Steve Martini Livres

Brillant avocat, Paul Madriani n'avait aucune envie de s'attarder à Davenport, un comté perdu de l'Amérique profonde, où il a accepté de remplacer son ami le procureur Féretti qui vient de subir une opération. Mais Feretti meurt, et Paul se voit contraint de poursuivre l'enquête commencée : six cadavres mutilés et attachés, comme pour des meurtres rituels... Tout va mal pour Madriani : sa femme lui mène une vie infernale et exige de quitter cet endroit, les magistrats et les notables du lieu semblent s'être ligués pour lui rendre le travail impossible. Faux témoignages, cabales et enfin disparition du principal témoin, celui qui aurait vu l'un des meurtres : rien ne lui sera épargné. Démasquer le coupable dans ces conditions tient du miracle... Avocat lui-même, Steve Martini nous offre ici une intrigue solide, captivante, réaliste, qui l'impose au côté de John Grisham comme un maître du " thriller juridique ".

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.

Paul Madriani, the brilliant defense attorney from Compelling Evidence and Prime Witness , is back in a complex web of murder and deceit — this time within his own family. His wife Nikki has just died of cancer. On her deathbed, Nikki made Paul promise to look after her younger sister, Laurel Vega, who is mired in a bitter child-custody battle with her ex-husband, a powerful state senator. When Jack Vega's new wife is found slain execution-style, Laurel becomes the prime suspect. Paul — remembering his promise to his wife — has no choice but to take Laurel's case. But as he tries to mount a defense and probes deeper into the lives of those involved, he discovers a trail of betrayal and duplicity that hides the truth at every turn. A gripping drama that spirals toward its shattering conclusion, Undue Influence is a brilliant work from the author hailed by the Los Angeles Times as "the newest superstar among fictionalizing attorneys."

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.

Defense attorney Paul Madriani is mired in a complex web of intrigue and murder when the sister of his late wife, embroiled in a bitter custody battle with her former husband, becomes the prime suspect in the murder of her ex-husband and his new young wife.

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.

Gable Cooper has penned a novel worth six million dollars. But he doesn't exist. Abby Chandlis is lawyer-turned-novelist and the creator of Gable Cooper. She is looking for a charismatic man to pose as the author of her knock-dead thriller. When Jack Jermaine enters her life, Abby is convinced that his charm and good looks will clinch success for her novel, so they make a deal. But as her book rockets to the top of the bestsellers list and Jack is propelled into stardom, Abby senses peril. A series of deadly accidents persuades her that her life is in danger and, with Jack in pursuit, she races to the one person who can put an end to the nightmare that was once her dream of making The List.

'The best debut, in my opinion, is COMPELLING EVIDENCE' John Grisham