darkest Place) effectively merges a legal thriller with an impossible crime. Frank Melville retired from practicing law after securing an acquittal
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Phillip Margolin. Minotaur, $29 (336p) ISBN 978-1-250-88579-1
In Margolin’s magnetic seventh mystery featuring the MMA fighter turned Portland, Ore., criminal defense attorney (after 2022’s Murder at Black Oaks), Robin takes on the case of a former rival charged with murdering a family of four. When fading MMA
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Phillip Margolin, read by Hillary Huber. HarperAudio, , unabridged, 7 CDs, 8 hrs., $34.99 ISBN 978-0-06-235111-1
The title refers to a photograph that wannabe novelist Stacy Kim espies at the Museum of Modern Art in N.Y.C. She becomes obsessed by it and discovers that back in 2005, while taking a stroll on a beach in the seacoast town of Palisades Heights, Ore.
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Phillip Margolin. Minotaur, $29 (304p) ISBN 978-1-250-88582-1
Margolin (Betrayal) delivers a far-fetched legal thriller about an Oregon attorney who gets tangled up in an ever more ominous web of organized crime. Charlie Webb has led an undistinguished career after graduating from a third-rate law school....
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