DUTY TO CLIENT > DUTY TO JUSTICE?\nAttorney Talon Winter confronts the darker side of criminal law, in more ways than one, when she is hired to defend the indefensible. 
A young man with every advantage in life is charged with murdering his own grandparents. The media goes into a frenzy. The state puts their top prosecutor on the case. And the young man’s parents, despite everything, hire the best defense attorney in town: Talon Winter. As the case proceeds, Talon wrestles with her role in the justice system, is tempted by an opportunity to abandon criminal practice altogether, and faces what it would mean for her both professionally and personally if she wins a case where the only truly just verdict is guilty.\nSTEPHEN PENNER IS AN AMAZON BESTSELLING AUTHOR WITH OVER HALF A MILLION COPIES SOLD\nWinter’s Duty is Book 5 in the top-rated legal thriller series featuring hard-nosed criminal defense attorney Talon Winter. Each book in the series can be read as a stand-alone novel, but also follows the personal and professional growth of Talon and her friends and foes.\n"Talon Winter is a kick-ass main character." --Amazon Reader Review\nIf you're looking for an authentic legal thriller that doesn’t shy away from the big issues in the criminal justice system, you’ll love Winter’s Duty.

Winter's Duty (Talon Winter Legal Thrillers)

Penner, Stephen

Literature & Fiction

Stephen Penner

WHO DO YOU BELIEVE WHEN EVERYONE HAS A REASON TO LIE?\nA young man is murdered in his apartment in a very personal and unique way. The evidence leads to an unlikely suspect, and soon everyone involved has a different, conflicting alibi. They can't all be true, but which ones are false, and why?\nHomicide D.A. David Brunelle must put the pieces together to build the prosecution against the true killer. The case will test his best professional skills, as well as his closest personal friendships, all to overcome the murderer's Alibi Defense.\nSTEPHEN PENNER IS AN AMAZON BESTSELLING AUTHOR WITH OVER HALF A MILLION COPIES SOLD\nAlibi Defense is Book 14 in the top-rated legal thriller series featuring Seattle homicide D.A. David Brunelle and a recurring cast of cops, defense attorneys, and forensic experts. Each book in the series can be read as a stand-alone novel, but also follows the personal and professional growth of Brunelle and his friends and foes.\n"David Brunelle may or may not win his case, but Stephen Penner has definitely created a winner here." --Amazon Reader Review\nIf you're looking for an authentic legal thriller with plenty of twists and turns, Alibi Defense is for you!

Alibi Defense: (David Brunelle Legal Thriller Series Book 14)

BOOK 10 OF THE TOP-RATED LEGAL THRILLER SERIES“I couldn’t help myself.”Hot blood. Uncontrollable impulse. Temporary insanity. Different names for the same idea: Sometimes, you just lose it.Who can honestly say they’ve never done something they later regretted? Certainly not Dave Brunelle, homicide prosecutor and all too fallible human being. But not all bad decisions are made equal. When Brunelle finds himself standing over the remains of a murdered homeless man, his head stomped into a train rail, he vows to hold the killer responsible.But the killer claims mental illness, arguing the legal doctrine of “diminished capacity” to assert he had no legal intent to kill the victim. And Brunelle’s own mental capacity will be tested by an old flame and the ghosts of his own bad decisions. Can Brunelle keep his head together long enough to convince the jury that sometimes, no matter why the killer did it, murder is still murder?

Diminished Capacity: David Brunelle Legal Thriller #10

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Thrillers & Suspense

Criminal defense attorney Talon Winter agrees to represent an 18-year-old man charged with a murder he didn't commit. But under the strict letter of the law, he can still be held responsible for the actions of the person who actually pulled the trigger. The problem is, the trigger-puller is a cop. The bigger problem is, so was the victim.A high profile case with a dead police officer leads the prosecutor's office to pursue a complicated legal theory to secure a murder conviction for a possible robbery gone horribly wrong. Talon appeals to the prosecutor's sense of justice, but is rebuffed by the harshest possible interpretation of the murder statute--and the prospect of a mandatory life sentence.Talon will battle against public outrage, an intractable prosecutor, and 'the felony murder rule' to seek a just result for a young man facing the rest of his life in prison for the acts of another person.

Winter's Reason: Talon Winter Legal Thriller #3 (Talon Winter Legal Thrillers)

LEGAL THRILLER. Sometimes you get lucky. And sometimes luck isn’t enough.The body of a murdered woman is found hidden behind some abandoned warehouses in one of Seattle’s grittier neighborhoods. A surveillance camera from a nearby business captures the license plate of a vehicle leaving the scene. A suspect is arrested and identified. Only then does Homicide D.A. David Brunelle realize what they’re really dealing with: a serial killer who finally got caught, but only on the thinnest of evidence.The killer makes an offer. Give him a slap on the wrist and he’ll tell the police about all the other murders he committed and where to find the bodies—solving a clutch of unsolved cases and giving closure to countless family members. Or turn down the offer and risk losing the trial, knowing the killer will be released to murder again. And again. And again.

Devil's Plea Bargain: David Brunelle Legal Thrillers #11

Homicide in Berlin: David Brunelle Legal Thriller #12 (David Brunelle Legal Thrillers)

Review "Thoroughly enjoyable. Fantastic courtroom dialogue and excellent depth with many rules and procedures. Talon Winter is easy to like and pull for."--Amazon Reader Review"Great legal drama. Courtroom sections are gripping. Excellent writing."--Amazon Reader Review"Talon Winter is a kick-ass main character."--Amazon Reader Review Product Description THE PROBLEM WITH FIGHTING THE SYSTEM IS THAT THE SYSTEM FIGHTS BACKKarim Jackson, college student and social justice activist, joins a protest at a newly completed private jail in downtown Tacoma, Washington. When the director of the jail comes out to confront the protesters, a physical altercation ensues. The director ends up on the ground with a fatal headwound, and Karim ends up arrested for his murder.Talon Winter defends Karim against the murder charges, struggling to convince the prosecutor that Karim didn’t actually cause the death and in any event was acting in self-defense. But the prosecutor isn’t going to cut a deal for someone accused of killing one of their own. When Talon gets too close to the truth, a third lawyer jumps in—a partner from her old civil firm representing the private jail company.Talon battles both the power of the government and the corporate prison complex to save a man from losing his freedom for a crime he didn’t commit.

Winter's Justice: Talon Winter Legal Thriller #4 (Talon Winter Legal Thrillers)

THE BEST-LAID PLANS LEAD TO MURDER\nDavid Brunelle, homicide prosecutor, confronts murder in a whole new, and very personal way. As he sets out to prosecute his latest homicide, a case from his past rears its deadly head again. 
An open-and-shut case of domestic violence murder threatens to come apart at the seams when the defense attorney accuses the lead cop of misconduct. Suddenly, the confession and murder weapon are in danger of being suppressed, and Brunelle’s case goes from airtight to gasping for air. Meanwhile, a man Brunelle convicted of murder decades earlier finishes his sentence and is released from prison. When the jury found the man guilty, he swore to kill Brunelle when he got out, and it quickly becomes clear he intends to execute his plan to execute Brunelle. 
Brunelle must battle to keep his focus, win his case, and save his life, all at the same time. Will he hold a new killer accountable or become the victim of an old killer’s long-simmering Premeditated Intent?\nSTEPHEN PENNER IS AN AMAZON BESTSELLING AUTHOR WITH OVER HALF A MILLION COPIES SOLD\nPremeditated Intent is Book 13 in the top-rated legal thriller series featuring Seattle homicide D.A. David Brunelle and a recurring cast of cops, defense attorneys, and forensic experts. Each book in the series can be read as a stand-alone novel, but also follows the personal and professional growth of Brunelle and his friends and foes.\n"David Brunelle may or may not win his case, but Stephen Penner has definitely created a winner here." --Amazon Reader Review\nIf you're looking for an authentic legal thriller with plenty of twists and turns, Premeditated Intent is for you!

Premeditated Intent: David Brunelle Legal Thrillers Book 13

A man shot to death under a freeway overpass. A suspect who flees into the night. And a witness no one can find. Homicide D.A. David Brunelle must figure out the connection between these three people in order to hold a murderer responsible. But how can he, when he has no idea who the witness really is or how to find her? To prevail against a theatrical defense attorney, and win over a dubious judge, Brunelle enlists the help of his usual allies, plus a newbie prosecutor and a mysterious woman who seems to know everyone--except the missing witness. It will take all of his abilities to put the pieces together in time to solve the puzzle and convict a killer.

Missing Witness: David Brunelle Legal Thriller #9

From the author of the top-rated David Brunelle Legal Thriller Series... Talon Winter was one of the most feared civil litigators in the Pacific Northwest—until she was wrongfully terminated by her high-priced law firm for refusing to follow an unethical order. Forced to reinvent herself, Talon recalls the one time she truly enjoyed being a lawyer—defending a fellow tribal member accused of murder—and decides to strike out on her own as a criminal defense attorney. She's also going to sue the pants off her old firm. But balancing her personal lawsuit with a fledgling law practice proves more difficult that Talon imagined. She has no choice but to take on the first client who walks in her door: Michael Jameson, a successful, forty-something, African American husband and father—who's just been charged with a 25-year-old cold case murder, a gang-related drug deal gone horribly wrong. The one question Talon needs answered is the one question Michael refuses to answer: Did he do it? Michael insists it doesn't matter. He's not the same person he was twenty-five years ago. He's built a new life in the intervening years, and nothing that happens now will bring the victim back. Instead, he poses a far more provocative question: Would the legal system reach back that far to take away everything built up by a successful White man? Talon must simultaneously battle her old law firm, a condescending prosecutor, reluctant witnesses, and even her own client to achieve that most elusive of goals: Justice.

Winter's Law

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