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Criminal defense lawyers Fiction FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Women Sleuths FICTION / Thrillers / Crime FICTION / Thrillers / Legal FICTION / Thrillers / Suspense Meurtre Enquêtes Romans, nouvelles, etc Murder Fiction Murder Investigation Fiction Trials (Murder) Fiction Women lawyers FictionDorn, L. R.
Summary: "A modern tale of striving ambition, envy, desire and murder, and a mesmerizing take on Theodore Dreiser's classic novel An American Tragedy, this time set among California's beautiful people"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC DORGrippando, James
Summary: Miami attorney Jack Swyteck lands in the heart of the contentious immigration debate when he takes on the heart-wrenching case of an undocumented immigrant who fled to America to protect her daughter and save herself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2019
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC GRIPatterson, James
Summary: Attorney Jane Smith is mounting an impossible criminal defense. Her client, Rob Jacobson, is the unluckiest of the unlucky. No sooner is he accused of killing a family of three in the Hamptons than a second family is gunned down. It's not double jeopardy. It's not double murder. It's double triple homicide.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FICPATScottoline, Lisa
Summary: TJ Devlin is the charming disappointment in the Devlin family, all of whom are lawyers at their eponymous law firm, except him. He works at the firm as its investigator, after rehab for alcoholism and a stint in prison. One night, TJ's older brother John tells him that he killed his client, an accountant, in self-defense, during a fight that ensued after John had confronted the accountant with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SCOPatterson, James
Summary: In a picture-perfect town, why is the jail so crowded? And why are so few prisoners released? There's only one place to learn the truth behind these incriminating secrets. A young lawyer takes on the judge who is destroying her hometown, and ends up in jail herself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PATScottoline, Lisa
Summary: "TJ Devlin is the charming disappointment in the prominent Devlin family, all of whom are lawyers at their highly successful firm--except him. After a stint in prison and rehab for alcoholism, TJ can't get hired anywhere except at the firm, in a make-work job with the title of investigator. But one night, TJ's world turns upside down after his older brother John confesses that he just murdered...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2024
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction ScotolineGrisham, John
Summary: Keith Rudy and Hugh Malco grew up in Biloxi in the 1960s and were childhood friends. But as teenagers, their lives took them in different directions. Keith's father became a legendary prosecutor, and Hugh's father became the "Boss" of Biloxi's criminal underground. Keith went to law school and followed in his father's footsteps. Hugh preferred the nightlife and worked in his father's clubs. The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC GRITurow, Scott
Summary: For as long as Lucia Gomez has been the police chief in the city of Highland Isle, near Kindle County, she has known that any woman in law enforcement must walk a precarious line between authority and camaraderie to gain respect. She has maintained a spotless reputation, until now. Three male police officers have accused her of soliciting sex in exchange for promotions to higher ranks. With few...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC TURMargolin, 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, is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MARGrisham, John
Summary: Fifteen years after they exposed the crimes of Memphis law firm Bendini, Lambert & Locke, Mitch and Abby McDeere are living in Manhattan, where Mitch is a partner at the largest law firm in the world. When a mentor in Rome asks him for a favor that will take him far from home, Mitch finds himself at the center of a sinister plot that has worldwide implications, and once again endangers his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2023
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC GRIClark, Marcia
Summary: A high-profile murder trial brings together the lives of three women: hot-shot lead prosecutor Erika Lorman, young up-and-coming co-prosecutor Charlie Blair, and a teenage girl standing trial for the murder of her mother. Secrets from the past threaten to undo not just the case, but Erika and Charlie, too.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC CLAPatterson, James
Summary: "Tough-as-nails criminal defense attorney Jane Smith is hip-deep in the murder trial of the century. Actually, her charmless client might've committed several murders. She's also fallen in love with a wonderful guy. And an equally wonderful dog, a mutt. But Jane doesn't have much time. She's just received a terminal diagnosis giving her twelve months. Unless she's murdered before her expiration...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC PATMorris, Wanda M. (Wanda Michelle)
Summary: "Ellice Littlejohn seemingly has it all: an Ivy League law degree, a well-paying job as a corporate attorney in midtown Atlanta, great friends, and a "for fun" relationship with a rich, charming executive, who just happens to be her white boss. But everything changes one cold January morning when Ellice arrives in the executive suite and finds him dead with a gunshot to his head. And then she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MORCoulter, Catherine
Summary: After Elizabeth Palmer survived a bombing in London a year ago, there have been three new attempts on her life, prompting MI-5 to investigate why. Desperate for answers, Elizabeth flies to Washington, DC, to seek out FBI Agents Savich and Sherlock and is assigned Rome Foxe for protection. With assailants in pursuit, Elizabeth and Rome find themselves in a race for survival.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: Rather than let the man who beat a woman into a coma walk free, State Prosecutor Kate Lennon knows she can charge him with murder, if she can convince the victim's ex husband to pull the plug.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Book Group 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC BROGrisham, John.
Summary: For most of the last hundred years, Biloxi was known for its beaches, resorts, and seafood industry. But it had a darker side. It was also notorious for corruption and vice, everything from gambling, prostitution, bootleg liquor, and drugs to contract killings. The vice was controlled by small cabal of mobsters, many of them rumored to be members of the Dixie Mafia. Keith Rudy and Hugh Malco...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday US 2022