THE OPHELIA CUT

Moses McGuire's beautiful twenty-three-year-old daughter, Brittany moves quickly from one boyfriend to the next, and always seems to prefer a new and mysterious stranger to a man she knows something about. But her most recent ex, Rick Jessup, isn't willing to let her go, culminating in a terrible night when Brittany is raped. Within twenty-four hours, Rick Jessup is dead, Moses McGuire is the prime suspect, and Dismas Hardy has been hired to defend his brother-in-law. Making things even more complicated, McGuire has fallen off the wagon, and his stay in prison could bring to light old secrets that would destroy Hardy and his closest colleagues' careers. As the overwhelming evidence against McGuire piles up, Hardy focuses on planting doubt in the minds of the jurors - until, in a feat of legal ingenuity, Hardy sees a new way forward that might just save them all. But at what price?

THE KEEPER

On the evening before Thanksgiving, Hal Chase, a guard in the San Francisco County Jail, becomes the prime suspect in his wife Katie's disappearance. By the time Dismas Hardy hears about this, Katie has been missing for five days. The case strikes close to home because Katie had been seeing Hardy's wife, a marriage counselor. Now the original Missing Persons case has become a suspected homicide, and the lawyer Hal wants for his defense is none other than Hardy himself. Hardy calls on his friend, former homicide detective Abe Glitsky, to look into the case. At first it seems like the police might have it right: the Chases' marriage was fraught with problems; Hal's alibi is suspect; the life insurance policy on Katie was huge. But Glitsky's mission is to identify other possible suspects, and there proves to be no shortage of them: As Glitsky probes further, he learns of a suspicious inmate death at the San Francisco jail, where Hal works - only one of many questionable incidents that have taken place there. When Katie's body is found not three blocks from the Chase home, Homicide arrests Hal and he finds himself an inmate in the very jail where he used to work, a place full of secrets he knows all too well. Against this backdrop of conspiracy and corruption, ambiguous motives and suspicious alibis, an obsessed Glitsky closes in on the elusive truth. And as other deaths begin to pile up he realizes - perhaps too late - that the next victim might very well be himself.

THE FALL

At 11:03 P.M. on a cool night in May, a teenage foster child named Anlya Paulson plummets to her death from the overpass above San Francisco's Stockton tunnel. But did she fall...or was she pushed? Rushing to produce a convictable suspect in the glare of the media spotlight, Homicide inspectors focus their attention on a likeable but naïve young man named Greg Treadway. Greg is a middle school teacher and he volunteers as a special advocate for foster children.