Jessie Black Legal Thrillers Books in Order

Jessie Black helped convict a serial murderer, but the defense lawyer's breakdown gives the killer a path back into court. To keep him behind bars, she has to prove the lawyer was sane, even though she is no longer sure he was.

Jessie thinks she has an easy murder trial until her eyewitness caves and her best remaining witness is a slick jailhouse snitch. Then armed attackers seize the courthouse, and keeping that informant alive becomes a fight for survival.

After a school massacre leaves Philadelphia reeling, Jessie Black goes after the hidden figure who pushed a teenager toward murder. Proving that an online manipulator is as guilty as the shooter will test every part of her case.

A desperate teenage girl tells Jessie her father was murdered and the police are letting it slide. The claim pulls Jessie into a politically explosive case where the lines between victim, killer, and justice are anything but clear.

In this prequel novella, a drug dealer brings Jessie Black information about the cold case murder of a little boy. With old evidence fading and secrets buried in the original investigation, she has one shot to finally bring the killer to court.

When Jessie's old law school friend Kelly fears a corporation is stalking her, nobody takes the threat seriously. After Kelly dies in an apparent accident, Jessie has to prove it was murder and take on a system that may already be bought.

Jessie Black is ready for a brighter future until a savage murder drags her back into court. To convict a remorseless killer, she must outmaneuver defense attorneys Hal and Kristina Nolan and protect a witness the other side wants silenced.

A new District Attorney turns Jessie's office into a political machine, then targets Max Coleman, a man who once helped her family. To save an innocent friend, she may have to leave prosecution behind and become a defense lawyer.

When hip-hop star Jurdel Frazier is accused of murdering another girlfriend years after beating an earlier case, Jessie Black sees a chance to finally get justice. But the deeper she digs, the less she trusts the prosecutor beside her.

In this Jessie Black short story, grief drives a widower toward revenge. As emotions boil over, the pursuit of justice threatens to turn into something darker and more dangerous.

Jessie Black is no longer a prosecutor, but when a colleague's 14-year-old granddaughter is charged with murder, she steps back into Philadelphia criminal court as the defense. The case becomes a brutal showdown with DA Damon Faber, who wants to destroy her as much as he wants a conviction.

When Jessie's mentor Jesus Rivera is accused of a horrific crime, she cannot clear him without risking the public trust she now carries. As she and Mark Leary dig deeper, blackmail, murder, and a Philly crime family close in.

Jessie Black is miserable in private practice when the city's District Attorney is arrested on corruption charges. A bid to reclaim the office she loves turns into a fight against a deadly conspiracy that does not want her anywhere near power.

A ritual killing points Jessie toward the cult leader who once slipped through her grasp, offering a brutal second chance at justice. Chasing the case could also wreck her reelection campaign and expose painful secrets from the past.

The murder of a billionaire developer should be a straightforward case, but it explodes into protest, threats, and political fury. As Jessie prosecutes under intense pressure, the danger reaches her home and everyone around her.

On Christmas Eve, detective Emily Graham expects a bad date, not a man in a Santa suit confessing to murder. When his story does not fit the evidence, she has one long night to find the truth before morning.