Steve Martini Libri

L'avvocato Paul Madriani l'ha promesso alla moglie: assisterà la cognata Laurel nella causa contro l'ex marito Jack Vega per l'affidamento dei figli. Ma quando Melanie, la giovane nuova moglie di Jack è trovata morta nella vasca da bagno, la faccenda si complica un bel po'. Tutte le prove incastrano Laurel e la sua causa, nata come una delle tante crudeli battaglie legali di un matrimonio fallito, si trasforma inaspettatamente in un processo per omicidio di primo grado. Cercando la verità Paul scopre parecchie cose che non quadrano: testimoni misteriosamente scomparsi, prove inquinate, manovre politiche per insabbiare verità compromettenti. Scopre soprattutto un lato oscuro di Laurel, che non aveva mai conosciuto. Questa volta vuole la verità, senza compromessi: Laurel è colpevole di omicidio?

Paul Mandriani è un ottimo avvocato, ma ha commesso un imperdonabile errore: è stato l'amante di Talia Potter, l'avvenente moglie del suo capo. Un tradimento che gli è costata l'interruzione di una brillante carriera nello studio legale Potter & Scarpellos e la fine del suo matrimonio. Ad aggravare la sua posizione si aggiunge l'assassinio di Ben Potter. L'irrequieta vedova, su cui cadono i sospetti degli inquirenti, chiede l'aiuto di Paul. L'uomo non è forse il difensore più obiettivo, ma è certamente l'unico che può salvare Talia dalla camera a gas.

Il vecchio Jonah Hale vive con la moglie e l'adorata nipotina Amanda, della quale ha ottenuto l'affidamento quando sua figlia Jessica l'ha abbandonata. Però, dopo aver scontato una condanna per droga, Jessica, con la collaborazione di Zolanda Suade, una fanatica avvocatessa che difende madri disperate, fa rapire Amanda. E quando Zolanda viene ritrovata uccisa nella propria auto, il primo ad essere accusato di delitto è ovviamente Jonah, privo di alibi e con molti indizi che rischiano di schiacciarlo.

Steve Martini weaves a story based on today's fears and tomorrow's headlines, creating a gripping narrative filled with realism and authentic characters. Jocelyn "Joss" Cole, a burned-out public defender from L.A., seeks a quieter life in the San Juan Islands of Washington State. Her only significant clients are commercial fishermen afflicted by a mysterious illness that doctors cannot diagnose, which Joss suspects has an industrial origin. Soon, Dean Belden, a wealthy client looking to establish a business in the islands, walks into her office. However, shortly after he is subpoenaed to a federal grand jury, Belden dies in a fiery float plane explosion on Seattle's Lake Union, leaving Joss in the dark about the grand jury proceedings. Meanwhile, Gideon Van Ry, a nuclear fission expert at the Center for Nonproliferation Studies in Monterey, California, is concerned about two missing tactical nuclear devices from a former Soviet storage facility. These weapons were last accounted for in crates intended for an American company, Belden Electronics. Unable to trace the company, Gideon’s only lead is Joss, the lawyer who incorporated it. As the story unfolds, Joss finds herself entangled in a web of danger, deception, and a race against time to uncover the truth behind the explosion and the missing weapons.

Katja è giovane e bella, di una bellezza provocante. È piena di sogni, e ha ciò che le serve per realizzarli. Katja potrebbe avere tutto dalla vita. Eppure è proprio la sua vita a essere in pericolo. Perché Katja è diventata particolarmente scomoda per qualcuno. Qualcuno di estremamente pericoloso. Quando l’avvocato Paul Madriani decide di difenderla, però, è lui a ritrovarsi in pericolo. Non si tratta soltanto di scagionare la bella Katja dalle prove schiaccianti che la accusano di un efferato duplice omicidio: la posta in gioco infatti sembra alzarsi ogni minuto che passa, perché Katja è a conoscenza di qualcosa che potrebbe cambiare non solo il suo destino, ma anche quello di migliaia di persone ignare della minaccia che pende sul loro capo. Una minaccia che gravita ben al di là dell’aula di tribunale. Katja non è soltanto un’accusata: è una testimone che sa troppo. Per questo non basta la condanna. Solo la sua morte può impedire che la minaccia venga sventata. La sua morte… E quella di chiunque la difenda.

David Crone, noto scienziato, a capo di un importante progetto di genetica, èaccusato di aver barbaramente ucciso la sua giovane e avvenente collegaafroamericana, Kalista Jordan. Le prove contro lo studioso sono numerose: lapresenza in casa dell'uomo delle fascette serrafilo con cui la donna è statastrangolata, un rapporto di lavoro culminato in un violento litigio, unadenuncia per molestie sessuali. La situazione processuale diventa disperataquando si presenta a testimoniare la madre della vittima che accusa loscienziato di condurre ricerche di genetica razziale. Paul Madriani, avvocatodifensore di Crone, è l'unico, a dispetto delle numerose prove control'imputato, convinto dell'innocenza del suo assistito.

Chi avrebbe mai potuto immaginare che l'inflessibile, integerrimo, insopportabile giudice Acosta sarebbe finito in mezzo a una squallida storia di prostituzione? Quando poi la testimone chiave nella causa contro il giudice viene assassinata, le cose si mettono davvero male: tutti gli indizi sembrano contro di lui. Ma è proprio Madriani, l'avvocato che più di tutti ha combattuto Acosta in aula, a intuire che, sotto quelle accuse apparentemente inattaccabili, scorre un fiume melmoso di invidia e di corruzione, e ad accettare la difesa di un uomo che non gli ha mai ispirato la minima fiducia...

"Lean, speedy and packing a wallop of a plot twist" was Publishers Weekly's verdict of Steve Martini's The Jury . Now Martini crafts yet another legal nail-biter featuring perennial favorite attorney Paul Madriani. After a lawyer friend is killed along with his client in a hail of gunfire outside the federal courthouse in San Diego, Madriani takes on another client who he believes is involved at the edges of the double murder. He takes the case not to defend the man, but to find out who killed his friend and why. Madriani is tortured by questions of conflict, his duty to a client who may have killed his friend, and the need to know the truth, wondering whether he himself had been marked for death only to have a friend die in his place. Soon he is drawn into a vortex of crime that spans the Americas. As he searches for the killer, Madriani rides the crest of a dangerous wave of international drug deals and people who murder for money. Suddenly he realizes it is not heroin or cocaine that resulted in the murder of his friend, but a priceless piece of pre-Columbian art-something so dazzling in the information it holds as to be one of the treasures of the ages. In a quest that takes Madriani from California to Mexico and the Guatemalan border, he discovers that while the motive to kill may be driven by distant, exotic, and ancient artifacts, the killer, like a serpent, lies much closer at hand.

When lawyer Sam Bogdarus agrees to see Jennifer Davies little does he realise that his attractive new client is to put his life at risk. Jennifer is tracing her father - her only clue being four sheets of parchment belonging to the journals of Sir Francis Drake. These papers hold the key to her father's identity and a multitude of unsolved mysteries... Full of scepticism, Sam agrees to show the papers to university professor Nick Jorgensen. Astoundingly, Nick verifies the papers' authenticity. But already too many people know of the journal's existence. And when his lawyer partner is found murdered, Sam encounters a ruthless killer who seems determined to stop his pursuit of the truth. Eventually Sam is lured into the Simeon Chamber, to discover one of the best-kept secrets time has ever known...

A guide to the three Southeast Asian countries - Malaysia, Singapore, and Brunei. It provides coverage of Malaysia's natural attractions, and contains the lowdown on Singapore's burgeoning entertainment scene from alternative gigs to cutting-edge theatre, and uncovers the secret charms of secluded Brunei.

Navy SEALs are the military's elite—highly trained, deadly, and sworn to secrecy about the details of their dangerous and confidential missions. So when one of the men goes public about a high-profile assassination abroad, all of his comrades are thrown into peril. In this riveting novella, attorney Paul Madriani comes to the aid of a Navy SEAL who is pursued by his own government and facing possible prosecution for disclosures he says were made by others. When the soldier disappears, Paul finds himself ensnared in a deadly game of intrigue that forces him to track the man down before it is too late.

In the space of five days the college town of Davenport is rocked by four brutal murders: two couples - students - their bodies found tied and staked out on the banks of Putah Creek. Then two more bodies are discovered. This time the victims are Abbott Scofield, a distinguished member of the university faculty, and his former wife Karen. The police suspect Andre Iganovich, a Russian immigrant, but Paul Madriani thinks there is more to the case than meets the eye. Forensic reports on the physical evidence suggest lingering questions about the Russian's involvement in the Scofield killings, and Paul becomes increasingly convinced that the second murders are the product of a copy-cat killer - a cold and calculating murderer who has taken the lives of the Scofields for reasons that Paul is determined to uncover...

Joss Cole, a burned out public defender from LA, has opted for a quieter life in Washington State. Then into her office walks Dean Belden in search of a lawyer to help him set up a business. Within days Belden appears before a federal grand jury and, just minutes before testifying, he is killed. Meanwhile, Gideon van Ry, a nuclear fission expert in California, is troubled by the failure to account for two nuclear devices missing from the former Soviet Union. Under a false bill of lading, they were shipped to a company called Belden Electronics, and Gideon's only lead is the lawyer who incorporated Belden Electronics - Joss Cole...

Still reeling from the trauma of a near nuclear explosion at the naval base in Coronado, San Diego defense attorney Paul Madriani now finds he's been linked to the murder of a Washington, D.C., political staffer. Authorities believe the bloodthirsty assassin Liquida Muerte—aka "the Mexicutioner"—may be responsible, and that Madriani is the ultimate target of the killer's twisted vengeance. But the danger pales before an even more terrible unfolding scenario. Evidence is mounting that the elusive maniac and a domestic terrorist who calls himself the Old Weatherman have joined forces, intending to strike at the very seat of the United States government, pulling the capital city—and the country—into a vortex of terror . . . unless Paul Madriani and weapons control expert Joselyn Cole can somehow unravel the enigma of . . . The Rule of Nine.

The story revolves around young Alex Ives, who becomes embroiled in a serious legal battle after a fatal car crash. Accused of drunk driving and manslaughter, Alex insists he had only one drink but struggles with memory of the night. As attorney Paul Madriani delves deeper, he uncovers Alex's investigation into the victim, a formidable lawyer named Olinda Serna, leading to the potential of a murder charge. The case unfolds with twists and complexities that challenge Madriani's skills and the truth behind the incident.

Martini keeps getting better and better. -Tennessean (Nashville)When Emma Brauer is blamed in the mercy killing of her aged father, Robert Brauer, Paul Madriani steps in to defend her.

In California, two men argue in a parked car . . . as the plot unfolds to profitably transfer secret tech- nology into malevolent hands. In Ohio, a young woman slips away from her protectors for a morning run—unaware that the killer she’s being protected from waits in the darkness. The woman is Sarah, daughter of defense attorney Paul Madriani. Her assailant is the vengeful assassin named Liquida. Now Paul Madriani—along with his companion, Joselyn Cole, and his law partner, Harry Hinds—must venture into the vortex of international terror in search of an ice-cold killer and a trader of secrets before the ultimate weapon of mass destruction sets the world ablaze.

New York Times bestselling master of suspense Steve Martini returns, ensnaring defense attorney Paul Madriani in a web of terror and death being spun in the shadows of America's most sacred and secretive institution—the Supreme Court. A writer is savagely slain while on a publicity tour—a literary provocateur who craved headlines, but whose last book may have gone too far. His revelations about secret language buried in the U.S. Constitution—and hints about an explosive missing letter of Thomas Jefferson's—may be enough to cause an irreparable tear in the fabric of the nation . . . and perhaps drove a volatile youth to homicide. But Paul Madriani thinks a troubled young man with dark connections has been chosen as a scapegoat to cover up something far deadlier that festers in America's political heart. And in the wake of the strange disappearance of a Supreme Court judge, Madriani must survive long enough to find the devastating answers hidden in the shadow of power.

Napínavý román ze současnosti z prostředí americké justice. Autor románu, sám vystudovaný i praktikující právník, dovede velmi sugestivně a s odbornou erudicí vylíčit zajímavý případ, který začíná únosem dítěte a dále graduje třemi vraždami. Z žalujícího se stává obžalovaný, který je podezříván z vraždy odpůrkyně. Hrdina knihy, advokát Paul Madriani, musí použít všechen svůj um a vyvinout největší úsilí aby svého klienta osvobodil.

Sechs Millionen Dollar sind für das Manuskript des unbekannten Autors Gable Cooper geboten. Die Sache hat nur einen Haken: Gable Cooper existiert nicht. Die junge Anwältin und Autorin Abigail Chandlis hat ihn erfunden. Denn ihr vierter Roman ist ihr Meisterstück. Er verdient den Erfolg und der Erfolg braucht einen Vater.§Agentin und Verlag sind von dem Roman und - nach Abbys Beschreibung - seinem Autor so hingerissen, daß sie den Mann endlich leibhaftig sehen wollen. Hollywood klopft an. Hals über Kopf muß sich Abby auf die Suche nach einem charismatischen Strohmann machen. Sie findet ihn in Jack, einen attraktiven und vollkommen erfolglosen Thrillerautor. Ihr alter Freund Morgan Spencer kümmert sich um die vertragliche Absicherung zwischen den beiden, damit es nicht zu Streitereien kommt. Denn schließlich geht es um sehr viel Geld. Und, wie Abbey voll Entsetzen feststellen muß, um ihr Leben.

Právník Madriani se v románovém trilleru snaží obhájit vědce a lékaře Cronea, obviněného z vraždy kolegyně. Ctižádostivá mladá žena, půvabná afroameričanka Kalista se snažila získat Croneovo místo; měl s ní profesní neshody a právě to, s několika dalšími závažnými věcmi, které roztržitý profesor nedokáže vysvětlit z něj dělá hlavního podezřelého. Doktor Crone nespolupracuje a očividně ho více zajímají pracovní problémy než soudní proces, který by pro něho mohl skončit doživotním vězením. Madriani se snaží najít v bludišti polopravd něco, co by ho přivedlo ke skutečnému pachateli. Mir.

"Zunächst sieht alles aus wie ein x-beliebiges Eifersuchtsdrama. Staranwalt Paul Madriani hat siene Schwägerin Laurel zu verteidigen, die ihre Nebenbuhlerin umgebracht haben soll. Als die Staatsanwaltschaft ihn abblockt, Zeugen verschwinden und auch noch das FBI ins Spiel kommt, wird Madriani schlagartig klar, daß er sich auf gefährlichem Terrain bewegt. Nur eine Chance hat er, das teuflische Netz aus falschen Indizien zu zerreißen und ein schockierendes Tatmotiv ans Licht zu bringen: das Kreuzverhör"--Page 4. of cover.

Enkele vellen uit het dagboek van Sir Frances Drake (ca. 1543-1596) zijn de aanleiding tot een speurtocht door San Francisco die geplaveid wordt door moord en geweld.

La liste est celle des best-sellers du New York Times... Abby Chandlis, 40 ans, romancière, rêve d'y entrer avec son nouveau livre écrit sous le pseudonyme de Gable Cooper. Son expérience avec ses trois derniers romans, qui n'ont fait que prendre la poussière sur des étagères ; lui a fait choisir un nom masculin mais elle doit à tout prix trouver l'auteur supposé qui assurera la promotion en son nom. Jack Jermaine est un homme à la beauté dévastatrice et au sombre passé. Amer, il rêve, devant sa malle de manuscrits refusés, d'écrire un roman à succès. Grâce à des stratagèmes juridiques qui tiennent plutôt d'un pacte avec le diable... Jack devient Gable Cooper. Lorsque Jack devient célèbre, Abby est à la fois séduite et prisonnière de sa propre création, mais elle ne sait rien de lui et le succès tourne à l'horreur... Sa maison est dévastée, sa meilleure amie est électrocutée, son ex-mari, un alcoolo violent, est découvert noyé. Du nord du Pacifique à New York, puis dans les îles Caraïbes, Abby est à la poursuite de la seule personne en qui elle peut avoir confiance, la seule qui peut prouver qu'elle est l'auteur du roman et mettre fin à son cauchemar qui fut son rêve : être l'auteur de La Liste...

Steve Martini crafts a gripping narrative that resonates with contemporary anxieties and future headlines. Jocelyn "Joss" Cole, a weary public defender from Los Angeles, seeks solace in the San Juan Islands of Washington State. Her only notable case involves a group of commercial fishermen afflicted by a mysterious illness that defies medical explanation, which Joss suspects is linked to industrial activities. Suddenly, Dean Belden, a wealthy entrepreneur, approaches her for legal assistance in establishing a business in the islands. Shortly after, Belden is summoned before a federal grand jury. Tragically, he dies in a catastrophic float plane explosion on Seattle's Lake Union just after his testimony, leaving Joss in the dark about the grand jury proceedings. Meanwhile, Gideon Van Ry, a nuclear fission expert at the Center for Nonproliferation Studies in Monterey, California, grapples with the unsettling disappearance of two tactical nuclear devices from a former Soviet storage facility. These weapons were last known to be packed for shipment to Belden Electronics, a company Gideon cannot trace. His only lead points to Joss Cole, the attorney who incorporated the elusive firm, intertwining their fates in a web of intrigue and danger.