Lescroart, John T.
Summary: "No one mourned with DA Wes Farrell put Paul Riley in prison for the rape and murder of his girlfriend. And no one is happy to see him when he's released after uncovered evidence pinned the crime on someone else. In fact, Riley soon turns up murdered. To the cops, it's straightforward: the father of Riley's dead girlfriend killed the former prisoner. Farrell, now practicing law with Dismas...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC LESLescroart, John T.
Summary: "Having joined the "dark side" after years spent prosecuting criminals as the San Francisco DA, defense attorney Wes Farrell is experiencing a crisis of faith. How can he in good conscience defend clients whom, in his estimation, are most likely guilty? In his role as DA, Farrell had helped put away Paul Riley, a young man charged for the rape and murder of his then-girlfriend Dana Rush, only...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LESBurke, Alafair
Summary: "When a prominent Manhattan lawyer is murdered, two estranged sisters--one the dead man's widow, the other his ex--must set aside mistrust and old resentments. but can they escape their past? Though Chloe was the younger of the two Taylor sisters, she always seemed to be in charge. She was the honor roll student with big dreams and an even bigger work ethic. Nicky was always restless. and more...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2019
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BURCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BURCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M BURMargolin, Phillip
Summary: Robin Lockwood is a young criminal defense attorney and partner in a prominent law firm. She joined the firm of legal legend Regina Barrister not long before Regina was forced into retirement by Alzheimer's. One of Regina's former clients, Robert Chesterfield, shows up with an odd request: he's seeking help in acquiring patent protection for an illusion. Chesterfield is a professional magician...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MARMargolin, Phillip
Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M MARPerry, Anne
Summary: In this first book in a new series, Thomas Pitt's son Daniel races to save his client from execution, setting him against London's Special Police Branch. It's 1910, and Daniel Pitt is a reluctant lawyer who would prefer to follow in the footsteps of his detective father. When the biographer Russell Graves, who Daniel is helping defend, is sentenced to execution for the murder of his wife,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PERConnelly, Michael
Summary: "On the night he celebrates a big win, defense attorney Mickey Haller is pulled over by police, who find the body of a former client in the trunk of his Lincoln. Haller is immediately charged with murder, and he can't post the exorbitant $5 million bail slapped on him by a vindictive judge. Mickey elects to represent himself and is forced to mount his defense from his jail cell in the Twin...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2020
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC CONSlaughter, Karin
Summary: When a big case is handed to defense attorney Leigh Collier, it could transform her career, if she wins. But when she meets the accused, she knows him. And he knows her. More to the point, he knows all her dark secrets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2021
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC SLALescroart, John T.
Summary: "Having joined the "dark side" after years spent prosecuting criminals as the San Francisco DA, defense attorney Wes Farrell is experiencing a crisis of faith. How can he in good conscience defend clients whom, in his estimation, are most likely guilty? In his role as DA, Farrell had helped put away Paul Riley, a young man charged for the rape and murder of his then-girlfriend Dana Rush, only...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC LESPicoult, Jodi
Summary: "A woman and her husband admitted to a hospital to have a baby requests that their nurse be reassigned - they are white supremacists and don't want Ruth, who is black, to touch their baby. The hospital complies, but the baby later goes into cardiac distress when Ruth is on duty. She hesitates before rushing in to perform CPR. When her indecision ends in tragedy, Ruth finds herself on trial,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press Large Print 2016
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Picoult 2016Slaughter, Karin
Summary: "AN ORDINARY LIFE ... Leigh Collier has worked hard to build what looks like a normal life. She has a good job as a defense attorney, a daughter doing well in school, and even her divorce is relatively civilized-her life is just as unremarkable as she'd always hoped it would be. HIDES A DEVASTATING PAST ... But Leigh's ordinary life masks a childhood which was far from average ... a childhood...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: Playaway Fiction Slaughter 2021Margolin, Phillip
Summary: "A woman stumbles onto a dark road in rural Oregon -- tortured, battered, and bound. She tells a horrific story about being kidnapped, then tortured, until she finally managed to escape. She was the lucky one -- two other women, bearing similar burns and bruises, were found dead. The surviving victim identifies the house where she was held captive, and the owner, Alex Mason, a prominent local...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2018
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC MARMargolin, Phillip
Summary: "Robin Lockwood is an increasingly prominent defense attorney in the Portland community. A Yale graduate and former MMA fighter, she's becoming known for her string of innovative and successful defense strategies. As a favor to a judge, Robin takes on the pro bono defense of a reprehensible defendant charged with even more reprehensible crimes. But what she doesn't know - what she can't know -...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Margolin 2022Margolin, Phillip
Summary: " Joe Lattimore, homeless and trying desperately to provide for his young family, agrees to fight in a no-holds-barred illegal boxing match, only to have his opponent die. Lattimore now finds himself at the mercy of the fight's organizers who blackmail him into burglarizing a house. However, when he breaks in, he finds a murdered woman on the floor and the police have received an anonymous tip...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2021
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Margolin 2021Dunn, Casey
Summary: "On a run through the woods outside her north Georgia hometown, defense attorney Ama Chaplin encounters a mysterious hiker and recognizes him, too late, as a sociopath she successfully defended when he was a teenager. In the intervening seventeen years, Ama changed her name and moved to Atlanta, anxious to put her past behind her. Michael Walton, her young client, grew into a ruthless and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Crime 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DUNTurow, Scott
Summary: Alejandro "Sandy" Stern, a brilliant defense lawyer ready to retire, is pulled back to the courtroom when an old friend faces criminal charges. But his belief in the power of the judicial system will face a final, terrible test.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Book Group 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC TURMargolin, Phillip
Summary: "Robin Lockwood is a young criminal defense attorney and partner in a prominent law firm in Portland, Oregon. A former MMA fighter and Yale Law graduate, she joined the firm of legal legend Regina Barrister not long before Regina was forced into retirement by early onset Alzheimer's. One of Regina's former clients, Robert Chesterfield, shows up in the law office with an odd request-he's seeking...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC MARCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MARDugoni, Robert
Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC DUGGrisham, John
Summary: "On the right side of the law. Sort of. Sebastian Rudd is not your typical street lawyer. He works out of a customized bulletproof van, complete with Wi-Fi, a bar, a small fridge, fine leather chairs, a hidden gun compartment, and a heavily armed driver. He has no firm, no partners, no associates, and only one employee, his driver, who's also his bodyguard, law clerk, confidant, and golf caddy....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Grisham 2015Margolin, Phillip
Summary: "Joe Lattimore, homeless and trying desperately to provide for his young family, agrees to fight in a no-holds-barred fight, only to have his opponent die. Lattimore now finds himself at the mercy of the fight's organizers who blackmail him into burglarizing a house. When he breaks in he finds a murdered woman on the floor-- and the police have received an anonymous tip naming him for the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MARCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MARCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MARCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Margolin 2021Margolin, Phillip
Summary: "On stage, in front of a crowd, a magician was murdered and no one saw it happen. The people with a strong motive to kill him -- and there are several -- were all in attendance, but the rest of the audience is their alibi. Everyone wanted him dead, yet no one could have done it. Robin Lockwood is a young criminal defense attorney and partner in a prominent law firm in Portland, Oregon. A former...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC MARMargolin, Phillip
Summary: Legendary attorney Regina Barrister has agreed to defend a man charged with the murder of two women. But Regina has a secret that could threaten her reputation and her clients. Young attorney Robin Lockwood agrees to work for Barrister, but the details in the case don't quite add up.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MARPalmer, Diana
Summary: "Gaby Dupont knows some men shouldn't be trusted. Ever. Especially not high-profile lawyer Nicholas Chandler. How can she trust the man who might be helping one of her horrible relatives weasel out of the consequences for their bad behavior? To get the inside scoop on Nicholas' dealings - and protect herself and her beloved grand-mère - Gaby must take a job with the devil himself. Of course,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC PALClark, Marcia
Summary: "A murder investigation draws firebrand attorney Samantha Brinkman into her boyfriend's past in this novel of high-risk suspense by bestselling author Marcia Clark. When it comes to relationships and self-preservation, defense attorney Samantha Brinkman has always been cut and run. But it's different with her new lover, Niko, an ambitious and globally famous entrepreneur. Sam is putting her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas & Mercer 2020