Final Appeal

by Remigiusz Mroz

Overview

A charismatic defense lawyer faces a horrific case where nothing is as it seems in this international bestselling thriller perfect for fans of Steve Cavanaugh and John Grisham.

Now streaming on Amazon Prime Video and PBS as The Defence.

When whip-smart criminal defense lawyer Joanna Chylka is tasked with defending the son of her law firm’s biggest client, she is stumped for the first time in her career. Her client, Piotr Langer Jr, does not admit guilt, but neither does he claim innocence.


Assisted by the firm’s newest trainee, Kordian Orynski, Joanna finds herself in a maze of tangled evidence. Piotr is alleged to have sat in his apartment for ten days with two corpses before calmly opening the door to the police as if nothing had happened. But the truth is far more complex and shocking than they could have imagined.

Joanna and Kordian face a treacherous situation. And with the spotlight on them, a killer may have them both on his hit list.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781639108046
Publisher:	CROOKED LANE BOOKS
Publication date:	02/06/2024
Sales rank:	89,141
Product dimensions:	6.30(w) x 9.30(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Remigiusz Mróz is the biggest Polish author writing today, who has sold over 4 million copies of his books in Poland alone and 7 million worldwide. He has published over fifty novels across nine series.

Editorial Reviews

Praise for Final Appeal:
“First it was Stieg Larsson, then Jo Nesbø, and now it’s time for another sensational crime author to enter our shores.”
—Tess Gerritsen, New York Times bestselling author of Rizzoli & Isles

“A world-class author.”
—B.A. Paris, New York Times bestselling author of The Prisoner

“A master storyteller.” 
—JP Delaney, New York Times bestselling author of Playing Nice

“Intelligent, exciting and ingenious.” 
—Alex Marwood, bestselling author of The Island of Lost Girls

From the Publisher

2023-11-04
A pair of Warsaw attorneys take on a murder case in which everything is stacked against them in Mróz’s debut thriller.

Businessman Piotr Langer’s wealth has shielded him from any criminal repercussions arising from the accusations that he’s taken advantage of women whose immigrations he’s helped arrange. But there’s a limit to how much he can help his son when the police find Piotr Langer Jr. in his apartment with a pair of 10-day-old corpses. The firm of Żelazny & McVay, hired to defend the accused, assigns senior associate Joanna Chyłka to the case, and she sweeps along Kordian Oryński, a brand-new legal trainee, even though she clearly looks down her nose at him. As Chyłka puts it, the defense must contend with three adversaries: the justice system, which presumes that Langer is guilty; the defendant’s father, who’s footing his legal bills on the condition that he plead not guilty by reason of insanity; and the defendant himself, who opens his mouth only long enough to assure his attorneys that he’s not insane. In fact, the defense has even more enemies than Chyłka knows, for an unnamed Grey-Haired Man and his underling, the Bald Man, are determined to undermine the defense for their own reasons. When an unexpected development after the court sentences Langer to life imprisonment makes it possible for the attorneys to file an appeal, the Grey-Haired Man and the Bald Man leap into action with a violence that threatens to divide Chyłka and Oryński once and for all. Readers who persist beyond all the further obstacles and quiddities that greet the defenders will be treated to a walloping climactic surprise as impossible to predict as it is to believe.

A heavy lift for characters and readers alike.

Kirkus Reviews