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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.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Two sisters go into the family business they didn't know they had--catching killers. Attorney Rhonda Bird returns home after a long estrangement when she learns her father has died. There she makes two important discoveries: her father stopped being an accountant and had opened up a private detective agency, and she has a teenage half sister named Baby. Baby brings in a client to the detective agency, a young man who claims he was abducted. During...
43) Night watch
Author
Series
Alexandra Cooper volume 14
Physical Desc
402 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
This is a ripped-from-the-headlines thriller that takes Alexandra Cooper into the dark underside of New York City's most storied restaurants and a murder case spanning continents. Forty-eight hours after Alexandra Cooper arrives in France to visit her boyfriend and famed restaurateur, Luc Rouget, her vacation in paradise is cut short when a young woman from the village is found murdered. The only evidence discovered on the body is one of Luc's matchboxes...
44) Snap judgment
Author
Series
A Samantha Brinkman legal thriller volume Book 3
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
447 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When the daughter of a prominent lawyer is murdered and the prime suspect--the young woman's ex-boyfriend--dies under suspicious circumstances days later, attorney Samantha Brinkman investigates and discovers multiple motives for murder.
Author
Series
Defense Attorney Samantha Brinkman volume 2
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Language
English
Description
Samantha Brinkman is hired as the legal advocate for Cassie Sonnenberg after a brutal stabbing leaves the teenage girl's father and brother dead, and her mother barely clinging to life, in a case that has Samantha identifying with her young client.
46) Lady killer
Author
Language
English
Description
Astonished when a childhood rival begs her for protection from a violent drug-dealer boyfriend, Mary finds her family, her career, and eventually her life placed on the line when she investigates the woman's subsequent disappearance.
Author
Series
Rebecka Martinsson volume 4
Publisher
MacLehose Press
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
323 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
The body of a young woman surfaces in the River Torne, in the far north of Sweden. Meanwhile, Rebecka Martinsson is working as a prosecutor in nearby Kiruna. Her sleep has been disturbed by haunting visions of a shadowy, accusing figure. Could the body be connected to the ghostly young woman in her dreams?
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Carolyn Mackenzie is driven to solve the mystery of her older brother's disappearance ten years ago, hoping that she and her mother will achieve closure. Her pursuit of truth plunges her into a world of danger and unanswered questions. Do the police believe that Mack is a serial killer? Was Mack guilty of the murder of his drama teacher and the theft of his taped sessions with her?
49) Her deadly game
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
371 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Keera Duggan was building a solid reputation as a Seattle prosecutor, until her romantic relationship with a senior colleague ended badly. For the competitive former chess prodigy, returning to her family's failing criminal defense law firm to work for her father is the best shot she has. With the right moves, she hopes to restore the family's reputation, her relationship with her father, and her career. Keera's chance to play in the big leagues...
50) Betrayal
Author
Series
Robin Lockwood novels volume 7
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
328 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Robin Lockwood is now a prominent defense attorney in Portland, Oregon but a decade ago, she was a ranked and rising MMA fighter. Her career came to a quick end when she was knocked out and concussed in the first round by Mandy Kerrigan, a much more talented fighter. Now the situation couldn't be more different, with Kerrigan on her last legs, her career nearly over, arrested for the quadruple murder of the entire Finch family...and Kerrigan's only...
Author
Language
English
Description
"When Type-A Manhattan lawyer Dannie Cohan is asked this question at the most important interview of her career, she has a meticulously crafted answer at the ready. Later, after nailing her interview and accepting her boyfriend's marriage proposal, Dannie goes to sleep knowing she is right on track to achieve her five-year plan. But when she wakes up, she's suddenly in a different apartment, with a different ring on her finger, and beside a very different...
52) My one and only
Author
Publisher
HQN
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
382 p. ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Divorce attorney Harper James can't catch a break. Bad enough that she runs into her ex-hubby, Nick, at her sister's destination wedding, but now, by a cruel twist of fate, she's being forced to make a cross-country road trip with him. And her almost-fianc�e back at home is not likely to be sympathetic. Harper can't help that Nick has come blazing back into her life in all of his frustratingly appealing, gorgeous architect glory. But in Nick's...
54) Line of duty
Author
Series
Newpointe 911 volume 5
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
When a bomb explodes in a building while lawyer Jill Clark Nichols is on the top floor, her firefighter husband, Dan, hurries in to save her, only to have more bombs explode, and when Dan cannot be found, Jill's faith is tested.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Jane Morgan is a valued member of her law firm--or was, until a prudish neighbor, binoculars poised, observes her having sex on the roof of her NYC apartment building. Police are summoned, and a punishing judge sentences her to six months of home confinement. With Jane now jobless and rootless, trapped at home, life looks bleak. Yes, her twin sister provides support and advice, but mostly of the unwelcome kind. When a doorman lets slip that Jane...
Author
Series
Publisher
Bellwether Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
24 pages : color illustrations : 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Relevant images match informative text in this introduction to Michelle Obama. Intended for students in kindergarten through third grade"--
57) The lifestyle
Author
Publisher
Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
322 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A sexy, warm-hearted romantic comedy about a woman who will do anything to save her marriage... and meddle in everyone else's. Georgina Wagman has it all--a great marriage, a great job at a prestigious law firm, great friends. She's living the life she always wanted, and everything is perfect. So when she walks in on her husband in a compromising position with a junior associate, she realizes she has a choice: she can walk away from everything she's...
58) Her last goodbye
Author
Series
Morgan Dane volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Young mother Chelsea Clark leaves the house for a girls' night out...and vanishes. Her family knows she would never voluntarily leave her two small children. Her desperate husband-also the prime suspect-hires Morgan to find his wife and prove his innocence. As a single mother, Morgan sympathizes with Chelsea's family and is determined to find her. She teams up with private investigator Lance Kruger. But the deeper they dig, the deadlier their investigation...
59) The ex-debutante
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
341 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Carlisle Wainwright Cushing left her native Texas to start a new life in Boston, she had no regrets. The former Texas debutante, who never felt at home in her Southern skin, had found liberation-or so she thought. Until the day she gets an urgent call from her mother, reporting that: one, the Symphony Association Debutante Ball, which Carlisle's family has sponsored for years, is about to be called off; Two, her mother's divorce has the whole...
60) Judgment calls
Author
Series
Samantha kincaid volume 1
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Deputy District Attorney Samantha Kincaid investigates a possible murder attempt of a thirteen-year-old girl which leads her to a prostitution ring, a serial killer, and a death penalty case testing her limits of judgement.