7 Books Law Students Must Read! (Fiction & Non Fiction)

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  • The Good Lawyer: A Legal Thriller Inspired By A True Story (The Good Lawyer Series Book 1)

    • ASIN: B007OWO0YE
    • Manufacturer: Landview Books

    An Amazon Top 10 Bestseller   #1 Thriller Bestseller   Over 1 Million Copies Sold!Inspired By A True Story "Spectacular. I have not read a book about a legal eagle this good in a long time. I absolutely cannot wait for the next in the series." Amazon 5 star review*****"A good book you cannot put down!!!!! DON'T PASS THIS BOOK UP-GREAT STOR... [Read More]

  • The Guardians: A Novel

    • ASIN: 0385544189
    • ISBN: 0385544189
    • Manufacturer: Doubleday

    John Grisham delivers a classic legal thriller–-with a twist.In the small Florida town of Seabrook, a young lawyer named Keith Russo was shot dead at his desk as he worked late one night. The killer left no clues. There were no witnesses, no one with a motive. But the police soon came to suspect Quincy Miller, a young black man who was once a cli... [Read More]

  • Rule of Law

    • ASIN: B06XK93J44
    • Manufacturer: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

    What did the president know? And when did she know it?For the members of SEAL Team Six, it was a rare mission ordered by the president, monitored in real time from the Situation Room. The Houthi rebels in Yemen had captured an American journalist and a member of the Saudi royal family. Their executions were scheduled for Easter Sunday. The SEAL tea... [Read More]

  • An Innocent Client (Joe Dillard Series)

    • ASIN: 1480030473
    • ISBN: 1480030473
    • Brand: Brand: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
    • Manufacturer: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

    An Innocent Client was a Top 100 book in the Kindle Store for all of 2016. The novel has been translated into 10 languages. Joe Dillard is an Amazon two million copy bestselling series.A preacher is found brutally murdered in a Tennessee motel room.A beautiful, mysterious young girl is accused.In this Mystery Readers International finalist for "... [Read More]

  • My Sister's Grave (Tracy Crosswhite)

    • ASIN: 1477825576
    • ISBN: 9781477825570
    • Brand: Thomas Mercer
    • Manufacturer: Thomas & Mercer

    The first book in the series that has garnered millions of readers across the globe, from New York Times bestselling author Robert Dugoni.Tracy Crosswhite has spent twenty years questioning the facts surrounding her sister Sarah’s disappearance and the murder trial that followed. She doesn’t believe that Edmund House—a convicted rapist and th... [Read More]

  • The Rooster Bar

    • ASIN: B01N6YQAPS
    • Manufacturer: Dell

    #1 New York Times bestselling author John Grisham’s newest legal thriller takes you inside a law firm that’s on shaky ground.“[A] buoyant, mischievous thriller . . . Grisham writes in such an inventive spirit. . . . A treat.”—Janet Maslin, The New York Times   Mark, Todd, and Zola came to law school to change the world, to make it a b... [Read More]

  • A Criminal Defense (Philadelphia Legal)

    • ASIN: 1503943429
    • ISBN: 1503943429
    • Brand: THOMAS MERCER
    • Manufacturer: Thomas & Mercer

    Losing the trial of his life could mean losing everything.When a young reporter is found dead and a prominent Philadelphia businessman is accused of her murder, Mick McFarland finds himself involved in the case of his life. The defendant, David Hanson, was Mick’s close friend in law school, and the victim, a TV news reporter, had reached out to M... [Read More]

  • A Case of Need: A Novel

    • ASIN: B00DEU9H3Y
    • Manufacturer: Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller

    The death of a doctor’s daughter may be malpractice—or murder—in this novel by a #1 New York Times–bestselling author: “I loved it” (Stephen King). In the tightly knit world of Boston medicine, the Randall family reigns supreme. When heart surgeon J. D. Randall’s teenage daughter dies during a botched abortion, the medical community t... [Read More]

  • Without Precedent

    • ASIN: 1542040329
    • ISBN: 1542040329
    • Manufacturer: Thomas & Mercer

    How much would you give up to get justice for your family?Matthew Daley is a Manhattan corporate lawyer at the top of his game. As the first defense attorney on call to get pharmaceutical companies out of trouble, Matt is rising in the judicial system exactly as he planned. Until his sister dies of a heroin overdose.Now, torn between conscience and... [Read More]

  • Juror #3

    • ASIN: B01N3ZWFIW
    • Manufacturer: Little, Brown and Company

    Instant #1 New York Times bestseller!A young attorney tries her first case . . . and it's Murder One in a legal thriller from the world's #1 bestselling writer.Ruby Bozarth, a newcomer to Rosedale, Mississippi, is also fresh to the Mississippi Bar--and to the docket of Circuit Judge Baylor, who taps Ruby as defense counsel in a racially charged fel... [Read More]

  • The Crime (Thaddeus Murfee Legal Thrillers Book 12)

    • ASIN: B07TF472TJ

    Thaddeus Murfee is back in this twisted tale of two trials, mother and daughter, each claiming to have shot father...He couldn't keep his hands off his stepdaughter. The question becomes, who shot him? The mother or the stepdaughter? Or maybe it was even the woman he was seeing? Or the husband of the woman he seduced?Thaddeus defends the mother on ... [Read More]

  • Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption

    • ASIN: 081298496X
    • ISBN: 9780812984965
    • Brand: Spiegel Grau
    • Manufacturer: Spiegel & Grau

    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A powerful true story about the potential for mercy to redeem us, and a clarion call to fix our broken system of justice—from one of the most brilliant and influential lawyers of our time, as seen in the HBO documentary True Justice “[Bryan Stevenson’s] dedication to fighting for justice and equality has i... [Read More]

  • The Reckoning: A Novel

    • ASIN: B079DBS447
    • Manufacturer: Dell

    #1 bestselling author John Grisham’s The Reckoning is his most powerful, surprising, and suspenseful thriller yet.  “A murder mystery, a courtroom drama, a family saga…The Reckoning is Grisham's argument that he's not just a boilerplate thriller writer. Most jurors will think the counselor has made his case.”—USA Today   October 19... [Read More]

  • The Last Trial (McMurtrie and Drake Legal Thrillers)

    • ASIN: 1503953149
    • ISBN: 1503953149
    • Manufacturer: Thomas & Mercer

    Former law professor Tom McMurtrie has brought killers to justice, and taken on some of the most infamous cases in Alabama’s history. Now he’s tackling his greatest challenge.McMurtrie’s old nemesis, Jack Willistone, is found dead on the banks of the Black Warrior River. Willistone had his share of enemies, but all evidence points to a forgot... [Read More]

  • Backlash: A Thriller (The Scot Harvath Series Book 19)

    • ASIN: B07L36F3WS
    • Manufacturer: Atria/Emily Bestler Books

    “Raw emotion, nonstop action, and relentless pacing makes Backlash another one-night read from Brad Thor, who delivers the book to beat in 2019.” —The Real Book Spy #1 New York Times, #1 Wall Street Journal, and #1 Publishers Weekly bestselling author Brad Thor is back with his most gripping thriller yet!In ancient texts, there are stories a... [Read More]

  • The Professor (McMurtrie and Drake Legal Thrillers)

    • ASIN: 1503945545
    • ISBN: 1503945545
    • Manufacturer: Thomas & Mercer

    Law professor Thomas Jackson McMurtrie literally wrote the book on evidence in the state of Alabama. But when a power-hungry colleague uses a recent run-in between McMurtrie and headstrong student Rick Drake to end his career, he is left unsure what to do next.Meanwhile, a devastating trucking accident in Henshaw, Alabama, leaves a young family dea... [Read More]

  • The Girl Who Wrote The New York Times Bestseller (Thaddeus Murfee Legal Thrillers)

    • ASIN: 1519569998
    • ISBN: 1519569998
    • Manufacturer: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

    FROM USA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHOR JOHN ELLSWORTHAttorney Thaddeus Murfee is skyjacked to Moscow. Next to him on the plane is Angelina Sosa, a brash 20-something with a degree in journalism from the esteemed University of Chicago. Angelina decides to write a New York Times best-seller based on the skyjacking. She isn’t sure if it will be fiction o... [Read More]

  • Between Black and White (McMurtrie and Drake Legal Thrillers)

    • ASIN: 1503953076
    • ISBN: 1503953076
    • Brand: Thomas Mercer
    • Manufacturer: Thomas & Mercer

    In 1966 in Pulaski, Tennessee, Bocephus Haynes watched in horror as his father was brutally murdered by ten local members of the Ku Klux Klan. As an African American lawyer practicing in the birthplace of the Klan years later, Bo has spent his life pursuing justice in his father’s name. But when Andy Walton, the man believed to have led the lynch... [Read More]

  • Burden of Truth (Cass Leary Legal Thriller Series)

    • ASIN: 096006110X
    • ISBN: 096006110X
    • Manufacturer: Robin James Books

    To defend her client, she must dig up a town’s darkest secrets. Defense attorney Cass Leary thought she’d escaped her hometown for good. But after leaving her high-paying job in Chicago, she decides to revisit her troubled past. When someone murders the beloved high school basketball coach and Cass steps in to defend the girl accused of the cri... [Read More]

  • To Kill a Mockingbird (Harperperennial Modern Classics)

    • ASIN: B00K0OI42W
    • Manufacturer: Harper

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