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Pub. Date
p2002
Description
When the head of a San Francisco HMO dies in his own hospital, nobody doubts that a hit-and-run car accident was the cause, until the autopsy shows an overdose of potassium, and defense attorney Dismas Hardy and the police get involved and discover a trail of homicide in the hospital.
926) Incognito
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Pub. Date
2012
Description
New York City, 1911. Representing the widow of a Wall Street financier, lawyer William Dysart travels to a small Long Island town with a generous offer for Miss Sybil Curtis's cottage and five acres of land. But when Sybil refuses to sell, the widow threatens to use her influence with the state to seize the property. Intrigued by Sybil's defiance and afflicted by a growing affection for her, William develops a desire to help her that becomes an obsession...
Author
Pub. Date
c2008
Description
"President of the United States Donald Vanderdamp is having a hell of a time getting his nominees appointed to the Supreme Court. After one nominee is rejected for insufficiently appreciating To Kill A Mockingbird, the president chooses someone so beloved by voters that the Senate won't have the guts to reject her -- Judge Pepper Cartwright, the star of the nation's most popular reality show, Courtroom Six. Will Pepper, a straight-talking Texan, survive...
930) Cane and Abel
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
Wrongfully implicated in the disappearance of his second wife, Miami prosecutor Abe Beckham is forced to consider his missing wife's accusations about his enduring love for his dead first wife.
931) Wildcat wine
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Description
In the midst of a legal case involving a pet psychic and an alien-abductee, Lilly's not-so-simple world becomes even more chaotic when her backwoods childhood sweetheart "Farmer Dave" shows up with a truck full of Florida-grown wine, and promptly produces a dead body and a bag full of cash. When an obnoxious partner in her law firm turns up dead, and a suspicious detective thinks Lilly and her secretary conspired to do him in, Lilly crashes full force...
Author
Pub. Date
p2002
Description
Night sins: A young boy disappears. There are no witnesses, no clues--only a note, cleverly taunting, casually cruel. Has a cold-blooded kidnapper struck? Or is this a reawakening of a long-quiet serial killer?
Guilty as sin: A respected member of the community stands accused of a chilling act of evil. But when a second boy disappears, a frightened public demands to know: Have the police caught the wrong man? Is the nightmare continuing...Or...
934) Our kind of traitor
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Description
In the wake of the collapse of Lehman Brothers and with Britain on the brink of economic ruin, a young English couple takes a tennis vacation in Antigua. There they meet Dima, a Russian who styles himself the world's number one money launderer. Dima wants, among other things, a game of tennis. Back in London, the couple is subjected to an all-night interrogation by the British Secret Service, which also needs their help. Their acquiescence will lead...