Michael Gresham Series

When the cameras start flashing, and the red carpet rolls out, Michael Gresham is the lawyer who prefers to make his entry through the alley door. The kind of guy who would rather get it right than make it rich. Meet Michael Gresham. The lawyer you want when the police come knocking, a never-say-quit criminal lawyer with a brother who won't stay on his meds, and a client who appears for a deposition handcuffed to a streetwalker. When the murder of a judge's wife focuses on the judge, Michael takes on the case that could cost him his license and life. Watch from your front-row seat as Michael walks into this courtroom drama, a huge underdog with his client, a judge once feared and now jeered. Stay up tonight, turn off the news, and get back to that special place where you read and let the world pass by, with THE LAWYER, book one of John Ellsworth's critically acclaimed legal thriller series featuring Michael Gresham.

GOT A KILLER IN YOUR GUEST ROOM? Michael Gresham is a criminal attorney whose priest has fathered a son. The boy is now seventeen, acting-out, and arrested for first-degree murder. The priest asks Michael to take his son into his home so he can be released on bail. Michael and his wife agree and the boy, with his snake and mice, moves in. One young client who looks more guilty with each new death... The new houseguest gets questioned by the police for yet a second murder. Michael Gresham and his wife become uneasy and, when the young man begins acting out, they finally move him out. The snake and mice move out with him. One courtroom thriller that curls around and surprises even the most keen readers... A legal thriller sure to satisfy the most demanding readers of legal fiction and lawyer novels.

Who Defends the Defense Lawyer...a New Twist on the Legal Financial Thriller Michael Gresham is a criminal attorney who defends his clients with an iron will. They know that when he takes their case they are probably going to leave the courthouse a free man or free woman. But what happens when the defender becomes the defendant himself? A law partner will have to step up and do for him what he can't do for himself. Isn't that how it should work? Watch up close as a tried and proven criminal defense lawyer is forced to face the most important case of his career. If he wins, he's a free man. If he loses, he will die in prison. A lawyer named Harley Sturgis comes on the scene just in time—if she's not too late already. It's her chance to shine in a career that has all but crashed and burned around her. But here comes her last chance, a chance to redeem herself and win the case that can restore both her and Michael Gresham's careers.

Carlos has a sick daughter and needs money. He's also an upstanding citizen who pays his taxes, puts in his forty hours, doesn't drink and carouse, and loves his wife. Still...he has nowhere else to turn. So Carlos gets money the old-fashioned way—he robs banks. The money comes pouring in but then a new man joins the crew and everything tumbles downhill. Criminal charges for armed robbery are brought against Carlos in several states and he needs a heavy hitter to defend him. Carlos calls Michael Gresham for help and the lawyer comes to his aid. But it is going to be the meanest case of Michael's career, as the prosecutor is a woman who means to jab the death needle in Carlos' arm and watch him die. And she has the legal chops to do just that. But she has problems of her own—legal problems, big ones. Full of bank robberies and courtroom action, this novel is sure to satisfy even the most ardent Michael Gresham fan as the trial lawyer walks into a courtroom where the toughest district attorney and the guiltiest client on the West Coast await him.

Two CIA field operators obtain a bill of lading from an arms supplier in Moscow. Tracing the origin and destination of the weapons there is reason to believe a massive arms shipment has come into the U.S. through the Port of Long Beach. While their investigation proceeds, the CIA operatives are arrested in Russia and put on trial for stealing state secrets and murder. Michael Gresham appears in Moscow to defend them, but the trial turns into a kangaroo court of Russian justice. Corruption and undercover deceit threaten to put the Americans in front of a Russian firing squad. The jury trial that follows is probably Michael's strangest case ever. People die and people disappear, secrets are stolen, and confessions are made, but...is any of this based on truth and reality? Or is everything a wall of disinformation meant to throw off the Americans and stymie all attempts at justice in the Russian court? Watch from your front row seat as Michael takes on the KGB only to find the judge sending him to jail because he fought back in court. Everything is at risk here, as we look in on the American President, the NSA, the CIA, and DoD while the story accelerates to its exciting and shocking climax.

ACE for ASIN B0735NBYD2 Washington D.C. Power Brokers High Alert: There's a new prosecutor at the U.S. Attorney's Office...And he's watching you… Michael Gresham has crossed the street and is now putting bad guys in prison, his defense lawyer days at an end. Who could blame him: the love of his life Dania was murdered and has left Michael with a desire to prosecute evil in all its forms. Will he turn out to be a top prosecutor? Early indications are that he will be a great one. A friend wants to make Michael power of attorney over money he wants to go to his kids. Then the friend is gunned down in Washington and Michael is called on to prosecute. But the guilty party named by the eyewitnesses is someone so high up in the government that his office door opens onto the President's Oval Office. If Michael files the case against the suspect, all hell will break loose and he'll be in for the trial of his life—with the same noose suddenly tightening around Michael too. Can Michael avenge his friend's death and put one of the lofty power brokers in prison? Is he clever enough to avoid going to prison himself—especially when his fingerprints are all over the money his friend left to his children? Pull up a chair and pour a cup. It's going to be an exciting night! Other Books in the Michael Gresham Series of Legal and Financial Thrillers The Lawyer is part of the Attorney Michael Gresham Legal Thriller Series which has more than 1,000+ five-star reviews and a million readers and counting. Then, if you love a page-turning thriller with mystery, clandestine plotting and a dash of romance, pick up Sakharov the Bear today. This stand-alone novel features leading man Michael Gresham. Look for other mystery and legal and financial thriller books featuring Michael Gresham including The Lawyer, Secrets Girls Keep, The Law Partners, Carlos the Ant, Sakharov the Bear and now The Hydra-Shok Verdict. They can be read in any order. Enjoy this Lawyer Mystery Thriller Series FREE as part of your Kindle Unlimited subscription. You can read these Kindle Unlimited books online via your Amazon Kindle Fire or on any smartphone or tablet with the free Amazon Books Kindle reading app. John Ellsworth's books are renowned for their twists and turns and the surprise ending in this one is equally brilliant. One courtroom financial thriller that curls around and surprises even the most keen readers...the thriller series that made John Ellsworth a household name! The sixth book in the USA Today bestselling author's Michael Gresham series delivers thrills, action, and twists you just won’t see coming.

She’s a daughter he didn’t know he had. They meet when she’s 28 and waiting on Death Row. She has but 30 days left until her execution for aggravated murder. Her case has been appealed to all higher courts. Each one has denied her. There are no appeals left when Michael Gresham comes to her side. So he does the next best thing: he goes back to the first, the beginning of the case. And he begins looking for the one thing that could possibly save her life. When it begins to look hopeless, Michael Gresham promises he will be there at her execution. He will not allow her to die alone. 30 Days of Justis is the story of a frantic father who happens to be a lawyer. But he is a lawyer without a case when she first contacts him. With gathering speed, the days tick past. What about Michael Gresham? Is he the lawyer who can save her? Or is he in her life only as the last face she sees before it goes dark?

Short stories about old and young people standing at the final door; a story about an addict who uses out of anger; the story of a disfavored father trying one last time to connect with a brainwashed daughter; and the very difficult story of Eve and Andrew, brother and sister carrying around a secret that the dying sister now wants to face down before she dies, while the FBI brother refuses to recall the event for his reasons.

Sometimes a victim decides to stop being a victim. Michael Gresham and Marcel, his investigator, go on the hunt for a client’s missing wife. She has been nominated to the U.S. District Court, and now she can’t be found. She’s an outstanding lawyer, but Chloe suffers from personality problems. Her personality splits, and an alter personality takes over. There’s an accident. Chloe battles to regain her ability to think clearly and survive. She must re-learn how to recognize faces. She struggles with her competing personalities. Michael Gresham is getting closer to finding her, but then there’s a shooting, and everyone becomes a target. Interwoven is the story of Michael’s wife and the illness and incarceration she must endure. Verona is Russian by birth and Russia wants her back. Two women that powerful forces want to victimize. Will they fight back and overcome? Sometimes a victim refuses to remain a victim. Sometimes they even go on the hunt.

Michael Gresham is the lawyer you’d want to call if you were accused of a crime. Especially if you were guilty... Michael is a successful trial lawyer who’s been placed on medical leave. But he sorely misses the courtroom battles, where he excels. When Michael receives a call from the local jail he comes to life and knows he cannot resist getting involved. For it’s a case of Murder One. Before jumping right in, he stops and thinks about what his watchful wife will say if he goes to the jail. Every day he’s feeling stronger, working out and jogging. But the call makes him feel more alive since before the stroke. Almost before he realizes what’s happening he finds himself driving at high speed in the direction of the jail. He accepts the case and begins investigating. Then a jury is picked and Michael holds his own at trial. His client is looking more and more innocent with each witness Michael cross-examines. However, there’s a hitch: his investigator and best friend, Marcel Rainford, has disappeared. The police ask Michael what he knows. Then, late one night, the police are pounding on his front door, demanding to talk. They have a written confession they want him to read. He reads. His knees buckle when he reaches the bottom. He’d know that signature anywhere.