Emma Cline’s “Switzy” follows a businessman to Zurich for an assisted death, where capacity, consent and the law complicate his final choice

George Pelecanos's The Blue Flame brings Derek Strange back with a murder case, changing Washington and an ethically flexible defense lawyer.

In The Black Shield, Wilbert L. Cooper traces the consent decree that changed his family and opened Cleveland policing to Black officers.

Chris Bohjalian’s The Amateur turns a fatal golf accident into a gripping negligence case about liability, damages and the value of a life.

Chris Young’s memoir The Wound Is Where the Light Enters explores mandatory minimums, Shakespeare in prison and the legal fight for clemency.

Robin Gigl's smart legal thriller about buried evidence, Brady violations, and institutional cover-ups

The Great Wherever | Shannon Sanders | Henry Holt (416 pages)

Agatha Christie’s closed-circle mystery gets a brilliantly modern update through texts, emails, and WhatsApp.

Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve’s “Crime Fictions” exposes how police fabrications become legal truth

Modern True Crime No Longer Trusts Neat Explanations

A hilarious and unsettling novel about — yes — reproductive rights

Jordan Harper’s “A Violent Masterpiece” updates L.A. Noir for the streaming era. The results are brutal, precise, and hard to put down.

Scott Eden's "A Killing in Cannabis" Charts the Wild West of California's Weed Trade

Dorothy Roberts Chronicles Racial Boundaries Through the Couples Who Crossed Them (Including Her Parents)

A debut legal thriller explores what happens when libel law tries to adjudicate family breakdown

Historian Heather Ann Thompson on Bernie Goetz, the four young Black men he shot, and a media-rage playbook America never abandoned

Vigil  George Saunders  Random House, 192 pages (Pub. Date 1/27)

How Jake Tapper's "Race Against Terror" Showed Me What We've Already Lost

A review of The Pain Brokers by Elizabeth Chamblee Burch

A fantastic exhibition and book on drafts, details, and the craft behind John le Carré’s spy fiction writing

A Review of The Rest of Our Lives by Ben Markovits

Con Lehane’s gripping new novel shows how fear politics never disappears. It just adapts.

Adam Morgan’s “A Danger to the Minds of Young Girls” traces the 1921 Ulysses trial and its echoes in today’s censorship war

How Jake Tapper's "Race Against Terror" Showed Me What We've Already Lost

When I launched Judicial Junkie in May, I promised myself I’d never use the over-used catch-all word “propulsive.”

Skip Hollandsworth chronicles the trials of women society never expected to kill. True crime may be about murder, but the writing is what lives.

Can you sue a chatbot? Michael Connelly’s “The Proving Ground” puts AI on trial

Do you really want to slog through a 1,040-page biography? Or let an algorithm pick your next book?

Arundhati Roy’s new memoir boils down a lifetime of fighting for justice. She got it from her mama.

Inside “Chagos Archipelago”: Tom Lutz on turning the afterlife of colonial power into a contemporary thriller

Even now, I can hear her quietly turning the pages

Chris Kraus's New Book Takes on "In Cold Blood," But Makes It Autofiction

The Epistolary Novel Gets A Killer Tech Upgrade In Janice Hallett’s New Mystery The Judicial Junkie

Bruce Holsinger’s "Culpability" is a literary gut-punch where AI, family guilt and law converge after a fatal crash

A Terrific Cozy Mystery That Made Me Want to Cancel Plans and Read Until 4 a.m.

Eli Cranor’s gripping new novel is a wild, brilliant takedown of race, greed and the NCAA’s unpaid labor system

I Spent Years in Family Court. “The Dream Hotel” and “Mothers and Sons” — one speculative, one starkly realistic — show how 5-minute legal…

9 Books that Donna Leon’s “Backstage” Added to My TBR Pile

This novel is “Ocean’s Eleven,” if Danny Ocean had just lost a minimum wage job and had $200,000 in student debt

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s “Dream Count” reimagines a high-profile sexual assault case, giving a voice to a victim the legal system failed

Not your typical legal brief — this one’s packed with Star Wars references, courtroom drama, and a surprising sense of humor

Emily Hunt Kivel’s “Dwelling” turns eviction, displacement, and late-stage capitalism into a dark, fun surreal fable

Nicci Cloke’s “Her Many Faces” explores how a woman’s teenage browsing history — and a conspiracy site called The Rabbit Hole — becomes…

A Gripping Legal Thriller Where Due Diligence Collides with Untamed Algorithms

Not your typical legal brief — this one’s packed with Star Wars references, courtroom drama, and a surprising sense of humor

Charell Star’s Trash Bag Tales: & Other Stories from an Accidentally Happy Life is a memoir of remarkable personal resilience, and that very quality makes it a must-read. It’s profoundly sad, smart…

How Shteyngart’s “Vera, or Faith” Inverts American History to Redefine Citizenship

Gabriel Urza doesn’t just give us a legal thriller; he gives us a raw, honest window into the human cost of justice

Franklin’s “Great Black Hope” delivers literary firepower; Burke’s “The Note” is a twisty legal thriller

I kept waiting for the Constitution to show up in Kevin Nguyen’s fantastic dystopian novel “My Documents.” It never did.