Legal Thriller

[close] Win an advance reader's copy of the new thriller by Allison Leotta, “the female John Grisham” (The Providence Journal).

SPEAK OF THE DEVIL–AND HE WILL APPEAR

On the same night that prosecutor Anna Curtis gets engaged, a terrifying man known as Diablo leads a vicious attack on a brothel. Anna is assigned to investigate, but the challenge of her day job contrasts with the sweetness in her personal life as she plans her wedding and shifts from being a single woman to one-half of a D.C. power couple and stepmother to a six-year-old girl.

The investigation soon leads Anna to MS-13, one of America’s most brutal street gangs. As Anna uncovers the full extent of “the Devil’s” depravity, she also finds long-buried secrets, official lies, and a terrifying danger that comes straight to her doorstep. What she discovers not only threatens her plans for a happy marriage, but everything she thought she knew about the past and present, good and evil, and the price of justice. [close]

[close] Theseus is a work of literary fiction about lawyers and the law. An inside tale of practicing law in today’s preeminent law firms, the book is a timely expose of the erosion of nobility and ethics in a profession increasingly measured by profit. Theseus offers a vivid portrayal of the changing culture of the legal profession and the cold truth of a career in big law. Theseus draws its storylines and subjects from Greek mythology and classical literature. Ancient themes of wealth, power, fate and justice, at work in today’s modern law firms, are explored throughout the book. The novel’s principal character is the Greek mythological hero, Theseus, as a successful corporate securities lawyer in a prestigious law firm. [close]