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Author
Series
Daniel Pitt novels (Anne Perry) volume 1
Language
English
Description
In the first book of an all-new series, a young lawyer races to save his client from execution, putting him at odds with his own father: Thomas Pitt, head of London’s Special Police Branch.
“[Anne] Perry’s excellent new series launch expertly takes the Pitts into a new century.”—Library Journal (starred review)
1910: Twenty-five-year-old Daniel Pitt is a junior barrister...
“[Anne] Perry’s excellent new series launch expertly takes the Pitts into a new century.”—Library Journal (starred review)
1910: Twenty-five-year-old Daniel Pitt is a junior barrister...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
When Travis Boyette is paroled because of an inoperable brain tumor, for the first time in his life, he decides to do the right thing and tell police about a crime he committed and another man is about to be executed for.
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Eliza Benedict's peaceful suburban life is shattered after being contacted by Walter Bowman, the man who kidnapped and held her hostage as a teen in 1985, and who now claims to want forgiveness while on death row. An edgy, utterly gripping tale of psychological manipulation.
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Ansel Packer is scheduled to die in twelve hours. He knows what he's done, and now awaits execution, the same chilling fate he forced on those girls, years ago. But Ansel doesn't want to die--he wants to be celebrated, understood. Through a kaleidoscope of women--a mother, a sister, a homicide detective--we learn the story of Ansel's life. As the clock ticks down, these three women sift through the choices that culminate in tragedy, exploring the...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Visited by a high-powered attorney who has initiated a clemency petition on her behalf and who is also the mother of her victim, death-row inmate Noa is slowly persuaded to share the events surrounding the murder in spite of her reluctance to reveal the whole story or have her life extended.
6) Candlemoth
Author
Publisher
Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2013, c2003
Language
English
Description
Sitting on death row in the 1960s, Daniel Ford imparts to a priest the story of his relationship with the best friend he was condemned for killing, from their first encounters as young boys in South Carolina through the flight from the Vietnam draft that ended in violence.
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The enchanted place is an ancient stone prison, viewed through the eyes of a death row inmate who finds escape in his books and in re-imagining life around him. A female investigator searches for buried information from prisoners' pasts that can save those soon-to-be-executed. Digging into the background of a killer named York, she uncovers wrenching truths that challenge familiar notions of victim and criminal, innocence and guilt, and reveals shocking...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español, una division de Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Description
"Octubre de 1932, penitenciaría de Cold Mountain. Los condenados a muerte aguardan el momento de ser conducidos a la silla eléctrica a través del pasillo conocido como la Milla Verde. Los crímenes abominables que han cometido les convierten en carnaza de un sistema legal que se alimenta de un círculo de locura, muerte y venganza. El guardia de la prisión Paul Edgecombe ha visto cosas raras en sus aǫs trabajando en la Milla. Pero nunca ha visto...
Author
Series
FBI thrillers. Truth series volume 4
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Author
Series
Jack Tobin novels volume 2
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
"Jack Tobin, a Florida trial lawyer, is committed to justice for the innocent. But when he's presented with Henry Wilson's case, he has reasons to believe that the convict is guilty. Wilson has eight weeks to live ... and Jack must decide whether he can--and will--help him ..."--Back cover
11) Last words
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Grieving the death of his wife, private investigator Mark Novak reluctantly accepts a case from a suspected murderer who may or may not be innocent.
12) Madman walking
Author
Series
Janet Moodie novels volume 2
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"John Grisham had better look to his laurels--there's a new writer of legal thrillers in town." Richard A. Lupoff, author of The Classic Car Killer Howard Henley is not a killer. That seems obvious to lawyer Janet Moodie when she's called in to work his appeal. Her new client was convicted of arranging the shooting of a drug dealer, but the man who pulled the trigger has always said Henley had nothing to do with it. So why is Henley the one on death...
Author
Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Twenty years ago, Dennis Danson was arrested and imprisoned for the brutal murder of a young girl. Now he's the subject of a true-crime documentary that's whipping up a frenzy online to uncover the truth and free a man who has been wrongly convicted. A thousand miles away in England, Samantha is obsessed with Dennis's case. She exchanges letters with him, and is quickly won over by his apparent charm and kindness to her. Soon she has left her old...
15) The hot beat
Author
Series
Hard Case Crime book volume HCC-155
Publisher
Titan Books, a division of Titan Publishing Group Ltd
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
A disgraced LA music star faces execution for a crime he didn't commit in the long-lost crime novel of Robert Silverberg, SFF Writers of America Grand Master, available for the first time in over 60 years.
Author
Series
Kindle County novels volume 6
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
17) Gallows thief
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Five a.m.: Amanda Mallorie wakes to the knowledge that her son Robbie is gone. And a new chapter of her own life must begin. She has spent four years as her son's only support, desperately trying to understand the actions that landed him on death row and to change his fate. Now Amanda faces an even more difficult task--finding a way, and a reason, to move forward with her own life. Before the tragedy that unfolded in a South Dakota mall, Robbie was...
20) Blow fly
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 12
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
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