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Sean Drummond novels volume 2
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JAG lawyer Sean Drummond has gotten himself in way over his head — with a case that challenges his deepest fears and a co-counselor who challenges just about everything else. Assigned to South Korea as an advocate for a gay officer accused of brutally killing the son of a South Korean war hero, Drummond is teamed up with an old law-school nemesis. Katherine Carson is a curvy, liberal, William Kunstler-like attorney with a reputation for manipulating...
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Penn Cage novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 27
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If anyone knows death, Penn Cage does. He has sent 16 men to their fate as District Attorney. And now his young wife is gone too, leaving him alone with their young daughter. He decides to go home, and home means facing the ghosts of his past.
3) Hounded
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"Andy Carpenter isn't sure what to think when he gets a mysterious phone call from a good friend, policeman Pete Stanton, asking him to drop everything, drive to an unfamiliar address, and bring his girlfriend, Laurie Collins. He certainly isn't expecting to show up at a crime scene. But that's exactly where he arrives-at the house where Pete has just discovered the body of ex-convict Danny Diaz. Upstairs are Danny's now orphaned eight-year-old son...
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Guido Guerrieri series volume 2
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When no lawyer accepts to represent Marina in her attempt to bring her boyfriend to trial for assault and battery, Guerrieri takes the case. No witnesses willing to testify and a hostile judge: just his kind of case. Doesn't hurt that he's attracted to Sister Maria, the young woman protecting Marina, who shares his love for martial arts.
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Once upon a time she was Robyn Hart, a dogged journalist covering an arson case who saw too much and wasn't afraid to expose it. But that courage nearly cost Robyn her life. Now under the safety of the Witness Protection program, she has a new identity—Carly Quinn—with a new job in a new city. As she struggles to make the best of her new life in Boston, the terror of the past still lingers, and Carly lives in fear that her enemies will find her.Though...
6) The judgment
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Another legal thriller filled with the aching human frailties that are hidden in all of us.
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A newly minted Assistant U.S. Attorney in Washington, D.C., Anna has developed a thick skin to help her deal with her day-to-day encounters with domestic violence. Yet she's shaken when a client, Laprea, is found beaten to death. Laprea's abusive boyfriend is accused and Anna will prosecute, while her boyfriend Nick is the defense attorney.
9) Saving grace
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Katie Connell is a high-strung attorney whose sloppy drinking habits and stunted love life collide hilariously in a doomed celebrity case in Dallas. When she flees Texas for the Caribbean, Katie escapes professional humiliation, a broken heart, and a wicked Bloody Mary habit, but she trades one set of problems for another when she begins to investigate the suspicious deaths of her parents on the island of St. Marcos. She's bewitched by the voodoo...
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Mississippi's only African-American deputy district attorney James Reynolds finds his own ethics and beliefs tested when he must prosecute the case of a man who has brutally killed a group of white men who were acquitted of torturning and killing African-Americans during the 1960s.
11) The secret hour
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Attorney John O'Rourke, his household in turmoil since the death of his wife, and his family the target of resentment over his defense of the so-called Breakwater Killer, finds his life further complicated by the arrival of Kate Harris, a woman trying to discover whether her missing sister is one of the killer's victims.
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Theodore Boone volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
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790L
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In the small city of Strattenburg there are many lawyers, and thirteen-year-old Theo Boone thinks he is one of them, but his inside knowledge of the justice system means trouble when a cold-blodded killer is about to go free and only Theo can stop him.
14) Hokus pokus
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After the members of the Sisterhood are exiled to a remote mountaintop, they get a panicked call from the Supreme Court Chief Justice Pearl Barnes requesting their help, so they must figure out how to sneak back into the United States.
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Political connections had secured for Tim Quinn a seat on the appellate bench ... but in the court presided over by Chief Judge Harry Winston; Tim still had to learn
The Majority Rules
Tim Quinn, a Washington DC lawyer on the move, was flattered to be recommended by his friend Harry Winston to a vacancy on the bench caused by the unsavory death of one of the judges. He was also surprised to see how easy his nomination and confirmation turned out...
16) The jury
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Paul Madriani novels volume 6
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"Paul Madriani has ample reason to suspect he's representing a guilty man. Dr. David Crone, a respected medical researcher, is charged with the murder of a young colleague: twenty-six-year-old Kalista Jordan, an African-American research physician, whose body washed up on a beach in San Diego Bay. Forensic evidence links her murder with material in Crone's garage. Crone had both opportunity and motive: Kalista had recently filed sexual harassment...
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Kali O'Brien returns to her hometown of Silver Creek where her childhood friend Jannine is the prime suspect in the murder of her husband. Kali is convinced she's innocent until the evidence begins to mount. Secrets past and present confound Kali's investigation. This is the first in the Kali O'Brien series of legal mysteries.
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Old Filth trilogy volume 2
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"Tells the story of the fifty-year marriage of barrister Filth and his wife Betty, which is filled with secrets and hidden desires."--from NoveList.
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