Hi everyone, I started reading the Tenth Justice and I’m on a quest to binge more legal thrillers. I used to love John Grisham and the like as a teenager. It’s part of what inspired me to go to law school.
But then as a lawyer I rarely had time or motivation to read much, let alone read books about lawyers. Now I “read” a lot more with the help of audiobooks (although I’m actually reading this one in paperback because a friend gave it to me, and I’m stocking up on legal thriller paperbacks I find for free in Little Libraries and that friends give me).
Has anyone else read The Tenth Justice? I would love to discuss it and the genre in general. It starts out being about a guy who went to Yale and is now clerking for a Supreme Court justice. The description said he’s going to find out top secret information about a case and be blackmailed about it.
I find the premise interesting but I also find myself getting annoyed that so many of these books are written by men and are about men. I went and looked at the paperbacks I’ve amassed so far in my quest to read more legal thrillers, and they’re ALL by men, about men, for men, supposedly, although I as a woman like them but would like them even better if they were about female lawyers.
Does anyone think there’s a market for legal thrillers written about women/for women? I know that Melissa F. Miller writes a series about Sasha McCandless. And I have read another book about a female lawyer that was self-published and pretty good although I can’t remember its name.
I wonder why trad pubs don’t seem to publish this type of thing aimed at women? Are there other women here who like to read legal thrillers and do you think that the genre could be aimed towards women more? Is it sexism or just the market? Or maybe it’s just me and I’m somehow driven to the ones that are aimed at men and missing ones that are aimed at women?
by Employment-lawyer