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81) A house divided
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A longtime legal champion for the downtrodden who is slowly drinking himself into the grave takes on a high-stakes tort case on behalf of two boys who have contracted non-Hodgkin's lymphoma due to an alleged chemical exposure -- Back cover.
Author
Series
Matt Royal mysteries volume 9
Publisher
Oceanview Publishing
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Matt Royal is going back to the courtroom. He has agreed to defend his good friend and wife of Longboat Key's Police Chief. Abby Lester has been charged with the murder of Nate Bannister, an unlikeable, shady character. He was found shot to death in his downtown Sarasota condo and the evidence points to Abby as the killer. Matt cannot refuse Abby's pleas for help, despite having retired from the practice of law several years earlier. Now, he must...
83) One dog night
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
For six years Noah Galloway has lived with a horrible secret and the fear that his rebuilt life could be shattered at any moment. Now his dread has become a certainty, and he has been arrested for the arson murder of twenty-six people. What he needs now is defense lawyer Andy Carpenter, who is not in the market for a new client. So Noah plays his best card: a shared love for Andy's golden retriever, Tara, who Noah had rescued first.
84) Goodbye girl
Author
Series
Jack Swyteck novels volume 18
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Jack Swyteck's latest client is Grammy-winning popstar Imani Nichols, who urges fans to pirate her music because her royalties go mostly to ex-husband Shaky Nichols; the result is blazing litigation and the indictment of both for the long-ago murder of Imani's extramarital lover.
85) Miracle Creek
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"A literary courtroom thriller about a mother accused of murdering her eight-year-old autistic son"--
In rural Virginia, Young and Pak Yoo run an experimental medical treatment device known as the Miracle Submarine-- a pressurized oxygen chamber that patients enter for therapeutic 'dives' with the hopes of curing issues like autism or infertility. When the Miracle Submarine mysteriously explodes, killing two people, a dramatic murder trial upends...
86) The last juror
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
A convicted rapist and murderer returns to Ford County, Mississippi, seeking revenge on the jurors who dared convict him.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harlequin Enterprises ULC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Irresistible desire between rivals puts everything at risk. Maeve Eddington must defend her family's billion-dollar conglomerate in a lawsuit.But her opposing counsel is playboy Victor Cortez, who leaves her weak with desire.Maeve is determined to resist her cocky opponent to avoid compromising her case. She knows the risks of getting involved with a man like him Victor very much wants to get to know her better If only there wasn't a lawsuit in the...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Set in New York and China over three decades, Paper Names explores what it means to be American from three different perspectives. There's Tony, a Chinese-born engineer turned Manhattan doorman, who immigrated to the United States to give his family a better life. His daughter, Tammy, who we meet at age nine and follow through adulthood, and who grapples with the expectations of a first generation American and her own personal desires. Finally, there's...
Author
Series
Publisher
InfinityBox Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
The case against young Travis Morgan is simple: he walked into his father's house and shot the man at his desk in front of two witnesses. The fact that the murdered man was not his father is immaterial: he still killed a man in cold blood. Although he admits to a passionate hatred and fear of his father, Travis swears he is innocent. This is the case attorney Barbara Holloway is presented with. The trouble is she believes Travis, even though the eyewitness...
91) Causa justa
Author
Series
Publisher
Debolsillo
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Español
Description
"Michael Brock ten̕a prisa. Se abr̕a paso como pod̕a en el escalaf̤n de Drake & Sweeney, un enorme bufete de Washington D.C. Era una estrella emergente sin ning︢n tiempo que perder; no pod̕a permitirse ni un respiro ni detenerse a echar monedas en los vasos de cart̤n de los mendigos. No ten̕a tiempo para la conciencia. Pero un encontronazo violento con un hombre sin techo estuvo a punto de detenerlo. Michael sobrevivi̤, pero no su asaltante....
Author
Series
Brady Coyne mysteries volume 22
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
93) The guilty one
Author
Series
Guilty one volume 1
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
London solicitor Daniel Hunter finds his life changed when he meets an eleven-year-old boy accused of murdering an eight-year-old boy--a case that forces him to confront his own childhood and unearths memories he'd long buried.
Author
Series
Theodore Boone volume 4
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"Aspiring lawyer Theodore Boone takes the stand to protect his political and environmental freedoms in the fourth installment of the series"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Urban Books, LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Singing sensation Savannah Kirby has won thirteen Grammys and married the man of her dreams in superstar rapper/ actor Kyle Kirby. Together they are of one of the most dynamic and powerful couples in entertainment--until Kyle is found murdered and Savannah is arrested for the crime. Things don't look good for the singer when she can't keep her stories straight and her bloody fingerprints are found on the murder weapon. Even with famed attorney Bradley...
Author
Series
Theodore Boone volume 7
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"When his best friend Woody is arrested--an unwitting accomplice to a robbery--Theodore Boone must work to prove his innocence"--
Theodore Boone is back on the case in an all-new adventure! Bestselling author John Grisham delivers a page-turning legal thriller for a new generation of readers. Theo has been worried about his good friend Woody Lambert. Woody is struggling at school and making bad choices. But when Woody is arrested--an unwitting accomplice...
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
When Deuce Winters, a stay-at-home dad in sleepy Rose Petal, Texas, discovers a dead body in his mini-van, it quickly throws his quiet life into disarray. It doesn't help that the victim ruined Deuce's high school football career and married his ex-girlfriend. As the number one suspect in the court of public opinion, Deuce is determined to clear his name, with a little help from his wife, Julianne, a high-powered attorney. His search for the killer...
100) Eyes of a child
Author
Series
Christopher Paget novels volume 3
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
In San Francisco, a dead man is found amid evidence that might confirm suicide but strongly suggests murder. The prime murder suspect is a high-profile defense attorney--and the new lover of the victim's estranged wife.
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