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Capitol Conspiracy
Oklahoma defense attorney Ben Kincaid has found himself smack in the middle of more than a few controversies and deadly predicaments–and the unexpected leap from his modest Tulsa law offices to Washington, D.C.'s Senate chamber hasn't taken the edge off Ben's knack for stepping into the line of fire. Now the idealistic junior senator is plunged into the thick of lethal intrigue when a shocking campaign of terror against key government officials rocks the nation's capital.
Capitol Threat
When Oklahoma attorney Ben Kincaid came to Washington, D.C., to defend a senator caught in a red-hot sex scandal turned murder case, he never dreamed he'd end up trading the courtroom for the senate chamber. And after his not-so-distinguished client stepped down, Ben found himself appointed to complete the sullied senator's term. Now, having barely gotten his political sea legs, he must rise to yet another challenge: advising the president's next Supreme Court nominee during the sometimes thorny confirmation process. Luckily, Judge Thaddeus Roush's popularity on both sides of the aisle looks to make him a shoo-in. Until he decides to out himself on national television–igniting a Beltway uproar and setting the stage for a bare-knuckle partisan brawl.
Hate Crime
Ben travels to Chicago to represent a man charged with a hideous gaybashing murder—at the request of the defendant's mother. Ellen was mentioned in the first book in the series and many times thereafter, but readers never knew why Ben's college relationship with her scarred him so—until this book.
Death Row
I think this is the best book in the series; it's still the one I recommend first to new readers. Ben, a vocal long-time opponent of the death penalty, represents a man on death row in perhaps the most desperate of his cases, and in the process, learns something important about life that changes him forever. I love this book.
Silent Justice
This is the only Ben book that centers on a civil suit rather than a criminal case, although the civil case turns out to be not all that civil, and as you might expect, the case is tainted by murder. Since I was primarily a civil trial attorney back when I was still practicing, this was a lot of fun to write.
Dark Justice
My first of several books with an environmental theme. Ben travels to the Pacific Northwest and soon becomes embroiled in a conflict between loggers and environmentalists. This was my second book to win the Oklahoma Book Award.
Extreme Justice
Readers learn a lot more about Ben and his past in this entry, not to mention his (and my) musical taste. This book also introduces Paula Jones, later to be Jones's wife, and reveals that Christina has been secretly going to law school at night. My mother called the ending "sublime"—one of my all-time favorite reviews. This book won the Southern Writers Guild's Gold Medal Award.
Naked Justice
Another strong entry, especially for fans of courtroom drama, or readers wanting to know more about Ben's stormy relationship with his father. Ben represents Tulsa's mayor who has been charged with murdering his wife and children. Some superficial resemblances to the O.J. Simpson trial attracted too much of the critics' attention when the hardcover was released, but it was fabulously successful in paperback, possibly because it's a good book, or possibly because the title contains the word "Naked."
Perfect Justice
My first hardcover was inspired by my involvement with HateWatch at the Poverty Law Center. It was my first book to win the Oklahoma Book Award. Ben goes head-to-head with a white supremacist militia group in a small town in Arkansas. This book was published more than a year before the Oklahoma City bombing. At the time it was released, many critics scoffed that I had made too much of these "backwoods bullies." After the bombing, no one ever said that again.
Dark Eye
Sometimes her eyes seduce. Sometimes they stare straight at the kind of sights most people turn away from. But in the blazing neon and searing sun of Las Vegas, she can't see the man who is watching her and thinking to himself: She is the one...Read more »
Strip Search
She likes the sudden seconds of sheer terror. The neon dreams fit perfectly with the dreams that wake her up at night: about the man she loved and lost, about the constant temptations in her life, and about the odds that inevitably she'll be in the right place at the right time to look naked, human madness in the eye...Read more »
The Midnight Before Christmas
Another great favorite of mine. A true Christmas book, in the Dickensian sense. This book is so pure I've even let Alice read it. Several high school teachers have used it in their English classes. I've had many readers tell me they re-read it every Christmas. I love this book.
Princess Alice and the Dreadful Dragon
This book began as a bedtime story I told my three children, Harry, Ralph—and Alice. Thanks to the glorious illustrations of my dear friend Kerry McGhee, it has become something much more. This project was a delight from start to finish. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.
Legal Briefs: Stories By Today's Best Thriller Writers
The short story is generally considered an American art form (thank Edgar Allan Poe for the literary theory that gave it shape) but in today's world they are very difficult to publish. I invited many of the writers I admire most—starting with John Grisham—to contribute a story. I think everyone enjoyed the chance to stretch their short form muscles—and to raise money for charity at the same time. Philip Margolin's story was selected for the Best Mystery anthology for the year.
Natural Suspect
I started this project to raise funds for extremely worthwhile projects for The Nature Conservancy, but once I recruited ten of the best writers in the country, it actually turned into a very good story! I wrote the first chapter and the last. Each of the other authors wrote a chapter, based only upon what they read the in the previous chapters—no collaboration or consultation was permitted. And it turned out great! Go figure.
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