Search Results: Returned 20 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 20
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c1996., Adult, Nan A. Talese Call No: FIC ATW Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Fact-based story of Grace Marks, a sixteen-year-old girl who received a life sentence in 1843 for allegedly taking part in the murder of her employer and his lover, but whose case continued to stir debate throughout her prison stay, resulting in her release in 1872.
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2006., Adult, Little, Brown and Co. Call No: FIC PAT Edition: 1st ed. Availability:0 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Montauk lawyer Tom Dunleavy is hired to represent a high-profile triple-murder suspect, local star athlete Dante Halleyville; but the case becomes complicated by his client's popularity and a dangerous secret being protected by members of East Hampton's elite class.
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c2001., Adult, G.P. Putnam's Sons Call No: FIC HOF Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: The lives of the people of the small town of Monroe, Massachusetts are shattered when beloved friend and neighbor Ethan Ford--a Little League coach, trusted contractor, doting husband and father, and heroic volunteer fireman--is arrested for a fifteen-year-old murder which he readily admits to committing.
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1996., Young Adult, Doubleday Call No: FIC MAR Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: History is about to repeat itself when young attorney Peter Hale, fired from a job with his father's legal firm for mishandling a multi-million dollar case, takes a job as a public defender and lets his ego overule his good sense in a death-penalty case.
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c2008., Adult, Tyndale House Publishers Call No: FIC SIN Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Attorney Quinn Newberg fears his newest client, Catherine O'Rourke, who has been accused of being a vicious serial killer, may in fact be guilty, and takes a gamble using the insanity plea, hoping to prove his client suffers from a fractured personality disorder.
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2011., Adult, Little, Brown Call No: FIC CON Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Criminal defense lawyer Mickey Haller's newest client is Lisa Trammel, a young woman accused of killing the banker she blames for trying to take away her home, and despite mounting evidence and his own suspicions that his client is guilty, Mickey vows to clear Lisa's name, and when he uncovers a conspiracy with millions of dollars at stake, Mickey realizes someone besides Lisa had a bigger motive for murder and a reason to kill Mickey to keep him quiet.
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c2002., Adult, Little, Brown Call No: FIC PAT Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Detective Alex Cross, intending to resign from the Washington D.C. Police Force, agrees to take on one more case when his friend and partner John Sampson asks for his help in clearing an old Vietnam buddy who has been framed for the murders of three women.
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2013., Adult, Little, Brown and Co. Call No: FIC CON Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Attorney Mickey Haller defends a suspect accused of killing a prostitute, whom Mickey represented years early and thought he had helped change her life.
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c2004., Adult, Simon & Schuster Call No: FIC BUR Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Montana lawyer Billy Bob Holland defends Johnny American Horse, an activist for the rights of Native Americans who has been charged with the murder of two mysterious men, and discovered a network of intrigue involving Johnny's girlfriend, a Missoula police detective, and a government agent.
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c2004., Adult, Doubleday Call No: FIC GRI Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In 1970s Clanton, Mississippi, college dropout Willie Traynor turns a failed small-town paper into a success covering a local rape and murder case and finds his life coming full circle when the man convicted of that crime is paroled nine years after receiving a life sentence and jury members from the trial begin turning up dead.
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1994, c1993., Adult, Jove Books Call No: MYS MAR Edition: Jove mass-market ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: During a murder trial, attorney Paul Madriani realizes that there is another murderer besides the one being tried.
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-- 2nd chairc2004., Adult, Penguin Call No: MYS LES Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Attorney Dismas Hardy and his friend, Abe Glitsky, newly promoted to deputy chief of the San Francisco Investigations Bureau, find life at the top of their professions somewhat disillusioning, but their faith is restored when Dismas discovers evidence that a teenage client accused of a double murder may just be innocent, and Abe goes head-to-head with a serial killer.
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2005., Adult, WaterBrook Press Call No: FIC SIN Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Attorney Leslie Conners fears she is in over her head when she agrees to defend a young woman who claims she killed her abusive stepfather in self-defense, despite the fact Leslie does not believe in her client's innocence.
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1995., Adult, Vintage Books Call No: FIC GUT Edition: 1st Vintage contemporaries ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Vintage contemporariesSummary Note: When a newspaper journalist covers the trial of a Japanese American accused of murder, he must come to terms with his own past.
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c2004., Adult, RiverOak Call No: FIC HIL Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Life takes a dangerous turn when divorced, alcoholic attorney Mike Connolly is appointed to represent an indigent man accused of murdering the lawyer of a prominent plaintiff.
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2010, c2009., Adult, Dell Call No: ROM STE Edition: Dell mass market ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Assistant District Attorney Alexa Hamilton reluctantly sends her seventeen-year-old daughter Savannah, to live with her ex-husband and his family in Charleston after she received death threats against Savannah's life for prosecuting serial killer Luke Quentin.
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[2013]., Adult, Doubleday Call No: FIC GRI Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Ford County lawyer Jake Brigance is thrust into the center of a murder trial and mystery after wealthy Seth Hubbard, who was dying of lung cancer, commits suicide and leaves all of his fortune to his African-American maid, raising questions about the circumstances of his death and a piece of land once known as Sycamore Row.
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-- Bindc2003., Adult, HarperCollins Call No: FIC MAR Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: While representing the alleged murderer of a U.S. senator who was killed just before his party was going to nominate him for the presidency, Amanda Jaffe uncovers a ruthless fraternity of powerful and dangerous men involved in a political cabal.
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c1992, c1989., Adult, Island Books Call No: MYS GRI Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In Clanton, Mississippi, the life of a ten-year-old girl is shattered by two drunken and remorseless young men. The mostly white town reacts with shock and horror at the inhumane crime until her African-American father acquires an assault rifle and takes justice into his own hands.
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By Iles, Gregc2005., Adult, Scribner Call No: FIC ILE Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Retired attorney Penn Cage, best friends with respected doctor Drew Elliott since their days at St. Stephen's Prep in Natchez, Mississippi, where they both now sit on the school board, learns more about human nature and modern youth than he ever wanted to know when he begins to investigate the murder of popular student Kate Townsend at the request of Drew, who has become a prime suspect after revealing he had been having an affair with the girl.