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Author
Pub. Date
2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Description
A woman and her husband admitted to a hospital to have a baby requests that their nurse be reassigned --they are white supremacists and don't want Ruth, who is black, to touch their baby. The hospital complies, but the baby later goes into cardiac distress when Ruth is on duty. She hesitates before rushing in to perform CPR. When her indecision ends in tragedy, Ruth finds herself on trial, represented by a white public defender who warns against bringing...
Author
Series
Jane Smith volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Tough-as-nails criminal defense attorney Jane Smith is hip-deep in the murder trial of the century. Actually, her charmless client might've committed several murders. She's also fallen in love with a wonderful guy. And an equally wonderful dog, a mutt. But Jane doesn't have much time. She's just received a terminal diagnosis giving her twelve months. Unless she's murdered before her expiration date.
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Language
English
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"When a prominent Manhattan lawyer is murdered, two estranged sisters--one the dead man's widow, the other his ex--must set aside mistrust and old resentments. but can they escape their past? Though Chloe was the younger of the two Taylor sisters, she always seemed to be in charge. She was the honor roll student with big dreams and an even bigger work ethic. Nicky was always restless. and more than a little reckless--the opposite of her ambitious...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Description
"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"--
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Martha Costello is a brilliant, passionate defense barrister with a reputation for defending the poor and downtrodden. She is about to embark on the next step of her career and apply to be a member of the highly prestigious Queen's Counsel. But she's not the only one at her chambers applying. Joining Martha is Clive Reader - charming and ruthless, funny, gifted, and dangerous. Only one is likely to be made QC, so how they perform in court is vital,...
Author
Publisher
Celadon Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
"Eighteen-year-old Stella Sandell stands accused of the brutal murder of a man almost fifteen years her senior. She is an ordinary teenager from an upstanding local family. What reason could she have to know a shady businessman, let alone to kill him? Stella's father, a pastor, and mother, a criminal defense attorney, find their moral compasses tested as they defend their daughter, while struggling to understand why she is a suspect. Told in an unusual...
Author
Series
Eddie Flynn volume 2
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The FBI wants to secure a murder suspect's testimony against a corrupt law firm. David Child's girlfriend was murdered, the weapon was in his car, he was covered in gunshot residue, and the security video showed no one else entering the apartment. Con artist-turned-lawyer Eddie Flynn is being blackmailed to get him to take a plea bargain, but he begins to believe Child is innocent, in spite of the evidence.
9) The defense
Author
Series
Eddie Flynn volume 1
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Formats
Description
Former con artists turned lawyer Eddie Flynn vowed never to step foot in a courtroom again after a disastrous case. But now he doesn't have a choice. The head of the Russian mob in New York City, on trial for murder, has kidnapped Eddie's ten-year-old daughter: Eddie has to take this case whether he likes it or not.
11) Charged
Author
Series
Saints of Denver volume 2
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Avett Walker and Quaid Jackson's worlds don't collide, ever. Quaid is divorced, a high powered criminal attorney, and as slick as he is handsome. Very. Avett is a pink-haired troublemaker with a bad attitude and a history of picking the absolute wrong men at the absolute worst time. But when Avett lands in an ocean of hot water because of one of those mistakes, the only person who can get her out of it is the sexy lawyer. Quaid never takes these kinds...
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Series
Robin Lockwood volume 3
Language
English
Description
Robin Lockwood joined the firm of legal legend Regina Barrister not long before Regina was forced into retirement by early onset Alzheimer's. One of Regina's former clients, Robert Chesterfield, shows up in the law office with an odd request-- he's seeking help from his old attorney in acquiring patent protection for an illusion. Chesterfield is a professional magician and he has a major new trick he's about to debut. When Lockwood looks into his...
13) Silk: season two
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Martha Costello (Maxine Peake, The Village) returns to Shoe Lane Chambers having earned "silk." Now as a new member of the Queen's Counsel, Martha finds the stakes higher than ever as she faces Shoe Lane's newest prosecution barrister. As the pressure rises, so does the romantic tension between her and fellow barrister, Clive Reader (Rupert Penry-Jones, MI5). Meanwhile, Senior Clerk Billy Lamb (Neil Stuke, Inspector Lewis) turns to an unsavory solicitor...
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
The television series is a spinoff from the popular Breaking Bad television show. The series takes place six years before the events of Breaking Bad and features small-time lawyer Jimmy McGill. The series follows the exploits of Jimmy and the circumstances that lead to his metamorphosis into criminal-minded lawyer Saul Goodman.
16) Closed circuit
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Two lawyers who are former lovers become caught up in a conspiracy when they're both placed on the same defense team for a Middle Eastern man accused of masterminding a terrorist act.
17) Moral defense
Author
Series
Samantha Brinkman volume 2
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Samantha Brickman is hired as the legal advocate for Cassie Sonnenberg after a brutal stabbing left the teenager's father and brother dead. It's a tabloid-ready case that has the nation in an uproar--and Sam facing her biggest challenge yet. As Sam digs to find answers, she becomes more personally entangled in the case, and ends up facing a choice she never dreamed she'd have to make, --adapted from book jacket.
Author
Series
Robin Lockwood volume 4
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
"In A Matter of Life and Death, an indigent man has been set up for the brutal murder of the wealthy wife of a prominent judge in New York Times bestseller Phillip Margolin's latest legal thriller featuring Robin Lockwood. Joe Lattimore, homeless and trying desperately to provide for his young family, agrees to fight in a no-holds-barred fight, only to have his opponent die. Lattimore now finds himself at the mercy of the fight's organizers who blackmail...
Author
Series
Baltimore volume 6
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Gwyn Weaver is as resilient as anyone could be. Having survived an attempted murder, she has rebuilt her life and reclaimed her dignity and strength. She's always known about her feelings for defense attorney Thomas Thorne, but as her friend and a colleague there could be no chance of anything more ... or could there? Thorne has known violence and pain all his life. He's overcome the hardships thanks to his own steel, and the love of his loyal friends....
Author
Publisher
Subterranean Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Martin H. Ehrengraf, dapper and diabolical, may be Lawrence Block's darkest creation. He's the defense attorney who never sees the inside of a courtroom, because all his clients are innocent--no matter how guilty they may seem. Some even believe themselves to be guilty: they remember pulling the trigger, or wiring the dynamite to their spouse's car, or holding the bloody blade. But things have a way of working out when Martin Ehrengraf is on the...
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