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Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 18
Pub. Date
c2010
Description
When Scarpetta examines a young man's body, she discovers stunning indications that he may have been alive when he was zipped inside a pouch and locked inside the cooler of her new Cambridge Forensic Center in Massachusetts. Various 3-D radiology scans reveal more shocking details about internal injuries unlike any Scarpetta has ever seen. These suggest the possibility of a conspiracy to cause mass casualties, and she races against time to discover...
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Series
Dismas Hardy volume 18
Pub. Date
2019.
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...
Author
Pub. Date
2011, c1994
Description
In Florida, a man plans a series of murders to frame the son of the state governor. The purpose of his diabolical scheme is to put the governor, a law and order man, in a position where he will be forced to sign his son's death warrant. The motive is revenge, pay back the governor for sending a man to death, despite evidence that the man was innocent. A first novel.
866) Infamy
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Butch Karp and Marlene Ciampi thrillers volume 28
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Prosecutor Butch Karp and his wife, Marlene Ciampi, must team up to solve the suspicious murder of an FBI informant and battle corruption at the highest levels of the United States government. Intrigue, murder, corruption, and dramatic courtroom battles combine to make Infamy another must-read in Now, New York District Attorney Roger "Butch" Karp and his crime-fighting wife, Marlene, face long odds and imminent danger by not only seeking justice...
867) Half a world away
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
"Kerry Hayes is single mum, living on a tough south London estate. She provides for her son by cleaning houses she could never hope to afford. Taken into care as a child, Kerry cannot ever forget her past. Noah Martineau is a successful barrister with a beautiful wife, daughter and home in fashionable Primrose Hill. Adopted as a child, Noah always looks forward, never back. When Kerry reaches out to the sibling she lost on the day they were torn apart...
868) Show of evil
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Pub. Date
1995.
Description
In Chicago, a series of murders has the hallmark of Aaron Stampler, the altar boy who butchered a bishop and whom lawyer Martin Vail saved from the electric chair. But Stampler is in jail--unless. The nagging thought sends Vail into a panic when his woman becomes a target. By the author of Primal Fear.
869) Los litigantes
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Description
Una manana, David Zinc, un joven abogado de un bufete prestigioso, sobrecargado de trabajos que no le interesan nada, decide que no puede mas y se dirige directamente a un bar donde se emborracha hasta perder el conocimiento.En un barrio degradado del sur de Chicago se encuentra el bufete de abogados Finley & Figg. Defienden a algun conductor borracho, tramitan divorcios sencillos y sobre todo buscan clientes en los pasillos de urgencias de los hospitales...
870) Rag and bone
Author
Pub. Date
[2001]
Description
""Counsel, your time has expired," the presiding justice said. He was very nearly right. For fifty-seven seconds, I died." "Recuperating from a heart attack, Rios learns with astonishment that his estranged sister had an illegitimate daughter when she was young, and that the girl is grown now, with a son of her own, and an abusive husband. When the man is shot dead, and the bruised wife confesses, Rios immediately assumes it to be a battered wife's...
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Series
Dismas Hardy volume 12
Pub. Date
2008
Description
When Dismas Hardy agrees to clean up the caseload of recently disappeared attorney Charlie Bowen, he thinks it will be easy. But one of the cases is far from small-time - the appeal to overturn the murder conviction of National Guard reservist Evan Scholler, who has been sentenced to life without parole for the murder of an ex-Navy SEAL and private contractor named Ron Nolan. Two rapid-fire events in Iraq conspired to bring the men into fatal conflict....
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Triple Threat volume 2
Pub. Date
c2010
Description
When Jim Fate, a radio talk host in Portland, Ore., opens a padded envelope addressed to him shortly before going on air, he releases a poison gas, possibly sarin, that soon kills him. The package also contains a copy of Talk Radio, originally a play, later a movie, about the true-life murder of Denver talk show host Alan Berg. Caught in the subsequent investigation are three young professionals with links to law enforcement: federal prosecutor Allison...
873) Silent son
Author
Pub. Date
c1994
Description
In Maryland, a courtroom drama in which the sole witness to the murder of an elderly couple is the son of the prosecutor and he is too traumatized to remember. By the author of State v. Justice.
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Series
Joshua Rabb novels volume 3
Pub. Date
c1995
Description
In Tucson, lawyer Joshua Rabb of the Bureau of Indian Affairs investigates a killing on a reservation, a probe which draws him into a gangster war for gambling turf. Complicating matters is his daughter's romantic involvement with the son of one of the gangsters. By the author of Versions of the Truth.
875) The Outsider
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
"Things aren't going well for Grayson Hernandez. Just graduated from a fourth-tier law school, he's drowning in student debt. The only job he can find is as a messenger at the Supreme Court, where he's forced to watch the best and the brightest from the outside--the elite group of lawyers who serve as the justices' law clerks. When Gray intervenes in a violent mugging, he finds himself in the good graces of the victim: the Chief Justice of the United...
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Andy Carpenter volume 7
Pub. Date
2009
Description
Edgar-award nominated author David Rosenfelt's hilarious hero, Andy Carpenter, plunges into a high-profile murder case in which a bernese puppy and his golden retriever play instrumental roles.
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Series
Stone Barrington novel volume 5
Pub. Date
[1999]
Description
Lawyer Stone Barrington of New York investigates a series of murders, apparently committed by a convict in a campaign of vengeance against people who put him away. Complicating the probe is that one of the murders was committed in Barrington's apartment and he is under suspicion.
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Description
The people of Sterling, New Hampshire, are forever changed after a shooting at the high school leaves ten people dead, and the judge presiding over the trial tries to remain unbiased, even though her daughter witnessed the events and was friends with the assailant. Presented in Spanish.