The Jailhouse Lawyer [Paperback]

From the world's #1 bestselling author,young lawyer Martha Foster takes on the judge who is destroying her hometown—and ends up in jail herself.
 
In picture-perfect Erva, Alabama, young lawyer Martha Foster takes on the judge who is destroying her hometown—and ends up in jail herself. Sometimes the best education an attorney can get is a short stretch of hard time.

“Fast-paced, intriguing, and often politically charged.”  –PopSugar
 James Pattersonis the most popular storyteller of our time and the creator of such unforgettable characters and series as Alex Cross, the Women’s Murder Club, Jane Smith, and Maximum Ride. He has coauthored #1 bestselling novels with Bill Clinton, Dolly Parton, and Michael Crichton, as well as collaborated on #1 bestselling nonfiction, including The Idaho Four,Walk in My Combat Boots, and Filthy Rich. Patterson has told the story of his own life in the #1 bestselling autobiography James Patterson by James Patterson. He is the recipient of an Edgar Award, ten Emmy Awards, the Literarian Award from the National Book Foundation, and the National Humanities Medal.

Nancy Allenpracticed law for fifteen years in her native Ozarks and served as a law instructor at Missouri State University for sixteen years. She is also the author of the Ozarks Mystery series.    

 “I couldn’t put down The Jailhouse Lawyer, a page-turning legal thriller that exposes a headline-making crisis in the American courts: the new debtors’ prisons, where an inability to pay court costs sentences poor peol£%