Phillip Margolin

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  • Bibliography:
    29 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    August 1978
  • Latest Book:
    November 2024
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Full Series List in Order

Amanda Jaffe

1 - Wild Justice (Sep-2000)
2 - Ties That Bind (Mar-2003)
3 - Proof Positive (Jul-2006)
4 - Fugitive (Jun-2009)
5 - Violent Crimes (Feb-2016)

Dana Cutler

1 - Executive Privilege (Jun-2008)
2 - Supreme Justice (May-2010)
3 - Capitol Murder (Apr-2012)
4 - Sleight of Hand (Apr-2013)

Robin Lockwood

1 - The Third Victim (Mar-2018)
2 - The Perfect Alibi (Mar-2019)
3 - A Reasonable Doubt (Mar-2020)
4 - A Matter of Life and Death (Mar-2021)
5 - The Darkest Place (Mar-2022)
6 - Murder at Black Oaks (Nov-2022)
7 - Betrayal (Nov-2023)

Book List in Order: 29 titles

  • Heartstone

    Richie Walters, all-American boy. Elaine Murray, cheerleader. They made the perfect couple. And that evening out at Lookout Point - Richie fumbling at the buttons of her blouse, Elaine thrilled and terrified - they were about to take the final step. ...

  • The Last Innocent Man

    The papers call him the Ice Man. David Nash, defense attorney - cool, unruffled, practically unbeatable in the courtroom. Most of his clients are guilty. A few may be monsters. Suddenly the Ice Man is assailed by doubts and unanswerable questions...

  • Gone, but Not Forgotten

    ONE BY ONE THE WOMEN VANISHED. THE ONLY CLUE IS A SINGLE BLACK ROSE. LEFT ON A PILLOW WITH THIS NOTE... GONE, BUT NOT--FORGOTTEN THE SIGNATURE OF THE SMARTEST KILLER OF THEM ALL The first time Russ went into the bedroom, he missed the rose and...

  • After Dark

    The first woman ever hired by legendary defense lawyer Matthew Reynolds, Tracy Cavanaugh cuts her teeth on a horrifying crime: the car-bomb murder of Oregon Supreme Court Justice Robert Griffen. Reynold's client - and the chief suspect - is none othe...

  • The Burning Man

    Chad Wheeler, an arrogant, self-centered associate in a large Portland, Oregon law firm, disobeys the orders of his father - a senior partner in the same firm - and commits a terrible blunder in a multi-million dollar law suit. Fired from his big ci...

  • The Undertaker's Widow

    Judge Richard Quinn is young, idealistic, and honest to a fault. That's why he's handed the most sensational homicide case in Oregon history. Locked in a race for the U.S. Senate, Ellen Crease gunned down the intruder who murdered her wealthy husba...

  • Wild Justice

    Amanda Jaffe - 1

    Thursday: Subject is still combative after four days of applied pain, sleep deprivation and minimal food. Vice squad detective Bobby Vasquez, for months on the trail of a slippery underworld figure, receives an anonymous tip that directs him to a ...

  • The Associate

    A poster boy for the American Dream, former blue collar boy turned high-powered lawyer Daniel Ames is on easy street as an associate at Reed, Briggs, Portland's most prestigious law firm. Until one man...and one case...changes everything. When ...

  • Ties That Bind

    Amanda Jaffe - 2

    Amanda Jaffe was a rising star of Portland's legal community, until a run-in with a psychopath left her scared and craving anonymity. But her new case promises to keep her in the spotlight -- and in danger. Defending the accused murderer of a U.S. se...



  • Sleeping Beauty

    Seventeen-year-old Ashley Spencer learned what true horror was the night a serial killer invaded her home and brutally murdered her father and her best friend. But the terror did not end there ... A year after the unspeakable events, Ashley is sti...

  • Lost Lake

    On a summer night in Portland, Oregon, violence erupts at a Little League game--and attorney Ami Vergano watches in horror as the quiet, gentle artist she recently befriended does the unexpected and unthinkable ... In a cheap motel room in Washing...

  • Proof Positive

    Amanda Jaffe - 3

    Doug Weaver is a defense attorney who always believes the best of his clients, and Jacob Cohen, on trial for murder, is no exception. Jacob may be homeless and mentally ill, but Doug can't imagine that this meek and intensely religious man could have...

  • Executive Privilege

    Dana Cutler - 1

    When private detective Dana Cutler is hired to follow college student Charlotte Walsh, she never imagines the trail will lead to the White House. But the morning after Walsh's clandestine meeting with Christopher Farrington, President of the United S...

  • Fugitive

    Amanda Jaffe - 4

    Amanda Jaffe, the heroine of Wild Justice and Proof Positive, is back--in this twisting tale of international intrigue and murder that leads her deep into the past . . . and into the crosshairs of a killer. Charlie Marsh, a petty thief and con ma...

  • The House on Pine Terrace

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  • Supreme Justice

    Dana Cutler - 2

    New York Times bestselling author Phillip Margolin returns to the corridors of power in Washington, D.C., with an exciting thriller about a ghost ship and the President's nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court. Sarah Woodruff, on death row in Oregon fo...

  • Capitol Murder

    Dana Cutler - 3

    Private investigator Dana Cutler and attorney Brad Miller have overcome more than a few daunting challenges and powerful enemies to see justice done. Against tremendous odds, they successfully unmasked an American president's involvement in a chain o...

  • Sleight of Hand

    Dana Cutler - 4

    Private investigator Dana Cutler must take down a cunning psychopath before he can pull off the perfect crime, in Sleight of Hand, a novel of suspense from Phillip Margolin, New York Times bestselling author of Capitol Murder and Supreme Justice. ...

  • Worthy Brown's Daughter

    Known for his critically acclaimed contemporary thrillers, New York Times bestselling author Phillip Margolin explores intriguing new territory in Worthy Brown's Daughter, a compelling historical drama, set in nineteenth-century Oregon, that combines...



  • Woman with a Gun

    New York Times bestselling master of mystery Phillip Margolin transcends his traditional territory in this new and different book, a haunting thriller inspired by an unforgettable photograph. Visiting an art museum displaying a retrospective of ac...

  • Violent Crimes

    Amanda Jaffe - 5

    In this mesmerizing tale of suspense from New York Times bestselling author Phillip Margolin, attorney Amanda Jaffe -- star of Wild Justice, Ties That Bind, Proof Positive, and Fugitive -- becomes entangled in a murder case involving Big Oil, an estr...

  • The Third Victim

    Robin Lockwood - 1

    A woman stumbles onto a dark road in rural Oregon―tortured, battered, and bound. She tells a horrific story about being kidnapped, then tortured, until she finally managed to escape. She was the lucky one―two other women, with similar burns and b...

  • The Perfect Alibi

    Robin Lockwood - 2

    The “master of heart-pounding suspense”―New York Times bestseller Phillip Margolin―returns with a new legal thriller starring Robin Lockwood. A young woman accuses a prominent local college athlete of rape. Convicted with the help of undis...

  • A Reasonable Doubt

    Robin Lockwood - 3

    A magician linked to three murders and suspicious deaths years ago disappears in the middle of his new act in New York Times bestseller Phillip Margolin’s latest thriller featuring Robin Lockwood Robin Lockwood is a young criminal defense attorn...

  • A Matter of Life and Death

    Robin Lockwood - 4

    The master of the courtroom thriller, returns with A Matter of Life and Death, a classic mind-bending puzzle, as Attorney Robin Lockwood must face her most challenging case yet, with everything stacked against her client and death on the line. Joe...

  • The Darkest Place

    Robin Lockwood - 5

    Defense attorney Robin Lockwood faces an unimaginable personal disaster and her greatest professional challenge in the next New York Times bestselling Phillip Margolin's new legal thriller, The Darkest Place.Robin Lockwood is an increasingly prominen...

  • Murder at Black Oaks

    Robin Lockwood - 6

    In Phillip Margolin's Murder at Black Oaks, Attorney Robin Lockwood finds herself at an isolated retreat in the Oregon mountains, one with a tragic past and a legendary curse, and surrounded by many suspects and confronted with an impossible crime.De...

  • Betrayal

    Robin Lockwood - 7

    In Phillip Margolin's Betrayal, attorney Robin Lockwood finds herself defending her old nemesis in a multiple murder case with too many suspects, where success might cost her own life.Robin Lockwood is now a prominent defense attorney in Portland, Or...

  • An Insignificant Case



Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Phillip Margolin has published 29 books.

The next book by Phillip Margolin, An Insignificant Case, will be published in November 2024.

The first book by Phillip Margolin, Heartstone, was published in August 1978.

Yes. Phillip Margolin has 3 series.
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