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22) Silent witness
Author
Series
Tony Lord volume 2
Language
English
Description
"After the murder of his high school sweetheart left him shattered, Tony Lord vowed never to return to his Ohio hometown of Lake City. Twenty-eight years later, Tony is a successful California criminal lawyer with a beautiful celebrity wife. He's living the good life ... until long-buried memories come crashing down when he hears from an old friend, who needs his help. Sam Robb is a track coach at Lake City High. He swears he is not responsible for...
23) Blue diary
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
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.
24) Smash cut
Author
Series
Mitchell and Associates volume 1
Language
English
Description
The murder of Paul Wheeler has all the elements of a blockbuster: family rivalries, incalculable wealth, and a prominent man dying in the arms of his beautiful mistress. It's a case that could earn Derek Mitchell even greater star power. When the Wheeler family approaches him about defending Creighton for his uncle's murder -- even before he's charged -- he jumps at the chance. But the more Derek learns about Creighton and his darker side, the more...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 23
Lexile measure
1080L
Language
English
Description
San Piedro Island, north of Puget Sound, is a place so isolated that no one who lives there can afford to make enemies. But in 1954 a local fisherman is found suspiciously drowned, and a Japanese American named Kabuo Miyamoto is charged with his murder. In the course of the ensuing trial, it becomes clear that what is at stake is more than a man's guilt. For on San Pedro, memory grows as thickly as cedar trees and the fields of ripe strawberries--memories...
26) The reckoning
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1946 Clanton, Mississippi, World War II hero Pete Banning calmly and inexplicably kills his pastor and friend, the Reverend Dexter Bell, and refuses to defend his actions during the subsequent trial.
Pete Banning was Clanton's favorite son, a returning war hero, the patriarch of a prominent family, a farmer, father, neighbor, and a faithful member of the Methodist church. Then one cool October morning in 1946. he rose early, drove into town, walked...
27) Undue influence
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
As lawyer Paul Madriani's wife lies dying, leaving him with two children, she asks a favor: protect her younger sister, Laurel, mired in a bitter child custody battle with her former husband, a powerful state senator. When the senator's new wife is murdered and police arrest Laurel, Madriani sets out to keep his promise and discovers a Laurel no one knew. By the author of Compelling Evidence.
28) Native son
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 24
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Description
Right from the start, Bigger Thomas had been headed for jail. It could have been for assault or petty larceny; by chance, it was for murder and rape. Native Son tells the story of this young black man caught in a downward spiral after he kills a young white woman in a brief moment of panic.--From publisher's description.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
A woman under the impression she is being stalked retaliates by murdering several men. At her trial it emerges she suffers from a multiple personality disorder and the defense seeks acquittal because she killed in her "other" state. Based on real events.
30) Sycamore Row
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 28
Language
English
Description
John Grisham's A Time to Kill is one of the most popular novels of our time. Now we return to that famous courthouse in Clanton as Jake Brigance once again finds himself embroiled in a fiercely controversial trial-a trial that will expose old racial tensions and force Ford County to confront its tortured history. Seth Hubbard is a wealthy man dying of lung cancer. He trusts no one. Before he hangs himself from a sycamore tree, Hubbard leaves a new,...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
" Reluctant lawyer Andy Carpenter is at the Tara Foundation's annual Christmas party. The dog rescue organization has always been his true calling, and this is one holiday tradition he can get behind because every dog that's come through the rescue--and their families--are invited to celebrate. This year's party is no exception. But before the stockings can be hung by the chimney with care, homicide detectives ruin the evening. Derek Moore, one of...
Author
Language
English
Description
Having built a successful career based on his famous prosecution of a serial killer fifteen years earlier, attorney Paul Riley realizes that his past case has eerie ties to a new series of murders and that the killer has an agenda aimed specifically at Paul himself.
Author
Series
Robin Lockwood novels volume 4
Language
English
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
Language
English
Description
"Anne Rule unravels a shattering case of holiday murder off the coast of Washington State with the clarity, authority, and emotional depth that her readers expect. It's a case with enough drama, greed, sex, and scandal to be called "The real housewives of Whidbey Island." But the discovery of Russel Douglas's blood-drenched body the day after Christmas, in his SUV in a hidden driveway near Whidbey's most exclusive mansions, was not reality television....
38) From a distance
Author
Series
Timber Ridge reflections volume 1
Language
English
Description
For Elizabeth Westbrook, establishing her career as a premier photojournalist is of utmost concern, as is finding a cure for her mysterious illness. But when one of her photographs becomes key evidence in a murder charge, her life is in peril.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
When a beautiful lawyer from the prosecuting attorney's office, Carolyn Polhemus, is brutally murdered, assistant prosecutor Rusty Sabich is entrusted with the case. But he and Carolyn were much more than colleagues, and a zealous fellow prosecutor becomes convinces that Sabich is guilty of the crime.
40) Against the wind
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1991.
Language
English
Description
Will Alexander defends four members of the outlaw scorpion motorcycle gang who have accused of murder.