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Series
Frost Easton novels volume 2
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
In the follow-up to bestselling psychological thriller The Night Bird, a serial killer mistakenly set free becomes a city's worst nightmare-and a detective's deadliest challenge. Four years after serial killer Rudy Cutter was sent away for life, San Francisco homicide inspector Frost Easton uncovers a terrible lie: his closest friend planted false evidence to put Cutter behind bars. When he's forced to reveal the truth, his sister's killer is back...
2) Lockdown
Author
Series
Escape from Furnace volume 1
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
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When fourteen-year-old Alex is framed for murder, he becomes an inmate in the Furnace Penitentiary, where brutal inmates and sadistic guards reign, boys who disappear in the middle of the night sometimes return weirdly altered, and escape might just be possible.
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Edmond Dantes is falsely while the friend who betrayed him takes his beautiful fianc ̌for himself. Eventually he escapes, recovers a fortune in buried treasure, transforms himself into the mysterious Count of Monte Cristo, and goes about exacting his revenge.
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Paralegal Janet Gregory takes on a pro bono case to help an African-American husband and father who she believes has been wrongly accused of raping a girl in his neighborhood. Her 22-year battle with the justice system will eventually bring him the freedom he deserves and bond the two of them in a life-long friendship.
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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After security expert Ray Breslin is hired to rescue the kidnapped daughter of a Hong Kong tech mogul from a formidable Latvian prison, Breslin's girlfriend is also captured.
Screen legend Sylvester Stallone kicks this explosive action tale into high gear. After security expert Ray Breslin is hired to rescue the kidnapped daughter of a Hong Kong tech mogul from a formidable Latvian prison, Breslin's girlfriend is also captured. Now he and his team,...
6) David & Me
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
David & Me is a gritty, gut-wrenching documentary about two unlikely friends-a convicted murderer and a young filmmaker. David McCallum has served 29 years of a life sentence and may never leave prison again. Despite a mountain of evidence that should exonerate him, or at least trigger a new trial, filmmaker Ray Klonsky and a pro-bono team are stymied by a justice system that has proven reluctant to exonerate the wrongly convicted. When news of a...
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Series
Ravenspire volume 3
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
Javan Najafai, crown prince of Akram, has spent the last ten years at an elite boarding school, far away from his kingdom. But his eagerly awaited return home is cut short when a mysterious impostor takes his place-and no one believes Javan is the true prince. After barely escaping the impostor's assassins, Javan is thrown into Maqbara, the kingdom's most dangerous prison. The only way to gain an audience with the king-and reveal Javan's identity-is...
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Series
Pandora hearts volume 9
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
The incuse on Oz Vessalius's chest ticks onward, but the young heir to one of the four great dukedoms directs his gaze back, seeking the facts behind a centuries-old tragedy. Intent on examining the ruins of Sablier despite warnings to scare him away, Oz and his makeshift party of explorers wander through the remnants of the former capital in search of clues to shed light upon the consuming darkness of the past. But in the yawning void where the opulent...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A mesmerizing tale of unjust imprisonment and offbeat escape, Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption is one of Stephen King's most beloved and iconic stories, and it helped make Castle Rock a place readers would return to over and over again. Suspenseful, mysterious, and heart-wrenching, this iconic King novella, populated by a cast of unforgettable characters, is about a fiercely compelling convict named Andy Dufresne who is seeking his ultimate...
11) Final appeal
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Series
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Ten years ago, a jury found Michael Hart guilty of murdering his wife. Confined to a state hospital for the criminally insane, Michael has never stopped insisting on his innocence--even though his memories of the trial are murky and his nights are plagued by bad dreams and sleepwalking. After years of being tormented by doctors who believe he is guilty, Michael finally gets his chance to prove them wrong--by escaping. Hiding in a safehouse, Michael...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"What happens to a dream deferred--especially when an innocent man's life hangs in the balance? Langston Brown is running out of time and options for clearing his name and escaping death row. Wrongfully convicted of the gruesome Mother's Day Massacre, he prepares to face his death. His final hope for salvation lies with his daughter, Liza, an artist who dreamed of a life of music and song but left the prestigious Juilliard School to pursue a law degree...
13) One good deed
Author
Series
Aloysius Archer novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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"It's 1949. When war veteran Aloysius Archer is released from Carderock Prison, he is sent to Poca City on parole with a short list of do's and a much longer list of don'ts: do report regularly to his parole officer, don't go to bars, certainly don't drink alcohol, do get a job--and don't ever associate with loose women. The small town quickly proves more complicated and dangerous than Archer's years serving in the war or his time in jail. Within...
14) Imprisoned
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Dylan Burke attempts to move from his former life as a criminal, with his true love, Maria. He soon realizes that his past will continue to haunt him, when he learns the new local prison warden, Daniel Calvin, has not forgotten him for an old crime.
Author
Series
Treasure hunters (James Patterson) volume 7
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Bick, Beck, Storm, and Tommy have one week to traverse the Australian Outback, locate Charlotte Badger and her pirate cronies, and find evidence to prove their parents innocent of stealing rare opals.
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Language
English
Description
"No husbands allowed. Only minutes after Abbie Elliot and her three best friends step off of a private helicopter, they enter the most luxurious, sumptuous, sensually pampering hotel they have ever been to. Their lavish presidential suite overlooks Monte Carlo, and they surrender: to the sun and pool, to the sashimi and sake, to the Bruno Paillard champagne. For four days they're free to live someone else's life. As the weekend moves into pulsating...
17) Trespasser
Author
Series
Mike Bowditch novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Stumbling on a case that suggests that a man convicted of murder seven years earlier may have been framed, game warden Mike Bowditch ignores warnings by local authorities and risks his relationship with his girlfriend to conduct a secret investigation.
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Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Newlyweds Celestial and Roy are the embodiment of both the American Dream and the New South. He is a young executive, and she is an artist on the brink of an exciting career. But as they settle into the routine of their life together, they are ripped apart by circumstances neither could have imagined. Roy is arrested and sentenced to twelve years for a crime Celestial knows he didn't commit. Though fiercely independent, Celestial finds herself bereft...
19) Just mercy
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English
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A powerful and thought-provoking true story follows young lawyer Bryan Stevenson and his history-making battle for justice. After graduating from Harvard, Bryan had his pick of lucrative jobs. Instead, he heads to Alabama to defend those wrongly condemned or who were not afforded proper representation, with the support of local advocate Eva Ansley. One of his first and most incendiary cases is that of Walter McMillian.
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Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
In the small Florida town of Seabrook, a young lawyer named Keith Russo was shot dead at his desk as he worked late one night. The killer left no clues. There were no witnesses, no one with a motive. But the police soon came to suspect Quincy Miller, a young black man who was once a client of Russo's. Quincy was tried, convicted, and sent to prison for life. For twenty-two years he languished in prison, maintaining his innocence. But no one was listening....
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