This is a new feature I developed where each month we will look at our favorite – the best – series in a genre or topic.
The topic here, by my definition, is a series with characters who are Lawyers. These are the ones which came to mind. I enjoyed some more than others. They seem to fall mostly into the mystery or thriller genres.
Since I haven’t read everything, it’s a subset of the possibilities. I’m sure I am forgetting some great authors. There are also plenty of authors I have yet to read. Please share your favorites with me in the comments, also.
My favorite Lawyers series are (in no particular order):
Robin Lockwood Morgan Dane Jason Rich
by Phillip Margolin by Melinda Leigh by Robert Bailey
Keera Duggan Daniel Pitt The Lincoln Lawyer
by Robert Dugoni by Anne Perry by Michael Connelly
What are your favorite series?
Vote for your top 3 favorites! You can vote for my favorites or add favorites of your own.
About Anne Perry
Anne Perry (born Juliet Hulme) is a British historical novelist.
Juliet took the name “Anne Perry,” the latter being her stepfather’s surname. Her first novel, The Cater Street Hangman, was published under this name in 1979. Her works generally fall into one of several categories of genre fiction, including historical murder mysteries and detective fiction. Many of them feature a number of recurring characters, most importantly Thomas Pitt, who appeared in her first novel, and amnesiac private investigator William Monk, who first appeared in her 1990 novel The Face of a Stranger. As of 2003 she had published 47 novels, and several collections of short stories. Her story “Heroes,” which first appeared the 1999 anthology Murder and Obsession, edited by Otto Penzler, won the 2001 Edgar Award for Best Short Story.
About Melinda Leigh
Wall Street Journal bestselling author Melinda Leigh is a fully recovered banker. A life-long lover of books, she started writing as a way to preserve her sanity while raising her kids. Over the next few years, she learned a few things about writing a book. The process was much more fun than analyzing financial statements, and she decided to turn her hobby into a career. Melinda’s debut novel, SHE CAN RUN, was nominated for Best First Novel by the International Thriller Writers. She is a RITA® Award Finalist and has earned three Daphne du Maurier Award nominations, two Silver Falchion Awards, and a Golden Leaf.
Melinda holds a 2nd degree belt in Kenpo Karate. She’s dabbled in Arnis stick fighting, studied Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, and taught women’s self-defense. She lives in a messy house in the suburbs with her husband, two kids, a couple of shelter dogs and two rescue cats who clearly run the show. With such a pleasant life, she has no explanation for the sometimes dark and disturbing nature of her imagination.
About Robert Bailey
Robert Bailey is the bestselling and award winning author of the McMurtrie and Drake Legal Thrillers series, which includes The Final Reckoning, The Last Trial, Between Black and White, and The Professor, as well as the Bocephus Haynes’ series, which debuted with Legacy of Lies. He is also the author of the inspirational novel, The Golfer’s Carol.
Robert was born in Huntsville, Alabama, the son of a builder and a schoolteacher. From the time he could walk, he’s loved stories, especially those about Coach Paul “Bear” Bryant and his beloved Alabama Crimson Tide football team.
Robert obtained a Bachelor of Arts in History from Davidson College in North Carolina. Law School at the University of Alabama followed, where Robert made Law Review, competed on the school’s trial team and managed to watch every home football game.
For the past twenty-one years, he’s been a civil defense trial lawyer in his hometown of Huntsville. He and his wife, Dixie, have three kids.
About Robert Dugoni
Robert Dugoni is the New York Times, #1 Amazon, and #1 Wall Street Journal Bestselling Author of the Tracy Crosswhite series: My Sister’s Grave, Her Last Breath, In the Clearing, The Trapped Girl and Close to Home, as well as the short prequels The Academy and Third Watch. The police procedural featuring Seattle Homicide Detective Tracy Crosswhite has kept Dugoni in the Amazon top 10 for more than three years and sold more than 4 million copies. He is also the author of the critically acclaimed The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell, released April 2018. Dugoni’s first series featured attorney David Sloane and CIA agent Charles Jenkins.
He is the winner of the Nancy Pearl Award for fiction, a two-time nominee for the Harper Lee Award for Legal Fiction, A two-time nominee for the Mystery Writer’s of America Edgar Award and a two-time nominee for the International Thriller of the year. His non-fiction expose, The Cyanide Canary, was a 2004 Best Book of the Year. He is published in more than 30 countries and two dozen languages.
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Love this category!!!
Thanks Jonetta. Do you have favorites I haven’t read? Also have you read Phillip Margolin? I just recently found that series and I LOVE it.
I don’t think I’ve read any series you haven’t already discovered. I love legal thrillers but most of them are standalones. I was trying to think of more but came up empty. I’ll have to check out Margolin. I believe I’ve collected some of the series.
I do love the Morgan Dane and Daniel Pitt books. I’ll have to check out the others. Most of my experience of legal thrillers is with John Grisham’s standalones.
yes I know some standalones too but I was looking at series.
I’ve not read any of these. Thanks for sharing. I enjoy your series on Saturday posts.
Thank you! I try to do some interesting themes.
So many great titles. You cannot go wrong really.
Thank you. These are my favorites of ones I have read. I have a huge pile of lawyer freebies I haven’t finished yet though.
You’ve given me some more to add to my TBR thank you! I can’t think of lawyers without thinking of John Grisham books. My Mom used to read them so they were books that were readily available to me in the house.
yes I thought of John Grisham but I’ve mostly seen movies of his books, rather than reading them. Also I think of them as standalones more than series but I may be wrong about that as it’s been awhile since I looked at his books.
One day I might try The Lincoln Lawyer again
I enjoy the lawyer books because they are mysteries and the legal plays.