Fiction
Legal and political fiction and essays.
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Lawrence Friedman’s novel The Late Doctor Savage proves where there’s a will there’s a murder
Frank May practices law in San Mateo, California. Much of his practice deals with estate planning—wills, trusts, and related matters. So dead people are very much on his mind and the mind of his clients. But not, for the most part, unnatural deaths. Yet mysterious deaths, for some odd reason, seem to creep inevitably into his practice. A young woman, Ashley Savage, is Frank’s newest client. Her birth father, whom she never met and who played no role in her upbringing, has suddenly entered her life—though very indirectly. He’s created a trust for her, worth millions of dollars but whose origins are, to say the least, questionable. Dr. Langley Savage,…
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Barry Schaller pens new 2016 political-legal-military novel The Ramadi Affair
Connecticut judge David Lawson is a decorated veteran of Iraq, now thrust onto the national stage when the press learns he’s up for an unexpected vacancy on the U.S. Supreme Court. Despite his successful career and his loyal political team of friends who understand Supreme Court politics, David is haunted by tragedies—from his early life and in combat. Secrets threaten his nomination and call into question his moral judgment—dark secrets pushed to the outer reaches of his mind, two decades after he fought in Ramadi. Now his rampaging platoon sergeant faces trial for murder, threatening to unearth the past. Cornered, David is forced to relive his most painful nightmares and…
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Lisa McElroy’s fun novel Called On “may be this generation’s One L”
“Lisa McElroy perfectly captures the pressures, challenges, and triumphs of both teaching and studying the law. Filled with big, memorable personalities, Called On is an utterly charming depiction of the 1L experience.” — Alafair Burke, New York Times bestselling author of The Ex “McElroy nails law school—from first-day jitters to gunners and back-benchers—in a funny, perceptive, and poignant (but never predictable) first novel. Grab a Diet Coke and a handful of M&Ms and settle in; once you start reading, you won’t want to stop.” — Amy Howe, co-founder & editor, SCOTUSblog “In Called On, Lisa McElroy deftly chronicles the stories of law professor Connie Shun and first year law student…
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Lawrence Friedman’s novel Dead in the Park has Frank May tracking down his link to a corpse
Frank May is a private practice lawyer in San Mateo, California, and he doesn’t want to get involved with an unidentified dead body in the park. So why is he involved with an unidentified dead body in the park? The man was found in a neighboring California town with no identification; all the police found was a scrap of paper in the corpse’s pocket with Cynthia Greenhouse’s address and phone number. This would be none of Frank’s business … if only Cynthia wasn’t one of his clients. Here’s where the questions start: Who is this dead man? Why does he have Cynthia’s address? And why on earth does Cynthia have…
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Buddy Ward’s novel Brave West Wind takes Steamer Causey from the Bahamas to Danger
Storms destroy things and leave their marks forever. Captain Steamer Causey–a charter boat captain on one of the finest boats in all the Bahamas–thought he had his life all arranged and had put his past far behind him. He did not look for, and did not see, the signs of the storms building all about him. The storms that would tear him from his complacency, hurl him back into his past, threaten to tear apart everything and everyone he loved, and possibly even end his very existence. Hardcover edition: available at such booksellers as Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, BooksAMillion.com, YBP Library Services, and Ingram catalog. Paperback edition: available at such booksellers as Amazon.com, our QP…
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Lawrence Friedman’s novel Death of a Schemer pits Frank May against a house full of suspects
Frank May, the lawyer who’s a reluctant detective, takes on the mystery of a house full of characters and and secrets. Frank’s law office is in San Mateo, California, his practice often dealing with wills and estates. Dead clients are an essential part of an estates practice, but these are, for almost everybody, quite natural deaths. Yet somehow, through some quirk of fate, unnatural deaths seem to plague Frank’s clients and those close to them. And he gets drawn into these mysterious affairs. Andrew Wright, a schemer if there ever was one, was not exactly a client. Andrew had befriended a woman well past her mental prime, living in a…
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Walter Murphy’s bestselling novel The Vicar of Christ is Digitally Remastered™ and available again: explores the Supreme Court and Vatican politics
The New York Times Bestseller is now available in modern digital formats, featuring a new Foreword by Justice Samuel Alito, as well as a new paperback and hardcover. This book has universally been considered an unusual, fascinating, and well-written observation of the life of a man who was first a war hero and Medal of Honor winner from the Korean War, then Chief Justice of the United States, later a monk, and finally elected Pope: Pope Francis I. His exciting life is described by three men who ‘knew him well.’ The first narrator is a Marine, telling of their time together in Korea. A constitutional scholar and Supreme Court Justice,…
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Crump’s fictional lawyer Robert Herrick is Back: Suing Terrorists and their Money Machine
The football game is tied. It’s in sudden death overtime. And that’s when three Islamic extremists trigger an explosion that kills over 100 innocent spectators. The men who did it are promptly caught and charged with capital murder, but everyone knows that there are more guilty people behind the act. There are banks, or foundations, or governments who fronted this terrorism. Terrorists need money. Families of the victims ask attorney Robert Herrick—the “Lawyer for the Little Guy”—to bring the financiers to justice. It’s a tough claim, and he declines . . . but eventually he’s persuaded to take the case. Nothing about this lawsuit is easy, from preparing the court…
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John Logue’s 4 Dell paperback murder mysteries are now Quid Pro ebooks
Classic mystery writer John Logue has contributed some of his most acclaimed fiction to the growing eBook library of QP fiction. Now available are four suspense novels set in the world of high-stakes golf. Originally published by Dell Publishing of Random House, these books formed part of the Morris & Sullivan Mystery series. These books are fun, and presented digitally with active Table of Contents. MURDER ON THE LINKS. ISBN 9781610272902 (eBook); list price: $4.99 At Augusta National, home of the Masters, the spring grass is green and the world’s most famous golfers are gathered. It looks as if it’s going to be another splendid tournament. Until Melvin Newton’s body is…
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Costigan’s new novel The Rat-Taker is a mystery and period piece, of plague and 1300s London
Set in 14th Century London during the time of the Great Pestilence, THE RAT-TAKER is about an obsessive love and a tragic event coiled into one mystery. Simon the Rat-Taker, or, as he came to called, Simon Ratiker, is a man obsessed by a terrible event that he cannot wholly remember. Driven by the question, “What did happen?” Simon attempts to recall the truth by dictating to his scribe the events of the day that became the cross point of his life: “the day the rats began to die.”