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1) Short straw
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Ed Eagle novels volume 2
Pub. Date
c2006
Description
Having married the seductive Barbara Kennedy against his better judgment, Santa Fe lawyer Ed Eagle awakens the morning after his fiftieth birthday to discover that his wife has vanished and that all of his money has been wired to Mexico.
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Los Angeles criminal defense attorney Mickey Haller signs on to defend young real estate agent Louis Roulet against charges of assault. Roulet's imperious mother will spend any amount to prove her son's innocence. But probing the details of the case, Mickey and private investigator Raul Levin dig up a far darker picture of Roulet's personality and his past. Levin's murder and a new connection to the Menendez case, which he mishandled, make Mickey...
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Jack Swyteck novels volume 6
Pub. Date
c2007
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Becoming suspicious when a homeless client produces a large amount of cash just before a murdered body is discovered in the car in which the client lives, Miami attorney Jack Swyteck finds himself racing to save the life of his best friend.
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Series
Jack Swyteck novels volume 13
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
It begins at the airport, where Jack is waiting to meet his old high school buddy, Keith Ingraham, a high-powered banker based in Hong Kong, coming to Miami for his young daughter's surgery. But their long-awaited reunion is abruptly derailed when the police arrest Keith's wife, Isabelle, in the terminal, accusing her of conspiring to kill the man who raped her in college. Jack quickly agrees to represent Isa but soon discovers that to see justice...
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Dismas Hardy novels volume 19
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Having joined the "dark side" after years spent prosecuting criminals as the San Francisco DA, defense attorney Wes Farrell is experiencing a crisis of faith. How can he in good conscience defend clients whom, in his estimation, are most likely guilty? In his role as DA, Farrell had helped put away Paul Riley, a young man charged for the rape and murder of his then-girlfriend Dana Rush, only for Riley to later be released from his life sentence -...
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Penn Cage novels volume 2
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Lawyer Penn Cage returns to defend his best friend since childhood for the murder of a young female student, with whom his friend was intimate, at their old alma mater, St. Stephen's Prep.
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Center Point Pub
Pub. Date
2002.
Physical Desc
288 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Description
Defense attorney David Nash has made a career out of setting monsters free-and no one does it better. Now a case has come to "the Ice Man" that could help cleanse Nash of the guilt and doubts that torment him: that rarest of all defendants, an innocent man. A family man, a rising star in the legal profession, this new client has been accused of a heinous crime-the brutal murder of an undercover vice cop. But the case that is supposed to be Nash's...
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2004], c1975
Physical Desc
1 DVD (61 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Cheroot-smoking Horace Rumpole, is a career trial lawyer at London's central court. Rumpole faces an open-and-shut case, which he plans to wrap up by noon. But once he discerns the telling secret of his teenage client, he smells victory and mounts a full-on defense.
11) Last call
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Series
Jack Swyteck novels volume 7
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
326 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
Jack Swyteck is drawn into the investigation of a mother who was murdered on a hot Miami night twenty years ago.
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David Sloane thrillers volume 4
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
374 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
A year after the murder of his wife, attorney David Sloane reconnects with former adversary Barclay Reid, who upon losing her daughter to a drug overdose has launched a campaign against Russian drug trafficking, only to be accused of murdering a dealer.
13) The inside ring
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Joe DeMarco thrillers volume 1
Pub. Date
c2005
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General Andy Banks, the Secretary of Homeland Security, is nursing a guilty conscience. Only days before an assassin's bullet winged the president and took the life of the president's longtime best friend, Banks had received a note with a dire warning: "Eagle One is in danger. Cancel Chattooga River. The inside ring has been compromised. This is not a joke." The message-on Secret Service stationery-was signed, "An agent in the wrong place." Banks...
14) Lucid intervals
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Stone Barrington novels volume 18
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
291 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
Stone and his former cop partner, Dino are enjoying some pasta at their favorite restaurant when Herbie Fisher, a former client, walks in with a briefcase filled with $14 million in cash. He claims to have won the money in a lottery game. Suddenly, a single shot comes smashing through the window above his head. They suspect Herbie may have left out a few details about the money, and he may need a P.I. and a detective.
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Series
Brady Coyne mysteries volume 20
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
321 p. ; 25 cm.
16) Sudden death
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Andy Carpenter novels volume 4
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When a star football player is murdered, suspicion falls on a rival from another team. Enter defense lawyer Andy Carpenter, who quickly discovers that his client hasn't told him the whole truth.
17) Poison: a novel
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Dismas Hardy novels volume 17
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
Dismas Hardy is looking forward to cutting back his work hours and easing into retirement after recovering from two gunshot wounds. He is determined to spend more time with his family and even reconnect with his distant son, Vincent. But Dismas just can't stay away from the courtroom for long and soon he is pulled into an intense family drama with fatal consequences. Grant Wagner, the vigorous patriarch of the Wagner family and its four-generations...
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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...
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Christopher Paget novels volume 4
Pub. Date
c2005
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Description
Fifteen years after Rennell Price is arrested, convicted, and sentenced to die for the murder of a nine-year-old girl, lawyer Teresa Peralta Paget becomes convinced that Price did not receive a fair trial and fights to stop his execution.
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Series
Darcy Lott mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
264 p. ; 24 cm.
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