Phillip Margolin Books in Order

Defense attorney Karen Wyatt was once framed on a bogus drug charge, imprisoned, and disbarred before her innocence was proved. Now reinstated, she defends a driver accused of a sordid murder while quietly hunting the powerful figures behind her own setup, uncovering a tangle of drug gangs, political corruption, and deadly loose ends.

Portland lawyer Charlie Webb scrapes by on low level cases until he is appointed to represent an eccentric artist arrested for stealing back his own painting. When a stolen thumb drive from the same break in points to a sex trafficking ring and two people end up dead, Charlie’s "insignificant" case explodes into the most dangerous trial of his life.

A decade after her own MMA career ended with a devastating loss to fighter Mandy Kerrigan, Robin Lockwood is asked to defend Mandy against charges of murdering an entire family. The victims are tied to Russian mobsters and shady legal work, and winning the case may cost Robin more than her reputation.

Reeling from a personal tragedy tied to a previous client, Robin Lockwood retreats to her Midwestern hometown. There she is drawn into defending a surrogate mother accused of kidnapping the baby she carried, only to learn her client is also wanted in Oregon for a brutal murder connected to embezzlement and organized crime.

Robin Lockwood is invited to Black Oaks, a fog shrouded manor moved from England to the Oregon mountains, by a retired district attorney haunted by a wrongful conviction. After she helps free the innocent man, their celebration is cut short when the host is killed inside a locked elevator, leaving Robin with an old injustice and a new impossibility to solve.

Desperate to support his young family, homeless ex boxer Joe Lattimore agrees to fight in an illegal bout and is then blackmailed into breaking into a judge’s home. There he finds the judge’s wife murdered and becomes the prime suspect, forcing Robin Lockwood to challenge a seemingly airtight death penalty case.

Magician Robert Chesterfield once survived multiple murder accusations thanks to Robin Lockwood’s firm. Years later he returns seeking help with a new illusion, then vanishes for real during his signature trick, the Chamber of Death. Robin must sift through old crimes, bitter rivals, and stagecraft to learn whether he escaped or was murdered.

College football star Blaine Hastings is convicted of rape on rock solid DNA evidence, then a second assault occurs while he is in prison and the same DNA turns up again. Representing the first victim in a civil suit, Robin Lockwood uncovers missing lawyers, corporate schemes, and a terrifying explanation for the "perfect" alibi.

A battered woman staggers onto a rural Oregon road claiming she escaped a sadistic captor who killed two others. Evidence points to a prominent lawyer and his isolated vacation home. Young attorney Robin Lockwood, second chair to legendary defender Regina Barrister, must navigate a high profile case while doubting both her client and her mentor.

When a powerful Portland lawyer for fossil fuel companies is beaten to death, suspicion first falls on a troubled junior colleague, then on his radical environmentalist son who promptly confesses. Amanda Jaffe must decide whether either man is telling the truth about what happened and why.

In 1860s Oregon, recently widowed lawyer Matthew Penny agrees to help Worthy Brown, a freed Black man whose teenage daughter is still being held as a slave by the white lawyer who once owned them. Their fight for justice pits them against a corrupt judiciary, violent racism, and a legal system not built for people like Worthy.

Aspiring novelist Stacey Kim becomes obsessed with a famous black and white photograph of a bride on a beach holding a revolver behind her back. Learning the image was taken the night the bride’s wealthy husband was murdered, Stacey travels to coastal Oregon to dig into the cold case and the secrets the photographer refuses to share.

P.I. Dana Cutler hunts Charles Benedict, a charismatic defense lawyer, accomplished magician, and contract killer who seems to have engineered the perfect frame up. As Benedict defends a millionaire whose wife has vanished and pursues a priceless stolen scepter, Dana must expose his illusions before she becomes his next trick.

Convicted serial killer Clarence Little escapes from death row in Oregon just as his former attorney Brad Miller is working in Washington for a powerful senator. When a body appears in the senator’s home and a terrorist cell targets a packed football stadium, Brad and investigator Dana Cutler race to stop overlapping threats.

On the eve of starting junior high, Madison Kincaid wakes to a jailhouse phone call that pulls her defense attorney father into a new murder case. The next day her best friend disappears. With help from a new classmate, Madison juggles school, soccer, and sleuthing to connect two unsettling vanishing acts.

An Oregon woman on death row appeals her conviction for killing her lover just as a Supreme Court justice resigns and another is attacked. Dana Cutler and law clerk Brad Miller investigate, uncovering a long buried drug operation and a rogue intelligence scheme tied directly to the Court itself.

A young woman is swept into a whirlwind romance with a charming man who invites her to spend the summer at his luxurious house on Pine Terrace. As the fairy tale weeks pass, small inconsistencies turn into chilling clues that her perfect host is hiding something far more dangerous than she imagined.

Con man turned self help guru Charlie Marsh fled the country after being accused of murdering a congressman. Twelve years later he returns from an African dictatorship to stand trial, with Amanda Jaffe defending him while assassins, angry politicians, and old secrets close in.

Private investigator Dana Cutler is hired to tail a college student and sees her slip into a secret meeting with the President. When the young woman is found dead, and an Oregon law clerk discovers evidence that a death row inmate was framed to protect a rising politician, they uncover a plot that reaches the White House.

A respected crime lab expert quietly manufactures evidence to ensure guilty verdicts, convinced he knows better than judges or juries. When Amanda Jaffe defends two very different clients whose cases hinge on his work, she uncovers a deadly pattern buried inside supposedly flawless forensics.

Portland lawyer Ami Vergano offers a room to quiet tenant Dan Morelli, then watches him explode in shocking violence at a Little League game. Across the country, tabloid reporter Vanessa Kohler recognizes him as a man tied to a decades old political conspiracy centered on a secret military unit and a deadly night at Lost Lake.

Seventeen year old soccer star Ashley Spencer survives a home invasion that leaves her father and best friend dead, only to see the suspected killer resurface at an elite Oregon academy. Years later, as new murders echo the crime described in a bestselling true crime book, Ashley must confront her past to stay alive.

Still shaken from a previous case, defense lawyer Amanda Jaffe agrees to represent Jon Dupre, owner of an exclusive escort service accused of killing a senator. Dupre claims a hidden brotherhood of powerful men is behind the crime, and soon people tied to the case start dying.

Daniel Ames is a young associate at Portland’s most prestigious law firm until a high stakes case over a controversial drug destroys his career. Fired and then framed for murder, he must uncover who set him up and why before he becomes the next victim.

In the Oregon woods, police discover a torture chamber and arrest a brilliant but violent surgeon for the killings. Veteran attorney Frank Jaffe and his daughter Amanda take the case, then watch their client vanish as a new wave of murders begins.

A U.S. Senate candidate shoots an intruder who has just killed her wealthy husband and is hailed as a hero. Young Judge Richard Quinn presides over the sensational case and soon realizes that behind the self defense story lies a web of family secrets, blackmail, and political ambition.

Ambitious attorney Peter Hale destroys a client’s case while trying to impress his legendary father, then is banished to work as a small town public defender. There he takes on a death penalty case for a mentally disabled man accused of serial murders and discovers just how dangerous his own ego can be.

When a law clerk for Oregon Supreme Court Justice Robert Griffen is found murdered in the courthouse and Griffen later dies in a car bombing, suspicion falls on his estranged prosecutor wife. A young defense lawyer must untangle betrayals, hidden affairs, and a deadly obsession that links both crimes.

In Portland, the wives of wealthy men are vanishing, leaving behind a black rose and a note reading "Gone, But Not Forgotten." Defense attorney Betsy Tannenbaum is hired by enigmatic developer Martin Darius just as an ex detective arrives from New York claiming the nightmare began years earlier.

An elite criminal defense attorney who prides himself on winning impossible cases is hired to represent a woman’s estranged husband on a murder charge. Drawn into a dangerous affair with his client’s wife, he risks his career, his ethics, and his life as the case spirals out of control.

A late night trip to Lookout Point ends in horror when a popular high school couple is savagely attacked, leaving the boy dead and the girl barely alive. As more violence erupts, a murder investigation peels back small town respectability to reveal buried grudges and a ruthless killer.