Ray Donovan (TV Series)

Adán en Edén - Carlos Fuentes

The judge (DVD)

The judge (DVD)

Summary: Big city lawyer Hank Palmer returns to his childhood home where his estranged father, the town's judge, is suspected of murder. He sets out to discover the truth and along the way reconnects with the family he walked away from years before.

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Sycamore Row - John Grisham

Sycamore Row - Grisham, John

Summary: When wealthy Seth Hubbard hangs himself from a sycamore tree and leaves his fortune to his black maid, Jake Brigance once again finds himself embroiled in a controversial trial that will expose old racial tensions and force Ford County to confront its tortured history.



Publishers Weekly Reviews
Leave it to Grisham to make a battle about wills nail-bitingly suspenseful in his second novel featuring lawyer Jake Brigance, the hero of Grisham's debut, A Time to Kill. It's 1988, and Seth Hubbard, an elderly man dying of cancer, hangs himself after leaving detailed instructions for his funeral—and a handwritten will, penned the day before, that disinherits his children and gives 90% of his estate to his African-American caretaker, Lettie Lang. Since that unwitnessed document contradicts an earlier one, and Hubbard's assets are north of $20 million, Brigance, who was asked by Hubbard in a note to represent his interests, has a battle on his hands when the disinherited lawyer up. The storyline takes several dramatic turns, even as why Hubbard was so generous to Lang, whom he was not close to, remains a mystery. All the author's strengths are in evidence—his capturing the rhythms of small-town life in Clanton, Miss., his skill at making legal minutiae comprehensible, and his gift at getting readers to care about his characters.

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Risk - Colin Harrison

Risk - Harrison, Colin

Summary: Attorney George Young uses his investigative skills to look into the violent death of Roger Corbett, son of the founder of Young's firm.



Booklist Reviews
In this latest thriller, Harrison (The Havana Room, 2004) puts the pedal to the metal and doesn't let up. The opening pages find middle-aged Manhattan insurance lawyer George Young summoned by the widow of his firm's formidable founder, Wendell Corbett. Mrs. Corbett wants to know the reason behind her son Roger's death before she goes under the knife for a surgery she's unlikely to survive. But Roger's demise seems to have just been an accident (he was hit by a careening garbage truck as he exited a local bar). Or was it? Young, who owes his career to Wendell Corbett, pledges to find answers. A series of clues leads him to a lithe and comely Czech hand model who may know more than she lets on. Russian mobsters, wily poker-playing informants, and a hot-and-cold New York Yankees ball club are all pivotal players here. Also compelling is Young's shrewd wife, Carol, who worries about her husband in the way only a longtime partner can. Harrison delivers a crime novel as gritty and electric as New York City itself. Copyright 2009 Booklist Reviews.

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The Man in the Wooden Hat - Jane Gardam

The man in the wooden hat - Gardam, Jane

Summary: Tells the story of the fifty-year marriage of barrister Filth and his wife Betty, which is filled with secrets and hidden desires. - (Baker & Taylor)




Booklist Reviews
"Readers who enjoyed Gardam's Old Filth (2006) will welcome her new novel. A companion and an amplification rather than a sequel, it tells much of the same story, but from a different angle. Whereas jurist Sir Edward Feathers (aka Filth, for "Failed in London, Try Hong Kong") was at the heart of the earlier work, here his wife, Betty, takes center stage, and we learn much more about their courtship and wedding in Hong Kong and their 50-year marriage. At the novel's end, we revisit Filth in old age, retired in Dorset and a widower wrestling with his past. Although the new book offers many rewards with its combination of sharp humor and deep humanity, readers who come upon it without having read Old Filth may be mystified at times. Albert Ross, for example, the dwarf who played such a pivotal role in Filth's life in the previous book, might seem an inexplicable presence here. Be sure to recommend the two books in tandem." Copyright 2009 Booklist Reviews.

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The practice of deceit: A novel – Elizabeth Benedict

The practice of deceit - Benedict, Elizabeth

Summary: Chronicles a particularly nasty divorce that pits a quintessential "nice guy" against his ex-wife, a manipulative lawyer who will stop at nothing to conceal her own sordid past and destroy his credibility. - (Baker & Taylor)

Library Journal Reviews
When therapist Eric Lavender discovers that lawyer wife Colleen has been hiding some nasty secrets, she makes sure he runs afoul of the law. From the author of Almost, an NPR Best Book of the Year; with a four-city tour. Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

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