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1) Sycamore Row
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 28
Language
English
Description
When wealthy Seth Hubbard hangs himself from a sycamore tree and leaves his fortune to his black maid, Jake Brigance once again finds himself embroiled in a controversial trial that will expose old racial tensions and force Ford County to confront its tortured history.
2) Juror #3
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Struggling young attorney Ruby Bozarth defends a man she passionately believes to be innocent in a first murder trial that could make or break her career, only to discover that the case is affected by a juror's shocking secret.
Author
Language
English
Description
Her life upended when her husband revealed a darker side, Olivia MacAfee and her teenage son Asher move back to her New Hampshire hometown for a new beginning until Asher is implicated in the death of his girlfriend and she realizes he’s hidden more than he’s shared with her.
7) First degree
Author
Series
Andy Carpenter novels volume 2
Language
English
Description
A defense attorney and his beloved Golden Retriever work solve a murder and clear a his girlfriend's name in this entertaining cozy mystery.
No one can separate defense attorney Andy Carpenter from his golden retriever, Tara, who stands loyally beside him through every investigation, no matter how dangerous or puzzling-and he is about to be confronted with one of his most difficult cases yet.
When a cop's body is found burned and decapitated,...
No one can separate defense attorney Andy Carpenter from his golden retriever, Tara, who stands loyally beside him through every investigation, no matter how dangerous or puzzling-and he is about to be confronted with one of his most difficult cases yet.
When a cop's body is found burned and decapitated,...
8) Beach road
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Dark mysteries come to East Hampton while a struggling lawyer fights to save his friend from being framed for a triple murder.
Montauk lawyer Tom Dunleavy's client list is woefully small-occasional real estate closings barely keep him in paper clips. So when he is hired to defend a local man accused in a triple murder in East Hampton, he knows that he has found the case of his lifetime.
The crime turns the glittering playground for the...
Montauk lawyer Tom Dunleavy's client list is woefully small-occasional real estate closings barely keep him in paper clips. So when he is hired to defend a local man accused in a triple murder in East Hampton, he knows that he has found the case of his lifetime.
The crime turns the glittering playground for the...
9) Smash cut
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
From #1 New York Times bestselling author of Seeing Red comes this thrilling novel full of jarring, cinematic twists and breathless suspense that will have you on the edge of your seat.
When millionaire Paul Wheeler is murdered, his family retains renowned lawyer Derek Mitchell to defend the victim's nephew Creighton—although the police have not charged the young man with the crime. Wheeler's mistress Julie Rutledge,...
When millionaire Paul Wheeler is murdered, his family retains renowned lawyer Derek Mitchell to defend the victim's nephew Creighton—although the police have not charged the young man with the crime. Wheeler's mistress Julie Rutledge,...
Author
Series
Jane Smith volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
An ex-NYPD beat cop, unrelenting PI and undefeated defense attorney, terminally ill Jane Smith, while knee-deep in the murder of trial of the century, is targeted by a killer who’s determined to end her life before her expiration date.
11) Native son
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Traces the fall of a young black man in 1930s Chicago as his life loses all hope of redemption after he kills a white woman.
12) The last trial
Author
Series
Kindle County novels volume 11
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
A brilliant octogenarian defense lawyer on the brink of retirement seeks to prove the innocence of a long-time friend, a former Nobel Prize winner who has been charged with murder.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.5 - AR Pts: 65
Language
English
Formats
Description
Clyde Griffiths finds his social-climbing aspirations and love for a rich and beautiful debutante threatened when his lower-class pregnant girlfriend gives him an ultimatum. The classic bestseller from 1925 draws on a notorious murder case from 1910, in which the impoverished son of street preachers commits an act of terrible violence and is surrounded by political corruptions and social hypocrisies throughout his trial.
14) The final case
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eighty-year-old Seattle criminal attorney Royal, in his last days of his long career, takes on the case of conservative, white fundamentalists Christians Delven and Betsy Harvey, who are accused of murdering their adopted daughter from Ethiopia.
Author
Language
English
Description
Eleven years ago Alexa Hamilton left the South behind, fleeing the pain of her ex-husband's betrayal and the cruelty of his prominent Charleston family. Now an assistant D.A. in Manhattan, she's made a name for herself as a top prosecutor while juggling her role as devoted single mom to a teenage daughter. But everything changes when Alexa is handed her latest case: the trial of accused serial killer Luke Quentin. Facing a high-stakes trial, her private...
16) Her deadly game
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
After a failed romance with a coworker, a Seattle prosecutor must return home to her family’s failing law firm to work for her father until she accepts a high profile case in which the prosecutor is her ex.
17) As time goes by
Author
Language
English
Description
A news reporter tries to find her birth mother just as she is assigned to cover the high-profile trial of a woman accused of murdering her wealthy husband.
18) The quiet boy
Author
Publisher
Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A sweeping legal thriller follows a sixteen-year-old who suffers from a neurological condition that has frozen him in time, the team of lawyers, doctors, and detectives who are desperate to wake him up, and--more than a decade later--the trial of the teenager's father for murder.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books Trade Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2009, c1985
Language
English
Description
When Navy ensign Billy Grenville, heir to a vast New York fortune, sees showgirl Ann Arden on the dance floor, it is love at first sight. And much to the horror of Alice Grenville—the indomitable family matriarch—he marries her. Ann wants desperately to be accepted by high society and become the well-bred woman of her fantasies. But a gunshot one rainy night propels Ann into a notorious spotlight—as the two Mrs. Grenvilles enter into a conspiracy...
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