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Author
Series
Lincoln lawyer novel volume 06
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Defense attorney Mickey Haller utilizes his legal team's resources from behind bars to organize his own defense when he is framed for murder by an unknown adversary."--
2) Trial
Author
Publisher
Post Hill Press
Physical Desc
432 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
When Malcolm Hill, a black eighteen-year-old voting rights worker, is arrested for murder, white congressman Chase Brevard of Massachusetts finds his life transformed in a single moment by the appearance of Malcolm's photo on the news, enveloping him, Malcolm, and Malcolm's mother in a media firestorm that threatens their lives.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Physical Desc
230 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Visiting his mother in Swansea, Evan Evans encounters a young thug who was once imprisoned for murdering Evan's father and who has been accused of another killing, but Evan is surprised by the man's believable claims of innocence.
Author
Series
Old City Hall volume 2
Publisher
Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
324 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
9) Smash cut
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Formats
Description
Hired by a woman who believes that the accidental shooting of a friend was actually orchestrated by the victim's depraved nephew, defense lawyer Derek Mitchell comes to realize that the nephew is a psychotic movie buff who enjoys acting out violent film plots.
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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Description
"Set in the tumultuous year of 1968 in southern Virginia, a racially-charged murder case sets a duo of white and Black lawyers against a deeply unfair system as they work to defend their wrongfully-accused Black defendants When two wealthy white landowners are found dead, the whole country immediately thinks it must be Jerome Washington, the hired help, who killed them. He was standing over the bodies when the police responded to an anonymous call...
12) Bury the lead
Author
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Asked to help safeguard the innocence of a reporter who has been selected as the mouthpiece for a serial killer, defense attorney Andy Carpenter finds his job getting more difficult when the reporter is arrested for the murders.
13) Dead center
Author
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
Attorney Andy Carpenter reluctantly returns to the side of his Wisconsin cop ex-girlfriend to assist in the defense of a young man who may be innocent, a case that is complicated by the secrets of a mysterious religious group.
14) Dog tags
Author
Series
Andy Carpenter volume 8
Publisher
Grand Central Pub
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
Dog-loving lawyer Andy Carpenter plunges into a high profile murder case in which a rogue German shepherd police dog may be the only hope for its owner, an Iraq war vet and former-cop-turned-thief accused of murder.
Author
Series
Amanda Jaffe volume 2
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
When a presidential candidate is murdered, Amanda Jaffe finds herself representing the chief suspect, who claims to have information linking the victim to a drug ring of high-ranking judges and public officials.
17) Turning angel
Author
Series
Penn Gage volume 2
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Formats
Description
When the body of Kate Townsend turns up near the Mississippi River, attorney Penn Cage tangles with the dark side of his hometown of Natchez, Mississippi, to investigate the secret world of a nearby elite high school.
18) Sudden death
Author
Language
English
Description
When the New York Giants' new star running back is accused of murdering a Jets rival, attorney Andy Carpenter works for the athlete's defense, a task that is complicated by the discovery of additional player killings.
Author
Language
English
Description
One of a handful of lawyers in the new state of Oregon, recently widowed Matthew Penny agrees to help Worthy Brown, a newly freed slave, rescue his fifteen year old daughter, Roxanne, from their former master, a powerful Portland lawyer. Worthy's lawsuit sets in motion events that lead to Worthy's arrest for murder and create an agonizing moral dilemma that could send either Worthy or Matthew to the hangman.
20) Natchez burning
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Penn Cage must investigate when his father, a beloved family doctor and pillar of the community, is accused of murdering Violet Davis, the beautiful nurse with whom he worked in the dark days of the early 1960s.