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Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
452 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The bestselling author of "Against the Wind" turns his focus to a government cover-up in the death of a drug lord shot and killed despite director orders from the U.S. Attorney General to take him alive at any cost.
42) Defender
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
When Paul Fiore disappeared from Isabel Grayling's life, he told himself it was for all the right reasons. Now Isabel is an assistant district attorney committed to serving the law, no matter how risky it gets, and Paul is the FBI agent assigned to Isabel's case. He never realized what life in her Texas mansion was really like back then, and how much damage he did when he left. Now Paul is the one thing standing between Isabel and a deadly stalker....
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
"Set in the tumultuous year of 1968 in southern Virginia, a racially-charged murder case sets a duo of white and Black lawyers against a deeply unfair system as they work to defend their wrongfully-accused Black defendants When two wealthy white landowners are found dead, the whole country immediately thinks it must be Jerome Washington, the hired help, who killed them. He was standing over the bodies when the police responded to an anonymous call...
44) Beyond justice
Author
Series
Hidden justice novels volume 1
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Hayden McCarthy is on track to become the youngest partner in her prestigious D.C. law firm. if the case she's just been handed doesn't destroy her first. Hayden McCarthy knows firsthand the pain when justice is not served. It's why she became an attorney and why she's so driven in her career. When she's handed a wrongful death case against the government, she isn't sure if it's the lucky break she needs to secure a partnership--or an attempt to...
45) The mercy rule
Author
Series
Dismas Hardy novels volume 5
Language
English
Description
Justice... Once Dismas Hardy was a cop. Now he spends his days in a lawyer's suit, billing hours to a corporate client in a downtown San Francisco office. Hardy's wife and kids like it that way. Then one client changes everything. Compassion... Graham Russo, a former baseball star, is charged with murdering his dying father. Was it suicide, the last desperate act of a dying man? Was it murder? Or mercy? Murder...
46) The guardians
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
In a small Florida town, a young lawyer is shot to death. A young black man, a former client, named Quincy Miller is charged and convicted. For 22 years, Miller maintains his innocence from inside prison. Finally, Guardian Ministries takes on Miller's case, but the Episcopal minister in charge gets more than he bargained for as powerful people do not want Miller exonerated.
47) Her deadly game
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Keera Duggan was building a solid reputation as a Seattle prosecutor, until her romantic relationship with a senior colleague ended badly. For the competitive former chess prodigy, returning to her family's failing criminal defense law firm to work for her father is the best shot she has. With the right moves, she hopes to restore the family's reputation, her relationship with her father, and her career. Keera's chance to play in the big leagues...
Author
Series
Henry Rios volume 1
Publisher
Persigo Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Persigo Press edition.
Physical Desc
325 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Set in the summer of 1981, in a university town 30 miles south of San Francisco. Henry Rios, a gifted and humane lawyer driven to drink to by personal and professional demons, meets Hugh Paris, a charming junkie struggling to stay clean. Hugh tells Rios an improbable tale of long-ago murders in his wealthy family. Rios disbelieves him but the erotic spark between the two men ignites an obsessive affair that ends only when Hugh is discovered with a...
49) Final judgment
Author
Series
Samantha Brinkman novels volume 4
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
404 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When it comes to relationships and self-preservation, defense attorney Samantha Brinkman has always been cut and run. But it's different with her new lover Niko, an ambitious and globally famous entrepreneur. Sam is putting her faith in him. She has to: he's also her new client, a suspect in the murder of an investor whose shady dealings turned Niko's good life upside down. He had the motive: revenge. As did many others who banked a fortune on the...
50) Saving Emma
Author
Publisher
Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
323 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"When Boady Sanden first receives the case of Elijah Matthews, he's certain there's not much he can do. Elijah, who believes himself to be a prophet, has been locked up in a psychiatric hospital for the past four years, convicted of brutally murdering the pastor of a megachurch. But as a law professor working for the Innocence Project, Boady agrees to look into Elijah's file. When he does, he is alarmed to find threads that lead back to the death...
51) Muzzled
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
"The ever-charming David Rosenfelt is back with Muzzled, where reluctant lawyer Andy Carpenter and his beloved golden retriever, Tara, are back on the case as a favor to a friend. Reluctant New Jersey lawyer Andy Carpenter doesn't call many people friend. So when one comes to him for help, he's more than willing to listen, and do what he can. Beth reunites lost dogs with their owners. Over the years, she's helped Andy reunite countless dogs from the...
52) Desert star
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Series
Language
English
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Description
LAPD detective Renee Ballard and Harry Bosch work together to hunt the killer who is Bosch's white whale --a man responsible for the murder of an entire family. A year has passed since LAPD detective Renee Ballard quit the force in the face of misogyny, demoralization, and endless red tape. Yet, after the chief of police himself tells her she can write her ticket within the department, Ballard takes back her badge, leaving the Late Show to rebuild...
53) Well traveled
Author
Series
Well met novels volume 4
Publisher
Berkley Romance
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
322 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"The Renaissance Faire is on the move, and Lulu and Dex are happily along for the ride, in the next utterly charming rom-com from Jen DeLuca. A high-powered attorney from a success-oriented family, Louisa "Lulu" Malone lives to work, and everything seems to be going right, until the day she realizes it's all wrong. Lulu's cousin Mitch introduced her to the world of Ren Faires, and when she spies one at a time when she needs an escape, she leaps into...
54) The rough cut
Author
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First World edition.
Physical Desc
248 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Documentary filmmaker Riley Vasher has been living a low-key life on the island of Oahu with her long-time boyfriend Brody. This all changes when Brody overhears on his police scanner that popular TV weathergirl Piper Kingsley has been murdered. When Piper's boyfriend, Ethan Jakes, is arrested for the crime, a high-profile murder trial is sure to follow - and Riley and Brody sense their chance to make a name for themselves. Riley convinces Ethan...
55) A time for mercy
Author
Series
Jake Brigance novels volume 3
Language
English
Description
Court-appointed lawyer Jake Brigance puts his career, his financial security, and the safety of his family on the line to defend a sixteen-year-old suspect who is accused of killing a local deputy and is facing the death penalty.
Author
Language
English
Description
"TJ Devlin is the charming disappointment in the prominent Devlin family, all of whom are lawyers at their highly successful firm-except him. After a stint in prison and rehab for alcoholism, TJ can't get hired anywhere except at the firm, in a make-work job with the title of investigator. But one night, TJ's world turns upside down after his older brother John confesses that he just murdered one of the clients, an accountant he'd confronted with...
57) Against the Law
Author
Publisher
Severn House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (288 pages)
Language
English
Description
Introducing lawyer-turned-ex-con Edward Hall -- from the "the finest writer of legal thrillers in the country" (Jeremiah Healy, bestselling author of the John Cuddy mysteries). Fresh out of prison, former lawyer Edward Hall thinks his days in the courtroom are behind him. Until his sister, Dr Amy Hall, is arrested for murder . . She's been accused of shooting the ex-husband she supposedly reconciled with and is convinced that her ex-convict brother...
58) Family law
Author
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
290 pages : 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Set in Alabama in the early '80s, Family Law follows a young lawyer, Lucia, who is making a name for herself at a time when a woman in a courtroom is still a rarity. She's been the recipient of threats and vandalism for her work extracting women from painful and sometimes dangerous marriages, but her own happy marriage has always felt sheltered from the work she does. When her mother's pending divorce brings teenaged Rachel into Lucia's orbit, Rachel...
59) One fatal flaw
Author
Series
Daniel Pitt novels (Anne Perry) volume 3
Language
English
Description
"Two fiery deaths have young lawyer Daniel Pitt and his scientist friend Miriam fford Croft racing to solve a forensic crisis in an explosive novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Triple Jeopardy. When a desperate woman comes to Daniel seeking a lawyer for her boyfriend, Rob Adwell, Daniel is convinced of the young man's innocence. Adwell has been accused of murder and setting a fire to conceal the body, but Daniel is sure that science...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
274 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"An adaptation of the Olivier Award-winning play that the New York Times wrote radiated with "visceral power," Suzie Miller's legal thriller Prima Facie is a heartbreaking, nuanced look at the system's flaws when protecting sexual assault and rape survivors, through the eyes of a star defense attorney"--
"Tess Ensler loves her job. Against all the odds, she's worked her way up to being a top criminal defense barrister, and she fights to defend those...
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