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Dani Fox mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
While investigating a series of brutal crimes against women and children in 1978 New York, Assistant District Attorney Dani Fox takes on the challenging case of a businessman who has been secretly molesting his young daughter for years.
82) Creeping ivy
Author
Series
Trish Maguire mysteries volume 1
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
British lawyer Trish Maguire investigates the kidnaping of her cousin's child while the nanny was not looking. One suspect is the cousin's first husband who might be the child's father and who wants it because his second wife is barren.
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English
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"Malcolm Gephardt, handsome and gregarious longtime bartender at the Half Moon, has always dreamed of owning a bar. When his boss finally retires, Malcolm stretches to buy the place. He sees unquantifiable magic and potential in the Half Moon and hopes to transform it into a bigger success, but quickly realizes that making margins won't be easy. His smart and confident wife, Jess, has devoted herself to her law career. After years of trying to have...
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English
Description
Marrying an economics professor she met while catering an East Hampton dinner party, Angela finds her tragic past coming under scrutiny at the same time she is asked to defend her husband against wrongful accusations.
"When Angela met Jason Powell while catering a dinner party in East Hampton, she assumed their romance would be a short-lived fling, like so many relationships between locals and summer visitors. To her surprise, Jason, a brilliant...
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Series
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
[1992]
Language
English
Description
Deborah Knott, an attorney attempting to infiltrate the old boy network of tobacco country by running for district judge, is distracted from the race, and almost eliminated, when she finds new evidence to an old small-town murder.
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Series
Rachel Knight novels volume 4
Publisher
Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
While interviewing students in the aftermath of a school shooting in the San Fernando Valley, prosecutor Rachel Knight and Detective Bailey Keller realize the facts don't add up and the real killers may still be out there.
87) Jury of one
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Children's rights advocate Shelly Trotter is out of her depth in criminal court, defending a teenager accused of killing a cop. And when she discovers that he may be her own son, nothing--not legal ethics, not political pressure--will stop her from keeping him off of death row.
88) Perfect match
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Language
English
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In the course of her everyday work, career-driven assistant district attorney Nina Frost prosecutes child molesters and works determinedly to ensure that a legal system with too many loopholes keeps these criminals behind bars. But when her own five-year-old son, Nathaniel, is traumatized by a sexual assault, Nina and her husband, Caleb, a quiet and methodical stone mason, are shattered, ripped apart by an enraging sense of helplessness in the face...
89) The darkest web
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Series
Allison Barton novels volume 2
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Author
Series
Sarah Woolson mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Returning from an evening spent listening to a young Oscar Wilde in 1882 San Francisco, crusading young lawyer Sarah Woolson and her brother, Samuel, are targeted in the fog by a gunman who strikes Samuel, prompting Sarah's investigation into the shooter's identity and intended victim.
91) The high flyer
Author
Series
St. Benet's trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
London attorney Carter Graham's perfect life with her new husband is shattered by the revelation of her husband's secret ties to the occult and the Nazis, and an increasingly desperate Carter seeks aid from Nick Darrow, the mysterious head of St. Benet's Healing Center.
92) Hired
Author
Series
Happy endings volume 2
Publisher
Kensington Books
Language
English
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"For a man who makes his living pleasuring women, what happens when the only pay-out worth having is love? Faith Abigail Charles has always done the right thing. So when her mother runs for mayor of New Orleans, Faith puts her law career on hold to help her win. But when tensions run high, Faith trades one kind of heat for another-in the arms of a hard-bodied stranger. He's everything a woman dreams of in a lover. So much so that her one-night stand...
93) Find me: a novel
Author
Series
Ellie Hatcher novels volume 6
Language
English
Description
"She calls herself Hope Miller, but she has no idea who she actually is. Fourteen years ago, she was found in a small New Jersey town thrown from an overturned vehicle, with no clue to her identity. Doctors assumed her amnesia was a temporary side effect of her injuries, but she never regained her memory. Hope eventually started a new life with a new name in a new town that welcomed her, yet always wondered what she may have left behind - or been...
94) Pursuit
Author
Series
Jessica Ford and Mark Ryan novels volume 1
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
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Description
When rookie lawyer Jessica Monaghan gets the call from John Riordan, the senior partner at the illustrious law firm for which she works, she thinks the plum assignment he offers her might be a life-changing moment. And she's right, it is - only not in the way she hopes. It's late on a Saturday night, and Riordan is busy - and, Jess can tell, well on his way to being drunk. He needs Jess to meet First Lady Annette Cooper, for whom Riordan is a personal...
95) Death dance
Author
Series
Alexandra Cooper novels volume 8
Publisher
Center Point Pub
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Once again Linda Fairstein uses her experience as Manhattan's leading DA to create a tantalyzing web of intrigue, betrayal and murder. Teaming up with longtime friends and colleagues, Mike Chapman and Mercer Wallace, Alex Cooper investigates the disappearance of a world-famous dancer, who has vanished from the Metropolitan Opera House.
96) Entombed
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Series
Alexandra Cooper novels volume 7
Publisher
Wheeler Pub
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
When a former residence of Edgar Allan Poe is demolished, a human skeleton is found behind the walls. Soon, Cooper is digging into Poe's tormented life, hoping to discover a clue that will break open the case.
97) Dark lady
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
Lady prosecutor Stella Marz investigates a murder linked to the building of a new sports stadium in her town. In the guise of a mystery, a look at who exactly benefits from these stadiums that are the rage, the working class or the rich? By the author of No Safe Place.
Author
Series
Ellie Hatcher novels volume 5
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
Description
A murder case with ties to a convicted serial killer leads a young defense lawyer and NYPD homicide detective Ellie Hatcher into parallel investigations with explosive and deadly results.
Author
Series
Broden legal volume 1
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
©2017.
Language
English
Description
By day, Ella works as a buttoned-up attorney on some of the citys most grueling cases. By night, she pursues her passion for singing in the darkest clubs of Manhattan.
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English
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"Since childhood, Yolanda Vance has forged her desire to escape poverty into a laser-like focus that took her through prep school and Harvard Law. So when her prestigious New York law firm is raided by the FBI, Yolanda turns in her corrupt bosses to save her career--and goes to work for the Bureau. Soon she's sent undercover at Red, Black, and Green--an African-American extremist activist group back in her California college town. They claim a biotech...
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