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61) First degree
Author
Series
Andy Carpenter novels volume 2
Language
English
Description
A defense attorney and his beloved Golden Retriever work solve a murder and clear a his girlfriend's name in this entertaining cozy mystery.
No one can separate defense attorney Andy Carpenter from his golden retriever, Tara, who stands loyally beside him through every investigation, no matter how dangerous or puzzling-and he is about to be confronted with one of his most difficult cases yet.
When a cop's body is found burned and decapitated,...
No one can separate defense attorney Andy Carpenter from his golden retriever, Tara, who stands loyally beside him through every investigation, no matter how dangerous or puzzling-and he is about to be confronted with one of his most difficult cases yet.
When a cop's body is found burned and decapitated,...
63) The night swim
Author
Series
Rachel Krall investigations volume 1
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In The Night Swim, a new thriller from Megan Goldin, author of the "gripping and unforgettable" (Harlen Coben) The Escape Room, a true crime podcast host covering a controversial trial finds herself drawn deep into a small town's dark past and a brutal crime that took place there years before. After the first season of her true crime podcast became an overnight sensation and set an innocent man free, Rachel Krall is now a household name-and the last...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
The American humorist's classic novel depicting human nature under slavery. At the beginning of Pudd'nhead Wilson a young slave woman, fearing for her infant son's life, exchanges her light skinned child with her master's. From this rather simple premise Mark Twain fashioned one of his most entertaining, funny, yet biting novels. On its surface, Pudd'nhead Wilson possesses all the elements of an engrossing nineteenth century mystery, reversed identities,...
65) Indefensible
Author
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First Kensington hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xiv, 237 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"An insider exposes the shocking facts deliberately left out of the hit Netflix series Making a Murderer--and argues persuasively that Steven Avery was rightfully convicted in the 2005 killing of Teresa Halbach" -- dust jacket flap.
66) 16th seduction
Author
Series
Women's Murder Club volume 16
Language
English
Description
Still reeling from her husband's betrayal, Lindsay Boxer investigates a wave of possibly unnatural heart attacks claiming the lives of seemingly unrelated victims while assisting the prosecution of a bomber with a hostile defense team.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (121 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
No body, motive or weapon. The facts in the Australian murder trial of Lindy and Michael Chamberlain didn₂t add up. But other things did: bigotry against the couple₂s religion. Scattershot forensic evidence taken as fact. And a hysteria that was the 1980s equivalent of a Salem witchhunt.
68) The plea
Author
Series
Eddie Flynn novels volume 2
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
358 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Pressured by the FBI to secure a murder suspect's testimony against a corrupt law firm, con artist-turned-lawyer Eddie Flynn begins to believe the suspect is innocent in spite of overwhelming evidence to the contrary in a case that tests the limits of his skills on both sides of the law.
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...
69) The underdogs
Author
Series
Underdogs (Tracey West) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Welcome to the town of Barksdale, where every dog wants to be the best. Every year, one pup at Barksdale Academy is name Best in Show after the K-9 exams. Nova, Duke, Harley, and Peanut have never won Best in Show. In fact, they've never even passed the exams. But this year, Nova is determined to prove that Underdogs can win! Will the pups make the grade, or are they doomed to be the underdogs forever?
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Defense attorney Mickey Haller is back, taking the long-shot cases, where the chances of winning are one in a million. After getting a wrongfully convicted man out of prison, he is innudated with pleas from incarcertaed people claiming innocence. He brings on board his half brother, retired LAPD Detective Harry Bosch, to weed through the letters, knowing most claims will be false. Bosch pulls a needle from the haystack: a woman in prison for five...
71) The red kimona
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 80 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
This film is based on the infamous true story of a young girl who is tricked into a life of prostitution in New Orleans and goes on trial for murdering her pimp/lover. Producer and co-director Dorothy Davenport Reid became a director after the tragic death of her husband matinee idol Wallace Reid in 1923 from an accidental drug overdose.
73) Winning at persuasion for lawyers: the art and science of public speaking at hearings and trials
Author
Publisher
Westway Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
xvii, 285 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"Winning presentations at hearings and trials begin and end with persuasive oral advocacy delivered from the heart. It convices judges and juries that you are trustworthy and knowledgeable. This book gives you everyting you need. Discover valuable insights from interviews with the greatest trial and appellate lawyers in the country and tried-and-true principles to give yourself the best chance to succeed every time"--from cover.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
Mickey Haller has fallen on tough times. He expands his business into foreclosure defense, only to see one of his clients accused of killing the banker she blames for trying to take away her home. Mickey puts his team into high gear to exonerate Lisa Trammel, even though the evidence and his own suspicions tell him his client is guilty. Soon after he learns that the victim had black market dealings of his own, Haller is assaulted, too, and he's certain...
76) Plain truth
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
1st hardcover ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 22
Physical Desc
405 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
The discovery of a dead baby under a pile of old blankets in Aaron Fisher's barn sets off a scandal in Amish country and an investigation that could implicate Fisher's eighteen-year-old daughter.
Author
Series
Theodore Boone volume 5
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
250 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
On a field trip to Washington, DC, Theo spots a familiar face on the Metro: Duffy, who jumped bail and was never seen again. Theo's quick thinking helps bring Duffy back to Strattenburg to stand trial. But now that Duffy knows who he is, Theo is in greater danger than he's ever been in before. Even when everything is on the line, Theodore Boone will stop at nothing to make sure a killer is brought to justice.
78) Primal fear
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
c1998
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 130) : sd., col., stereo. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A Chicago altar boy is accused of murdering the archbishop and a publicity hungry local attorney decides to defend him.
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
190 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Relates the story of how in the early 1920s, as a Red Scare gripped America, two Italian immigrants, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, were wrongly accused, tried, and executed for murder, making front-page headlines as they maintained their innocence to the very end.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Luisa "Lu" Brant is the newly elected-- and first female-- state's attorney of Howard County, Maryland, a job in which her widower father famously served. Fiercely intelligent and ambitious, she sees an opportunity to make her name by trying a mentally disturbed drifter accused of beating a woman to death in her home. It's not the kind of case that makes headlines, but peaceful Howard County doesn't see many homicides. As Lu prepares for the trial,...
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