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1) The firm
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 20
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Description
At the top of his class at Harvard Law, he had his choice of the best in America. He made a deadly mistake. When Mitch McDerre signed on with Bendini, Lambert & Locke of Memphis, he thought he and his beautiful wife, Abby, were on their way. The firm leased him a BMW, paid off his school loans, arranged a mortgage and hired him a decorator. Mitch McDeere should have remembered what his brother Ray, doing fifteen years in a Tennessee jail, already...
2) Judge & jury
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Senior FBI agent Nick Pellisante and Andie DeGrasse, an aspiring actress and juror for the trial of a notorious crime boss are the only ones left to seek justice after Mafia Don Dominic Cavello and his henchmen systematically eliminate everyone who stand in their way.
3) The client
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 20
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
Mark Sway, 11, witnesses a Mafia lawyer's suicide, which puts him in danger from Barry the Blade & a politically ambitious U.S. attorney. In the two years since The Firm first captured the imagination of America's readers, John Grisham, with three consecutive number-one bestsellers, has become one of the most popular authors of our time. Now, in The Client, he has written a novel so irresistible, so thoroughly entertaining and satisfying, that it...
Author
Series
Ed Eagle novels volume 4
Language
English
Description
Ed Eagle, the six-feet-six, take-no-prisoners Santa Fe attorney, has recovered from his encounters with Mexican organized crime and--more treacherously--his ex-wife, Barbara. Now a mysterious new client has come his way, one who may shed light into some dark corners of Ed's past ... and put him in danger once more.
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Language
English
Appears on list
Description
For most of the last hundred years, Biloxi was known for its beaches, resorts, and seafood industry. But it had a darker side. It was also notorious for corruption and vice, everything from gambling, prostitution, bootleg liquor, and drugs to contract killings. The vice was controlled by a small cabal of mobsters, many of them rumored to be members of the Dixie Mafia. Keith Rudy and Hugh Malco grew up in Biloxi in the sixties and were childhood friends,...
6) Betrayal
Author
Series
Robin Lockwood novels volume 7
Language
English
Description
"Robin Lockwood is now a prominent defense attorney in Portland, Oregon, but a decade ago, she was a ranked and rising MMA fighter. Her career came to a quick end when she was knocked out and concussed in the first round by Mandy Kerrigan, a much more talented fighter. Now the situation couldn't be more different, with Kerrigan on her last legs, her career nearly over, arrested for the quadruple murder of the entire Finch family . . . and Kerrigan's...
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Series
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English
Formats
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"Prosecutor Dani Fox has handled some gruesome homicide cases, but her investigation into the brutal murder of a local Mafia capo's daughter goes from tricky to downright dangerous. Although the victim has ties to the New Jersey Mafia, she was also secretly engaged in an affair with someone from a rival New York crime family. As if squaring off against two powerful crime families weren't enough, Dani suspects that the murder is more than a simple...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
"Desde hace casi un siglo, Biloxi es conocida por sus playas, complejos tu̕rsticos e industria pesquera. Pero tambǐn tiene un lado oscuro. Esta ciudad de Mississippi es adèms famosa por el crimen y la corrupc̤in: desde el juego, la prostituc̤in y el contrabando hasta el narcot̀rfico y los asesinatos a manos de sicarios. Un pequęo grupo controla la actividad criminal y se rumorea que muchos de ellos son miembros de la mafia del sur, conocida...
Author
Series
Henry Family Chronicles volume 01
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Bill Henry is a brilliant Boston lawyer who has single handedly ruined the criminal kingdom of Boss Carter. His life is now threatened, Bill secretly escapes back to the West - to the past he'd forsaken and to which he swore he'd never return. When he gets there he find more than he ever imagined, in many ways. Boss Carter's hatred reaches far and wide. He will stop at nothing to destroy the one man who ruined his empire."-- From back cover.
Author
Series
Henry Family chronicles volume 01
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Bill Henry is a brilliant Boston lawyer who has single handedly ruined the criminal kingdom of Boss Carter. His life is now threatened, Bill secretly escapes back to the West - to the past he'd forsaken and to which he swore he'd never return. When he gets there he find more than he ever imagined, in many ways. Boss Carter's hatred reaches far and wide. He will stop at nothing to destroy the one man who ruined his empire."-- From back cover.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
When a passenger train derails in North Philadelphia with fatal results, idealistic criminal defense attorney Vaughn Coburn takes on the most personal case of his young career. The surviving engineer is his cousin Eddy, and when Eddy asks Vaughn to defend him, he can't help but accept. Vaughn has a debt to repay, for he and his cousin share an old secret-one that changed both their lives forever. As blame for the wreck zeros in on Eddy, Vaughn realizes...
13) The Defence
Author
Series
Eddie Flynn novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Eddie Flynn used to be a con artist. Then he became a lawyer. Turned out the two weren't that different. It's been over a year since Eddie vowed never to set foot in a courtroom again. But now he doesn't have a choice. Olek Volchek, the infamous head of the Russian mafia in New York, has strapped a bomb to Eddie's back and kidnapped his ten-year-old daughter, Amy. Eddie only has forty-eight hours to defend Volchek in an impossible murder trial - and...
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