Anything Legal, Legal Thrillers, Legal Mysteries and More discussion

Thanks for joining Anything Legal Thriller. Please take a moment and tell us a little about yourself.

I will start off. My name is Michael Burton. I have authored two legal thrillers, Croker Diaries, and currently writing my third book. When I am not writing legal thrillers, I am an independent grant writer by trade. I live in the Los Angeles area with my wife and have two adult children.

My name is Skye~ I teach writing arts in a state university, rate standardized test essays from home online, review books and cosmetics and in free moments, I write fiction. I live in South Jersey very close to Center City Philadelphia. My children are grown and live in different states.
Thanks for inviting me.

Thanks for the invite. My name is Candy & I live in the Midwest. I am purely a reader & thanks to my mother's love of reading I have been an avid reader since I could read & as a kid starting with the Nancy Drew mysteries. I enjoy anything murder & mayhem & a few of my favorite authors write legal thrillers so I look forward to the reading with the group.

Michael I just bought your book Croker Diaries & look forward to reading it. Happy reading to all!!

My name is Marian and Im recently retired.About a year and a bit.I am happily married to a wonderful man for almost 29 years and we live in Canada.My hubby reads only sci fi.Me,I come from a family of readers,and my tastes in books are varied.I love anything courtroom wise.Mainly legal thrillers.Thank you Michael for your invitation:)

Hi Marian!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:)

Hi Everyone, my name is Chris, and I am a recently retired physician from Minnesota. Since retiring a year ago I have been reading about a book a week after decades of no time to do so. I love many genres, especially thrillers, mysteries, suspense and women's/literary fiction. I am looking forward to discovering some good legal thrillers to read!

Hi Skye!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!..:)

Hi Chris and hi CL!

Hi! I am Elaine, and I am from Rugby in England, which is a great little town to live in, I love it here :) I am a juggler - I juggle working in a surveyor's office with looking after my husband, two teenage boys, a dog and a cat! And,I just like to read.

I forgot to mention some of my fav legal thrillers..
To Kill a Mockingbird,Defending Jacob,The 5th Witness by Michael Connelly,A Time to Kill by John Grisham,Anatomy of a Murder by Robert Traver to name a few:)

Hi All! I'm a former lawyer who decided that writing legal thrillers is a LOT more fun than writing briefs. I live in Boston, have one book out and will soon release its sequel. I love to read a well-crafted, expertly paced thriller and a good legal crux always gets me thinking. Thank you, Michael, for the invitation and I'm looking forward to hearing what the group has to say.

Marian wrote: "I forgot to mention some of my fav legal thrillers..
To Kill a Mockingbird,Defending Jacob,The 5th Witness by Michael Connelly,A Time to Kill by John Grisham,Anatomy of a Murder by Robert Traver t..."

To Kill a Mockingbird is an amazing novel, and so many of Grisham's books are wonderful, too.

Elaine wrote: "Hi! I am Elaine, and I am from Rugby in England, which is a great little town to live in, I love it here :) I am a juggler - I juggle working in a surveyor's office with looking after my husband, t..."

Hi Elaine!

Skye wrote: "Marian wrote: "I forgot to mention some of my fav legal thrillers..
To Kill a Mockingbird,Defending Jacob,The 5th Witness by Michael Connelly,A Time to Kill by John Grisham,Anatomy of a Murder by ..."

I could go on and on about John Grisham novels Skye..they are wonderful!!!I am proud to say I own a few:)

Hi Elaine,Christine,and CL:)

I'm James Glass and I'm the author of Things Left Behind, a crime thriller. I just finished my second, Whisper Creek. I look forward to this group as well as new books to read. Happy reading everyone.

Janessa wrote: "Hi my name is Janessa! I am a college student hoping to earn my bachelor's degree in theatre design. I already have an associates of arts degree in theatre. When I am not in school I enjoy spending..."

Janessa wrote: "Hi my name is Janessa! I am a college student hoping to earn my bachelor's degree in theatre design. I already have an associates of arts degree in theatre. When I am not in school I enjoy spending..."

Hi Janessa. Welcome. I hope some of those books you read are Legal Thrillers. I look forward to you input. Good luck in school.

Skye wrote: "My name is Skye~ I teach writing arts in a state university, rate standardized test essays from home online, review books and cosmetics and in free moments, I write fiction. I live in South Jerse..."

Hi Skye. You wear many hats. I look forward to you bring all your expertise to the group.

Hello, I'm Carrie. Though I write medical thrillers, I enjoy reading all types of thrillers, including legal. I've read most of Grisham's books (maybe all of them, actually, except his young adult ones). I see he has a new one out in a few days called "Gray Mountain." I look forward to it!

Hi Everyone

Michael thank you for the invitation.
Like CL I love to read! My love of mystery began with Nancy Drew and blossomed out to legal thrillers.
I actually enjoy a variety of genres.
I live near Toronto and belong to a live book club that has been around for 10 years.
We all just read and discussed Gone Girl and we are all going to see it at the theater on Tuesday evening.
One of our favorite books to read and discuss was Defending Jacob.

Hi Im Michelle from London. Thank you Michael for the invitation. I am looking forward to the recommendations in this group as I love reading crime thrillers especially Linwood Barclay Simon kernick, and recently M J Aldrige with Eeny meeny and pop goes the weasel.

Hello all,

I kinda fit into this category since my first book (writing the sequel now) was a murder mystery and involved a lot of antebellum law (which was really hard to research!) and lots of medicine, both traditional (which seems like voodoo now, which ours will 100 years from now) and mountain medicine. But I do love a good thriller.

I was born married (actually 36 years) and have three kids, the last one flying out of the nest in August after graduating college. Except for this one, who ended up with a job in Nashville (where we are), the other two are on the west coast. They went as far as they could until they hit an ocean. We either did a really good or really bad job raising them because they are very independent!

Quit the job at the doctor's office two weeks ago to just write. Life is good.

Hi Everyone, my name is linda. I read about 2 books a week.
I like thrillers, mysteries, and suspense. I am looking forward to discovering new legal thrillers to read. my favorite authors are John Sandford, Lee child, Jeffrey Deaver, Michael Connelly, Robert Tanenbaum, and James Patterson.

Hello everyone! I think I've seen some of you in other groups I belong to.

Thanks for the invite Michael.

I live in South London. I like to read all sorts of stuff really, although not so much fantasy/paranormal/vampirey things. I'm not an analyser or reviewer - not clever enough for that! I just like to read for fun. Nice to meet you all.

Hi all.. Michael, thanks for the invite! I'm not a lawyer.. And I'm not an author.. Although I do enjoy writing on my blog from time to time... I'm the proud mom to a beautiful 11 year old girl.. And I'm engaged to my dream man!! I am currently obsessed with reading.. I haven't read any legal thrillers.. But I know some of the movies based on John Grisham's books were pretty good.. My other interests mostly lie in mystery/thriller/serial killer - So if anyone could recommend a good book with those elements in it as well as the legal aspect... to start me off?

Hello, and thanks for the invite!

My name is Kris Thompson and I am currently preparing for the release of my debut novel Black Rose which will be out November 13th. It's a suspense/thriller/psychological thriller and I'm excited to say that it is already receiving some brilliant reviews.

Hello, Legal Thriller fans! I'm Mikie from Kansas, and I enjoy some great writing. I'm a sucker for John Grisham's "The Rainmaker" and movies "The Verdict".

My name is Jerri Blair. I just self-published my first novel which was described in one review as a legal thriller, true crime thriller and coming of age novel all rolled into one. I have actually written six novels, most of which clearly are legal thrillers. I recently retired because of health reasons and finally began to try to publish the novels I wrote during my 29 year career as a trial and appellate attorney when I had no time to think about publishing or marketing strategies. As an attorney, I was involved in a number of high profile cases, one of which had two movies made about it. It was during some of these cases that I decided to begin writing as another avenue of causing positive change in the world. I have gotten some good reviews, was nominated for the Kirkus literary prize, and got an honorable mention for the Red City Review best fiction. However, I have no real plan for marketing. Any helpful hints would be greatly appreciated. I am willing to talk ideas, etc. with anyone also.

Jennifer wrote: "Hi all.. Michael, thanks for the invite! I'm not a lawyer.. And I'm not an author.. Although I do enjoy writing on my blog from time to time... I'm the proud mom to a beautiful 11 year old girl.. A..."

Jennifer, try Immoral by Brian Freeman. It's a really good book with all your elements (except I cannot recall for sure, but I don't think serial killers were part of it).

Jerri wrote: "My name is Jerri Blair. I just self-published my first novel which was described in one review as a legal thriller, true crime thriller and coming of age novel all rolled into one. I have actually ..."
Let me know, Jerri, I would be interested in reading some of your work.

Christine.. Funny you mention Immoral by Brian Freeman... It's already in my want list!! I own another one of his books too..

Jennifer wrote: "Christine.. Funny you mention Immoral by Brian Freeman... It's already in my want list!! I own another one of his books too.."

That's great, Jennifer. I just love him.

I'm an avid reader, mom, wife, hold a full time job and have 2 dogs and 3 cats....I love legal thrillers thanks for the invite:)

Hi all!

My name is Melanie and I'm an avid reader of mysteries and thrillers.

While I do write, I don't write novels (although I wish I could). I work in policy so I write lots of papers and briefing notes instead. :-)

Thanks for the invite to join the group.

Mike, my novel's title is Justice For The Black Knight" and it is available on Amazon Books. I'm not sure what the protocol is for these groups. This whole thing is brand new for me,, and by thing I mean using the internet this way. Until I retired, I generally had secretaries and paralegals do everything on the computer for me, so forgive me if I am no up to date on how one uses this type of site. It really is quite remarkable to be able to engage in cross-country or even world conversations with others through the medium.

Hi, My name is Gay. I am from the Texas. My mother encouraged my reading from the time I was a child. Legal thrillers is my favorite genre, though I do pick up other genre's now and then.
I appreciate the invite to this group and look forward to reading along with you all.

Thanks for the invitation. I am a vid reader although I hardly have any free time. I come from Ecuador but live in Germany with my husband and son.
I love reading any type of books. Looking forward to the discussions in this group!

Jerri wrote: "Mike, my novel's title is Justice For The Black Knight" and it is available on Amazon Books. I'm not sure what the protocol is for these groups. This whole thing is brand new for me,, and by thing ..."

Oh, Jerri, you will find dispensing with the staff and doing this yourself much more fulfilling and fun!!! You will love Goodreads-- tons of great book recommendations will come your way and you will meet many many wonderful people who will become real friends.

BTW, your book looks quite intriguing...

hello everyone, thank you for the invitation :)
my name is Faouzia, and i am from Tunisia. i am actually a book addict. i read different genre of books and i really like the thriller ones, but above all i love reading a good book and discovering new authors :)
i think i will enjoy myself in this group and i am looking forward to other discussions

Hi Everyone!



My name is Carys Jones I am a thriller writer from England currently published through Harlequin Books.

My novels First to Fall and its sequel Second to Cry are legal thrillers following the story of an American lawyer, Aiden Connelly.

I'm fortunate enough to be able to write full time. I live in Shropshire which is pretty rural and enjoy taking my dog for long walks in the woodlands behind my house : )

Candy thanks for joining the group and I hope you enjoy the book. Please let me know what you think.

Hello Marian. Thanks for accepting the invite. I look forward to you input in the group.

Christine wrote: "Hi Everyone, my name is Chris, and I am a recently retired physician from Minnesota. Since retiring a year ago I have been reading about a book a week after decades of no time to do so. I love ma..."

Hi Christine. Thanks for joining and look forward to your contributions.

Elaine wrote: "Hi! I am Elaine, and I am from Rugby in England, which is a great little town to live in, I love it here :) I am a juggler - I juggle working in a surveyor's office with looking after my husband, t..."

Hi Elaine. Thanks for accepting the invite. I had to admit, I laughed when you said you are a juggler. I guess then I am a retired juggler, my kids are grown up. Enjoy the group.

Marian wrote: "I forgot to mention some of my fav legal thrillers..
To Kill a Mockingbird,Defending Jacob,The 5th Witness by Michael Connelly,A Time to Kill by John Grisham,Anatomy of a Murder by Robert Traver t..."

Great books Marian. I just got finished reading Defending Jacob myself.

Connie wrote: "Hi All! I'm a former lawyer who decided that writing legal thrillers is a LOT more fun than writing briefs. I live in Boston, have one book out and will soon release its sequel. I love to read a we..."

Hi Connie. I agree that writing legal thrillers are a lot more fun than briefs. I have done many myself in the past. Please let the group know if you have any books available and where we may be able to find them. Thanks for joining and look forward to your expert opinion.

James wrote: "I'm James Glass and I'm the author of Things Left Behind, a crime thriller. I just finished my second, Whisper Creek. I look forward to this group as well as new books to read. Happy reading every..."

Hi James. Thanks for letting us know what books you have authored. I will check them out.