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1) Redemption
Author
Series
Amos Decker novels volume 5
Language
English
Description
Confronted by the first murder suspect of his early career while visiting his hometown, FBI detective Amos Decker reexamines startling connections to another crime that make him question if he arrested the wrong man years earlier.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
John Grisham delivers a classic legal thriller--with a twist. In the small Florida town of Seabrook, a young lawyer named Keith Russo was shot dead at his desk as he worked late one night. The killer left no clues. There were no witnesses, no one with a motive. But the police soon came to suspect Quincy Miller, a young black man who was once a client of Russo's. Quincy was tried, convicted, and sent to prison for life. For twenty-two years he languished...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
Nine years ago, Travis Boyette raped and murdered a popular high school student in Sloan Texas. To his amazement, Donte Drumm, the school's football star, was wrongly convicted of his heinous crimes and sent to death row. Now, Travis, who has an inoperable brain tumor and is stricken with guilt, decides to confess in a bid to save Donte, who has just four days before his execution.
Author
Series
Sisterhood series volume 6
Language
English
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After spending a year wrongly imprisoned for fraud, Alexis calls on the Sisterhood to seek revenge on the real criminals, Arden Gillespie and Roland Sullivan.
Author
Series
Jewels of Kalispell volume 1
Language
English
Description
"Rebecca McCutcheon is the first female court reporter in Montana. During a murder trial she's covering, she's convinced that the defendant is innocent, but no one but the handsome new Carnegie librarian, Mark Andrews, will listen to her. In a race against time, will they be able to find the evidence to free the man before it's too late?"--
"They must uncover the truth before it's buried forever. After witnessing a wrongful conviction as a young...
Author
Series
King Oliver novels volume 1
Language
English
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Description
PI Joe King Oliver, once one of the NYPD's finest investigators, realizes that he has no choice but to take his own case: figuring out who on the force wanted him disposed of--and why.
Framed by corrupt enemies within the NYPD and forced to serve a decade in prison, private detective Joe King Oliver receives a confession from a woman who helped set him up, a situation that compels him to investigate his own case at the same time he assists a black...
Author
Language
English
Description
Wrongly accused of murdering her husband and children, an innocent woman endures 10 years in prison before a technicality prompts a new trial that she prepares for by retreating to a small tropical island to gather information that she hopes will lead to her exoneration. By the best-selling author of the Sisterhood series.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
"In one of the year's most anticipated debut psychological thrillers, a family made infamous by a true crime documentary is found dead, leaving their surviving son to uncover the truth about their final days. "They found the bodies on a Tuesday." So begins this twisty and breathtaking novel that traces the fate of the Pine family, a thriller that will both leave you on the edge of your seat and move you to tears. After a late night of partying, NYU...
Author
Series
Alison Reynolds mysteries volume 16
Ali Reynolds mysteries volume 16
Ali Reynolds novel volume 16
Ali Reynolds
Ali Reynolds mysteries volume 16
Ali Reynolds novel volume 16
Ali Reynolds
Language
English
Description
"Ali Reynolds's personal life is in turmoil when two separate men show up on the scene-a serial killer and a former employee of her husband's who has just been released from a sixteen-year prison sentence for murdering his girlfriend. With lives hanging in the balance, Ali must thread the needle between good and evil in this heart-pounding and sharply written thriller from J.A. Jance, the "grand master of the genre" (The Providence Journal)"--
11) The wrong man
Publisher
Warner Brothers Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
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Description
The master of suspense dramatizes the harrowing true experiences of a man tried for crimes committed by a lookalike robber. Henry Fonda plays musician Manny Balestrero, a man full of visible but unspoken rage at his wrongful arrest. Vera Miles is his distraught wife, Rose, driven to madness by the ordeal. And the right man to bring the unsettling facts of the case to vivid screen life with documentary precision is Hitchcock.
The true story of Manny...
Series
Criterion collection volume 753
Language
English
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Description
A work of meticulous journalism and gripping drama, it recounts the disturbing tale of Randall Adams, a drifter who was charged with the murder of a Dallas police officer and sent to death row, despite overwhelming evidence that he did not commit the crime.
13) Redemption road
Author
Language
English
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Description
A tour de force narrative from critically acclaimed, award-winning, New York Times bestselling author John Hart. Now Hart has written his most ambitious work to date. The novel features his first-ever female protagonist, Elizabeth Black, a recently probationed cop who must fight to keep her badge and stop an innocent man from being sent back to jail. There's more to Elizabeth than meets the eye, and the secrets she fiercely protects could be the source...
14) Stillwater
Publisher
SDS
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
An American oil-rig worker goes to Marseilles, France, to save his daughter, who is imprisoned for a murder she claims she did not commit.
A father travels from Oklahoma to France to help his estranged daughter, who is in prison for a murder she claims she didn't commit.
15) Stillwater
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
An American oil-rig worker goes to Marseilles, France, to save his daughter, who is imprisoned for a murder she claims she did not commit.
A father travels from Oklahoma to France to help his estranged daughter, who is in prison for a murder she claims she didn't commit.
16) Papillon
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
After being framed for murder and sentenced to life in a French prison, a safecracker forms a friendship with a counterfeiter who agrees to help him escape in return for protection.
Author
Publisher
Akashic Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"In 2012, the Innocence Project began searching for prisoners convicted by junk science, and three men, each convicted of capital murder, became M. Chris Fabricant's clients. [This book] chronicles the fights to overturn their wrongful convictions and to end the use of the 'science' that destroyed their lives. Weaving together courtroom battles from Mississippi to Texas to New York City and beyond, [the author] takes the reader on a journey into the...
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Language
English
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Description
"Brittany K. Barnett was only a law student when she came across the case that would change her life forever--that of Sharanda Jones, single mother, business owner, and, like Brittany, Black daughter of the rural South. A victim of America's devastating war on drugs, Sharanda was serving a life sentence without parole--for a first-time drug offense. Moved by Sharanda's plight, Brittany set to work to gain her freedom"--
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