Special Directives, the second book in Matt Graham's Van Nuys Courthouse Legal Thriller series, is available in paperback, hardcover, and on Kindle at Amazon.com.

Relying on Graham's four decades as a prosecutor and judge, Special Directives takes the reader behind the scenes of a courthouse in disarray after the election of a progressive District Attorney in Los Angeles. On his first day in office, the DA issues a set of new policies called special directives, which overturn traditional prosecutorial policies and discretion. 

Relying on one of his new policies, the DA convinces an unwitting Van Nuys judge to release an imprisoned serial rapist, who, twenty years earlier, was convicted in adult court for two violent rapes. The newly released felon embarks on a county-wide crime spree that the police cannot stop.

In response to the DA's new policies, career prosecutors in the DA's office revolt, judges bicker, and victims are incensed. With the court system teetering on the brink, the Supervising Judge of the Van Nuys Courthouse must devise a plan to prevent further disasters. What could go wrong? More than one might imagine.