A Paul Madriani Novel — Steve Martini

• Jan-1993
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Sharp defense attorney Paul Madriani was on the rise with the firm of Potter, Skarpellos - until a short-lived affair with Potter's wife cost him his job. Now, Potter's wife is accused of his murder - and Paul is thrust back into the big time, as he ...

• Jun-1993
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In the space of five days the rural college town of Davenport is rocked by four brutal murders: Two couples - undergraduates - their bodies are found tied and staked out on the banks of Putah Creek. Then two more bodies are discovered. This time the ...

• Jul-1994
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Paul Madriani made a deathbed promise to his wife to help her sister Laurel win a custody battle against Jack Vega. But when Jack's new wife is found shot to death in her bathtub-and Laurel is caught fleeing with crucial evidence--things heat up. Mad...

• 1995
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When Judge Armando Acosta is charged with soliciting a prostitute, attorney Paul Madriani is less than sympathetic. Nevertheless, Madriani is forced to defend his old nemesis. And when the policewoman who snared Acosta is brutally murdered, he wonder...

• Jan-2000
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Defense attorney and sleuth Paul Madriani is back, and on his most challenging case in this riveting new legal thriller by the author of 'The Judge' and 'Undue Influence'. A drug-addicted mother goes up against her daughter's newly rich grandfather i...

• Jun-2001
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Paul Madriani has ample reason to suspect he's representing a guilty man. Dr. David Crone, a respected medical researcher and principal in mapping the human genome, is charged with the murder of a young colleague: twenty-six-year-old Kalista Jordan, ...

• Dec-2002
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After a lawyer friend is killed along with his client in a hail of gunfire outside the federal courthouse in San Diego, Madriani takes on another client who he believes is involved at the edges of the double murder. He takes the case not to defend th...

• Dec-2003
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The Arraignment was called "Martini's best Paul Madriani novel to date" (Booklist). But now, the author takes legal thrillers to a new level -- in a novel of a soldier's secrets and a government's lies... A beautiful businesswoman, founder of a hi...

• Jun-2008
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New York Times bestselling master of suspense Steve Martini returns, ensnaring defense attorney Paul Madriani in a web of terror and death being spun in the shadows of America’s most sacred and secretive institution--the Supreme Court. A writer ...

• Jul-2009
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A woman is looking for a way to flee a darkened San Diego beach house where she has been held a virtual prisoner by a wealthy man ... just as a killer enters the mansion on a terrifying mission of blood and carnage. Fate has bound attorney Paul Ma...

• Jun-2010
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The Old Weatherman dreams of a plan that could be his swan song, an attack to drive a stake through the heart of the right-wing establishment and bury it for good. Now he's found the money, the ideal weapon, and the professional who knows how to use ...

• Jun-2011
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In California, two men argue in a parked car ... as the plot unfolds to profitably transfer secret technology into malevolent hands. In Ohio, a young woman slips away from her protectors for a morning run -- unaware that the killer she's being pro...

• Apr-2015
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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 th...

• May-2015
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Defending an innocent young man, defense attorney Paul Madriani uncovers a morass of corruption and greed that leads to the highest levels of political power in this electrifying tale of suspense from New York Times bestselling author Steve Martini. ...

• May-2016
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When Emma Brauer is blamed in the mercy killing of her aged father, Robert Brauer, Paul Madriani steps in to defend her. Insisting she’s innocent, Emma tells Madriani about a package sent to her father by a fellow World War II veteran, containing o...

• May-2018
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Defending a medical researcher accused of murdering a colleague raises one of the most difficult ethical questions attorney Paul Madriani has ever faced: how far should science go to find a cure for our most life-threatening diseases? When medical...