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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
When a federal judge and his secretary fail to appear for a scheduled trial and panicked clerks call for an FBI investigation, a harrowing murder case ensues and culminates in the imprisonment of a lawyer who imparts the story of who killed the judge and why. Given the importance of what they do, and the controversies that often surround them, and the violent people they sometimes confront, it is remarkable that in the history of this country only...
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Series
Language
English
Description
In The Whistler, Lacy Stoltz investigated a corrupt judge who was taking millions in bribes from a crime syndicate. She put the criminals away, but only after being attacked and nearly killed. Three years later and approaching 40, she is tired of her work for the Florida Board on Judicial Conduct and ready for a change. Then she meets a mysterious woman who is so frightened she uses a number of aliases. Jeri Crosby's father was murdered 20 years earlier,...
3) Friction
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A Texas Ranger, relegated to desk work due to past recklessness, petitions to regain custody of his five-year-old daughter, and his case is assigned to a family court judge who is as attractive as she is ambitious. When a masked gunman barges in during the custody hearing with his sights on the judge, the Ranger reacts instinctually and goes after him. But authorities apprehend the wrong man, and the real gunman remains unknown, at large, and a threat....
4) Sand sharks
Author
Series
Publisher
Grand Central Pub
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
291 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Anticipating a vacation, Judge Deborah Knott travels to Wrightsville Beach to join her husband and son only to stumble on a murder scene, a situation that is further complicated by growing suspicions that Deborah is a target.
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
When Deborah Knott's terminally ill aunt, Rachel, is found smothered to death in her bed at a hospice center, all of her Colleton County kith and kin are shocked. Who kills a dying woman? As Deborah and her husband, Sheriff's Deputy Dwight Bryant, try to find Rachel's killer, they cross paths with the Designated Daughters, a support group for caregivers, not all of whom are women. Rachel's flamboyant daughter, Sally, is a member, and when a con artist...
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Pub
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
While in New York, Judge Deborah Knott has been asked to deliver a package to Lt. Sigrid Harald of the NYPD. Sigrid offers to swing by the apartment with her husband to pick up the box, but when they reach the apartment, they discover that the box is missing and the doorman has been murdered.
Author
Series
Publisher
Grand Central Pub
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
A mysterious ornithologist staying at Mrs. Lattimore's Victorian home and doing research on Southern vultures seems familiar to Judge Deborah Knott and Sheriff's Deputy Dwight Bryant, expecially after a murderer strikes.
Author
Series
Publisher
W. Morrow
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
406 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The latest masterwork from one of the leading writers of suspense . . . New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Lowell returns with a chilling tale of the law gone wrong and a kidnapping that threatens more than one life. The Wrong Hostage Orphaned at thirteen, Grace Silva clawed her way out of poverty and violence to become one of the most respected judges on the federal bench. Grace believes in the rule of law -- lives it, breathes it. She has...
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Series
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
303p. 25cm.
Language
English
Description
Publishers Weekly declares that the "leaves of autumn are in full splendor, and so is Maron's talent in her 10th Deborah Knott adventure." Judge Knott is finally ready to marry her long-time friend Deputy Sheriff Dwight Bryant and settle down-or is she? She jumps at a chance to fill in for a judge in the high country of North Carolina. But ugly murder haunts the beauty of the Smoky Mountains.
11) Hard row
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Language
English
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"As Judge Deborah Knott presides over a case involving a barroom brawl, it becomes clear that deep resentments over race, class, and illegal immigration are simmering just below the surface in the North Carolina countryside"--Provided by publisher.
13) Uncommon clay
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
In order to catch a killer, Judge Deborah Knott must unravel a local family's tragic, shameful past, but she may not be able to solve the mystery in time to prevent further bloodshed.
15) Winter's child
Author
Series
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
One month after her marriage to Deputy Sheriff Dwight Bryant, judge Deborah Knott finds their union tested when Bryant's ex-wife takes flight with their eight-year-old son, forcing Bryant to launch a search for the boy before he comes to harm.
Author
Publisher
WaterBrook Press
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
217 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
A federal judge rules the annual live Nativity scene held in Possum, Virginia, unconstitutional, but when Thomas Hammond, who plays Joseph, refuses to abide by the court order, only a Christmas miracle can rectify this volatile situation.
17) Slow dollar
Author
Series
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
viii, 276 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When an inflatable carnival ride is destroyed, the first in a series of strange events surrounding a traveling carnival, judge Deborah Knott wonders about a carny's charm bracelet and her connection to Deborah's own family.
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
viii, 370 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When the judge presiding over the high-profile trial of a notorious bomber is murdered, Detective Simon Ziele is asked to cross jurisdiction lines to assist the judge's former classmate, criminologist Alistair Sinclair, in cutting through local red tape to solve the case.
Author
Publisher
Twelve
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
285 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Frustrated by the Senate's rejections of his Supreme Court nominees for reasons of elitism and pettiness, the president of the United States brashly nominates a beloved reality-show judge, thrusting the judge into a heated confirmation battle.
Author
Language
English
Description
"New York Timesbestselling author Joseph Finder returns with an explosive new thrillerabout a female judge and the one personal misstep that could lead to her--and her family's--undoing. It was nothing more than a one-night stand. Juliana Brody, a judgein the Superior Court of Massachusetts, is rumored to be in consideration for the federal circuit, maybe someday the highest court in the land. At a conference in a Chicago hotel, she meets a gentle,...