Legal thriller

The legal thriller is a subgenre of thriller and crime fiction in which the major characters are lawyers and their employees. The system of justice itself is always a major part of these works, at times almost functioning as one of the characters. In this way, the legal system provides the framework for the legal thriller much as the system of modern police work does for the police procedural.

Usually, crusading lawyers become involved in proving their cases (usually their client's innocence of the crime of which he is accused, or the culpability of a corrupt corporation which has covered up its malfeasance until this point) to such an extent that they imperil their own interpersonal relationships and frequently, their own lives.

Books

Major authors

Major authors of this genre include William Bernhardt, Jay Brandon, Michael Connelly, William J Coughlin, Marcia Clark, Vish Dhamija, Robert Dugoni, Kenneth G. Eade, Linda Fairstein, Erle Stanley Gardner, Mark Gimenez, James Grippando, John Grisham, Jonnie Jacobs, David Kessler, Lowell B. Komie, William Lashner, John Lescroart, Paul Levine, Phillip Margolin, Steve Martini, Brad Meltzer, John Mortimer, Michael Nava, Perri O'Shaughnessy, Richard North Patterson, Nancy Taylor Rosenberg, Lisa Scottoline, Gianluca Arrighi, Sheldon Siegel, Arthur Train, Scott Turow, and Kate Wilhelm.

Films
Year Name Language
1959 Anatomy of a Murder English
1990 Presumed Innocent English
1990 Mounam Sammadhan Tamil
1993 The Firm English
1993 The Pelican Brief English
1994 The Client English
1996 Primal Fear English
1997 The Devil's Advocate English
2002 High Crimes English
2003 Runaway Jury English
2007 Michael Clayton English
2007 Fracture English
2011 Lincoln Lawyer English
2013 Silence Malayalam
2016 Manithan Tamil
2017 The Third Murder Japanese
2019 Section 375 Hindi
2019 Dark Waters English

Video games

Capcom's Ace Attorney is a series of legal thriller adventure video games.

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References

    Further reading
    • Robinson, Marlyn (1998). "Collins to Grisham: A Brief History of the Legal Thriller" (PDF). Legal Studies Forum. 22: 21. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-06-11. Retrieved 2014-01-07.
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