Melissa F. Miller

When a doomsday virus is stolen, lawyer Sasha McCandless and her new boyfriend Leo Connelly must prevent the release of the ultimate biological weapon.

Attorney Sasha McCandless teams with an air marshall to take down a developer who has created a smartphone application that can crash airplanes.

The venerable law firm of Prescott & Talbott is reeling from the murder of partner Ellen Mortenson, purportedly at the hands of her estranged husband, when a photograph of the dead woman arrives, her face x-ed out and “One down” scrawled across the bottom. Within days, a second partner is murdered, her husband is also accused. Sasha doesn't practice criminal defense, so she's suspicious when her former firm asks her to represent Ellen's husband....

"A corpse in a cornfield. Neighbor waging war against neighbor. A journal written in code. Forensic pathology Bodhi King's silent retreat at Buddhism monastery hasn't been as contemplative, or silent, as he hoped. Bodhi's plan was to meditate on the meaning of a recent run-in with an old flame, but instead he's pressed into service to identify a murdered stranger. He teams up with a pair of federal agents, a bold, brainy plant pathologist, and the...

When civil litigator and Krav Maga fighter Sasha McCandless pummels a harasser into a pulp during an altercation in a bar, she's sentenced to an anger management diversion program for first-time offenders. Sasha chafes at the sentence, arguing that she was defending herself from imminent danger. But her law partner Will Volmer and her husband Leo Connelly both beg her to go along with the program to protect her license to practice law and her family's...

"Investigating an embezzlement scheme at a Native American casino tears federal prosecutor Aroostine Higgins away from a romantic getaway with her husband, Joe. Dispatched by her superior in the hopes that her Native American roots will win trust in a community wary of outsiders, Aroostine goes on high alert when she finds her would-be informant executed in his home. Money skimming, murder, and rumors of stolen military weapons are linked to someone...

A college kid who's a doppelgänger for a dead man. A pattern and practice of possible prosecutorial misconduct. And a husband and wife team who refuses to look the other way. Sasha and Leo are back. When Sasha spots a young man who looks exactly like her dead brother Patrick, the resemblance is too strong to ignore. She won't rest until she uncovers the truth about him--even if that truth has the power to destroy her family. Meanwhile, she and her...

"Sasha's knee-deep in an insurance coverage case, determined to finish discovery before her upcoming first anniversary trip to a tropical island. When she uncovers evidence of an arson-for-profit conspiracy buried in the thousands of pages of documents, she's tempted to ignore it. But that's not Sasha's style, so she takes the information to the authorities. Suddenly, instead of jetting off to Fiji, Sasha and Leo find themselves on the run from a...

Sasha and Connelly are back in Improper Influence. Even Sasha's most daunting cases to date haven't prepared her for her current challenge: finding a wedding reception venue that her mother and Connelly can both agree on. Wedding planning woes become the least of her worries, though, when Bodhi King, a forensic pathologist for the City of Pittsburgh, comes to her for help. Young women across the city are dying, and he suspects their deaths are connected....