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41) Unlucky in law
Author
Series
Nina Reilly novels volume 10
Language
English
Description
Nina Reilly takes on the most dangerous and difficult case of her career in New York Times bestselling author Perri O’Shaughnessy’s latest thriller. An ingenious blend of forensic science, history, and gripping suspense, Unlucky in Law pits the tough but compassionate attorney against the most unbeatable adversary of all: the law.
Nina has just received a last-minute call from her old boss and mentor in Monterey County, California,...
Nina has just received a last-minute call from her old boss and mentor in Monterey County, California,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
The incomparable master of the legal thriller takes us deeper into the labyrinth that is the American justice system, always drawing us in with an irresistible hook, pulling the thread of tension tighter and tighter, and then knocking us out with a conclusion that's never "by the book."
Author
Series
Barbara Holloway novels volume 4
Language
English
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Description
Oregon lawyer Barbara Holloway uses all her wits to obtain child support for the widow of a murdered man whose business partners refuse to share his money.
Mitch Arno always meant bad news for the coastal town of Folsum, Oregon. When they ran him out of town seventeen years ago, he left behind a wife with two daughters and a lot of questions about a sum of money.
In her three previous appearances, attorney Barbara Holloway has taken on the sort...
44) Sovereign
Author
Series
Matthew Shardlake novels volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
The third novel in the Matthew Shardlake Tudor Mystery series—soon to be an original streaming series!
C. J . Sansom has garnered a wider audience and increased critical praise with each new novel published. His first book in the Matthew Shardlake series, Dissolution, was selected by P. D. James in The Wall Street Journal as one of her top five all-time favorite books. Now in Sovereign, Shardlake faces...
C. J . Sansom has garnered a wider audience and increased critical praise with each new novel published. His first book in the Matthew Shardlake series, Dissolution, was selected by P. D. James in The Wall Street Journal as one of her top five all-time favorite books. Now in Sovereign, Shardlake faces...
45) Sleight of hand
Author
Series
Barbara Holloway novels volume 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a seemingly simple case turns complicated, respected attorney Barbara Holloway must rethink her game plan.
Gregarious Las Vegas entertainer and ex-con Wally Lederer claims he's turned his life around, but when Jay Wilkins, a childhood friend, accuses Wally of stealing a valuable artifact, it's up to Barbara to ferret out the truth. Wally swears he's innocent. But when Wilkins is murdered and the police name Wally as their prime suspect,
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Series
Dismas Hardy novels volume 18
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In "master of the legal thriller" (Chicago Sun-Times) John Lescroart's electrifying new novel, attorney Dismas Hardy is called to defend the least likely suspect of his career: his longtime, trusted assistant who is suddenly being charged as an accessory to murder. Dismas Hardy knows something is amiss with his trusted secretary, Phyllis. Her out-of-character behavior and sudden disappearances concern Hardy, especially when he learns that her convict...
47) The gate house
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
When John Sutter's aristocratic wife killed her mafia don lover, John left America and set out in his sailboat on a three-year journey around the world, eventually settling in London. Now, ten years later, he has come home to the Gold Coast, that stretch of land on the North Shore of Long Island that once held the greatest concentration of wealth and power in America, to attend the imminent funeral of an old family servant. Taking up temporary residence...
48) Remain silent
Author
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Readers of Ann Cleeves and Jonathan Kellerman will be gripped by this timely, provokative legal thriller featuring a transgender defense attorney who finds herself drawn into a murder investigation that could land her behind bars . . . Erin McCabe’s years as a criminal defense attorney have prepared her for almost anything, except being on the opposite side of the interrogation table. A new client—a successful financial adviser—was found stabbed...
Author
Series
Nina Reilly novels volume 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nina O'Reilly collaborates with a grave exhumation expert and triggers a cat-and-mouse game between her former investigator Paul van Wagoner and a brilliant killer.
50) Devil's corner
Author
Language
English
Description
New York Times bestselling author Lisa Scottoline delivers a knockout stand-alone thriller featuring a young federal prosecutor who risks her life to bring down the kingpin of a conspiracy responsible for murders in West Philly.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Vicki Allegretti goes to meet a confidential informant and finds herself facing a loaded 9 mm Glock semiautomatic weapon, wielded by a panicky teenager. Violence is the last
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Language
English
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Description
Ivy League overachiever Alex Vogel accepts a job at a prestigious Manhattan law firm where the dynamics of workplace sexism force her to choose between her career and doing what is right. When something happens that reveals the dark reality of the firm, Alex comes to understand the ways women like her are told—explicitly and implicitly—how they need to behave to succeed in the workplace. Now, she can no longer stand by silently—even if doing...
Author
Series
Barbara Holloway novels volume 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Trial lawyer Barbara Holloway has a reputation for taking on the toughest cases and winning them. But this time it looks as though she's up against an unbeatable opponent—the lawyer who taught her everything she knows.
The trial involves the murder of Gus Marchand, a hard-working, God-fearing man who is found dead on his kitchen floor. The locals cast their suspicions toward Alex Feldman, Marchand's hideously deformed neighbor, without
...Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Mara Coyne's new client has left her uneasy. Republican kingmaker Richard Tobias has hired her, he says, because of her skill in recovering stolen art and advocating for the rightful owners, but Mara senses that he is not telling her everything. Tobias reveals that a centuries-old map was stolen from an archaeological dig he is sponsoring in China, and he wants her to get it back. But as Mara begins her investigation, she uncovers the shocking truth:...
Author
Series
Butch Karp and Marlene Ciampi thrillers volume 25
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
c2013.
Language
English
Description
District attorneys Butch Karp and Marlene Ciampi work to expose the corrupt and murderous leader of the longshoremen's union.
56) Proof of intent
Author
Series
Charley Sloan legal thrillers volume 4
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
57) Guardian of lies
Author
Series
Paul Madriani novels volume 10
Language
English
Description
Defense attorney Paul Madriani gets caught in a web of deceit and murder involving Cold War secrets, a rare coin dealer who once worked for the CIA, and a furious assassin.
58) The kills
Author
Series
Alexandra Cooper novels volume 6
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Manhattan sex-crimes prosecutor Alexandra Cooper's case against Andrew Tripping, charged with the rape of investment banker Paige Vallis, is in trouble when she is handed a second case: the murder of a former Harlem Renaissance dancer, Queenie Ransome. Queenie was also a one-time mistress to King Farouk of Egypt, and reputedly fled the palace with handfuls of jewels. And as Alexandra begins untangling Queenie's dangerous, complex past, the threads...
Author
Series
Dismas Hardy novels volume 14
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Defense attorney Dismas Hardy returns to defend a close friend against murder charges.
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