Leo Maxwell mysteries
Author
Author
Series
Leo Maxwell mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Mysterious Press/Grove
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
"Leo Maxwell grew up in the shadow of his older brother, Teddy, a successful yet reviled criminal defense attorney who racked up enemies as quickly as he racked up acquittals. As children, their father was jailed for the murder of their mother, and Teddy was left to care for Leo who tried to emulate his older brother, even following him into the legal profession. The two are at lunch one day when Teddy, supposed to give the closing argument of his...
Author
Series
Leo Maxwell mysteries volume 2
Publisher
The Mysterious Press, an imprint of Grove/Atlantic, Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Leo Maxwell always lived in the shadow of his older brother Teddy, one of San Francisco's most ruthless and effective criminal defense lawyers. Then a gunman shot Teddy in the head. Although Teddy survived the shooting, he has been left disabled and dependent on Leo, now a criminal defense attorney practicing in Oakland. The Maxwell brothers are living together in Oakland while Leo, chafing in his role as junior attorney in his former sister-in-law's...
Author
Series
Leo Maxwell mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Mysterious Press, an imprint of Grove/Atlantic, Inc
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Faced with evidence of stunning prosecutorial misconduct, a San Francisco judge has ordered a new trial for the Maxwell brothers' father, Lawrence, who was convicted of killing their mother twenty-one years before. A prison snitch soon turns up dead, with Lawrence the only suspect, and Leo teams up with hotshot attorney Nina Schuyler to defend Lawrence against murder charges both old and new. Working the streets while Nina handles the action in the...
Author
Series
Leo Maxwell mysteries volume 4
Publisher
The Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Taking a job as a public defender in San Francisco, Leo Maxwell successfully defends a homeless man, only to be wrongly implicated in the brutal murder of his co-counsel, a crime that their former client confesses to committing.
Author
Series
Leo Maxwell mysteries volume 5
Publisher
HighBridge
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Lachlan Smith's Shamus Award–winning series continues with attorney-detective Leo Maxwell seeking an exit strategy from his family's deepening entanglement with a ruthless prison-based gang. Caught between the criminals and the FBI, Leo charts his own path in defending a young woman who was manipulated into brazenly murdering a member of the Aryan Brotherhood in San Francisco's Tenderloin neighborhood. When the consequences strike heartbreakingly...