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Pub. Date
2021.
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In The Whistler, Lacy Stoltz investigated a corrupt judge who was taking millions in bribes from a crime syndicate. She put the criminals away, but only after being attacked and nearly killed. Three years later, and approaching forty, she is tired of her work for the Florida Board on Judicial Conduct and ready for a change. Then she meets a mysterious woman who is so frightened she uses a number of aliases. Jeri Crosby's father was murdered twenty...
22) Friction
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Pub. Date
2015.
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"Crawford Hunt wants his daughter back. Following the death of his wife four years ago, Crawford, a Texas Ranger, fell into a downward spiral that left him relegated to deskwork and with his five-year-old daughter Georgia in the custody of her grandparents. But Crawford has cleaned up his act, met all the court imposed requirements, and now the fate of his family lies with Judge Holly Spencer. Holly, ambitious and confident, temporarily occupies the...
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Egyptian mysteries (Paul Doherty) volume 5
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
xii, 306 p. : map ; 22 cm.
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Lord Amerotke, the Chief Judge to the Pharoah Queen Hatusu, is called in to investigate when the Sebaus, a mysterious sect taking its name from demons, steals a powerful secret, but his search for the truth is complicated by the death of a military hero killed by vipers.
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Astrological detective David Lowell must use his astrologer's charts and knowledge to solve the murder of a state judge in a New York City parking garage. Joined by his daughter, Melinda, a young defense attorney who believes the person arrested innocent; his hacker sidekick Mort; patient assistant Sarah; and bodyguard Andy, Lowell races against time to prove the innocence of Johnny Colbert, a mouthy bartender accused of the crime.
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Grand Central Publishing/Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
308 pages ; 24 cm.
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When Deborah Knott's terminally ill aunt, Rachel, is found smothered to death in her bed at a hospice center, all of her Colleton County kith and kin are shocked. Who kills a dying woman? As Deborah and her husband, Sheriff's Deputy Dwight Bryant, try to find Rachel's killer, they cross paths with the Designated Daughters, a support group for caregivers, not all of whom are women. Rachel's flamboyant daughter, Sally, is a member, and when a con artist...
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Avery Keene thrillers volume 2
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"Avery Keene is back, trying to get her feet on solid ground after unraveling a conspiracy that took down the President of the United States. But as the sparks of impeachment hearings and political skirmishes swirl around her, Avery is approached at a legal conference by Preston Davies, an unassuming young man and fellow law clerk to a federal judge in Idaho. Davies believes his boss, Judge Francesca Whitner, was being blackmailed in the days before...
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Max Cone is a renowned military commander and judge, but all he really wants is a life outside politics. When one leader gives Cone a powerful device that predicts the future, he doesn't want to believe the prophecy: that the world will soon end, and he is to blame. Soon after, his wife and children are taken, his allies are killed, and his friends are imprisoned. With the world descending into a cataclysmic global war, every nation wants Cone on...
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St. Kilda Consulting volume 1
Publisher
W. Morrow
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
406 p. ; 24 cm.
30) Innocent
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Kindle County novels volume 8
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"Innocent continues the story of Rusty Sabich and Tommy Molto who are, once again, twenty years later, pitted against each other in a riveting psychological match after the mysterious death of Rusty's wife"--Provided by publisher.
31) Shining city
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Peter Rena and Randi Brooks volume 1
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
356 pages ; 24 cm
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The president of the United States hires fixer Peter Rena to vet his nominee for the Supreme Court, but while Rena investigates every aspect of Judge Roland Madison's background, he discovers that the judge could be the next target in a series of killings.
Peter Rena and Randi Brooks earn their living making the problems of the powerful disappear. Their new-- and biggest-- job: the White House hires them to vet the president's nominee for the Supreme...
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Chief medical examiner Kay Scarpetta is the reluctant star witness in a sensational murder trial when she receives shocking news. The judge’s sister has been found dead. At first glance, it appears to be a home invasion, but then why was nothing stolen, and why is the garden strewn with dead plants and insects? Although there is no apparent cause of death, Scarpetta recognizes telltale signs of the unthinkable, and she knows the worst is yet to...
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Sir John Fielding mysteries volume 10
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2003
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257 p. ; 24 cm.
34) Backfire
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San Francisco judge Ramsay Hunt, longtime friend to FBI agents Lacey Sherlock and Dillon Savich, begins the murder trial of Clive and Cindy Cahill only to have federal prosecutor Mickey O'Rourke, known for his relentless, aggressive style, suddenly turn tentative and distracted. Hunt suspects that something is very wrong -- and then O'Rourke goes missing and Judge Hunt gets shot in the back. Savich and Sherlock receive news of the attack as a mysterious...
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Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
221 pages ; 22 cm
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"Fiona Maye is a High Court judge in London presiding over cases in family court. She is fiercely intelligent, well respected, and deeply immersed in the nuances of her particular field of law. Often the outcome of a case seems simple from the outside, the course of action to ensure a child's welfare obvious. But the law requires more rigor than mere pragmatism, and Fiona is expert in considering the sensitivities of culture and religion when handing...
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Booket
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
477 pages ; 19 cm
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Una brillante carrera como juez, el respeto de quienes la rodean, una vida independiente... Carlota lo tenía todo para ser feliz. Sin embargo, siempre le faltó una Navidad. Cuando a los doce años su madre le reveló el gran secreto, Carlota supo que ya nada volvería a ser igual. La palabra ±bastarda¬ se convirtió en un estigma para ella. La palabra ±familia¬ no volvió a significar lo mismo. La llamada de su padre moribundo muchas décadas...
37) The intern
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2023.
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378 pages ; 25 cm.
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Madison Rivera lands the internship of a lifetime working for Judge Kathryn Conroy. But Madison has a secret that could destroy her career. Her troubled younger brother Danny has been arrested, and Conroy is the judge on his case. When Danny goes missingafter accusing the judge of corruption, Madison's quest for answers brings her deep into the judge's glamorous world. Is Kathryn Conroy a mentor, a victim, or a criminal? Is she trying to help Madison...
38) Guilty minds
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Nick Heller novels volume 3
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"New York Timesbestselling author Joseph Finder delivers an exhilarating and timely thriller exploring how even the most powerful among us can be brought down by scandal, and how the lies we tell one another--and ourselves--can never truly stay buried. The chief justice of the Supreme Court is about to be defamed by a powerful gossip website called Slander Sheet, which specializes in dirt on celebs and politicians. Their top reporter has written an...
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Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
390 pages ; 24 cm
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It was nothing more than a one-night stand. Juliana Brody, a judge in the Superior Court of Massachusetts, is rumored to be in consideration for the federal circuit, maybe someday the highest court in the land. At a conference in a Chicago hotel, she meets a gentle, vulnerable man and in a moment of weakness has an unforgettable night with him. They part with an explicit understanding that this must never happen again. But back home in Boston, it...
40) Anthem: a novel
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"The wheels are coming off in America. Opioid addictions accelerate unstoppably. Environmental collapse can be read in every weather report. Vigilante bands take over streets at night, wearing clown face makeup. The very idea of government, of citizenship, is challenged daily. And something is happening to teenagers across the country, spreading through memes only they understand. At the Float Anxiety Abatement Center, in a suburb of Chicago, Simon...
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