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Paul Madriani novels volume 10
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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.
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Nina Reilly novels volume 1
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A legal thriller on a woman lawyer who is starting out anew. Single parent Nina Reilly, recently divorced, moves to another town where she is reduced to handling mundane cases. Opportunity knocks when the husband of a barmaid, whose divorce she is arranging, is found murdered. A first novel by a team of sisters, one a writer, the other a lawyer.
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Paul Madriani novels volume 3
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YA-Lawyer-hero Paul Madriani returns, this time as a widower. His sister-in-law, Laurel, is in a bitter fight for custody of her two teenage children, with Madriani helping from the sidelines. Her ex-husband is a slick politician who has married an equally sleazy woman. When the new wife is murdered, Laurel is arrested. Madriani defends her, facing what appears to be insurmountable evidence. At the same time, he must deal with his own seven-year-old...
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Dave Brandstetter mysteries volume 8
Pub. Date
[1986]
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When Adam Streeter's blind, teenage daughter stumbles over his dead body in his expensive marina condominium, she's sure he shot himself. So are the police. But the company that insured his life thinks otherwise, and it sends in crack death-claims investigator Dave Brandstetter to check out the case
6) Ransom river
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[2012]
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Selected as a jury member during a high-profile murder case, Rory reflects on the accident that ended her affair with a longtime friend while gradually realizing her dangerous connection to an unsolved case. By the Edgar Award-winning author of The Nightmare Thief.
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Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus must solve a crime that will have repercussions for their own lives, in this new crime drama. As a lieutenant in the LAPD, homicide detective Peter Decker doesn't get many calls at 3 a.m. unless a case is nasty, sensationalor both. Someone has broken into the exclusive Coyote Ranch compound of billionaire developer Guy Kaffey and viciously gunned him down, along with his wife and four employees. A well-known figure...
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2018.
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After an on-air gaffe goes viral and jeopardizes her career, journalist Desiree Turner retreats home to Verbena, California for some peace and quiet. She begins working one of the quietest jobs around: presiding over funerals for her great-grandfather's funeral parlor. But the action seems to follow her as a fistfight breaks out between neighbors Rosemarie Brewer and Lola Hansen at one of the first funerals she's in charge of running. It exposes a...
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Paul Madriani volume 3
Pub. Date
c1994
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When Laurel Vega is arrested for the murder of her husband, her defense attorney uncovers a few skeletons in the Vega family closet.
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Paul Madriani volume 2
Pub. Date
c1993
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During a murder trial, attorney Paul Madriani realizes that there is another murderer besides the one being tried.
12) Devil's garden
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[2009]
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In this noir crime classic about one of the most notorious trials in American history--the 1921 manslaughter case against silent-screen comedy star Roscoe Fatty Arbuckle--Dashiell Hammett ivestigates what really happened at Arbuckle's San Francisco party and discovers a truth that will change American legal history--and his own life forever.
13) Mother nature
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Em Hansen mysteries volume 3
Pub. Date
[1997]
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Against her better judgment, Em - broke, unemployed, and desperate for something to take her mind off her father's recent death - accepts this less-than-ideal job: A U.S. senator sends her to Santa Rosa, California, to investigate his daughter Janet's death. He thinks something Janet uncovered at her job as a geologist for an environmental consulting firm got her killed, and he wants Em to find out what it was. What at first seems like a straightforward...
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1988-1993
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In "D" is for deadbeat, Kinsey is hired to deliver $25,000 to a fifteen-year-old kid but discovers that the person who hired her is a phony who shows up dead when she tries to collect her fee. -- In "E" is for evidence, Kinsey is investigating a routine insurance claim that turns into non-routine trouble. -- In "F" is for fugitive, Kinsey is asked to find an escaped murderer for his father.
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