Robert G. Slade

With a missing girl in the news, Claire Scott can't help but be reminded of her sister, who disappeared 20 years ago in a mystery that was never solved. But when she begins to learn the truth about what happened, nothing will ever be the same.

Defense attorney Mickey Haller is back, taking the long shot cases, where the chances of winning are one in a million. He agrees to represent a woman in prison for killing her husband, a sheriff's deputy. Despite her conviction four years earlier, she still maintains her innocence. Haller enlists his half brother, retired LAPD Detective Harry Bosch, as investigator. Reviewing the case, Bosch sees something that doesn't add up, and a sheriff's department...

Mercy Callahan never thought she'd be able to talk about her past. When she arrives in Sacramento to make peace with her brother Gideon, and to help find the brutal cult that took away her childhood, she is finally ready to talk. But when Ephraim Burton - the man who made her life a living hell - follows her there, she realises she might never be safe. Rafe Sokolov would do anything to have Mercy back in his life and would go to any length to protect...

Special Agent Gideon Reynolds has tried hard to put his past behind him. He escaped the violence of his cult upbringing when he was just 13, and since then routine and discipline have been his way of making sense of the world. But when a petite blonde woman crashes into his life, he begins to realise that a little bit of chaos might not be so bad. Daisy Dawson has had more than her fair share of pain too - but she's done being a victim. Daisy's determined...

Special Agent Steven Thatcher has a lot on his hands. Not only is there a serial killer of teenage girls on the loose, but Steven's own teenage son Brad is suddenly acting up and failing at school.

Lisa Trammel had been a client of Mickey's for 8 months and although so far he'd managed to stop the bank from taking her house, the strain and sense of injustice are beginning to take their toll, But now the bank's CEO has been found in the bank's car park with a bullet in his brain, and Lisa is about to be indicted for murder.

Brendan has always lived a careful, constrained life. A salesman who never liked the work, he's a man who has stayed in his marriage and his faith because it was what was expected of him. But now, having lost his job after corporate downsizing and on the cusp of sixty, he finds himself scrambling to somehow stay afloat in the only Los Angeles work on offer to a man his age - driving for Uber. When one of his rides, a retired professor named Elise,...

Deputy Coroner Clay Edison is juggling a new baby who won't sleep with working the graveyard shift. For once he's trying to keep things simple. When infant remains are found by developers demolishing a local park, a devastating cold case is brought back to light. Clay has barely begun to investigate when he receives a call from a man who thinks the remains could belong to his sister - who went missing fifty years ago. Now Clay is locked in a relentless...

It should have been so easy for Vincent Madigan. Take $400,000 away from some thieves, who could they go to for help? No-one at all. For Madigan is charming, effective and knows how to look after himself. The only problem is that he's up to his neck in debts to Sandia, the drug kingpin of Harlem.

One afternoon in late March, Sandy Stern, the brilliant, quixotic defence lawyer in Presumed Innocent, returns home to find his wife Clara dead in the garage. They have been married for 31 years. Her suicide note leaves him just four words - "Can you forgive me?" But on the 6th March Clara had expected to live...