The Local
A Legal Thriller
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group · Print & ebook · June 14, 2022
A freewheeling, small-town attorney takes on a national murder trial when an out-of-town client is accused of killing a federal judge in Texas. “A spectacular courtroom thriller that kept me turning pages like the best of Grisham or Turow." —Michelle King, co-creator of The Good Wife, The Good Fight, and Evil The town of Marshall, Texas, is the epicenter of intellectual property law in the US—renowned for its speedy trials and massive payouts.
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- Who it’s for
- Small-town legal life meets the pressure of a murder trial with national stakes.
- Genres
- Legal Thrillers, Suspense, Legal Fiction
- Published
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, June 14, 2022
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A freewheeling, small-town attorney takes on a national murder trial when an out-of-town client is accused of killing a federal judge in Texas. “A spectacular courtroom thriller that kept me turning pages like the best of Grisham or Turow." —Michelle King, co-creator of The Good Wife, The Good Fight, and Evil The town of Marshall, Texas, is the epicenter of intellectual property law in the US—renowned for its speedy trials and massive payouts.
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One of its best lawyers is James Euchre. His newest client, Amir Zawar, is a CEO forced to defend his life’s work against a patent infringement claim. But when a beloved hometown hero is murdered, all signs point to Zawar, an outsider with no alibi. With the help of a former federal prosecutor and a local PI, Euchre hopes to uncover the truth. In his first criminal case, the stakes couldn’t be higher. Euchre fears either an innocent man will be sent to death row, or he’ll help set a murderer free. The Local is a small-town thriller crackling with courtroom tension right up to the final verdict.
Courtroom Crosscurrents
Small-town legal life meets the pressure of a murder trial with national stakes.
Come here for
- Courtroom tension with small-town legal texture
- A lawyer navigating a case with life-or-death stakes
Expect
- A shift from patent disputes to a criminal case
- A first criminal trial for a lawyer used to different stakes
Where it sits
| Legal Thrillers | 93% |
|---|---|
| Suspense | 29% |
| Legal Fiction | 27% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Suspense
- Legal Thrillers
- Small-Town Fiction
- Authors
- Robert Petkoff, Joey Hartstone, Random House Audio
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Published
- June 14, 2022
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- Suspense