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Alex Cross novels volume 8
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IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 11
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With his resignation from the Washington Police interrupted by a case involving a friend who has been framed for murder, Alex Cross and partner John Sampson journey across military lines to confront the most brutal killer of their careers. Alex Cross is plunged into a case where military codes of honor conceal dark currents of revenge and ambition, and the men controlling the moves have the best weapons and training the world can offer.
2) Mercy
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IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 24
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A novel on love whose protagonists are two married couples. In one case, a farmer's love for his sick wife leads him to kill her. In the second, love brings a police chief back to his wife after an affair. The two cases are linked, the setting is Massachusetts. By the author of Picture Perfect.
3) Dog tags
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A German shepherd police dog has witnessed a murder for which his Iraq war vet/former cop-turned-thief owner is accused. If his owner is convicted, the dog will be put down. Attorney Andy Carpenter doesn't feel this is fair and sets out to convince a judge. In the process, he discovers that the dog and his owner had become involved in something much bigger than murder.
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It was a crime so brutal, it changed the lives of even the most hardened homicide cops. The Haas family murders left a scar on the community nothing can erase, but everyone agrees that convicting the killer, Karl Dahl, is a start. Only Judge Carey Moore seems to be standing in the way. Her ruling that Dahl's prior criminal record is inadmissible raises a public outcry--and puts the judge in grave danger. When an unknown assailant attacks Judge Moore...
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David Nash is a defense attorney for clients who are usually guilty but acquitted because of his defense. Nash begins to feel guilt about the cost to society for each rapist or murderer he has helped free. Now he has a client whom he believes is innocent and a chance to redeem himself.
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Mickey Haller novels volume 3
Harry Bosch mysteries volume 16
Lincoln lawyer novel volume 04
Lincoln lawyer novel volume 03
Harry Bosch mysteries volume 16
Lincoln lawyer novel volume 04
Lincoln lawyer novel volume 03
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After 24 years in prison, convicted killer Jason Jessup has been exonerated by new DNA evidence. Longtime defense attorney Mickey Haller is convinced Jessup is guilty, and he takes the case on the condition that he gets to choose his investigator, LAPD Detective Harry Bosch. Together, Bosch and Haller set off on a case fraught with political and personal danger. Opposing them is Jessup, now out on bail, a defense attorney who excels at manipulating...
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Caring for his superstar lawyer brother, who survived a shooting attack, defense attorney Leo pursues what he hopes will be his big career break only to stumble on a corrupt network in the Oakland Police Department and unsettling questions about his client's actual identity.
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William Monk and Hester Latterly mysteries volume 3
William Monk novel volume 03
William Monk Mystery
William Monk novel volume 3
William Monk novel volume 03
William Monk Mystery
William Monk novel volume 3
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After a brilliant military career, esteemed General Thaddeus Carlyon finally meets his death not in the frenzy of battle but at an elegant London dinner party. His demise appears to be the result of a freak accident, but the general's wife, Alexandra, readily confesses that she killed him-- a story she clings to even under the threat of the noose. Investigator William Monk, nurse Hester Latterly, and Oliver Rathbone, counsel for the defense, work...
9) Damage
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The Curtlees are the most powerful family in San Francisco, unscrupulous billionaires who have lined every important pocket in the Bay Area in pursuit of their own ascent. So when the family's heir, Ro Curtlee, was convicted of rape and murder a decade ago, the fallout for those who helped to bring him to justice was swift and uncompromising. The jury foreman was fired from his job and blacklisted in his industry. The lead prosecutor was pushed off...
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Stone Barrington novels volume 3
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Attorney Stone Barrington's life takes an unexpected turn when he travels to a Caribbean island for a yachting vacation only to become involved in the murder trial of Allison Manning, a woman who set sail from the other side of the Atlantic in the company of her husband and arrived in St. Marks without him.
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"When a cop shoots down the son of a respected inner-city Baptist preacher, the community rises up in anger and demands to have the officer prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. But there's something more than a call for justice at work here: a plot to bring down the city's police force through a conspiracy so vast and malicious only Butch Karp and his band of truth-seekers can untangle it"--
12) Runaway heart
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Lawyer Herman Strockmire goes to work against a secret government agency when one of its prototype weapons--a genetically engineered animal with phenomenal strength--brutally kills one of his employees.
13) Enemy within
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Butch Karp and Marlene Ciampi thrillers volume 13
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"When a black man is shot multiple times in the back on the streets of New York by an NYPD golden boy, chaos erupts throughout the city. And in an election year no one feels the pressure more than the men and women who vow to protect and to serve. For Butch Karp -- Chief Assistant District Attorney for New York County -- bullet holes aren't the only holes in this volatile case."--from NoveList.
14) Shadow of doubt
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IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 15
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Celia stands accused of poisoning her husband, Detective Stan Shepherd. The fact her first husband died under similar circumstances only heightens the suspicion. But attorney Jill Clark thinks the pieces of the puzzle fit together a bit too neatly. Either her client's Christian faith is a sham, or she's the victim of a deadly frame-up.
15) In plain sight
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On the outside, Arizona chief prosecutor Janet McNeil is the epitome of a driven, daring attorney who lives life by her own rules. But inside, her world is in chaos. Terrifying nightmares keep her in a constant state of anxiety. Yet saving face is imperative now that she's prosecuting a member of a white supremacy organization, a killer who wouldn't think twice about using his twisted followers to silence Janet for good.
Neighbor Simon Green is...
Neighbor Simon Green is...
16) Bleed for me
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"Psychologist Joe O'Loughlin is being pushed away. His marriage is ending. Charlie, his eldest daughter, will barely speak to him. And Charlie's rebellious best friend Sienna is getting into more and more trouble, and taking Charlie along for the ride. Sienna has been almost like family to O'Loughlin-a troubled child who for years spent more time in the O'Loghlin residence than her own home. O'Loughlin's worst fears are confirmed when Sienna turns...
17) Legal tender
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Bennie's former lover and current law partner, Mark Biscardi, breaks the news that he wants to oust her from the firm in favour of an ambitious and beautiful associate. When Mark is found murdered, all the evidence points to Bennie, who has motive aplenty and a dubious alibi. Suddenly her world is turned upside down, as the lawyer becomes the client, and the cops she once prosecuted are now after her with a vengeance.
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"It's 1960, and David Swain is two years into his life sentence for murdering the lover of his ex-girlfriend, Katya Osman. In the dead of night, David escapes from prison, and that same night Katya is found murdered in her uncle's home, Blackwater Hall..."--inside front cover.
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Dismas Hardy defends Maya Townshend, the beautiful socialite niece of the San Francisco's mayor, who is suspected in several killings, the first of which was her business manager, a charming ex-convict. A compelling and timely legal thriller filled with blackmail, political intrigue, and multiple murder which also features returning characters Abe Glitsky and Wyatt Hunt.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 19
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Things are finally looking up for defense attorney Mickey Haller. After two years of wrong turns, Haller is back in the courtroom. When Hollywood lawyer Jerry Vincent is murdered, Haller inherits his biggest case yet: the defense of Walter Elliott, a prominent studio executive accused of murdering his wife and her lover. But as Haller prepares for the case that could launch him into the big time, he learns that Vincent's killer may be coming for him...
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