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Rumpole of the Bailey volume 15
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His ire raised by a series of procedural abuses through which children have been imprisoned without trial for innocent activities, barrister Horace Rumpole defends a youth who has been targeted for playing on a posh street.
82) Limitations
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Series
Kindle County novels volume 7
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Kindle County Court of Appeals Judge George Mason starts questioning the law and his part in it when a disturbing rape case is brought to his court.
83) The king of lies
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Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
viii, 310 p. ; 25 cm.
84) Prior bad acts
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Sam Kovac and Nikki Liska novels volume 3
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It was a crime so brutal, it changed the lives of even the most hardened homicide cops. The Haas family murders left a scar on the community nothing can erase, but everyone agrees that convicting the killer, Karl Dahl, is a start. Only Judge Carey Moore seems to be standing in the way. Her ruling that Dahl's prior criminal record is inadmissible raises a public outcry--and puts the judge in grave danger.
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Publisher
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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Paul Madriani novels volume 12
Pub. Date
c2011
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While in Paris to find a former NASA employee whose name has been found on papers left in his nemesis's apartment, Paul Madriani stumbles upon a plot to harness the destructive forces of nature using stolen technology.
87) Trap: a novel
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Series
Butch Karp and Marlene Ciampi thrillers volume 27
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
viii, 294 pages ; 24 cm
Description
Investigating an explosion at a Harlem school that has caused numerous deaths and injuries, Karp and Ciampi discover links to a serial arsonist and a teacher's union president who would protest New York City's charter school movement.
88) Bleak House
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Bleak House defies a single description. It is a mystery story, in which Esther Summerson discovers the truth about her birth and her unknown mother's tragic life. It is a murder story, which comes to a climax in a thrilling chase, led by one of the earliest detectives in English fiction, Inspector Bucket.
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Amanda Jaffe novels volume 4
Pub. Date
c2009
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Defense attorney Amanda Jaffe, the heroine of Wild justice and Proof Positive, becomes entrapped in a case of international intrigue and murder that leads her deep into the past--and into the crosshairs of a killer.
92) Betrayed
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Series
Butch Karp and Marlene Ciampi thrillers volume 22
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
359 p. ; 24 cm.
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While Marlene inadvertently risks her life to prove the innocence of a Tourette's syndrome patient who has been wrongly accused of murder, New York District Attorney Butch Karp works to convict a mosque leader responsible for an attack on the New York Stock Exchange.
94) The bad witness
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Sally Harrington novels volume 4
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
344 p. ; 25 cm.
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Description
In the small north Florida town of Seabrook, a young lawyer named Keith Russo was shot dead at his desk as he worked late one night. The killer left no clues behind. There were no witnesses, no real suspects, no one with a motive. The police soon settled on Quincy Miller, a young black man who was once a client of Russo's. Quincy was framed, convicted, and sent to prison for life. For twenty-two years he languished in prison with no lawyer, no advocate...
96) The black book
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Publisher
Vintage International/Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
xiii, 466 p. ; 21 cm.
Description
Galip is a lawyer living in Istanbul. His wife, the detective-novel-loving Ru?ya, has disappeared. Could she have left him for her ex-husband, Cela?l, a popular newspaper columnist? But Cela?l, too, seems to have vanished. As Galip investigates, he finds himself assuming the enviable Cela?l's identity, wearing his clothes, answering his phone calls, even writing his columns. Galip pursues every conceivable clue, but the nature of the mystery keeps...
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Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2008
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212 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
An insider's look at a secretive world behind the closed doors of a prominent New York law firm. Through interwoven tales of family members, clients, and such notables as Teddy Roosevelt and the Astors, also an intimate portrait of a poignant friendship between two men.
99) The plea
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Series
Eddie Flynn novels volume 2
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
358 pages ; 25 cm
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.
100) Case of lies
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Series
Nina Reilly novels volume 11
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
390 p. : map ; 25 cm.
Description
Attorney Nina Reilly becomes caught up in a two-year-old homicide case involving a murder during a casino-district robbery when she is assigned to track down the robbery victims, all student witnesses who had lied about their identities.
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