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Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Maître Susane, a quiet middle-aged lawyer living a modest existence in Bordeaux, is known to all as a consummate and unflappable professional. But when Gilles Principaux shows up at her office asking her to defend his wife, who is accused of a horrific crime, Maître Susane begins to crack. She seems to remember having been alone with him in her youth for a significant event, one her mind obsesses over but can't quite reconstruct. Who is this Gilles...
Author
Publisher
Forest Avenue Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
An unnamed paralegal, brought back to life through a controversial process, maneuvers through a near-future world that both needs and resents him. As the United States president spouts anti-reanimation rhetoric and giant pharmaceutical companies rake in profits, the man falls in love with lawyer Faustina Godínez. His world expands as he meets her network of family and friends, setting him on a course to discover his first-life history, which the...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Against all the odds, Tessa Ensler has worked her way up to being a top criminal defensive barrister, and she fights to defend those pleading not guilty. She believes in the law, believes in the system. She clocks up win and after win, including securing freedom for men accused of rape and sexual assault. Innocent until proven guilty is, after all, the bedrock of a civilized society. But when Tessa is raped by a coworker, she struggles to find the...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Set in the tumultuous year of 1968 in southern Virginia, a racially-charged murder case sets a duo of white and Black lawyers against a deeply unfair system as they work to defend their wrongfully-accused Black defendants 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...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Lion City has gone by many names and is famous for many things--its decadent street food, its world-class shopping, its lush gardens that burst with tropical blooms. But paradise is always hiding a snake. For Dara, a workaholic lawyer from the UK, Singapore is opportunity. Every day, brokering deals for her firm's wealthy clientele, she gets closer to her ultimate goal: making partner. For Amaka, a sharp-tongued banker from Nigeria, Singapore...
6) Final appeal
Author
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
A criminal defense lawyer and her firm's newest trainee untangle a maze of evidence when their client is charged with murder, having spent ten days in his apartment with two corpses and acting like nothing happened when the police arrive.
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