Legal Thrillers Featuring Female Lead Characters
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Anonymous
| How about Sue Grafton’s A to Z mysteries? |
Anonymous
+1 |
Anonymous
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Michael Connolly (of Lincoln Lawyer fame) has a series of books featuring a female detective named Renee Ballard.
It's not a legal thriller like a Grisham book, but they might be "close enough" |
Anonymous
| Vaseem Khan's Malabar House series about a woman detective shortly after Indian Independence. |
Anonymous
Definitely the King 👑 of the legal thriller! |
Anonymous
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Girl Waits With Gun and the rest of that series by Amy Stewart.
It’s a novel (and series) based on the true story of one of the nation’s first female deputy sheriffs. It’s more of a detective story than legal thriller but is written by a woman and has a strong female lead. It’s an easy, pleasant read (I’m a lawyer too, btw) |
Anonymous
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There is a romance author who used to be a lawyer who wrote this okay romance about a lawyer who has to teach a hollywood hunk how to act lawyerly for a movie role. Decent premise.
The subplot was all about how the lawyer was a really good employment lawyer who defended male clients accused ofworkplace s%^* harassment by employing the age-old defense strategy of “bit*^#} be crazy”. !?!? I wish i could remember the author name or book title bc it was such a WTF, it probably would be a fun distraction for you. |
Anonymous
| I went to Tulane Law after reading The Pelican Brief. I wanted to be Darby Shaw, lol. |
Anonymous
Sounds like Julie James. https://juliejames.com/books/just-the-sexiest-man-alive/ I really like her books, but this one was my least favorite, and I wouldn't call any of her books "thrillers." They are good romances and they feature lawyers. |
Anonymous
Who persecuted the Exonerated Five, so she knows fiction |
Anonymous
| Laura Lippman, and she’s local (Howard County, MD) so she sometimes writes about central MD/95 corridor Baltimore to DC too. |