Books like Evidence of mercy by Terri Blackstock

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.

Sandra Brown’s ’Best Kept Secrets’ weaves romance, suspense and legal intrigue as a woman lawyer confronts a tangled web of crime.

In Cape Refuge, Georgia, a beloved bed‑and‑breakfast run by Thelma and Wayne Owens turns dark when they are murdered in the very warehouse where they hold church services. Their children and the town’s young police chief must unravel a web of secrets and suspects to find the killer.

A remarkable friendship and its enduring journey of two remarkable women from the postwar era of the 1950s, told with vividly descriptive language and a relatable narrative.

Analyse : Roman policier (suspense).

A compelling mystery with a twist, blending elements of romance, suspense, and the gripping story of a missing child, set against the backdrop of South Carolina’s public prosecutor's office.

When Krista Carmichael’s sister is murdered by an online predator, she turns herself into bait to catch the killer, teaming up with tech billionaire Ryan Adkins of the GrapeVyne social network.

A spellbinding novel of contemporary romantic suspense--the unforgettable story of a woman caught between love and vengeance... Manhattan attorney Claire Green is haunted by the brutal murder of her twin sister Zoe in a dangerous revenge scheme that soon implicates Claire. Claire's only hope of clearing her name is to bring her sister's murderer to justice on her own...before a second killer strikes. But someone else is dogging Claire's trail: relentless F.B.I. agent Liam Jameson, who has tracked her to New Orleans. With her own life threatened, Claire reluctantly joins forces with the enigmatic Jameson. Distrust quickly flames into desire. As Mardi Gras builds to fever pitch, they are inexorably drawn into a shadowy world where impeccable tradition cloaks deadly secrets and where no one--not Claire nor even Jameson--is safe from the shocking truth...

Deborah Knott, a lawyer in North Carolina, tries to become a judge but becomes entangled in an old murder case and must solve the mystery to stay in the race for election.

When a bomb devastates the Newpointe post office, attorney Jill Clark becomes a hostage and confronts the mystery of the killer—both a race against time and a test of faith.

A tense thriller set in Florida where a successful lawyer, a principled cop, a fractured family, and a determined reporter confront love, faith, and violence as darkness threatens to destroy—and potentially heal—their lives.

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.

When a U.S. special forces mission in Yemen flounders, a young lawyer named Paige Chambers confronts the political fallout and struggles to hold a powerful executive accountable for a failed rescue of an American journalist and a Saudi royal.