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"Defense attorney Robin Lockwood faces an unimaginable personal disaster and her greatest professional challenge in the next New York Times bestselling Phillip Margolin's new legal thriller, The Darkest Place. Robin Lockwood is an increasingly prominent defense attorney in the Portland community. A Yale graduate and former MMA fighter, she's becoming known for her string of innovative and successful defense strategies. As a favor to a judge, Robin...
83) Killer heat
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Successfully completing her latest rape trail, Assistant District Attorney Alex Cooper's victory is spoiled by the discovery of the bodies of two women who have been brutally murdered, and she embarks on a deadly pursuit of a serial killer.
85) Bleak house
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Bleak House, Dickens's most daring experiment in the narration of a complex plot, challenges the reader to make connections - between the fashionable and the outcast, the beautiful and the ugly, the powerful and the victims. Nowhere in Dickens's later novels is his attack on an uncaring society more imaginatively embodied, but nowhere either is the mixture of comedy and angry satire more deftly managed. Bleak House defies a single description. It...
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"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 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,...
87) The third victim
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"In rural Oregon, two women are found dead after being tortured, battered, and burned. A third woman escapes with evidence that points overwhelmingly to a local man. When a young lawyer joins the team defending him, she uncovers corruption, lies, and secrets that threaten to shake up not only her firm but the entire town..."
88) Move to strike
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Attorney Nina Riley is haunted by her latest case, defending sixteen-year-old Nikki Zack, a friend of her son, who has been accused of killing her own uncle, and joins forces with Paul Van Wagoner to uncover the mystery surrounding Nikki.
89) Deadly deals
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After years of trying to become pregnant without success, Rachel Dawson and her husband Thomas felt their dreams had finally come true when they brought home their newly adopted twin babies. Though the lawyer Baron Bell who arranged for the surrogate mother charged a hefty six-figure fee, one glance at their children told them it was all worth it. Until the birth mother reappeared, first demanding more money, then the twins themselves. Suddenly Baron...
90) Dead even
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Sara Tate, a Manhattan assistant DA is about to lose her job. The case she nabs to secure her future is far more complicated than it first appears. She is threatened to win the case or her attorney husband, Jared, will die. But Jared has been strong-armed into defending the opposition and he learns that Sara will be killed should he lose the case.
91) Infamy
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"In the twenty-eighth installment of the New York Times bestselling Karp-Ciampi series, the "rock-solid" (Kirkus Reviews) prosecutor Butch Karp and his wife, Marlene Ciampi, must team up to solve the suspicious murder of an FBI informant and battle corruption at the highest levels of the United States government. Intrigue, murder, corruption, and dramatic courtroom battles combine to make Infamy another must-read in Robert K. Tanenbaum's "tightly...
92) The Guardians
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In the small north Florida town of Seabrook, a young lawyer named Keith Russo was shot dead at his desk as he worked late one night. The killer left no clues behind. There were no witnesses, no real suspects, no one with a motive. The police soon settled on Quincy Miller, a young black man who was once a client of Russos. Quincy was framed, convicted, and sent to prison for life. For twenty-two years he languished in prison with no lawyer, no advocate...
93) Damaged
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"Damaged finds Mary DiNunzio, partner at the all-female law firm of Rosato & DiNunzio, embroiled in one of her most heartbreaking cases yet. Suing the Philadelphia school district to get help for a middle school boy with emotional issues, Mary ends up becoming the guardian ad litem of her minor client. As she goes up against Nick Machiavelli, her opposing counsel and the dark prince of South Philly lawyers who will use any means necessary to defeat...
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The 1935 trial for Erma Morton, a teacher in a remote Virginia mountain town who stands accused of murdering her drunken father, causes reporter Carl Jennings to clash with the rest of the media when his accurate reporting conflicts with the sensational accounts from the other journalists who insist on portraying Erma as a backwards mountain girl.
95) Acts of malice
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When defense attorney Nina Reilly takes the case of Jim Strong, a member of one of South Lake Tahoe's most prominent families, who has been accused of killing his brother, she finds her life threatened by a terrifying confrontation with a psychopath.
96) Betrayal
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When her husband is convicted of a crime he didn't commit, Kate plots her revenge on the people responsible.
97) The gate house
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Ten years after his wife murdered her Mafia don boyfriend, John Sutter returns to Long Island, where he takes up residence just a quarter-mile away from the woman he used to love and encounters the son of her dead lover, who wants to pull John back into the Bellarosa family's violent world.
98) Turning angel
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When the body of Kate Townsend turns up near the Mississippi River, attorney Penn Cage tangles with the dark side of his hometown of Natchez, Mississippi, to investigate the secret world of an elite nearby high school.
99) Juror #3
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"Ruby Bozarth, a newcomer to Rosedale, Mississippi, is also fresh to the Mississippi Bar--and to the docket of Circuit Judge Baylor, who taps Ruby as defense counsel in a racially charged felony. The murder of a woman from one of the town's oldest families has Rosedale's upper crust howling for blood, and the prosecutor is counting on Ruby's inexperience to help him deliver a swift conviction. Ruby's client is a college football star who has returned...
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"In "master of the legal thriller" (Chicago Sun-Times) John Lescroart's electrifying new novel, attorney Dismas Hardy is called to defend the least likely suspect of his career: his longtime, trusted assistant who is suddenly being charged as an accessoryto murder. Dismas Hardy knows something is amiss with his trusted secretary, Phyllis. Her out-of-character behavior and sudden disappearances concern Hardy, especially when he learns that her convict...
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