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81) One dog night
Author
Series
Andy Carpenter mystery volume 9
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
387 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
When a rehabilitated drug addict who saved Tara the golden retriever's life is wrongly implicated in a cold-case murder, defense attorney Andy Carpenter, the dog's dedicated owner, taps every conceivable resource to prove the man's innocence.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
x, 320 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the wake of a sensationalized 1934 trial involving an Appalachian Virginia teacher's alleged murder of her tyrant father, novice journalist Carl Jennings is denounced by a greedy media determined to portray the defendant as a backwards mountain girl.
83) The judge's list
Author
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,...
84) The guilty plea
Author
Series
Publisher
Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
324 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
With The Guilty Plea, a gripping sequel to the international bestseller Old City Hall, Robert Rotenberg has delivered another sharp, suspenseful legal thriller with an explosive conclusion.
On the morning his high-profile divorce trial is set to begin, Terrance Wyler, the youngest son of Toronto's Wyler Food dynasty, is found stabbed to death in the kitchen of his luxurious home. Detective Ari Greene arrives minutes before the press and finds Wyler's...
Author
Series
Perveen Mistry volume 1
Publisher
Soho Crime
Language
English
Description
In 1921, Bombay's first female lawyer, Oxford graduate Perveen Mistry, investigates a suspicious will on behalf of three Muslim widows living in strict seclusion who become subject to a murderous guardian's schemes for their inheritances.
Author
Series
Amanda Jaffe volume 4
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
344 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Defending Charlie, a former fugitive who hid in Africa for twelve years after being falsely implicated in the murder of a congressman, criminal lawyer Amanda Jaffe struggles to prove the man's innocence while protecting him from a vengeful African dictator.
88) Bury the lead
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Asked to help safeguard the innocence of a reporter who has been selected as the mouthpiece for a serial killer, defense attorney Andy Carpenter finds his job getting more difficult when the reporter is arrested for the murders.
89) City of fortune
Author
Series
Counterfeit lady volume 6
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Elizabeth Miles is back in an all-new Counterfeit Lady Mystery by USA Today bestselling author Victoria Thompson. Being married had advantages that attorney Gideon Bates had never even considered during his bachelor days. For example, he no longer had to think of polite excuses when a client offered to introduce him to a marriageable daughter, as he was starting to suspect Mr. Sebastian Nolan was working his way up to doing. "I'd like to arrange...
90) Deadly deals
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
234 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
After spending Thanksgiving with their loved ones on Big Pine Mountain, the ladies of the Sisterhood prepare to assist attorney Lizzie Fox in breaking up an illegal baby selling ring.
91) The deadhouse
Author
Series
Alex Cooper volume b.k. 4
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
Assistant D.A. Alexandra Cooper investigates the murder of Manhattan political science professor Lola Dakota, a crime whose only clue lies in "The Deadhouse," the Roosevelt Island site where smallpox patients were sent to die in the nineteenth century.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
When one of his counselor wife's clients suspiciously disappears and the woman's husband, a San Francisco jail guard, is accused of her murder, lawyer Dismas Hardy examines possible suspects before discovering evidence of the corruption-related death of an inmate.
93) A king's ransom
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
An inexperienced lawyer struggles to save his father from the Colombian bandits who have kidnapped him.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Lawyer Andy Carpenter and his humorous investigating team return in Santa's Little Yelpers, the next Yuletide mystery in David Rosenfelt's bestselling series. 'Tis the season in Paterson, New Jersey: Lawyer Andy Carpenter and his golden retriever, Tara, are surrounded by holiday cheer. It's even spread to the Tara Foundation. The dog rescue organization, not used to having puppies, has their hands full with a recent litter. Eight puppies are a lot...
Author
Series
A Jack Swyteck novel volume Book 14
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
371 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When the president of a black fraternity is murdered, defense attorney Jack Swyteck navigates a maelstrom of racial uprisings as he investigates the chief suspect.
96) Rogue Lawyer
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
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. He lives alone in a small but extremely safe penthouse...
97) Turning angel
Author
Series
Penn Gage volume 2
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Formats
Description
When the body of Kate Townsend turns up near the Mississippi River, attorney Penn Cage tangles with the dark side of his hometown of Natchez, Mississippi, to investigate the secret world of a nearby elite high school.
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
First Gallery Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
322 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Follows the efforts of a grieving, high-profile attorney to outmaneuver legal pitfalls and a media firestorm while representing a popular rap artist who has been wrongly accused of murdering his pop star girlfriend.
100) Custody: a novel
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
309p. 25cm.
Language
English