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Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
A dedicated lawyer who advocates for mentally ill patients, Vivian, contending with the memories and aftereffects of her own bad childhood, makes a bold move during a family reunion that leaves her alone in new and terrifying ways, causing her to unravel.
22) The third victim
Author
Series
Robin Lockwood novels volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a series of abductions, tortures, and murders are traced to the home of a prominent attorney in rural Oregon, a rookie lawyer becomes a second chair to a legendary criminal defense attorney who holds a dangerous secret.
23) Lady killer
Author
Series
Rosato and Associates novels volume 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mary DiNunzio's teenage angst comes flooding back when her high school nemesis, Trish Gambone (dubbed "Trash" by Mary) comes seeking her help. It doesn't matter that Mary is now the rainmaker of Rosato & Associates. Trish's mere presence is enough to make Mary feel like she's at the bottom of the food chain. As it turns out, however, Trish's life has taken a horrifying turn. She is terrified of her live-in boyfriend, an abusive South Philly mobster,...
Author
Series
Robin Lockwood novels volume 5
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Defense attorney Robin Lockwood faces an unimaginable personal disaster and her greatest professional challenge in the next New York Times bestselling Phillip Margolin's new legal thriller, The Darkest Place. Robin Lockwood is an increasingly prominent defense attorney in the Portland community. A Yale graduate and former MMA fighter, she's becoming known for her string of innovative and successful defense strategies. As a favor to a judge, Robin...
25) Her deadly game
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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
Language
English
Description
After being placed in foster care, Paula Vauss grows up to become a tough divorce attorney only to have her life thrown into chaos by an astonishing revelation and a cryptic message from the mother she has not seen in years.
After a childhood on the road, and being placed in foster care when her mother went to prison, Paula Vauss grew up to become a tough divorce attorney. Her life is thrown into chaos by an astonishing revelation and a cryptic message...
28) The plea
Author
Series
Eddie Flynn novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Pressured by the FBI to secure a murder suspect's testimony against a corrupt law firm, con artist-turned-lawyer Eddie Flynn begins to believe the suspect is innocent in spite of overwhelming evidence to the contrary in a case that tests the limits of his skills on both sides of the law.
Author
Publisher
The Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First Mysterious Press edition.
Language
English
Description
A federal prosecutor, Nora Carleton, enters into a high-stakes investigation involving conspiracy, corruption, and danger when a mobster she is trying to convict offers information about an assassination in the first crime novel from the former director of the FBI.
Author
Publisher
Pamela Dorman Books, Viking
Pub. Date
©2016
Language
English
Description
Resolving to leave her secrets behind when she gets married, a young lawyer is strangely drawn to a convicted killer during her first murder case in ways that shape her psychologically charged relationship with a young neighbor years later.
32) Corrupted
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Taking the case of a former classmate who has been wrongly accused of murdering a bully who sent him to juvenile detention when they were children, Bennie is forced to relive some of the darkest memories of her life in order to defend the boy she once failed.
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Enjoying a dream job, close friendships, a loving family, and a gorgeous fiancé, Lily Wilder evaluates her history of partying and dating lots of men to consider whether getting married is the right choice for her.
Author
Series
Broden legal volume 1
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Language
English
Formats
Description
By day, Ella works as a buttoned-up attorney on some of the citys most grueling cases. By night, she pursues her passion for singing in the darkest clubs of Manhattan.
Author
Language
English
Description
"In present day New Orleans, Xuan Trung, former beauty queen turned refugee after the Fall of Saigon, is obsessed with divining her daughters' fates through their Vietnamese zodiac signs. But Trac, Nhi and Trieu diverge completely from their immigrant parents' expectations. Successful lawyer Trac hides her sexuality from her family; Nhi competes as the only woman of color on a Bachelor-esque reality TV show; and Trieu, a budding writer, is determined...
36) Pleasantville
Author
Series
Jay Porter novels volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Locke reintroduces us to environmental lawyer Jay Porter (her Black Water Rising protagonist), who takes one last case on the behalf of the community of Pleasantville in this new thriller--only to become embroiled in its shadowy politics, a disturbing education in how far those in power are willing to go to win"--
Author
Language
English
Description
Luisa "Lu" Brant is the newly elected-- and first female-- state's attorney of Howard County, Maryland, a job in which her widower father famously served. Fiercely intelligent and ambitious, she sees an opportunity to make her name by trying a mentally disturbed drifter accused of beating a woman to death in her home. It's not the kind of case that makes headlines, but peaceful Howard County doesn't see many homicides. As Lu prepares for the trial,...
38) Sea change
Author
Publisher
Tachyon Publications
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"In 2022, GMOs were banned. A biopharmaceutical caused the Catastrophe: worldwide economic and agricultural collapse, and personal tragedy for lawyer Caroline Denton and her son. Ten years later, as Renata Black, she is a member of the Org, an underground group of scientists hunted by the feds. But the Org's illegal food-research might just hold the key to rebuilding the worlds' food supply."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Rachel Knight novels volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
While interviewing students in the aftermath of a school shooting in the San Fernando Valley, prosecutor Rachel Knight and Detective Bailey Keller realize the facts don't add up and the real killers may still be out there.
40) Sweet tea
Author
Publisher
Hallmark Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Althea Dailey...[is] about to make partner at her prestigious law firm in New York...When she has to travel South for a case, she pays a long-overdue visit back home to Milford, Georgia. To her surprise, a white man she's never met has befriended her grandmother...Althea's grandmother is famous for her cooking...But Althea suspects Jack of trying to steal her grandmother's recipes. Despite Althea and Jack's first impressions of one another, they...
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