Star Witness is about a man on trial for murder - a man recognized as one of the film industry's most successful writer-directors, a man of mythic drive and talent, and someone who looks more guilty with every passing witness. Attorney Joseph Antonelli - suave, philosophical, fearless, and cagey - takes up the director's defense for the murder of an equally famous young woman. Then the defendant shows Antonelli the script he has been working on for years, a script he considers his masterpiece: the story of a man's rags-to-riches climb to the top that recalls Orson Welles's Citizen Kane, and that includes a visionary film director as its hero. In this fascinating story-within-a-story, the accused reveals his version of the tragedy, the secrets of his relationship with the deceased, and the ominous events that led to her death. In it we see how art can imitate life - and unmask a killer even the court can't find.

Star Witness

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Buffa, D.W.

Mystery

Putnam Adult

When his law partner, Julian Sinclair, is accused of killing beautiful Daphne McMillan, a married district attorney, in a fit of jealous rage, Joseph Antonelli faces the most difficult case of his career as he takes on both Daphne's powerful and manipulative widowed husband and the real killer to uncover the truth. By the author of Breach of Trust.

Trial by Fire

Literature & Fiction

United States

A young black student is on trial for the murder of a hot-shot California senator. The student claims he is innocent, but all the evidence indicates otherwise. Joseph Antonelli leaves his Oregon law practice to put up a case for the defence. He soon discovers a world of deceit, betrayal and naked ambition.

The Legacy

Grand Central Publishing

When Judge Calvin Jeffries becomes the first judge to be murdered while serving in office, charismatic criminal defense attorney Joseph Antonelli finds himself smack in the middle of a riveting case.

The Judgment

Thrillers & Suspense

Visión

Lone wolf lawyer Joseph Antonelli takes the case of a black man accused of murdering a senator in San Francisco. Antonelli soon finds himself in a world ruled by backroom politics and naked ambition--and learns just how much one person will risk in order to leave behind a legacy.

Dynamite defense attorney Joseph Antonelli has never lost a case--or felt the sting of conscience for letting the guilty go free. "I can deceive anyone," he says, "and no one more quickly or more completely than myself." Now the man he most admires, the honorable Judge Rifkin, has asked him a favor: Defend a drug dealer accused of raping his twelve-year-old stepdaughter. Yet Antonelli's acceptance of the case sets in motion an explosive chain of corruption, betrayal, and murder that will leave no one unscathed. . . .

The Defense: A Novel

Genre Fiction

Fawcett

A superstar defense attorney, Joseph Antonelli has made his reputation by winning at any cost, watching the wheels of justice turn, outguessing every turn and every lurch. Now he’s come out of retirement to win again. Only this time his job is not to defend, it is to prosecute–to send a deputy district attorney to death row for the crime of murder for hire. But in a torrid case of violence, adultery, and betrayal, lies compound lies, truths defy belief, and finally, one murder leads to another. Suddenly Antonelli knows that in this case the wheels of justice are warped by money and power. And putting the right person away isn’t just a matter of law, it’s a matter of survival. . . .

The Prosecution

Ballantine Books

When one of Hollywood's most successful writers and directors is placed on trial for his wife's murder, attorney Joseph Antonelli takes the case, which seems open-and-shut and which the defendant believes is tied to his re-make of Orson Welles's Citizen Kane. Reprint.

Onyx

When an old case involving a young woman's sudden death is reopened, attorney Joseph Antonelli defends accused killer James Haviland in a trial that could have profound effects on the upcoming U.S. presidential campaign. Reprint.

Breach of Trust

When his law partner, Julian Sinclair, is accused of killing Daphne McMillan, a married district attorney, in a fit of jealous rage, Joseph Antonelli takes on both Daphne's powerful and manipulative widowed husband and the real killer to uncover the truth. Reprint.

Trial By Fire

Contemporary

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Star Witness

Trial by Fire

The Legacy

The Judgment

The Legacy

The Defense: A Novel

The Prosecution

Star Witness

Breach of Trust

Trial By Fire