Legal Thriller Reader Gifts

"Charges on misogyny, xenophobia and sexual assault. Guilty or innocent?"

'You're on trial for grand theft larceny -- you can't choose to remain anonymous!'

The DaVinci Code

'You know bank pens never work. Why didn't you write the holdup note before we left?!'

"It was Saturday night. The clock on my office wall showed the time to be eleven-forty-five. There are times when a private eye does not necessarily feel like being a private eye. This was one of those times. The elevator door down the hall clanked open with a clank familiar to anyone on the fourth floor who had had an office on the fourth floor for as long as I had had an office on the fourth floor. Footsteps came down the darkened hall and stopped outside my door. They were the footsteps of a

"We've hit the jackpot! It's Ed Sheeran's songwriting formula."

'Oh, objection, objection, objection - what is it this time, Counselor?'

'It's a new medication I'm working on, but the side effects are monsterous.'

"Objection, your honor! Prosecution is playing the blame game!"

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Esq.

White House P.R. - Out To Smear the FBI & Mueller.

'The close Ops surveillance people have just sent these photo's over and we now strongly suspect that Jimmy the Greek is onto us...'

"What a great day to be alive and not under indictment."

'The jury have instructed me to say that they expected a rather more spicy case.'

'I'll never forget, it was the day before Newton discovered gravity.'

'We're looking for a 'temp' employee to serve time in Leavenworth.'

"Where did you last have everything?"

"Loved ones scared to death by monsters? Call the law offices of Frank N. Stein..."

When I was a kid watching "Perry Mason" on tv, I always knew that when I grew up I'd spend a lot of time in courtroom. The only part I had wrong was that I always assumed I would be the defendant. ! !

'I'd better start on your appeal.'

"We would like to request a change of venue to an entirely different legal system."

Innocent bystanders are real tough to convict: 'You saw it happen, why didn't you do anything?'

'I might be able to get you off if a chain of near miraculous rulings happen to occur.'

"You're keeping something from me, aren't you?"

"I've come to judge some books by their cover."

Panic attack outside the courthouse

27 attorneys. No waiting.

"OK, state of New Mexico vs. Alex Baldwin, take two... aaaand ACTION!"

No future for the dollar.

"I, Object."

'Yes, that's him. That's the author of the book that grabbed me and wouldn't let go!'

"The jury would like to say that this case was not as juicy as it promised to be."

'It was a furious stormy affair from the start, and after the winds of passion subsided, I just 'blew him away'.'

'Omerta' sign in a Mafia library.

Surprised witness