New Releases by Steve Martini

Paul Madriani takes on dual roles—defense attorney and sleuth—in this riveting legal thriller by the New York Times bestselling author of Blood Flag and The Secret Partner. “Legal thrillers don''t get much better than this,” wrote Publishers Weekly in praise of The Judge. Kirkus Reviews hailed Undue Influence as “the courtroom novel of the year.” Now Martini delivers one of Paul Madriani’s most challenging cases in The Attorney: where a drug-addicted mother is pitted against her daughter’s newly rich grandfather in a contentious custody case that leads to criminal accusations—and ultimately murder...

De rechter. - Wanneer een studente van de politieacademie dood wordt aangetroffen, valt de verdenking op een rechter die vlak daarvoor contact met haar heeft gehad als prostituée.

A federal agent investigates a man who may be seeking nuclear components for a terrorist plot.

Mélanie, la séduisante épouse du politicien Jack Vega, a été abattue à coups de revolver. Aucun doute pour la police : la coupable est Laure, la première femme de Jack, à qui ce dernier intentait un procès visant à lui retirer la garde de leurs enfants. L''avocat Paul Madriani, dont Laure est la belle-sœur, est effondré : tout accuse la jeune femme. Entreprise sans aucun espoir de succès, sa contre-enquête l''amène cependant à d''étranges découvertes. Ce meurtre n''est-il pas une aubaine pour Jack Vega, menacé d''une instruction judiciaire pour corruption ? Que sont devenus les voisins de la victime, disparus dès le lendemain du meurtre ? Pourquoi la police refuse-t-elle obstinément de prendre en considération ces aspects de l''affaire ? Ce n''est qu''aux toutes dernières pages que nous découvrirons une vérité plus trouble encore que tout ce qu''on pouvait supposer. L''auteur de Principal témoin, avocat lui-même, nous offre ici mieux qu''un haletant thriller psychologique : une critique de mœurs où sont explorées la corruption et la lâcheté du monde politique et étatique, la partialité de certains policiers et de certains juges. Et aussi le désarroi d''adolescents abandonnés au gré des adultères et des divorces...

Tired of the corrosive politics of Capital City, hot-shot lawyer Paul Madriani has reached a watershed in his life. A new practice in San Diego, the mellow swells of the Pacific, and if things work out, a future with Susan McKay - that''s the plan. But when Paul meets an old client, whose eight-year-old granddaughter has been abducted, he is drawn into a case which destroys everything he believes in.

Jocelyn "Joss" Cole, a burned-out public defender from L.A., has opted for a quieter life in the San Juan Islands of Washington State. Joss has no significant clients other than a group of commercial fisherman suffering from a strange and serious illness, a condition that doctors cannot diagnose, and which Joss believes has an industrial cause. Then into her office comes Dean Belden, a well-heeled client in search of a lawyer to help him set up a business in the islands. Within days Belden is subpoenaed to appear before a federal grand jury. Less than an hour after testifying, and before Joss can discover what happened in the secrecy of the grand jury room, Belden dies in a fiery explosion of his float plane on Seattle''s Lake Union. Gideon Van Ry is a nuclear fission expert and a scholar in residence at the Center for Nonproliferation Studies in Monterey, California. One of his duties is to update the Center''s database, an extensive catalog listing fissionable materials and weapons of mass destruction. Gideon is troubled by the apparent failure to account for two small tactical nuclear devices missing from a storage facility in the former Soviet Union.The two weapons were last seen in packing crates, to be shipped to an American company called Belden Electronics. Gideon has been unable to locate this firm, and now he is left with only one possible lead, the lawyer who incorporated the company-Jocelyn Cole. Fraught with tension and suspense, Critical Mass is Steve Martini at his electrifying best. It is the story of what can happen in a world where private hate and public apathy combine to uncork the sleeping but deadly genie of nuclear terror.

Now, "New York Times" bestselling author Steve Martini turns his talents on the seductive world of entertainment, where a lawyer-turned-novelist has concocted the ultimate scheme to outwit the biggest players in New York and Hollywood. Nothing will stop her rise to the top. And nothing will prepare her for its terrifying--and deadly--price.

When attorney-turned-novelist Abby Chandlis searches for a charismatic man to pose as Gable Cooper, the phantom author of the blockbuster thriller she has written, she encounters Jack Jermaine, a dangerous man obsessed with writing a best-selling nov.

Lawyer Paul Madriani tackles another thrilling case in this explosive mystery from New York Times bestselling author Steve Martini. When Judge Armando Acosta is charged with soliciting a prostitute, attorney Paul Madriani is less than sympathetic. Nevertheless, Madriani is forced to defend his old nemesis. And when the policewoman who snared Acosta is brutally murdered, Madriani wonders if the judge is also the executioner.

Pour les amateurs de John Grisham, un roman judiciaire qu''anime un procureur, entour ̌de jaloux, de magouilleurs politiques, d''une femme aigrie et, surtout, embt̊ ̌par une affaire de meurtres dont il cherche en vain la personne dčrite par le titre. [SDM].