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401) Deadlock
Author
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
This suspense novel asks what if a liberal Supreme Court Justice, and the all-important swing vote, has a religious conversion that changes her whole life -- and the way she views the law?
Author
Publisher
HarperLuxe
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
One of a handful of lawyers in the new state of Oregon, recently widowed Matthew Penny agrees to help Worthy Brown, a newly freed slave, rescue his fifteen year old daughter, Roxanne, from their former master, a powerful Portland lawyer. Worthy's lawsuit sets in motion events that lead to Worthy's arrest for murder and create an agonizing moral dilemma that could send either Worthy or Matthew to the hangman.
403) Death dance
Author
Series
Alexandra Cooper novels volume 8
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
c2006.
Language
English
Description
Investigating the disappearance of a world-famous dancer who disappeared during a Lincoln Center performance, investigator Alex Cooper and her colleagues find themselves drawn into the underworld of Manhattan's theatrical community.
404) Final verdict
Author
Series
Publisher
Putnam's
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
Description
Approached by Leon Walker, who was responsible for their ruined marriage, legal partners Mike Daley and Rosie Fernandez find themselves challenged to defend Walker against charges that he murdered a Silicon Valley venture capitalist.
405) The bone vault
Author
Series
Alexandra Cooper novels volume 5
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
Description
When a recently deceased body is discovered in an ancient Egyptian sarcophagus during a donor gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Assistant DA Alex Cooper must infiltrate New York's museum society to catch a killer.
406) Killing Raven
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
The discovery of a white man's body on the Wind River Reservation has Father John O'Malley trying to keep the peace. Meanwhile, the newly opened Great Plains Casino--with Vicky Holden as its in-house counsel--is fighting for its life against an angry group of protesters. And when Vicky stumbles across some disturbing evidence about the murder, she's suddenly caught in a dangerous game--with her own life at stake.
407) Truth be told
Author
Publisher
HQ
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Are you ready to start this conversation? ... Kamran Hadid feels invincible. He attends Hampton school, an elite all-boys boarding school in London, he comes from a wealthy family, and he has a place at Oxford next year. The world is at his feet. And then a night of revelry leads to a drunken encounter and he must ask himself a horrific question. With the help of assault counsellor, Zara Kaleel, Kamran reports the incident in the hopes that will...
Author
Series
Jane Austen murder mystery volume 1
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old aspiring lawyer Lizzie Bennet seeks to solve a murder before her rival Mr. Darcy beats her to it.
409) The savage altar
Author
Series
[Rebecka Martinsson series] volume 1
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
There is a church in the glittering frozen wastes of Northern Sweden. Inside, a sacrifice: the body of a man - slashed to pieces, hands severed, eyes gouged out. The victim's sister, Sanna, is first to discover the body and immediately finds herself the police's only suspect. Terrified and confused, she calls on a friend: hot-shot city lawyer Rebecka Martinsson. Rebecka hardly wants to return to Kirana - the small town she fled in disgrace years ago....
410) Say you're sorry
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"After the devastating loss of her husband in Iraq, Morgan Dane returns to Scarlet Falls, seeking the comfort of her hometown. Now, surrounded by family, she's finally found peace and a promising career opportunity--until her babysitter is killed and her neighbor asks her to defend his son, Nick, who stands accused of the murder. Tessa was the ultimate girl next door, and the community is outraged by her death. But Morgan has known Nick for years...
Author
Series
Wind River mystery volume 13
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Thirty years after Liz Plenty Horses goes into hiding following accusations of betraying the militant American Indian Movement to the FBI, Vicky Holden and Father John O'Malley investigate when the skeleton of a murder victim turns up on the Wind River Reservation.
412) The thunder keeper
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Father John O'Malley and Denver lawyer Vicky Holden try to find out what is happening on the Wind River Reservation that would cause someone to kill two people to keep it a secret.
413) True justice
Author
Series
Butch Karp and Marlene Ciampi volume 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
For Butch Karp, chief assistant district attorney for New York County, the nightmare begins when a shocking act of negligence results in homicide. Goaded by the media's sensational publicity, the public is screaming for blood, and Karp's boss, D.A. Jack Keegan, is listening. He has ordered the prosecution of a fifteen-year-old for murder, intent on making a very public example of the girl. A Hispanic from a poor neighborhood, she's an easy mark for...
Author
Series
Edna Ferber mystery volume 7
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"January 3, 1935. The trial opens in Flemington, New Jersey, for the man accused of the crime of the century. And Edna Ferber is there to cover it. 1932. On a windy March 1 night, Charles Lindbergh, America's hero, discovers that his twenty-month-old son has been snatched from his crib. A ransom is arranged. Yet two months later, Little Lindy is found in a ditch near his Hopewell home, several weeks dead from a blow to the head. It takes over two...
Author
Language
English
Description
TJ Devlin is the charming disappointment in the prominent Devlin family, all of whom are lawyers at their highly successful firm--except him. After a stint in prison and rehab for alcoholism, TJ can't get hired anywhere except at the firm, in a make-work job with the title of investigator. But one night, TJ's world turns upside down after his older brother John confesses that he just murdered one of the clients, an accountant he'd confronted with...
416) The dream stalker
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a woman lawyer teams up with a Catholic priest to stop the building of a nuclear storage facility on an Indian reservation she must cope with death threats, an attempt on her life, and an intense attraction to the priest.
417) Try fear
Author
Publisher
Center Street
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
For Ty Buchanan defending suspected drunk driver Carl Richess seems routine enough. Ty takes the case only out of sympathy for the defendant's mother. But then the simple DUI becomes a homicide.
418) The pelican brief
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Two Supreme Court justices, one liberal and one conservative, are assassinated in one night. The country is stunned and baffled; the FBI has no clues. But Darby Shaw, a brilliant law student at Tulane, thinks she has the answer. Days of digging in the law library's computers have led her to an obscure connection between the two justices. She fleshes out her beliefs in a meticulous though wildly speculative brief that builds a strong case against a...
419) Eye of the wolf
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a psychotic killer stalks the Wind River Reservation, murdering three Shoshone Indians and posing their bodies on a historical battlefield, Father John O'Malley and Vicky Holden investigate to uncover the motives behind the killings.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mary Barton depicts the effects of economic and physical hardship upon the city's working-class community. Paralleling the novel's treatment of the relationship between masters and men, the suffering of the poor, and the workmen's angry response, is the story of Mary herself: a factory-worker's daughter who attracts the attentions of the mill-owner's son, she becomes caught up in the violence of class conflict when a brutal murder forces her to confront...
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