Phillip Margolin’s New Release

Available November 7, 2023. Order your copy by clicking the read more button below.

Betrayal: A Robin Lockwood Novel (2023)

In Phillip Margolin’s Betrayal, attorney Robin Lockwood finds herself defending her old nemesis in a multiple murder case with too many suspects, where success might cost her own life.

Robin Lockwood is now a prominent defense attorney in Portland, Oregon but a decade ago, she was a ranked and rising MMA fighter. Her career came to a quick end when she was knocked out and concussed in the first round by Mandy Kerrigan, a much more talented fighter.

Now the situation couldn’t be more different, with Kerrigan on her last legs, her career nearly over, arrested for the quadruple murder of the entire Finch family…and Kerrigan’s only possible friend is the attorney she beat so many years ago………………………………

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Short Stories by Phillip Margolin

The House on Pine Terrace
The House on Pine Terrace appears in the anthology Thriller 2 as well as the 2010 edition of The Best American Mystery Stories.

The Jailhouse Lawyer
The Jailhouse Lawyer appears in the 1998 anthology Legal Briefs as well as the 1999 edition of The Best American Mystery Stories.

Angie’s Delight
Angie’s Delight appeared in Murder For Revenge published in 1998 by Delacorte Press and edited by Otto Penzler.

The Girl in the Yellow Bikini
The Girl in the Yellow Bikini is Phil’s first piece of published fiction. It was released in 1974 in Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine. In mid-2002, it was re-printed as a booklet and shrink-wrapped to the French edition of Elle fashion magazine.