Catalog Search Results
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
660L
Language
English
Description
Two supreme court justices are murdered within hours of each other, and Darby Shaw, a law student at Tulane, thinks she has the answer. She prepares a meticulous, speculative brief that builds a strong case against a surprise suspect -- a suspect with powerful friends that wants her and her brief out of the way for good.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Hannah has abandoned everything--her trajectory as a law student, her childhood home and caring for her ill mother--for the chance to work with the Innocence Project, a prestigious coalition of investigators who fight to free wrongly convicted prisoners. Hannah's ambitions are set on the program's highest-stakes case in years: a convicted rapist and murderer on death row. She'll do anything--whatever it takes--to work on this case. Because Hannah...
Author
Series
Guardian Angelinos volume 1
Language
English
Description
After Harvard-bound law student Samantha Fairchild witnesses a murder, she becomes the next target of an assassin. Sam seeks help from an investigative reporter who recruits her brother, Zach Angelino, to protect Sam. Now Sam and Zach must face their fears, desires, and doubts, before a hired killer gets a second shot.
5) Summit Lake
Author
Language
English
Description
After a law school student is murdered, investigative reporter Kelsey Castle is assigned to her story and soon discovers that the case may have links to her own dark past.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"When law student Cass Walker wakes up after surviving a car accident, she is flooded with memories of her boyfriend, Devin. The only problem? Devin doesn't exist. But everything she remembers about him feels so real, like the precise shade of his coffee-brown eyes; the texture of his favorite hand-me-down scarf; even the slightly crooked angle of his pinkie, broken after falling off a trampoline in third grade. She knows he's a figment of her imagination--friends,...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
In bestseller after bestseller, author Nancy Taylor Rosenberg has drawn on her experience as a cop and a probation officer, lending a crackling authenticity to the street-smart novels that have won her such high-profile fans as James Patterson, Lisa Scottoline, Nelson DeMille, and Tess Gerritsen. Now, she uses her insider's knowledge to create her most compelling heroine yet—probation officer Carolyn Sullivan of Ventura County, California.
...Author
Series
Twilight, Texas novels volume 7
Twilight Texas novel volume 06
Twilight Texas novels volume 7
Avon romance
Twilight Texas novel volume 06
Twilight Texas novels volume 7
Avon romance
Language
English
Description
Christmas in Twilight, Texas, is all merriment and mistletoe. The Cookie Club is whipping up their most festive sweets, the townspeople are scrambling to get their holiday shopping done, and Joe, a hometown guy with a restless heart, is dreaming about the woman he wants to kiss most.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Valentine, a mild-mannered film archivist at UCLA, knows that truth is often stranger than fiction. When he buys a decrepit old movie palace and uncovers a skeleton, he's not entirely surprised. What does surprise him however, is the discovery of reels of Erich von Stroheim's director's cut of the infamous movie, Greed. Since the LAPD will not allow him to remove the film until the case of the skeleton is solved, he and some friends decide to give...
Language
English
Formats
Description
Two Supreme Court Justices have been murdered. A lone law student turns her suspicions about the deaths into a speculative brief that sends shock waves into the highest levels of government. She finds herself embroiled in a terrifying web of intrigue extending to the highest levels of government. She writes a speculative legal brief exposing the activities of a powerful oil magnate. With the help of Gray Grantham, an investigative reporter, they suspect...
11) Simple
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
When beautiful and talented Pittsburgh law student Cassie Price is found murdered, the authorities initially investigate a local handyman before suspicion falls on the victim's ambitious boss, a golden boy gubernatorial candidate.
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
When Alice, a beautiful American law student studying in London, is knocked down by a cab, it's just the start of her problems. Miles from home and relentlessly pursued by a shadowy group intent on taking her captive, she begins a dark and dangerous journey through a violent underworld full of gangsters, pimps and prostitutes. With only cab driver Whitey to guide her, she soon finds that the only way out is to fight for her freedom.
13) The murder list
Author
Language
English
Description
"Law student Rachel North is the ultimate reliable narrator--she will tell you, without hesitation, what she knows to be true. She's smart, she's a hard worker, she does the right thing. She's successfully married to a faithful and devoted husband, a lion of Boston's defense bar. And her internship with the District Attorney's office is her ticket to a successful future. Problem is--she's wrong. Rachel. Jack. Martha. Who is next on The Murder List?...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The Fallen Angels Book Club has only tow requirements: the members must love books and have a white-collar criminal record. Hollis Morgan fits the bill. Left holding the bag in an insurance fraud scheme concocted by her now ex-husband, she served her time and is trying to rebuild her life. All she wants is for the court to pardon her conviction so she can return to law school. After one of her fellow member is murdered, Hollis is once again the subject...
Author
Language
English
Description
"From the moment she discovered her sister's secret relationship with charismatic professor Jay Crane, Jessie Mooney has been convinced that he's to blame for the events leading to her death. Haunted by their last email exchange--You know what you did--she enrolls in graduate school and competes her way into Crane's famous "Law and Literature" class, setting into motion a plan to get close to him so she can expose who he really is. Jessie will cross...
Author
Series
Olivia Miller mystery volume 2
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Olivia Miller has just finished her first year of law school. She is staying at her cousin John's house in Howland, MA to dog-sit his chocolate Lab while John goes on a business trip. Olivia promises to clean out the attic and she finds a stack of old newspapers that John's dad had saved. The articles recount the grisly murders of a young mother and her 4 year old daughter in the state park in Howland forty years ago. John tells Olivia that the...
17) Jane: a murder
Author
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Part elegy, part true crime story, this memoir-in-verse from the author of the award-winning The Argonauts expands the notion of how we tell stories and what form those stories take through the story of a murdered woman and the mystery surrounding her last hours.
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Two Supreme Court Justices have been murdered. A lone law student turns her suspicions about the deaths into a speculative brief that sends shock waves into the highest levels of government. She finds herself embroiled in a terrifying web of intrigue extending to the highest levels of government. She writes a speculative legal brief exposing the activities of a powerful oil magnate. With the help of Gray Grantham, an investigative reporter, they suspect...
20) Gotcha!
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
After a lifetime of undependable men, law student and pizza delivery girl Macy Tucker finds what she's been searching for after her brother breaks out of prison and the Houston cop on his trail comes into her life--and he won't let "her" be the one who got away.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request