John Ellsworth

Meet Assistant District Attorney Lettie Portman, a sex-crimes prosecutor whose past demands justice. When a 14-year-old girl is savagely attacked by her mother's live-in boyfriend, Lettie is called to the hospital....

A judge's wife is dead, and the public are demanding blood. It's the sort of case that will end a defense attorney's career. But Michael Gresham doesn't have much left to lose and when he smells a rat in this headline grabbing story, it's the justice establishment that needs to be worried.

Thaddeus Murfee is pursued by the Mob now that he has helped put a godfather behind bars. He decides to file suit on behalf of certain survivors of the Mob’s latest murder. He is pursued relentlessly and runs west....

When Michael Gresham and his wife offer to help their priest, life takes a dark turn. The holy man has a son, illegitimate of course, and he's on a first degree murder charge. It's time for Gresham to step up, and this time it includes having the boy in their home.

Carlos puts in his forty hours a week, pays his taxes, and loves his family. But when his daughter gets sick and the only treatment that will save her is far beyond his means, he does the only thing he can think of. He robs banks.

Sanity is on trial as Thaddeus Murfee faces his toughest case. Ansel Largent, a fierce Chicago attorney, seems to have it all: a successful career, a happy marriage and near-universal respect. Until everything falls apart in a single night, with the disappearance of the two women closest to him...

There is no job description and the job isn't advertised anywhere, not even on the Job Board at Georgetown Law. But Thaddeus Murfee just graduated from law school and has $200 left from his student loan. He is so broke he has to borrow his roommate's suit for his first job interview....

Thaddeus Murfee is 25, single, a lawyer of 18 months, and completely unprepared for the murder case that walks in....

When he lands a high-profile murder case to defend, Thaddeus Murfee is up against his first major adversary. But it's not the prosecution. It's his client.

Who defends the defense lawyer? Michael Gresham's career is hanging by a thread. The lawyer who stops at nothing to defend others is in the defendant's chair, alone. Enter Harley Sturgis, a lawyer whose own career is on the brink of collapse. But Gresham's case could be her salvation. Save...

Assistant District Attorney Lettie Portman charges a US senator with the murder of his wife. The wife was found dead, sitting in her Mercedes with a garden hose from the exhaust into her window....

When you need to prove life after death to win a court case, you better hope for a miracle. Dr. Emerick Sewell's book, a sensational account of his near-death experience, has taken the world by storm. But when one of his readers overdoses on pills to be reunited with her dead husband, her family...

Killen Erwin slumps on the other side of the desk, silently waiting for his longtime friend to respond. It’s not a question of whether Thaddeus wants to help, but whether he can....

Thaddeus Murfee is back in this twisted tale of two trials, mother and daughter, each claiming to have shot father...He couldn't keep his hands off his stepdaughter. The question becomes, who shot him? The mother or the stepdaughter? Listen to find out more....

The dead body found in Flagstaff is not hard to identify - the District Attorney had been a well known figure. His wife admits that she pulled the trigger, but her attorney Thaddeus Murfee finds a confusing mess of evidence that tells a different story....

A deadly arms shipment, a rigged trial in Russia. Can Michael Gresham navigate a labyrinth of deception to save his clients from execution?

She's the daughter he doesn't know he has, until she calls him . . . from death row. Michael Gresham meets his lost daughter, Cache, in her prison cell. She is scheduled for execution in thirty days. Her other lawyers have given up; there is nothing left to do. On a hunch, Michael reviews...

Attorney Michael Gresham has a new go-to person. Her name is Annie and she's twelve. Annie is a savant. She can look at you and, like her idol, Sherlock Holmes, tell you where you're from, whether or not you're happily married, and where you went to school. But now she must use her skills to...

Attorney Thaddeus Murfee is skyjacked to Moscow. Next to him on the plane is Angelina Sosa, a brash 20-something with a degree in journalism from the esteemed University of Chicago. Angelina decides to write a New York Times best seller based on the skyjacking...

Thaddeus Murfee's life is about to change forever. And there is nothing he can do to stop it. Reeling from a brutal attack, Thaddeus Murfee finds himself drawn into a complex web of betrayal and legal turmoil when his long-time friend, Killen Erwin, seeks his help. With Killen facing a ruthless...