Hurt by the competition of a Vietnamese immigrant's business,  pawnshop owner Daniel Greer turns to a Vietnamese crime kingpin for  help, a move that soon has Greer in great gang-related danger and  Greer's wife kidnapped. Reprint. K.

Predator's Waltz

Literature & Fiction

Brandon, Jay.

United States

St Martins Pr

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. But Malachi Reese has not been defeated. From Death Row, he threatens to destroy Sinclair, to take him to the very top and cast him back down. As a series of seemingly unrelated crimes begins, Sinclair feels the power of Reese descending upon him, and finds that enemies are allies and allies are enemies, and that truth and justice are much more shades of gray than an issue of Black and White.

Angel of Death

Forge Books

Afterimage (Chris Sinclair)

District Attorney Chris Sinclair has never really forgotten his first real love, Jean, a college girlfriend from the era of free love, a wild young woman who introduced him to a world of sex and drugs and alcohol drastically unlike is own. But she left his life in college and he's never seen her since, until a young woman is found buried in a shallow grave on the outskirts of San Antonio. Through forensic reconstruction of the decomposed skull, a face takes shape. A detail or two is different, but there's no doubt the face is Jean's, like an after image in his mind, he sees her face in the young girl's and he knows. What he doesn't know is why Jean wouldn't have reported her own daughter's disappearance; the body had been buried for months.

Contemporary

Executive Privilege

For years, Edgar-nominee (Fade the Heat) Jay Brandon has enthralled readers with novels set in the legal world of his hometown of San Antonio, Texas. But with Executive Privilege, Brandon chooses a wider stage and brings the reader an all-new thriller set against the backdrop of our nation’s capital, the story of a wife’s desperate attempt to save herself and her young son from her husband, a man involved with selling our nation’s secrets and willing to do whatever he can to ensure that his family doesn’t get away. The wife? Myra McPherson, the First Lady of the United States. When San Antonio attorney David Owens wins an important divorce case, he hopes the victory will 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. With all the elements of a great thriller and a great courtroom drama, Jay Brandon delivers a novel sure to keep you up long past your bedtime.

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. She and Chris expect some awkwardness over the fact that when Anne needed him, her father wasn't there for her. What they don't expect is sudden death, when both Chris and Anne witness the demise of Anne's ex-fiancé, Ben, at her father's home. But all they can agree on is their disagreement. Chris is positive he saw Ben shoot himself; Anne is sure she saw Ben being shot by someone else. The man she saw commit murder is released. Anne knows what she saw, and also knows that if she's to convince anyone, she first must convince the man she loves. But Chris, the best trial lawyer in San Antonio, knows what he saw, and he can't compromise his principles and change his story, even if it's the only way to keep his relationship with Anne from being damaged. When Anne begins receiving threats on her life, she knows that if she can't find the truth behind the mystery soon, she will be helpless in the hands of the one lurking in the shadows, so she starts to investigate on her own. But Chris can't stand by and let her venture into the shark-infested waters of Texas politics. She turns up some nasty surprises as she gets closer to the truth, while Chris uses his legal pull to try and uncover leads that might have been buried in the media frenzy over this case. Chris will have to shake the pillars of the justice system to bring the truth to light in a case with ramifications that reach to the very highest levels of Texas government. And when the lieutenant governor herself intervenes on behalf of the man Anne has accused of murder, Chris realizes that this case might prove his undoing, despite all his efforts, experience, and courtroom expertise. But even if he can somehow ferret out the truth from the mound of lies, secrets, and dirty politics that shroud this case, it might be harder yet to repair the breach of Anne's trust.

Sliver Moon: A New Chris Sinclair Thriller

Rules of Evidence

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Thrillers & Suspense

Attorney Grey Stanton, his lovely wife Judith, and their baby daughter Katy become trapped in a nightmare of terror and menace as they are stalked by vengeful ex-convict Simon Hocksley

Deadbolt

Bantam]

The only witness to a brutal murder, Elizabeth Truett is forced to seek refuge in the FBI's protective custody, but two people are searching for her, a young POW claiming to be her long-lost son and a killer

Tripwire

Local Rules

Called upon to serve as the defense attorney for a young man who  is accused of murdering his best friend, Jordan Marshall quickly  discovers that his client has been set up and is forced to confront the  entire town for the truth. Read by Jay O. Sanders.

Politics & Social Sciences

Random House Audio |

Investigating a double homicide in the sleepy town of Galilee, Texas, young assistant D.A. Kelsey Thatch finds a community of divided loyalties and learns that the answers are hidden in the nearby woods. By the author of Local Rules.

Defiance County

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