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2) Daddy's girl
Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Natalie Greco loves being a law professor, even though she can't keep her students from cruising sex.com during class. When a colleague talks Nat into teaching a class at a local prison, her comfortable world turns upside. A violent prison riot breaks out, and in the chaos, Nat rushes to help an injured guard. Before he dies, he asks her to deliver a cryptic message. The dying declaration plunges Nat into a nightmare. Suddenly, the girl who has always...
3) Influence
Author
Series
Influence (Carl Weber) volume 1
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
When he graduates with his law degree, handsome and charismatic Langston Hudson is ready to hit the ground running as a lawyer with his family’s firm, but a routine traffic stop during a night out with his friends quickly derails his plans and turns his world upside down. Langston and his friends are arrested after officers find half a million dollars’ worth of drugs in his car...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Gabriel Soto is a social recluse accused of the murder of Melina Mora, a free-spirited and deeply loved young woman. At the center of the media spotlight is Sandy Grunwald, an ambitious young female prosecutor whose political fortunes depend on her using the limited evidence to secure a conviction. But the criminal justice system is complicated, and everyone has a story--especially the jury. With striking originality and expert storytelling, the...
8) Class action
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
With the help of his older sister, his three best friends, and his elderly neighbor, sixth grader Sam Warren brings a class action suit against the Los Angeles School Board, arguing that homework is unconstitutional, and his case goes all the way to the Supreme Court.
9) Limitations
Author
Series
Kindle County novels volume 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Kindle County Court of Appeals Judge George Mason starts questioning the law and his part in it when a disturbing rape case is brought to his court.
10) Blood flag
Author
Series
Paul Madriani novels volume 14
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Defending a client accused of mercy-killing her father, attorney Paul Madriani is drawn into a treacherous conspiracy involving the victim's former unit from World War II and a feared Nazi relic.
11) The sacrifice
Author
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
A lawyer with a painful past learns more than the students when he volunteers with the mock-trial team of a local high school.
12) Miracle Creek
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A literary courtroom thriller about a mother accused of murdering her eight-year-old autistic son.
13) Santa Fe dead
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
When last we encountered Ed Eagle, he had been the target of a murder-for-hire plot orchestrated by his wife, Barbara, the ultimate black widow. But when Barbara escapes from police custody, Ed knows that not only will his life be in danger but also the life of his new girlfriend, and, of course, of any rich man unlucky enough to be lured into Barbara's web. To add to his troubles, Ed has taken on a new client, Don Wells, who may or may not have murdered...
14) The professor
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Law professor Thomas Jackson McMurtrie literally wrote the book on evidence in the state of Alabama. But when a power-hungry colleague uses a recent run-in between McMurtrie and headstrong student Rick Drake to end his career, he is left unsure what to do next. Meanwhile, a devastating trucking accident in Henshaw, Alabama, leaves a young family dead. Drake, now a fledgling lawyer, takes the case against the freight carrier and soon begins to uncover...
15) Unthinkable
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: From international bestselling author Brad Parks comes a new thriller about an ordinary man who may be able to save the world as we know it-but to do so, he must make an impossible choice.
Author
Series
Broden legal volume 3
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Back in 1986, Clint Broden was a novice New York defense attorney building a family with his wife, Anne, and impatient for his career to take off. That's when his defense of his closest friend, Nick Zamora, made headlines. In spite of his lingering suspicions that his soul mate since childhood had a secret, Clint was dedicated to believing Nick hadn't murdered his new bride. Three decades later, Clint is now the celebrated go-to attorney for the rich...
17) The last trial
Author
Series
Kindle County novels volume 11
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
At 85 years old, Alejandro 'Sandy' Stern, a brilliant defense lawyer with his health failing but spirit intact, is on the brink of retirement. But when his old friend Dr. Kiril Pafko, a former Nobel Prize winner in Medicine, is faced with charges of insider trading, fraud, and murder, his entire life's work is put in jeopardy, and Stern decides to take on one last trial.
Author
Series
Dismas Hardy novels volume 18
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Kelly McCann is a fighter. She's fought to build a successful legal career...Her specialty is defending men accused of sex crimes--falsely accused, she always maintains...she's done it again, securing an acquittal for a renowned scientist accused of sexually assaulting his female employees. But the thrill of her victory is short-lived.That very night she, too, falls victim of a brutal sexual assault...Kelly has never backed down from a fight and...
20) The broker
Author
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Formats
Description
John Grisham, delivers another legal thriller of unparalled suspense. With fourteen years left on a twenty-year sentence, notorious Washington power broker, Joel Blackman, receives a surprise pardon from a lame-duck president. He is smuggled out of the country on a military cargo plane, given a new identity, and tucked away in a small town in Italy. But Blackman has serious enemies from his past. As the CIA watches him closely, the question is not...
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