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21) With prejudice
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Gabriel Soto is a social recluse accused of the murder of Melina Mora, a free-spirited and deeply loved young woman. At the center of the media spotlight is Sandy Grunwald, an ambitious young female prosecutor whose political fortunes depend on her usingthe limited evidence to secure a conviction. But the criminal justice system is complicated, and everyone has a story--especially the jury. With striking originality and expert storytelling, the ensemble...
22) Smash cut
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Language
English
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When a prominent Atlanta businessman is shot and killed during an armed robbery, it appears to be a situation of wrong place, wrong time. But his friend Julie Rutledge believes differently and sets out to prove that it was murder, orchestrated by the victim's nephew, Creighton Wheeler. Representing him is famed defense lawyer Derek Mitchell, who soon realizes that his client is as depraved as Julie claims.
23) Tiempo de matar
Author
Series
Publisher
Debolsillo/Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial, S. A. U
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
En Clanton, un pequeño pueblo de Mississippi, los delitos tienen distinto valor según la raza del culpable. Cuando Carl Lee Hailey mata a tiros a los rufianes que violaron a su hija de diez años, los habitantes de la zona -indignados al principio por la suerte de la pequeña, pero inmersos después en una espiral de violencia racista- pretenden llevarse por delante todo lo que obstruya su particular noción de justicia.--
24) The rough cut
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Language
English
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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...
Author
Series
Publisher
BookShots, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Collects four fast-paced suspense novellas, including "The Trial," in which a vicious drug lord unleashes unexpected violence on the lawyers, jurors, and police involved in his case.
Author
Series
Publisher
Bookshots / Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
Large print edition, First Edition.
Language
English
Description
Collects four fast-paced suspense novellas, including "The Trial," in which a vicious drug lord unleashes unexpected violence on the lawyers, jurors, and police involved in his case.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
Eighteen-year-old Stella Sandell stands accused o the brutal murder of a man almost fifteen years her senior. She is an ordinary teenager from an upstanding local family. What reason could she have to know a shady businessman, let alone to kill him? Stella's father, a pastor, and mother, a criminal defense attorney, find their moral compasses tested as they defend their daughter while struggling to understand why she is a suspect. How well do they...
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Language
English
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When a soldier is found stabbed through the heart at a US Army base, there is no doubt that his wife, Luz, is to blame. But was it an act of self-defense? An attempt to save her infant daughter? Or the cold-blooded murder of an innocent man? Ambitious public defender Abby is determined to win at all costs. As a new mother herself, she wants to keep Luz out of prison and with her daughter. But when the surprises stack up and shocking new evidence emerges,...
29) Lies With Man
Author
Series
Henry Rios mysteries volume 9
Language
English
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Description
"Los Angeles, 1986. A group of right-wing Christians has put an initiative on the November ballot to allow health officials to force people with HIV into quarantine camps. It looks like it's going to pass. Rios, now living in LA, agrees to be counsel for a group of young activists who call themselves QUEER [Queers United to End Erasure and Repression]. QUEER claims to be committed to peaceful civil disobedience. But when one of its members is implicated...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"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 and the only one on the property at the time of death. As far as the state is concerned, it's an open and shut case. Jack Lee, born and raised in Freeman County, knows that every man deserves a solid defense and agrees to...
Author
Publisher
Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
In 2008, a cheerful ambulance-chasing lawyer named Jay Shenk persuades the grieving Keener family to sue a private LA hospital. Their son Wesley has been transformed by a routine surgery into a kind of golem, absent all normal functioning or personality, walking in endless empty circles around his hospital room. In 2019, Shenk?still in practice but a shell of his former self?is hired to defend Wesley Keener?s father when he is charged with murder...
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Series
Language
English
Description
The endgame is at hand for Penn Cage, his family, and the enemies bent on destroying them in this revelatory volume in the epic trilogy set in modern-day Natchez, MississippiGreg Iles's epic tale of love and honor, hatred and revenge that explores how the sins of the past continue to haunt the present.
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English
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All of London is abuzz with the scandalous case of Frannie Langton, who is accused of the brutal double murder of her employers, renowned scientist George Benham and his eccentric French wife, Marguerite. Crowds pack the courtroom, eagerly following every twist, while hte newspapers print lurid theories about the killings and the mysterious woman being held in the Old Bailey. The testimonies against Frannie are damning. She is a seductress, a witch,...
34) The final case
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
"In a small rural town outside Seattle, Joanna, an Ethiopian girl adopted by a white fundamentalist Christian family, is found dead of hypothermia in her own backyard--setting in motion a gripping journey into the complexities of human emotion. How does it feel to be a child taken into a family that doesn't share her background, her religion, or the color of her skin? What does it mean to be a mother on trial for murder? And why would a lawyer choose...
35) The last trial
Author
Series
Kindle County novels volume 11
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"At 85 years old, Alejandro "Sandy" Stern, a brilliant defense lawyer with his health failing but spirit intact, is on the brink of retirement. But when his old friend Dr. Kiril Pafko, a former Nobel Prize winner in Medicine, is faced with charges of insider trading, fraud, and murder, his entire life's work is put in jeopardy, and Stern decides to take on one last trial. In a case that will provide the defining coda to both men's accomplished lives,...
36) The defense
Author
Series
Eddie Flynn novels volume 1
Language
English
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Description
Eddie Flynn used to be a con artist. Then he became a lawyer. Turns out the two aren't that different. Former con artist turned lawyer Eddie Flynn gave up the law a year ago after a disastrous case, and he vowed never to step foot in a courtroom again. But now he doesn't have a choice. The head of the Russian mob in New York City, on trial for murder, has kidnapped Eddie's ten-year-old daughter: Eddie has to take this case whether he likes it or not....
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Language
English
Description
"Olivia McAfee knows what it feels like to start over. Her picture-perfect life-living in Boston, married to a brilliant cardiothoracic surgeon, raising a beautiful son, Asher-was upended when her husband revealed a darker side. She never imagined she would end up back in her sleepy New Hampshire hometown, living in the house she grew up in, and taking over her father's beekeeping business. Lily Campanello is familiar with do-overs, too. When she...
38) The #1 lawyer
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown & Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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Description
A small-town lawyer with a big-time reputation, Stafford Lee Penney, Mississippi's #1 lawyer who has never lost a case, when his wife is scandalously killed, spirals into a legal and personal legal streak, ruining his career, and making him the nation's #1 suspect.
39) True colors
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Language
English
Description
The Grey sisters have always banded together against the distant chill of their father. Winona, the oldest, never felt at home on the seaside horse ranch which has been in her family for three generations. A small town attorney, she sees herself as an overweight bookworm who doesn't have the qualities her father values, but she is determined to prove her worth to him. Aurora, the middle sister, is the family peacemaker. She brokers every dispute and...
Author
Series
Jane Smith volume 1
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"Tough-as-nails criminal defense attorney Jane Smith is hip-deep in the murder trial of the century. Actually, her charmless client might've committed several murders. She's also fallen in love with a wonderful guy. And an equally wonderful dog, a mutt. But Jane doesn't have much time. She's just received a terminal diagnosis giving her twelve months. Unless she's murdered before her expiration date" --
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