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Criminal Intent
Putnam, Aug 2002, 24.9, 416 pp. ISBN: 0399149171 Producer Richard “Big Dick” MacArthur dies by apparently falling off the deck of his Baker Beach, California home. The police detain the movie mogul's third wife, Angelina Chavez, who was found by a bridge unconscious in a family car. After questioning and checking out her story, the police accuse Angelina of murdering her spouse as the murder weapon, his Oscar, is in the trunk of her vehicle. S...
Final Verdict
Putnam, Aug 2003, 25.95 ISBN: 0399150420 About a decade ago, lawyers Michael Daley and Rosie Fernandez triumphantly represented bum Leon Walker in a murder trial. Leon returns needing legal assistance from his attorneys as he is charged with the stabbing killing of Silicon Valley venture capitalist Tower Grayson. The duo knows they must reject this case and all murder cases as Rosie recovers from breast cancer. Besides obtaining an acquittal i...
Incriminating Evidence
Bantam, Aug 2001, 24.95, 387 pp. ISBN: 0553801449 San Francisco District Attorney Prentice “Skipper” Gates III held a campaign rally for his bid for reelection at the Fremont Hotel that ended late. He stayed at the hotel overnight only to wake up with a male corpse sharing his room. The police arrest Skipper for murder and he then calls Mike Daley, his former partner in the Simpson and Gates law firm to get him out of jail and defend him in...
Special Circumstances
Mike has just been "let go" from the prestigious law firm he works for. Two partners are found dead the next morning, and Mike's best friend, also firm partner, is accused of their murders. Every piece of the evidence points to Joel and Mike strives to find something that will absolve his friend of the crimes, although at some point he comes to doubt of his innocence, and so does the reader. It seems that there is a conspiracy of a sort to convict Joel...

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The Confession
Putnam, August 2004, 25.95, 368 pp. ISBN 0389152121 They are law partners and lovers who were once married but realized they couldn't live together so they divorced. Lawyers Mike Daley and Rosie Fernandez agree not to take any high profile cases until their son sleeps through the night. When their friend Father Ramon Aguirre is arrested for killing a female parishioner he asks Mike and Rosie to handle the case and they agree because they won't...