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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.
2) The vig
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x-cop, part-time investigator, and sometime bartender Dismas Hardy returns to face a death threat as he investigates the bloody disappearance of his friend Rusty Ingraham, an investigation that exposes foot-dragging police, corruption and an enforcer named Johnny LaGuardia.
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A legal thriller featuring a battered San Francisco wife accused of shooting both her husband and her seven-year-old son. When the trial opens she refuses to allow a defense of spousal abuse because of its implication of guilt. Which presents her lawyer, the narrator, with a major problem as the prosecution claims she killed the husband for the insurance. By the author of Hard Evidence.
4) After dark
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ttorney Abbie Griffin is in the middle of a messy divorce when her husband is killed by a car bomb. She believes it to be the work of Charlie Deems, a man she put on death row. Is he also behind her subsequent arrest for her ex-husband's murder?
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In San Francisco, a black lawyer is mistaken for a killer and lynched by whites. A white bystander trying to save him by cutting the rope is photographed holding a knife and portrayed by a newspaper as the mob's leader. The city explodes into violence, politicians outdo each other calling for retribution and a decent man runs for his life.
6) The witness
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A woman flees across the South, pursued by people who want to kill her. She is Kendall Burnwood, witness to a racial murder committed by her husband, a newspaper editor. She has been summoned to testify at the trial and the family want to silence her.
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Peter Hale is a young attorney with a lot to prove. Crossing his father, one of Portland's most powerful lawyers, was a costly mistake. Now, cut loose from his job and from his inheritance, Peter's landed in the public defender's office of a small Oregon town --- and in the middle of a high-profile case that could make or break his career. His mentally retarded client, accused of the savage murder of a college coed, faces the death penalty. And Peter...
8) Guilt
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As chief legal counsel for the archbishop of San Francisco, Mark Dooher could not divorce his wife, therefore he murdered her. So say the police and the novel is the story of his trial, a conflict between a tenacious police detective and the powerful lawyer. By the author of A Certain Justice.
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Sal Russo's body is found, with a "Do Not Resuscitate" note. Dismas Hardy finds himself as Graham Russo's defense. How long can Russo protest innocence, when it's discovered Sal wasn't penniless, and all San Fransisco is intent on making the apparent mercy killing media issue of the year?
10) Acts of malice
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When a champion skier goes off a cliff, police charge his brother with murder. Lawyer Nina Reilly agrees to represent him, but with trepidation. Although her client swears his innocence, his father, sister and wife doubt it.
12) The great divide
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Attorney Marcus Glenwood finds his life in danger after taking on a difficult case against a large sports equipment manufacturer.
13) Sullivan's law
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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.
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Night sins: A young boy disappears. There are no witnesses, no clues-- only a note, cleverly taunting, casually cruel. Has a cold-blooded kidnapper struck? Or is this a reawakening of a long-quiet serial killer?
Guilty as sin: A respected member of the community stands accused of a chilling act of evil. But when a second boy disappears, a frightened public demands to know: Have the police caught the wrong man? Is the nightmare continuing...Or...
15) The second chair
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Dismas Hardy becomes involved in a case involving the teenage son of a prominent San Francisco family who has been arrested for the murders of his girlfriend and English teacher, while an unseen killer terrorizes the city.
16) Case of lies
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"As Nina tries to unravel the mystery of one violent Tahoe night, a harrowing journey begins--one that takes her from the dark underworld of Tahoe's casinos to the halls of a prestigious East Coast university to Europe and an emotional reunion with Kurt [Scott, her son's father]. As old feelings are rekindled, Nina's case turns violent. Everyone has something to hide--the brilliant but unstable mathematics student who has made an astonishing discovery,...
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New York Times bestselling author Nancy Taylor Rosenberg delivers Sullivan’s Justice—and plunges probation officer Carolyn Sullivan into a case that will challenge everything she holds dear while exposing the deadliest of secrets….
Her work for the Ventura County Probation Department brings Carolyn Sullivan face-to-face with the most depraved criminals, and serial killer Raphael Moreno is at the top of the list. But things get even darker...
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Ten years ago, Carolyn Sullivan recommended a 44-year sentence for vicious murderer and serial rapist Carl Holden, the kind of criminal the death penalty was made for. But when the forensic evidence is discredited, Holden is a free man, and Carolyn is his assigned parole officer. She knows Holden for what he is--a stone-cold sociopath--and she's determined to see him back behind bars. Then she meets charming and wealthy Marcus Knight, who seems to...
19) The suspect
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"When Dr. Caryn Dryden is found floating dead in her hot tub, her husband becomes the prime suspect. Gina Roake takes the case and feels her client's innocence will be easy to prove since he was at his cabin on Echo Lake that weekend."--Source other than the Library of Congress.
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When Dismas Hardy agrees to clean up the caseload of recently disappeared attorney Charlie Bowen, he thinks it will be easy. But one of the cases is far from small-time--the sensational clash between National Guard reservist Evan Scholler and an ex-Navy SEAL and private contractor named Ron Nolan. Two rapid-fire events in Iraq conspired to bring the men into fatal conflict: Nolan's relationship with Evan's girlfriend, Tara, a beautiful school-teacher...
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