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The Advocate's Illusion

The Advocate Series Volume 9
Teresa Burrell

2019 Gold Medal
307 Pages
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2019 Gold Medal
Attorney Sabre O. Brown takes on three disconcerting new cases, each with its own illusion: a woman claiming she's been impregnated by a ghost, a threatening parent prone to violence, and a child bride with a heart-breaking First Amendment issue. At the same time, Sabre tries to protect her mother who is dating a suspicious widower she met on online. In Sabre’s search for justice, she is found near death after a magician’s illusion deviously goes wrong

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Justice Gone

N. Lombardi Jr

2019 Silver Medal
336 Pages
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2019 Silver Medal
WINNER OF 3 AWARDS
2019 AMERICAN FICTION AWARD
WINNER NATIONAL INDIE EXCELLENCE AWARD - Best legal thriller 2019
SILVER MEDAL 2019 READER'S FAVORITES AWARDS

Chosen by Wiki.ezvid.com among its list of 10 Gripping and Intelligent Legal Thrillers

When a homeless war veteran is beaten to death by the police, stormy protests ensue, engulfing a small New Jersey town. Soon after, three cops are gunned down. A multi-state manhunt is underway for a cop killer on the loose. And Dr. Tessa Thorpe, a veteran's counselor, is caught up in the chase. Donald Darfield, an African-American Iraqi war vet, war-time buddy of the beaten man, and one of Tessa's patients, is holed up in a mountain cabin. Tessa, acting on instinct, sets off to find him, but the swarm of law enforcement officers get there first, leading to Darfield's dramatic capture. Now, the only people separating him from the lethal needle of state justice are Tessa and ageing blind lawyer, Nathaniel Bodine. Can they untangle the web tightening around Darfield in time, when the press and the justice system are baying for revenge? Justice Gone is the first in a series of psychological thrillers involving Dr Tessa Thorpe, wrapped in the divisive issues of modern American society including police brutality and disenfranchised returning war veterans. N Lombardi Jr. is the author of compelling and heartfelt novel The Plain of Jars.

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Tropical Doubts

David Myles Robinson

2019 Bronze Medal
308 Pages
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2019 Bronze Medal
Some Honolulu lawyers called Pancho McMartin the best criminal defense attorney in the islands. He’d admit to being pretty damn good. But he was on a losing streak now—three guilty verdicts in a row—and his confidence was sinking fast. When one of his oldest friends, Giselle, was left comatose after surgery and her husband, Manny, pleaded with him to sue the doctors involved, Pancho couldn’t find a way to avoid a new specialty: medical malpractice. But it wasn’t long before the sudden death of one of the defendants—and a murder charge accusing Manny of being the killer—had Pancho back in the old familiar arena of fighting for his client’s life, while at the same time seeking justice for the O.R. errors that had left Giselle in a permanent vegetative state. In Tropical Doubts, the third legal thriller from David Myles Robinson featuring colorful, fast-thinking Pancho McMartin, medical hijinks merge with murder as surprise twists build in this unpredictable courtroom drama.

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Blood Relations

Edward Cohen and Kathy Cohen

2019 Honorable Mention
380 Pages
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2019 Honorable Mention
A young New Orleans lawyer discovers that his father is having an affair with a beautiful attorney in their firm. To save his parents' marriage, he determines to seduce her away. When she is murdered, he must defend his father at trial. A masterfully written and complex legal thriller with a bombshell surprise ending.

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Fountain of Revenge

Richard Dodge Davidson

2019 Finalist
184 Pages
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2019 Finalist
This book tells the story of two young New York City attorneys who are asked to investigate a matter in Georgia for their senior partner and his client. It involves a legend of the Cherokee Nation regarding a formula, and a potion made from the formula, that prolongs the natural lifespan. Other competitors also have heard about the legend and the purported existence of the potion, so there is competition to find the formula first among a major pharmaceutical company, representatives of the Cherokee Nation, and perhaps some unknown killers. The pursuit of the mystery on behalf of the firm's client leads to twists and turns before unexpected dangers arise for the two young attorneys. It is a legal thriller, love story, and exciting action drama right to the end.

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Do Not Ask

Elaine Williams Crockett

2018 Gold Medal
342 Pages
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2018 Gold Medal
2019 IPPY AWARD 
2018 READERS' FAVORITE BOOK AWARD
2018 CLUE AWARD
2018 NATIONAL INDIE EXCELLENCE BOOK AWARD
2018 NEXT GENERATION BOOK AWARD 
2017 INDIES BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD
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The President's daughters are missing.  The President's beautiful twin daughters disappear during a visit to a mysterious country estate known as Blackhall. A United States Supreme Court law clerk vanishes from her Georgetown apartment. Why are Washington, DC, women disappearing?

Supreme Court Justice Warren Alexander is determined to find out when he discovers a link between the missing women and his son-in-law, a notorious playboy and the owner of Blackhall. And when the President's daughters are found dead on the Blackhall estate, and the DNA is a one-in-a-trillion match, the FBI is certain the right person is locked up.

But the killing isn't over. While Justice Alexander desperately tries to exonerate an innocent man, the killer is targeting yet another woman. Alexander soon discovers that Blackhall is an estate with a secret--a centuries-old murder that must be solved before the killer can ever be found.

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The Advocate's Geocache

The Advocate Series Book 7
Teresa Burrell

2018 Silver Medal
311 Pages
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2018 Silver Medal
Attorney Sabre Brown is having a great time geocaching, the Internet’s version of a treasure hunt. The fun ceases when she “caches” a container with an official death certificate citing “Murder by Poison” as the cause of death. Even more disturbing is that the date of death is ten days in the future.

Sabre is forced to search cache after cache, each revealing more clues, until they take an unexpected twist and shockingly point to one of her court cases. Is the murderer a rejected child, a well-known plastic surgeon, a scorned ex, a crooked lab technician, or a politician in line for the highest office in the land? Or is someone playing Sabre in an ugly geocache of life and death?

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A Murder On Wall Street

A Joey Mancuso, Father O'Brian Crime Mystery (Volume 1)
Owen Parr

2018 Bronze Medal
218 Pages
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2018 Bronze Medal
A PRIEST, AN EX-COP, AND THREE BADASS BABES WALK INTO A BAR…Lucky for readers, that’s a great opportunity for the kind of rare mystery series with something for everyone—a tough guy, three awesome women, and a classic Golden Age gentleman-detective clergyman. The twist? The cop and the cleric are half-brothers who operate a PI firm out of their bar. Owen Parr pulls off a crowd-pleasing coup in the first entry in his Joey Mancuso/Father Dominic O’Brian series—a perfect blending of the hard-boiled and intellectual schools of detecting. Joey’s the ex-cop, who got kicked out of the police department by means of a small frame, and the women are a fiery FBI agent, (Joey’s elusive Cuban girl friend), a glamorous “researcher”, and perhaps most memorable of all, Joey’s mentor and ex-partner, Lucifer--officially Lucy, but what a nickname!Captain O’Brian’s Pub and Cigar Bar, with its old-world New York warmth and reliably friendly Irish bartender is a character in itself, the kind of place that’s like home to its devotees. So when one of the brothers’ best customers dies in an apparent suicide —a Wall Street guy celebrating a new client the night before-- they're just not feeling it. They know he wasn’t a guy who wanted to die; and they quickly find out he was someone a lot of people wanted dead.It’s a made-to-order financial puzzle for a couple of seasoned New York PI’s, with the kind of twists and scams and puzzles that warm a mystery fan’s heart like a shot of Jameson.Fans of New York detective shows from Blue Bloods to Elementary will find it right up their alley, and devotees of Golden Age mysteries will love it, especially those set in New York, like Ellery Queen and Nero Wolfe; and those starring brainy clergymen, like Father Brown, The Rabbi, and Father Dowling.

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The Amazon Detective Agency

A Murder Novel
Patrick Oster

2018 Honorable Mention
422 Pages
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2018 Honorable Mention
Melissa McGinty wants more than anything to be a full time, old-school detective like her father, who weaned her on black-and-white film classics featuring Sam Spade and Philip Marlowe. But her fledgling detective agency, run out of her home in suburban Washington, D.C. with an all woman support staff, mostly attracts clients who want proof of their spouses’ infidelity so they can get more alimony.
To make ends meet, she moonlights as an overnight guard with the Supreme Court’s little known police department. Then late one night, a juicy murder falls into her lap when she discovers a dead justice on the floor of the judges’ private basketball court. A lightbulb goes on that if she can solve the murder, she’ll be famous, and clients with real cases will come streaming through her door.
Her bosses, who normally take a low-profile approach to their jobs, have different ideas about her involvement in the case, which becomes front-page news after the FBI takes the lead in a crime that could affect who will be the next president of the United States.
On her growing list of suspects are the sitting president, whose election fate is headed for a siuddenly evenly divided high court, alt-right fanatics who didn’t like the justice’s liberal rulings — with gun-rights activists right behind. And a stream of corporate executives, whose lawsuits got more winnable with the justice out of the way, make the list of probables even longer.
With the help of a shadowy cyber-expert, a super Internet researcher and a Tarot card-reading assistant who warns her of dangers, Mel persists in tracking down the killer. On the verge of being fired, she almost gets killed in the process as one misleading clue after another brings her closer to the truth. And the solution she comes up with is one of the least likely she could have imagined.

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The Brilliant Game

Hidden Motives Book 3
A. Gavazzoni

2018 Finalist
470 Pages
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2018 Finalist
Psychiatrist Simone Bennet feels like a pawn on a chessboard—as if some invisible, master chess player is toying with her life and the lives of the people she loves and cares for.
A series of horrific events—several murders and Simone being tortured at the hands of a serial killer—culminate in the kidnapping of her daughter and have turned Simone’s life upside down.
Struggling to stay afloat in the middle of a sea of chaos, Simone continues to receive her psychiatric patients and do more work for the New York attorney, Carl, while local police, the FBI, and Edward—Simone’s boyfriend, best friend, and business partner—are working hard to locate her child.
Simone is analyzing another set of Lara’s journals, and she becomes dragged into a vortex of sex addiction, suffering, and Lara’s struggle for some kind of balance in her life, while Simone battles an inner fight against her mixed feelings for the enigmatic lawyer.
Filled with twists and turns, this final book in the Hidden Motives trilogy reveals a deranged, steamy, and disturbingly brilliant game of sex, murder, and mystery and chronicles a woman’s conflict between love and reason.
Fasten your seat belts before you embark on this roller coaster, and prepare for the most unpredictable end.