Jailhouse Lawyer

Two brand-new legal thrillers in one book - from the authors of Juror No. 3_____________________________A young lawyer takes on the judge who is destroying her hometown - and ends up behind bars...In picture-perfect Erva, Alabama, the most serious crimes are misdemeanors. Speeding tickets. Shoplifting. Contempt of court. Then why is the jail so crowded? And why are so few prisoners released? There's only one place to learn the truth. Sometimes the best education a lawyer can get is a short stretch of hard time. INCLUDES BONUS STORY: POWER OF ATTORNEY_____________________________'I couldn't put down Jailhouse Lawyer, a page-turning legal thriller' TONY MESSENGER, Pulitzer Prize-winning author'No one gets this big without amazing natural storytelling talent - which is what Jim has, in spades.' LEE CHILD'The master storyteller of our times' HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON'It's no mystery why James Patterson is the world's most popular thriller writer . . . Simply put: nobody does it better.' JEFFERY DEAVER'Patterson boils a scene down to the single, telling detail, the element that defines a character or moves a plot along. It's what fires off the movie projector in the reader's mind.' MICHAEL CONNELLY'One of the greatest storytellers of all time' PATRICIA CORNWELL'A writer with an unusual skill at thriller plotting.' MARK LAWSON, GUARDIAN'James Patterson is The Boss. End of.' IAN RANKIN