Edited by David Baldacci. Simon & Schuster, $26.99 (384p) ISBN 978-1-4767-6206-7
A clever concept distinguishes this anthology sponsored by the International Thriller Writers. Each of the 11 stories pairs well-known series characters created by different authors, sometimes in adversarial but more often in collegial ways, and...
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Steve Martini. Morrow, $27.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-06-232896-0
Bestseller Martini’s uneven 14th novel featuring California lawyers Paul Madriani and Harry Hinds (after 2015’s The Enemy Inside) finds Paul and Harry flush with cash after sharing in the windfall from a whistle-blower who helped the feds nail some...
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Steve Martini. Morrow, $27.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-06-232893-9
In bestseller Martini’s busy 13th Paul Madriani novel (after 2011’s Trader of Secrets), the California lawyer takes on the seemingly hopeless case of reporter Alex Ives, who’s accused of DUI and causing the car crash that killed high-powered...
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Steve Martini. Morrow, $26.99 (400p) ISBN 978-0-06-193023-2
Martini's so-so 12th thriller featuring California lawyer Paul Madriani (after The Rule of Nine) has the deadly assassin Muerte Liquida still seeking vengeance. Muerte had left Paul's friend and investigator, Herman Diggs, critically wounded and,...
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Steve Martini, Author Putnam Publishing Group $25.95 (436p) ISBN 978-0-399-14362-5
A militia group in the Pacific Northwest becomes the world's newest nuclear power in this by-the-numbers thriller by the author of The List and The Judge. Lawyer Jocelyn ""Joss"" Cole sees a big retainer when she's hired by Dean Belden to handle his
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Steve Martini, Morrow, $26.99 (400p) ISBN 978-0-06-193021-8
In Martini's nail-biting 11th Paul Madriani thriller, the California lawyer once again crosses paths with hired assassin Liquida Muerte (aka the Mexicutioner), whose enmity he earned in the previous book, Guardian of Lies (2009). Bent on revenge,...
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Steve Martini, Author . Putnam $25.95 (291p) ISBN 978-0-399-14672-5
Lean, speedy and packing a wallop of a plot twist at the end, the latest Paul Madriani legal thriller shows why Martini remains one of the form's most popular practitioners. Madriani, still struggling to establish his law practice in San Diego,...
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Steve Martini, Author Putnam $25.95 (429p) ISBN 978-0-399-14536-0
The tireless Paul Madriani, Martini's popular lawyer/sleuth (The Judge; Compelling Evidence), barely has a chance to hang a shingle in San Diego--where he has moved to be closer to his lover, child advocate Susan McKay--before he is sucked into...
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Steve Martini, Author Putnam $24.95 (438p) ISBN 978-0-399-14261-1
The title refers to the New York Times bestseller list, which 40-ish Seattle lawyer and literary novelist Abby Chandlis hopes to climb with her own to-die-for commercial novel. Abby's experience with three previous novels that ""died on the shelves,"
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Steve Martini, Author Putnam $23.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-399-14043-3
Here comes the Judge--in handcuffs, and it's the job of California defense attorney Paul Madriani to save him from prison in this riveting new thriller from Martini (Undue Influence). Judge Armando Acosta is busted for soliciting an undercover vice...
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Steve Martini, Author Putnam $22.95 (462p) ISBN 978-0-399-13932-1
A vicious custody battle escalates into a murder trial in this gripping courtroom drama, Martini's third to be narrated by defense attorney Paul Madriani ( Compelling Evidence , Prime Witness ). Before Madriani's wife, Nikki, died of lung cancer,...
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Steve Martini, Author Putnam $21.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-399-13802-7
``The ugly marketplace of justice''--as one character terms the judicial process--is scrutinized with a riveting, you-are-there immediacy in the new legal procedural by the author of Compelling Evidence. When attorney Paul Madriani offers to assist...
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Steve Martini, Author . Morrow $26.99 (443p) ISBN 978-0-06-123090-5
Paul Madriani's chance encounter with 26-year-old Katia Solaz, a Costa Rican beauty, leads to a desperate race to avoid not only personal disaster but also a national one in Martini's sprawling 10th thriller to feature the Southern...
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Steve Martini, Author . Morrow $26.95 (390p) ISBN 978-0-06-123088-2
Bestseller Martini's entertaining ninth Paul Madriani legal thriller (after 2005's Double Tap
) offers an improbable if intriguing premise. San Diego, Calif., attorney Madriani and Harry Hinds, his longtime partner, agree to represent Carl
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Steve Martini, Author . Putnam $26.95 (420p) ISBN 978-0-399-15092-0
In veteran Martini's exciting eighth legal thriller starring Paul Madriani (after 2003's The Arraignment
), the San Diego defense attorney takes on yet another especially difficult case. When Madelyn Chapman, the owner of a computer software
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Steve Martini, Author . Putnam $25.95 (402p) ISBN 978-0-399-14878-1
Someday, someone may convince Martini or his publishers to come up with book titles that have a little more zip or at least relevance to the plot. Fortunately, the books themselves don't suffer from the same lack of inspiration. Martini's...
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