William Harrington Books in Order

An ex-judge recounts the trial of a man and woman accused of an armed jewelry robbery. With little evidence beyond an eyewitness, the case asks whether the jury will judge the crime, or the defendants’ troubled lives.

A charismatic tent preacher faces a manslaughter charge after a follower dies believing faith had cured her illness. The case pits county prosecutor Nelson Conaway against a defendant whose influence reaches far beyond the courtroom.

In an unnamed, brutal war, veteran soldier Yoshar deserts the battlefield and tries to survive beyond it. His encounter with a woman forces him to face the violence he has accepted and the possibility of becoming someone else.

An early suspense novel centered on the search for the elusive Elisabeth Brandt. Harrington builds the story around uncertainty, pursuit, and the personal stakes that rise when an investigation refuses to produce easy answers.

Cleveland detective Clement Yacobucci investigates the murder of a woman in a grocery store and pursues suspect John Hall. The case pulls him into state politics, media pressure, racial conflict, and the private grief he cannot escape.

International suspense and betrayal drive this thriller about treason at the highest level. As political loyalties fracture, the danger spreads well beyond one private crime and into questions of power, secrecy, and national security.

Florida systems designer Johnny Verona is blamed when her valuable computer program disappears. Yale-trained investigator Tad Putnam initially sees an obvious suspect, then uncovers a setup that leaves Johnny frightened for her life.

Ex-con Frank Coffey is recruited by young radicals planning to kidnap the Indian ambassador to the United Nations. A risky attraction and a messy ransom plot leave him caught between desperate conspirators and an equally compromised FBI.

A nonfiction study of the forces that reshaped Britain after World War II. The book examines the 1945 election, wartime social change, and the political ideas that helped bring a new Labour government to power.

Set in Houston, this legal drama examines the uneasy overlap of law, morality, and personal loyalty. Harrington follows a case where the evidence may point one way while the deeper truth, and the right verdict, remain unsettled.

Lady Nancy Brookeford goes to Germany to pursue her passion for flying and gains access to leading Nazis. As war approaches, Churchill asks her to use that dangerous position to gather intelligence from inside the regime.

Plastic surgeon Paul Becker has spent his life trying to reinvent himself among Greenwich wealth and old social hierarchies. His pursuit of status and a destructive affair eventually turn private dissatisfaction into a deadly reckoning.

A terrorist known as Oliver Cromwell wages war on Europe’s great artworks, beginning with a devastating attack in Milan. An international coalition races to stop a final plot aimed at Notre Dame and the leaders gathered there.

A captured German intelligence colonel is offered one last chance to escape execution: rescue a Jewish businessman from occupied Paris. His mission becomes entwined with a daring Dutch agent searching for her missing husband.

Young New York lawyer Cosima Bernardin leaves a powerful firm and starts her own practice after losing a major client. Her biggest challenge is defending a Russian ballerina threatened with deportation amid legal and political pressure.

A weary KGB colonel is sent to steal plans for a breakthrough computer chip from a Berlin research firm. Former CIA station chief Russ Tobin must stop him as old Cold War rivalries turn into a new kind of espionage.

Angry over losing control of the company he built, a computer genius plants a virus in an airline reservation system. As airports descend into chaos, his revenge scheme threatens to create a far larger disaster.

After controversial talk-show host Paul Drury is murdered, Columbo finds that Drury was about to reveal a startling claim about John F. Kennedy’s assassination. The new killing and an old national mystery become impossible to separate.

A bloody Los Angeles murder scene appears to echo the Manson-era killings, complete with chilling messages on the walls. Columbo must sort copycat terror from calculated manipulation before a wealthy set of suspects escapes responsibility.

A fashionable New York socialite is accused of murdering her congressman lover and two aides at an Ohio retreat. In a small town gripped by the trial, a veteran judge weighs public prejudice against the meaning of reasonable doubt.

A rock star is found dead in her Beverly Hills pool, drawing Columbo into a case with Mafia ties and Italian roots. To explain the present-day murder, he must also confront the old mystery surrounding Jimmy Hoffa’s disappearance.

A defense lawyer and a television beauty devise a murder scheme built to create publicity and an airtight alibi. As planted clues pile up, Columbo patiently strips away the performance to find the plan underneath.

When film director Gunnar Svan is killed, the evidence suggests a simple crime. Columbo sees a more tangled Hollywood story involving Svan’s powerful wife, a young actress, old resentments, and a murderer trying to make the obvious answer stick.

A tell-all writer is preparing an exposé on secrets linked to J. Edgar Hoover when a retired FBI man sends her a deadly warning. Columbo follows the trail through old loyalties, damaged evidence, and a killer who assumes the past can stay buried.

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