Books like Rough justice by Lisa Scottoline

John Grisham’s first nonfiction book exposes a wrongful conviction that left a small‑town Oklahoma man on death row, revealing how faulty evidence and Justice System failures can turn a tragedy into a tragic misjudgment.

Public defender Kendall Deaton in Prosper, South Carolina, must flee after uncovering a town secret and confronting her powerful husband, while protecting her baby and navigating a treacherous escape amid threats to her life and the truth she holds.

Laurence, a summer cleaner at Stainthorpe Hotel, meets the acclaimed author Mark Taylor under unexpected circumstances when she is caught in his bedsprings and he rescues her. A blend of admiration, romance, and awkwardness unfolds.

Mary DiNunzio fights for partnership at Rosato & Associates, only to be stalked by threatening phone calls and murderous shadowboxing that threaten her career and life.

A New York Times‑bestselling thriller in which a woman journalist discovers an identical‑looking flyer to her adopted son and dives into a dangerous mystery that may endanger both of them.

A fresh law school graduate working for a top Philadelphia firm discovers she has been murdered and must use her legal acumen to unravel a conspiracy before her deadly secrets become headline news.

When a violent crime shatters a suburban Massachusetts town, a seasoned assistant district attorney learns his fourteen‑year‑old son is accused of murdering a classmate, forcing him to confront the limits of fatherly knowledge, justice, and truth.

Mary DiNunzio, a dedicated lawyer from Philadelphia’s South Side, is thrust into a family saga when she takes on a pro‑bono case to seek reparations for her client’s grandfather, an Italian‑American interned in World War II. As she digs into decades of secrets, Mary risks her life to uncover the truth.

Philadelphia lawyer Bennie Rosato loses her wallet—and her identity—when a cunning impostor begins to destroy everything she loves.

In "Feared," Mary DiNunzio and Bennie Rosato confront a vindictive law‐firm rival, a deadly murder, and a reverse sex‑discrimination lawsuit that threatens to bring their practice—and their lives—down.

"I very much need to be dead." These are the chilling last words left by a man who had everything to live for but took his own life. In the void that remains stands his widow, FBI agent Jane Hawk, surrounded by questions destined to go unanswered unless she does what all the grief and fury inside her demand: Find the truth, no matter what. People of talent and accomplishment, people seemingly happy and sound of mind, have recently been committing suicide in surprising numbers. A disturbing pattern is beginning to emerge. Jane is determined to give up everything to find out why. And if that means going rogue and becoming America's Most Wanted, then so be it. Those arrayed against her are legion, and devoted to protecting something profoundly important-or terrifying-enough to exterminate any and all in their way. But Jane is as clever as these enemies are cold-blooded, as relentless as they are ruthless. And she is driven by a righteous rage they can never comprehend. Because it is born of love.

When Jack Newlin is forced into a deadly plot, he must take the fall for a murder to protect those he loves.

When nine‑year‑old Thuy Sen’s body is found in San Francisco, her brothers Rennell and Payton Price are quickly convicted and sentenced to death, only for an overworked pro‑bono lawyer to discover the trial may have been flawed.

Criminal defense attorney Bennie Rosato is stunned when her new client, Alice Connolly—who closely resembles her—claims to be her twin and faces murder charges. Bennie dives into a web of deceit, uncovering a personal mystery that could redefine her identity.

Judy Carrier, a talented Philadelphia lawyer, defends Italian-American "Pigeon Tony" in a murder trial that revives a 50‑year vendetta and forces her between loyalty to her client and a budding romance.