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161) The liar
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Eddie Flynn novels volume 3
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
When wealthy businessman Leonard Howell's daughter is kidnapped, the police jump on it straight away. But Howell knows this won't be straightforward - he needs someone willing to break the rules. Once a con artist, now a hotshot lawyer, Eddie Flynn's learnt that fast talk and sleight of hand are just as important in the courtroom are they are on the street. Knowing what it's like to lose a daughter, he'll stop at nothing to save Howell's. With a client...
162) An innocent client
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Joe Dillard volume 1
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
A preacher is stabbed to death in a Tennessee motel, and the suspect is a strip-club waitress. Defense attorney Joe Dillard is sure the vulnerable Angel is not capable of killing anyone. What Dillard doesn't count on are the others drawn into the storm of this stunning crime.
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Pub. Date
[2022]
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"On a steaming night in 1977, New York City is plunged into darkness and two boys, Joe and Robbie, are abandoned by their mother, Lois. Forty years to the day after this unforgivable moment, Joe is a hard-drinking ADA and Lois has resurfaced: Joe wakes from another alcoholic fog to learn she's been found murdered on a Coney Island beach. Joe throws himself into his work, struggling to reconcile his memories of Lois with the relative stranger found...
164) Justice burning
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"Former defense attorney Darren Street is desperately trying to put his life back together after spending two years in a maximum-security prison for a murder he didn't commit. He's rebuilding his law practice, reconnecting with his son, and falling more deeply in love with his girlfriend, fellow attorney Grace Alexander. But the past casts a long shadow, and for Street, there's no outrunning it. Tormented by nightmares and violent mood swings, Street...
165) Divine Strike
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Pub. Date
2019
Description
A restaurant owner is found brutally tortured and murdered on a Texas Ranch.
166) La citacion
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Pub. Date
2013
Description
Ahora casi se ha vuelto un recluso. Al ver de cerca su fin, el juez Atlee manda llamar a su hijo Ray, un profesor de Derecho en la Universidad de Virginia, para acordar los detalles de la herencia. Su hijo se encamina, reticente, hacia el sur, pero el encuentro familiar no tiene lugar. El juez muere demasiado pronto. Y con ello, deja tras de sí un secreto sorprendente que solo llega a conocer Ray.Y quizá alguien más.
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Legends of the desert volume 4
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
A long simmering Tularosa basin range war between big cattle companies and small operators boiled over when the famous attorney for the Southeastern New Mexico Livestock Association, Albert Fountain, and his eight-year-old son Henry, disappeared 1 February 1896 and were never found again. Republicans immediately assumed Oliver Lee, small rancher, fast gun, and a leading Democrat, murdered the Fountains. Three years later Lee and friend James Gililland...
168) Deep Threat
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Pub. Date
2019
Description
Jarvis Thompson, the most celebrated wide receiver in college football, vanishes along the the Tennessee River.
169) Legado mortal
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Pub. Date
2018.
Description
Mary Higgins Clark, la reina indiscutible del suspense, ha escrito un nuevo clásico para su biblioteca: una periodista va en busca de su madre biológica mientras ha de cubrir el juicio de una mujer acusada de matar a su rico marido. La reportera de televisión Delaney Wright está a punto de dar el salto a la fama al dar la noticia del juicio por asesinato en el informativo de las seis. Debería estar entusiasmada, pero en realidad solo piensa en...
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Sophia Weber volume 1
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
"From the award-winning author of Quicksand, a gripping legal thriller that follows one woman's conflicted efforts to overturn what may be a wrongful conviction. I'm giving you a chance to achieve every lawyer's dream, said Sophia Weber's old professor. Freeing an innocent man. Thirteen years ago, a fifteen-year-old girl was murdered. Doctor Stig Ahlin was sentenced to life in prison. But no one has forgotten the brutal crime. Ahlin is known as one...
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Pub. Date
p2012
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Newbery Award-winning author Susan Patron brings her talents to the beloved Dear America series in this exciting story of a girl growing up in the Wild West, in a California gold mining town.Growing up in the wild gold-mining town of Bodie, California, in the 1880s, Angeline Reddy has seen it all -- saloons, brawls, and a whole lot of desperation. When her father, Bodie's greatest lawyer, is declared murdered, Angie knows deep in her heart that he...
172) Felony murder rule
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Pub. Date
2017
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Mike Daley and ex-wife Rosie Fernandez stare down old demons as they return to work at the San Francisco Public Defender's Office where they started their careers and their relationship twenty years earlier. Now as co-heads of the Felony Division, they spend more time running the office and supervising younger attorneys than trying cases. That changes quickly when Mike is compelled to represent Thomas Nguyen. The high school senior was arrested under...
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Pub. Date
2016
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A Washington, D.C. lawyer and a frequent major media commentator on the Supreme Court, Anthony Franze delivers a high-stakes story of family, power, loss and revenge set within the insular world of the highest court of our country. Among Washington D.C. power players, everyone has secrets they desperately want to keep hidden, including Sean Serrat, a Supreme Court lawyer. Sean transformed his misspent youth into a model adulthood, and now has one...
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Finding a single assassin in a city of nine million is daunting. Finding five is a nightmare. Lower Manhattan: A sniper's bullet ends the life of a high-profile New Yorker. Five miles uptown, a second prominent victim has his throat slashed. And that's only the beginning. A network of professional assassins is on the loose in New York City. Trained by the US military, they're on their own now, with a new unit called Kappa Omega Delta. Killers On Demand....
175) The perfect lie
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Pub. Date
2021
Description
"Five years ago, Erin Kennedy moved to New York following a family tragedy. She now lives happily with her detective husband in the scenic seaside town of Newport, Long Island. When Erin answers the door to Danny's police colleagues one morning, it's the start of an ordinary day. But behind her, Danny walks to the window of their fourth-floor apartment and jumps to his death. Eighteen months later, Erin is in court, charged with her husband's murder....
176) Gone Again (CD)
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Pub. Date
2016
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Sashi Burgette vanished three years ago on her way to school. The night after the teenagers disappearance, ex-con Dylan Kyle was stopped for drunk driving. An article of Sashis clothing was found in his truck, and a police videotape of his drunken explanation under interrogation sealed his fate.
177) The burning plain
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Pub. Date
[1997]
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Still reeling after the death of his former lover, criminal defense lawyer Henry Rios unwisely falls for a young actor whom he had successfully defended on trumped-up burglary charges. But just hours after a date with Rios, the man is brutally murdered -- and the trail of circumstantial evidence leads an unscrupulous police detective to Rios' doorstep. And when a second young man, and then a third, are found dead, Rios must fight not only to exonerate...