Wild Justice by Phillip Margolin

A defense lawyer defends a surgeon accused of horror

Good condition – visible creasing to the cover and spine, tanned page edges.

The first novel in Phillip Margolin's Amanda Jaffe series opens when a vice cop's tip leads him to an isolated Oregon cabin and a gruesome discovery, implicating a brilliant, unpopular surgeon in a string of murders tied to black-market organ harvesting. Newly minted defense attorney Amanda Jaffe joins her father's firm to defend the accused, only for the case to spiral through a technicality, a mob-style disappearance, and a second, eerily similar killing years later involving the surgeon's own ex-wife. Margolin, a former criminal defense attorney himself, builds a fast, twist-heavy legal thriller that mixes courtroom maneuvering with genuinely disturbing crime, for readers who like their thrillers dark, pacey and morally messy.