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Summary: "Ten years after the Mayflower pilgrims arrived on rocky, unfamiliar soil, Plymouth is not the land its residents had imagined. Seemingly established on a dream of religious freedom, in reality the town is led by fervent puritans who prohibit the residents from living, trading, and worshipping as they choose. By the time an unfamiliar ship, bearing new colonists, appears on the horizon one...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NESGrisham, John
Summary: Jake is the court-appointed lawyer for Drew Gamble, a young man accused of murdering a local deputy. Many in Clanton want a swift trial and the death penalty, but Brigance sees it another way. Once he learns the details of the case, he realizes he has to do everything he can to save Drew, who is sixteen. Jake's commitment to the truth puts his career and the safety of his family at risk.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GRIFrench, Nicci
Summary: When a body is discovered in Okeham, England, Tabitha is shocked to find herself in handcuffs. But as dark memories come to light, she begins to question if she knows who she really is.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2020
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC FRECavanagh, Steve
Summary: "Alexandra Avellino has just found her father's mutilated body, and needs the police right away. She believes her sister killed him, and that she is still in the house with a knife. Sofia Avellino has just found her father's mutilated body and needs the police right away. She believes her sister, Alexandra did it, and that she is still in the house, locked in the bathroom. Both women are to go...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orion 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAVFrench, Nicci
Summary: When a body is discovered in Okeham, England, Tabitha is shocked to find herself in handcuffs. But as dark memories come to light, she begins to question if she knows who she really is.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FREField, Rachel
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicago Review Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FIECavanagh, Steve
Summary: They call him the King of Death Row. Randal Korn has sent more men to their deaths than any district attorney in the history of the United States. When a young woman, Skylar Edwards, is found murdered in Buckstown, Alabama, a corrupt sheriff arrests the last person to see her alive, Andy Dubois. It doesn't seem to matter anyone that Andy is innocent. Everyone in Buckstown believes Andy is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orion 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAVMiranda, Megan
Summary: "Welcome to Hollow's Edge. A private and idyllic neighborhood, one where neighbors know each other, celebrate graduation and holiday parties together, and look out for one another. But after the sudden deaths of Brandon and Fiona Truett, there's another version of Hollow's Edge, simmering underneath. One where everyone is trapped with each other, suffocated by their trial testimonies, their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MIRCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Miranda 2021Grippando, James
Summary: A Miami criminal defense lawyer helps a Grammy-winning popstar who signed an onerous contract as a teen that leaves her ex-husband with all her royalties.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GRIGrippando, James
Summary: "Piracy costs the movie and music industry billions. No one has been able to stop it. But that won't stop Miami criminal defense lawyer Jack Swyteck. His latest client, Imani Nichols, is a Grammy-winning popstar whose career has skyrocketed. Despite her success, she's the most underpaid superstar on the planet because of an onerous record contract she signed as a teenager with her now...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GRIPatterson, James
Summary: Criminal attorney Jane F. Smith, tough as nails, has received a terminal diagnosis and doesn't have much time. Is her own client trying to kill her first? Her name is Jane Smith. To friends and foes, she's Jane Effing Smith. Why? Because she's the best criminal defense attorney in the Hamptons—the elite world of New York's rich and infamous. Because she's as good an investigator as she is a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Book Group 2023
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PATTyce, Harriet
Summary: A young lawyer's outwardly perfect life spirals out of control as she takes on her first murder case in this dark and twisty debut thriller for readers of Paula Hawkins, A.J. Finn, or Shari Lapena. I did it. I killed him. I should be locked up. Alison, a young lawyer, has just been given her first murder case to defend. Her new client is a meek housewife who doesn't deny that she stabbed her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction TyceConnelly, Michael
Summary: Defense attorney Mickey Haller enlists Harry Bosch to help investigate the death of a deputy, blamed on the wife. But danger comes from those who covered up what the deputy's killing was really about.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CONMargolin, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2024
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction MargolinConnelly, Michael
Summary: Defense attorney Mickey Haller is back, taking the long shot cases, where the chances of winning are one in a million. He agrees to represent a woman in prison for killing her husband, a sheriff's deputy. Despite her conviction four years earlier, she still maintains her innocence. Haller enlists his half brother, retired LAPD Detective Harry Bosch, as investigator. Reviewing the case, Bosch...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction ConnellyCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M CONClark, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC CLAPerry, 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 PERBaldacci, David
Summary: "Set in the tumultuous year of 1968 in southern Virginia, a racially-charged murder case sets a duo of white and Black lawyers against a deeply unfair system as they work to defend their wrongfully-accused Black defendants When two wealthy white landowners are found dead, the whole country immediately thinks it must be Jerome Washington, the hired help, who killed them. He was standing over the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2024
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction BaldacciRosenfelt, David
Summary: "Retired lawyer Andy Carpenter remembers every dog that's come through the Tara Foundation's doors, but the most well-known alum may be Mamie. Adopted by famous actress Jenny Nichols--Andy's high school girlfriend--the miniature French poodle is practically a starlet in her own right. Andy and his wife, Laurie, have dinner with Jenny while she's in town filming her next big hit. But the next...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2023
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC ROSBuffa, D. W.
Summary: A killer claims Portland's chief district attorney paid $10,000 to kill his wife, the money delivered by his second wife. No witnesses are available to corroborate the story, but lawyer Joe Antonelli agrees to prosecute the attorney anyway. The story of a trial.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holt 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BUFMargolin, Phillip
Summary: One of a handful of lawyers in the new state of Oregon, recently widowed Matthew Penny agrees to help Worthy Brown, a newly freed slave, rescue his fifteen year old daughter, Roxanne, from their former master, a powerful Portland lawyer. Worthy's lawsuit sets in motion events that lead to Worthy's arrest for murder and create an agonizing moral dilemma that could send either Worthy or Matthew...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Margolin 2014Baldacci, David
Summary: "When two wealthy white landowners are found dead, the whole country immediately thinks it must be Jerome Washington, the hired help, who killed them. He was standing over the bodies when the police responded to an anonymous call and the only one on the property at the time of death. As far as the state is concerned, it's an open and shut case. Jack Lee, born and raised in Freeman County, knows...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2024
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BALPatterson, 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 PATPatterson, James
Summary: A small-town lawyer with a big-time reputation, Stafford Lee Penney, Mississippi's #1 lawyer who has never lost a case, when his wife is scandalously killed, spirals into a legal and personal legal streak, ruining his career, and making him the nation's #1 suspect.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown & Company 2024