Courtroom Drama

Belgian crime show The Twelve returns to More4

25 April, 2024

The second season of the Belgian crime drama The Twelve is coming to the UK with a case entitled The Cinderella Murder. A young woman stands accused of killing her step-mother, but beside her in the dock is her father – and 12 jurors must…

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The Plinko Bounce by Martin Clark

By Vicki Weisfeld

18 September, 2023

Fans of the American game show The Price is Right will recognise the Plinko in the title of Martin Clark’s new legal thriller. It’s a juiced-up game not dissimilar to Pachinko, the Japanese gambling game that served as the title for the award-winning 2017 novel….

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The Measure of Time by Gianrico Carofiglio

By Vicki Weisfeld

27 April, 2021

Translated by Howard Curtis — Guido Guerrieri is a lawyer of middle years who practices in Bari, on Italy’s Adriatic coast. In this, Gianrico Carofiglio’s sixth legal thriller featuring Guerrieri, a case with uncomfortable links to the protagonist’s past finds its way to his door….

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The Law of Innocence by Michael Connelly

By DeathBecomesHer

4 November, 2020

Lincoln Lawyer Mickey Haller has featured in six books in his own right and made guest appearances in other Michael Connelly novels – most notably the Harry Bosch series (Haller and Bosch are half brothers). But what makes The Law of Innocence so different from…

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The Mathematical Murder of Innocence by Michael Carter

By Vicki Weisfeld

13 October, 2020

Here’s a courtroom drama that perfectly illustrates how there’s a crime thriller exactly suited to every taste, no matter how specific – even one tailor-made for a statistician accustomed to dealing with the intricacies of prediction. In some ways, you’d think that calculating odds (except,…

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Justice Gone by N Lombardi, Jr

By Vicki Weisfeld

1 October, 2020

This crime thriller by N Lombardi is truly a mixed bag. The story is strong and might have been written this morning, its themes are so timely. However, the presentation gets in the way. Before I get to the plusses, here are the minuses. I…

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House of Correction by Nicci French

By DeathBecomesHer

9 September, 2020

Husband and wife writing team Nicci Gerrard and Sean French are probably best known for their series featuring London-based psychotherapist Frieda Klein, which reached its finale in 2018 with The Day of the Dead. Since then the pair has focussed on standalone crime novels and…

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Seven Shadows by VS Kemanis

By Vicki Weisfeld

6 April, 2020

If you’ve read any of VS Kemanis’s previous Dana Hargrove legal thrillers, you’ll be familiar with her lively, interesting cast of characters. There’s Dana, a former prosecutor, now a judge in Manhattan’s criminal court system. There’s Cheryl Hargrove, her sister, a successful actor who plays…

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Belgian crime show The Twelve returns to More4

The Plinko Bounce by Martin Clark

The Measure of Time by Gianrico Carofiglio

The Law of Innocence by Michael Connelly

The Mathematical Murder of Innocence by Michael Carter

Justice Gone by N Lombardi, Jr

House of Correction by Nicci French

Seven Shadows by VS Kemanis

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