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Grey Stanton once thrived in the hard-edged courts of criminal law. Now, on a lawyer's sabbatical, he's writing a book and spending the time he never had with his wife and child on their remote and peaceful Texas homestead-blissfully unaware that his idyllic world is soon to be brutally disrupted.
When San Antonio attorney David Owens won an important divorce case, he hoped the victory would
bring him some new business. But he never imagined that the First Lady,
a Texas native, would walk through his office door. Shy and fearful,
the First Lady explains that she needs to divorce the President, to
get herself and her young son out of the White House. The President
is engaged in dangerous dealings...and has been unfaithful. But no
woman has ever divorced a sitting President, and while every President
has secrets, none are like the secrets this President wants to protect:
his nefarious dealings with a billionaire businessman willing to use
his money and power to manipulate even the leader of our nation.When
the news breaks, the publicity is huge, but the threat is even bigger.
Orders have been given to kill the First Lady and her son, and all
that stands in the way is her divorce lawyer and one Secret Service
agent whose oath to protect her charges is more important to her
than the power of the President.
In the back room in a Baltimore office, Elizabeth Truett witnessed a killing, and walked into the middle of a fatal duel. On one side is Marco Galvin, a vicious underworld mastermind; on the other is Captain Bill Jerek, determined to bring Galvan to justice and uncover Galvan's spy inside his own department. Jerek has another worry: how to keep Elizabeth Truett - and her husband, John - alive.
Pawnshop owner Daniel Greer is losing everything. In the seedy and rapidly changing Houston neighborhood where he built a solid business, a new Vietnamese competitor is stealing his customers. Desperate and too trusting, Greer mistakenly turns to a knife-sharp Vietnamese kingpin for help. Soon he and his wife Carol are thrust into the thick of a bloody Asian gang war - a clash that's seeping into the city's corridors of power and wealth. But not until Carol is kidnapped does Greer guess the scope of the dark, vicious game he has entered, and the frightening price he must pay for victory...
On a quite April night, San Antonio's peace is shattered by insistent screams. A cleaning woman working late in a downtown office building points to a young computer expert as her attacker. Her version of the incident is rape: he claims he's been framed-that she ripped her own clothes and clawed at her own flesh. When the sun rises, this event will shock the entire city, because the accused rapist is David Blackwell, son of the new District Attorney.
Raymond Boudrou, San Antonio's best black criminal lawyer, has publicly branded white police detective Mike Stennett a racist. But now Boudro has accepted Stennett as a client, with one warning: The truth or I will ruin you. Stennett is accused of beating a black drifter to death; an eyewitness claims to have seen the whole thing. With his own hard-won reputation at stake, and a client even other cops distrust, Boudro is driven by a gut feeling for justice. Even Stennett, he believes, would not stubbornly insist he is innocent against such odds unless something in this perplexing case were note what it seemed to be.
In the course of a hot, tense summer in San Antonio, Texas, three children have briefly disappeared, each returning home with chillingly similar stories - of the man who took them in, tended to them, touched them in all the wrong ways. For District Attorney Mark Blackwell, the case could be a publicity windfall, invaluable to his reelection campaign. And when the molester - represented by a high-powered attorney - wants to turn himself in directly to the D.A., Blackwell sees a chance to recharge his passion for his work.
The old county courthouse casts the longest shadow in Green Hills, Texas, and when former San Antonio Assistant D.A. Jordan Marshall is ticketed for speeding, he's hauled before the bench of Judge Richard Waverly. His Honor has a job for a city lawyer like him: serve as court-appointed defender for Wayne Orkney, a local boy charged with attempted murder of his own best buddy. When an outrageous bail is set, Jordan knows his sullen client is being railroaded. The defendant stands speechless before the court, the whole town arrayed against him-and it's up to Jordan to find out why.
Galilee, Texas, is not far from Houston, but it might as well be in another world - which is why a hideous double murder that rocks Galilee's ruling family knocks the town to its knees. Lorrie Beaumont and her husband have been shot to death, and their infant daughter has been kidnapped. And Alice Beaumont, the family's powerful matriarch, is pressing for swift justice against Billy Fletcher, the chief suspect.
To the African-American community in San Antonio, Malachi Reese is a saint, a community leader; a man who feeds the hungry and houses the homeless. To San Antonio District Attorney Chris Sinclair, Reese is the Angel of Death: a vicious killer possessed by the need for power and willing to do whatever it takes to gain it. Determined to see justice done, Sinclair overcomes incredible odds to see Reese convicted of murder and sentenced to Death Row.
District Attorney Chris Sinclair has not seen Jean, his first real love, since college. But when a young woman is found buried in a shallow grave on the outskirts of San Antonio, like an after image in his mind, Chris sees Jean's face in the young girl's and knows the child is hers. What he doesn't know is why she wouldn't have reported her own daughter's disappearance; the body had been buried for months.
When D. A. Chris Sinclair and his beloved Anne Greenwald accept an invitation to visit Anne's estranged father, they expect a strange weekend. Mr. Greenwald's past is a wasteland of shadows and conspiracies in Texas government, and Anne has her doubts that the aged man has entirely renounced his former dubious political activities.
This new Chris Sinclair legal thriller forces the San Antonio DA to deal with the fact that eight years ago he helped convict an innocent police officer of corruption. Now the officer has been cleared, and the real crooked cops want to shut up anyone who suspects their crimes. As life after life is taken, Chris battles to uncover the truth because he may be next.
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, against a charge of rape brought by a student-though in doing so, he had to expose an affair Claremont was having with a fellow teacher. When Claremont was acquitted, someone in town disagreed and beat him to death one night at a local park. Four years later, new clues uncovered by the Texas Rangers point to school administrator and basketball coach Hike Grimason as Claremont's killer. After Grimason is indicted, however, Sinclair is unable to focus as directly as he'd like on the coach's upcoming trial, since someone is now stalking him, possibly a convicted multiple murderer he sent to prison or possibly the man's twin.
A tale of murder wrapped in family secrets, potentially incestuous relationships, and a diabolic plot to avenge lost love, this intriguing mystery is set in San Antonio, Texas-a traditional city where races and ethnic groups blend. When Estela Valenzuela appears at the funeral of the patriarch of one of the oldest, richest families in town, she fascinates Jerry Grohman, the son of the deceased. Through Estela, he ventures into parts of the city he never knew, even one part that doesn't exist-Milagro Lane-the street of the mind and of inspiration, where one can only go in rare, fulfilling occasions.