A new thriller by the author of Special Circumstances and Incriminating Evidence follows the adventures of an ex-priest, and ex-corporate lawyer, and an ex-wife who open their own criminal defense firm. 50,000 first printing.

Criminal Intent

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Siegel, Sheldon

Mystery

Putnam Adult

Approached by Leon Walker, who was responsible for their ruined marriage, legal partners Mike Daley and Rosie Fernandez find themselves challenged to defend Walker against allegations that he murdered a Silicon Valley venture capitalist. 40,000 first printing.

Final Verdict

The Confession

When the lawyer for the plaintiff in a scandalous sexual harassment suit against the San Francisco Catholic Archdiocese turns up dead, the possible victim of murder, ex-priest Mike Daley and his ex-wife and law partner, Rosie, set out to defend the prime suspect, Father Ramon Aguirre, but they soon discover that they have a nearly impossible task ahead of them. 35,000 first printing.

Literature & Fiction

United States

Ex-priest and ex-corporate lawyer Mike Daley, and his ex-wife, lawyer Rosie Fernandez, investigate the murder of a legendary filmmaker when Rosie's niece is accused of the crime, a case that forever changes their views on truth, justice, life, and death. Reprint.

Contemporary

Signet

Approached by Leon Walker, who was responsible for their ruined marriage, legal partners Mike Daley and Rosie Fernandez find themselves challenged to defend Walker against allegations that he murdered a Silicon Valley venture capitalist. Reprint.

When the lawyer for the plaintiff in a scandalous sexual harassment suit against the San Francisco Catholic Archdiocese turns up dead, ex-priest Mike Daley and his ex-wife and law partner, Rosie, set out to defend the prime suspect, Father Ramon Aguirre. Reprint.

Read by David Dukes 3 Cassettes, 5 hours 15 minutes Meet Mike Daley. Yesterday he was skidding off the partner track at one of San Francisco's most prominent law firms. Today, he's renting a makeshift office on the wrong side of town. Where does an ex-priest, ex-public defender, and ex-husband like Daley go to build a practice? Not far, he discovers. In a stunning turn of events, Daley's best friend and ex-colleague is charged with the double murder of two lawyers at the old firm, and asks Daley to defend him. Cobbling together a defense team composed of himself, his ex-wife, and a onetime courtroom fixture named Mort Goldberg who's been wished on him against his better judgement, Daley finds he's got more to defend than his friend's innocence. The newly elected, media-hungry District Attorney, also a former colleague, will prosecute the case himself. As court is called into session, it becomes clear that in this trial ambition, honor, friendship, greed and longstanding grudges will play as important a role as truth and justice.

Special Circumstances

Random House Audio |

Performance by Boyd GainesFour Cassettes, 6 hrs.Mike Daley and Rosie Fernandez, now into the third year of their legal partnership and still as close as a formerly married, hopelessly contentious, deeply bonded couple can be, find themselves with another front-page case. Skipper Gates, the San Francisco District Attorney who is the city and county's chief law enforcement officer, calls them from the Hall of Justice, where he has just been arrested for the murder of a male prostitute found tied to the bed in a hotel room where Skipper was staying. The evidence against him is formidable as well as salacious. It seems clear he's lying when he says he has no idea how the victim got there, much less how he diedâ€”but it's also clear he needs a terrific criminal attorney, and Mike and Rosie take the case.This is the start of a probe that takes us into San Francisco's old Mission District, vividly portrayed in its many ramifications. It's where both Mike and Rosie had grown up, back in the days when it was a working class community of Irish and Spanish families. It's gentrifying now, meaning that many of the old buildings are giving way to the pricey lofts of the yuppies and dot-com techies. But much of it is still seedy or worse; this is the cesspool center of the city's drug trade, prostitution and porn business. Johnny Garcia, the corpse in Skipper's hotel room, was a seventeen-year-old male prostituteâ€”and the search for what actually happened takes our heroes and their lively supporting cast into the lowest depths and some of the highest echelons of San Francisco life.Sheldon Siegel's second novel is marked by the same energy, drive, sardonic insight, vivid legal detail, trial scenes, and startling outcome as SPECIAL CIRCUMSTANCES, but it has a darker, more disturbing story to tell that reveals fresh, more probing aspects of this gifted author's talent.

Incriminating Evidence

Debut author Sheldon Siegel bursts into the legal thriller arena with a riveting courtroom drama, exposing the world of big-time law firms and lawyers in a fresh, sharp-witted, wonderfully sardonic page-turner. Meet Mike Daley. Ex-priest. Ex–public defender. And as of yesterday, ex-partner in one of San Francisco's most prominent law firms. Today he's out on his own, setting up practice on the wrong side of town. Then his best friend and former colleague is charged with a brutal double murder, and Daley is instantly catapulted into a high-profile investigation involving the prestigious law firm that just booted him. As he prepares his case, Daley uncovers the firm's dirtiest secrets. It doesn't take long for him to discover that in this trial, ambition, friendship, greed, and long-standing grudges will play just as important a role as truth and justice. Brilliantly paced, crackling with energy and suspense, Special Circumstances reminds us why we love to hate lawyers — but can't get enough of courtroom drama when it's done this well.

Special Circumstances (Mike Daley, Book 1)

Bantam]

With his terrific first novel, Special Circumstances, Sheldon Siegel delivered legal fiction so exciting, it drew comparisons with the very top tier of courtroom thrillers. Now he has a new challenge for defense attorney Mike Daley--ex-priest, ex-husband, ex-public defender--and it’s a high-profile zinger: a case he doesn’t think he can win for a client he can’t stand. It starts with a phone call Mike Daley never expected to get, from District Attorney Prentice Marshall Gates III, San Francisco’s chief law enforcement officer and front-runner candidate for California attorney general. Friends they’re not, but Gates needs Daley now--badly. He’s just been arrested. A couple of hours earlier he woke up in his hotel room and found the dead body of a young male prostitute in the bed. Prosecutors are already talking the death penalty, and there’s nothing in the mounting evidence to convince Daley and his partner--and ex-wife--Rosie of Gates’s innocence. But even if he’s lying, it’s their job to defend him. Sure enough, the deeper Mike and Rosie dig, the seamier their findings. From a shady Internet entrepreneur who trades flesh for cash to a prominent businessman who uses muscle to keep his enterprise prospering, Mike and Rosie chase down leads that take them from the depths of the Mission District, where drugs and bodies are always for sale, to the gated mansions of Pacific Heights, frantically trying to piece together the shocking truth of what actually happened, even as the trial itself is under way.

Incriminating Evidence (Mike Daley, Book 2)

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Criminal Intent

Final Verdict

The Confession

Criminal Intent

Final Verdict

The Confession

Special Circumstances

Incriminating Evidence

Special Circumstances (Mike Daley, Book 1)

Incriminating Evidence (Mike Daley, Book 2)