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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...
2) Dead even
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Lawyer Jared Lynch of New York is warned he will be killed if he fails to successfully defend his client, a criminal. Lynch could ask his wife to lose--she is the prosecutor in the case--but professional pride prevents him and he says nothing.
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Penn Cage novels volume 1
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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.
6) 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...
7) 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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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...
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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.
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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 scandal
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Theodore Boone volume 6
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IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
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770L
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Thirteen-year-old Theodore Boone knows every judge, police officer, and court clerk in Strattenburg. He has even helped bring a fugitive to justice. But even a future star lawyer like Theo has to deal with statewide standardized testing. When an anonymous tip leads the school board to investigate a suspicious increase in scores at another local middle school, Theo finds himself thrust in the middle of a cheating scandal. With insider knowledge and...
12) Primary Justice
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Ben Kincaid novels volume 1
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Oklahoma attorney Ben Kincaid battles murder, corruption, and more, in and out of the courtroom in this bestselling series of legal thrillers.
13) 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.
14) The last heir
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"Monsieur Giroux is not a happy man. Of course, who could be happy while discussing the death of their son? Without an heir, his Chateau Giroux winery in California will be inherited by another family member, its grapes plowed under to make way for a lucrative real estate deal. Yet Giroux believes that his son may still be alive and hires MacTaggart to investigate."--
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To protect the child she loves, Molly Gray must cooperate with a killer. Molly Gray never trusted Ben Fleiss, her best friend Wendy's abusive husband. When Wendy's broken body is found in a dumpster, Molly is devastated - and knows exactly who the killer is. But as viscerally as Molly hates Ben, she loves Ben and Wendy's seven-year-old child, Naomi. While awaiting trial, Ben retains custody of his daughter, and Molly soon realizes the only way to...
16) Blood money
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Jack Swyteck novels volume 10
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In the most sensational murder trial since O. J. Simpson's, a sexy nightclub waitress and good-time girl is accused of murdering her two-year-old daughter for cramping her party life. Taking on the controversial case, Jack Swyteck acquires a not-guilty verdict; but the court of public opinion has already come to its own conclusions, and a mob gathers outside the jail on the date of the woman's release. When another woman who resembles the mother ends...
17) Dark justice
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Ben Kincaid novels volume 8
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Lawyer Ben Kincaid matches wits with a woman district attorney during an eco-terrorism trial in the Pacific Northwest. Kincaid is defending an environmentalist accused of the murder of a logger. By the author of Naked Justice.
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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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English
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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.
19) Actual innocence
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Greg Monarch volume 02
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Lawyer Greg Monarch of California overcomes his reluctance and reopens a murder case which sent his former lover to Death Row. The woman is mentally unstable, hence his reluctance, but it is a worthwhile effort as it transpires she was framed.
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Nina Reilly novels volume 1
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Returning from her late shift as a barmaid at a casino in Lake Tahoe, Misty Patterson struck her violently jealous husband in self-defense. She admits that—but did she kill him? She says she can't remember. Like so many times before, Misty blacked out and the rest of the evening is a blank. Now her husband has disappeared, leaving behind a trail of blood, and she's the number-one murder suspect with no one to turn to for help.
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