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Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
" Defense attorney Mickey Haller returns with a haunting case in the gripping new thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Michael Connelly. Mickey Haller gets the text, "Call me ASAP - 187," and the California penal code for murder immediately gets his attention. Murder cases have the highest stakes and the biggest paydays, and they always mean Haller has to be at the top of his game. When Mickey learns that the victim was his own former...
2) Th1rte3n
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
323 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Defense lawyer and former conman Eddie Flynn defends his movie-star client in a high profile murder trial and discovers that the actual killer is sitting on the jury.
3) Sycamore row
Author
Series
Jake Brigance volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 28
Language
English
Description
When wealthy Seth Hubbard hangs himself from a sycamore tree and leaves his fortune to his black maid, Jake Brigance once again finds himself embroiled in a fiercely controversial trial -- a trial that will expose old racial tensions and force Ford County to confront its tortured history.
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
p2015
Physical Desc
1 MP-3 CD (ca. 14.5 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Jeffrey Toobin's nonfiction masterpiece tells the whole story, from the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman to the ruthless gamesmanship behind the scenes of "the trial of the century."
6) Vindication
Author
Publisher
Oceanview Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
374 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When his girlfriend's mother is arrested for the murder of a best-selling author in the Florida retirement community of The Villages, lawyer-turned-beach-bum Matt Royal reluctantly returns to the courtroom while his girlfriend, J.D., goes undercover to investigate.
8) Smash cut
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Formats
Description
Hired by a woman who believes that the accidental shooting of a friend was actually orchestrated by the victim's depraved nephew, defense lawyer Derek Mitchell comes to realize that the nephew is a psychotic movie buff who enjoys acting out violent film plots.
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xiv, 337 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A collection of courtroom writings includes accounts of the two trials of Claus von Bulow, the O.J. Simpson trial, the Menendez brothers murder case, and the indictment of Michael Skakel for a long-unsolved Connecticut murder.
10) A time to kill
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
When a ten-year-old Black girl is brutally raped by two drunken white men in the small Southern town of Clanton, Mississippi, the ensuing tension and violence threatens to destroy the town.
11) The reckoning
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Description
Pete Banning was Clanton's favorite son, a returning war hero, the patriarch of a prominent family, a farmer, father, neighbor, and a faithful member of the Methodist church. Then one cool October morning in 1946. he rose early, drove into town, walked into the church, and calmly shot and killed the Reverend Dexter Bell. As if the murder wasn't shocking enough, it was even more baffling that Pete's only statement about it - to the sheriff, to his...
12) Dog tags
Author
Series
Andy Carpenter volume 8
Publisher
Grand Central Pub
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
Dog-loving lawyer Andy Carpenter plunges into a high profile murder case in which a rogue German shepherd police dog may be the only hope for its owner, an Iraq war vet and former-cop-turned-thief accused of murder.
13) Juror #3
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ruby Bozarth, a newcomer to Rosedale, Mississippi, is also fresh to the Mississippi Bar--and to the docket of Circuit Judge Baylor, who taps Ruby as defense counsel in a racially charged felony. The murder of a woman from one of the town's oldest families has Rosedale's upper crust howling for blood, and the prosecutor is counting on Ruby's inexperience to help him deliver a swift conviction. Ruby's client is a college football star who has returned...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Language
English
Description
A servant and former slave enduring a sensational trial for her employers' murders reflects on her Jamaican childhood and her apprenticeship under a debauched scientist whose questionable ethics set the stage for a forbidden affair.
16) Necessity
Author
Publisher
Polis Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
340 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Defense attorney Joseph Antonelli chooses to defend the man who has invoked the "law of necessity," which states that a crime is justified if it serves the greater good and prevents harm, as justification for assassinating the American President.
17) New tricks
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Formats
Description
Attorney Andy Carpenter is about to represent an adorable Bernese mountain dog puppy, whose owner was brutally murdered, in a custody fight. Few can rival Andy's affection for dogs, and he will do whatever it takes to insure that this little pup doesn't fall into the wrong hands. But his playful new friend possesses a deadly and valuable secret that a number of people are willing to resort to violence to obtain.
18) Monster
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
c1999
Edition
First Edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
281 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
While on trial as an accomplice to a murder, sixteen-year-old Steve Harmon records his experiences in prison and in the courtroom in the form of a film script as he tries to come to terms with the course his life has taken.
20) Vicious
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
338 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
On trial for murdering an actually still-alive Alison DiLaurentis, only Aria, Emily, Spencer, and Hanna know they have been framed and resolve to beat Ali at her own game.