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Focus Fiction: Read-A-Likes - Robert North Patterson

William Bernhardt - Cruel Justice [FICTION BERNHARDT]

  • Ben Kincaid inherits a ten-year-old murder case which no one else wants and finds that there are alarming parallels to a current case.

Jay Brandon - Angel of Death [MYSTERY BRANDON]

  • The San Antonio D.A. finally convicts a politically powerful killer, but will Death Row be enough to stop this "Angel of Death" from orchestrating his revenge?

Linda Fairstein - Final Jeopardy [FICTION FAIRSTEIN]

  • Alexandra Cooper, Manhattan's top sex crime prosecutor, awakens one morning to shocking news -- a tabloid headline announcing her own brutal murder.

Philip Friedman - Reasonable Doubt [FICTION FRIEDMAN]

  • Michael Ryan, after years away from the courtroom, must return to defend his daughter-in-law, accused of the murder of his son.

George V. Higgins - Defending Billy Ryan [FICTION HIGGINS]

  • Jerry Kennedy, "the classiest sleazy lawyer in Boston", has the unenviable task of defending Billy Ryan, the Commissioner of Public Works, who has built a career on shady deals.

Baine Kerr - Harmful Intent [FICTION KERR]

  • A prominent doctor's inexplicable failure to diagnose breast cancer takes a disllusioned lawyer and his client on separate quests for the truth.

Phillip Margolin - The Last Innocent Man [FICTION MARGOLIN]

  • After years of successfully defending rapists, murderers, and the scum of the earth, David Nash takes a case in which his client may actually be innocent.

Steve Martini - The Judge [FICTION MARTINI]

  • In an ironic twist of fate, Paul Madriani is approached to defend a judge, his old nemesis, on charges of soliciting and murder.

Barbara Parker - Suspicion of Guilt [FICTION PARKER]

  • Gail Connor takes the biggest case of her career and finds herself immersed in a web of forgery, conspiracy, and murder in Miami.

William G. Tapply - Dead Winter [MYSTERY TAPPLY]

  • Asked to defend a client's son on a charge of murder, Brady Coyne finds himself in a labyrinth of family secrets which someone is willing to kill to protect.

Scott Turow - Presumed Innocent [FICTION TUROW]

  • While investigating the murder of another attorney, who happened to be a former lover, prosecutor Rusty Sabich soon finds himself to be the chief suspect.

Carolyn Wheat - Sworn to Defend [MYSTERY WHEAT]

  • Brooklyn lawyer Cassy Jameson finally has an innocent client! But after she proves him innocent of robbery charges, she learns that he's guilty of a far worse crime.

Kate Wilhelm - Malice Prepense [MYSTERY WILHELM]

  • Barbara Holloway takes on the case of Teddy Wendover, a mentally-disabled adult accused of three murders, including the brutal bludgeoning of an Oregon senator.

Updated: 9/29/04

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