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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
Los Angeles criminal defense attorney Mickey Haller regularly represents lowlifes. For him, the law is rarely about guilt or innocence--it's about negotiation and manipulation. Sometimes it's even about justice.
2) Beach road
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
East Hampton attorney Tom Dunleavy must defend an old friend who has been arrested for a triple murder on a beach near a movie star's mansion.
Author
Series
Lincoln lawyer volume 7
Language
English
Description
Defense attorney Mickey Haller - The Lincoln Lawyer - rides the wave of freeing a wrongfully convicted man from prison.
Inundated with pleas from incarcerated people claiming innocence, Haller enlists the help of ex-LAPD detective Harry Bosch to find the next case which could result in a resurrection walk.
When Bosch finds a needle in the haystack - a woman imprisoned for murdering her husband, a sheriff's deputy - they discover evidence that doesn't...
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...
Author
Series
Stone Barrington novels volume 18
Language
English
Description
It seems like just another quiet night at Elaine's. Stone Barrington and his former cop partner, Dino, take on client Herbie Fisher who claims to have won $14 million on a lucky lotto ticket. Herbie says he needs a lawyer--but a single gunshot aimed at Herbie convinces Stone and Dino that Herbie might need a bodyguard and a private investigator, too.
Author
Series
Paul Madriani novels volume 5
Language
English
Description
Defense attorney Paul Madriani takes on his most challenging case yet, one pitting a negligent mother against her daughter's newly rich grandfather in a nasty child custody tug of war that leads to murder.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Mickey Haller gets the text, "Call me ASAP -- 187," and the California penal code for murder immediately gets his attention. Murder cases have the highest stakes and the biggest paydays, and they always mean Haller has to be at the top of his game. When Mickey learns that the victim was his own former client, a prostitute he thought he had rescued and put on the straight and narrow path, he knows he is on the hook for this one. He soon finds out that...
8) Hear no evil
Author
Series
Jack Swyteck novels volume 4
Language
English
Description
The latest Jack Swyteck mystery finds the Miami defense lawyer in unfamiliar territory. When a woman asks him to defend her against the charge of murdering her husband, Jack is initially reluctant: the victim is a U.S. naval officer; the crime took place at the naval base at Guantanamo Bay; and Jack has almost no experience with military courtroom procedures. But the woman has a very persuasive reason for Jack to take the case (all right, it's a little...
Author
Series
Amanda Jaffe novels volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
When young defense attorney Amanda Jaffe takes the case of a high-class pimp accused of murder, she finds herself faced with the task of unmasking a covert club of prominent officials who secretly manipulate unsuspecting men and women into implementing the club's criminal master plan to elect one of their own to the U.S. presidency.
Author
Series
Kindle County novels volume 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Arthur Raven, the reluctant court-appointed attorney for Rommy Gandolph, a death-row prisoner convicted of triple murder, must face down an ambitious prosecutor, crooked cops, and a disgraced judge when he learns another inmate has new evidence that could exonerate his client.
Author
Series
Jack Swyteck novels volume 1
Publisher
Avon Books
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
406 pages, 436 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Contains two novels featuring lawyer Jack Swyteck.
Author
Series
Jack Swyteck novels volume 13
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Defending a woman accused of murdering the man who sexually assaulted her, Miami lawyer Jack Swyteck must uncover where the truth lies between innocence, vengeance, and justice in this spellbinding tale of suspense -- based on shocking true-life events. According to the FBI, the most dangerous place for a woman between the ages of twenty and thirty is in a relationship with a man. Those statistics become all too personal when Jack Swyteck takes on...
13) Last to die
Author
Series
Jack Swyteck novels volume 3
Language
English
Description
Tatum Knight is a former contract killer. Ruthless. Conniving. And he's Jack's newest client. Tatum is the older brother of Jack's best friend, Theo. Theo himself spent time on death row until Jack found the evidence to prove him innocent. Jack isn't so sure about Tatum. A gorgeous young woman has been shot dead in her Mercedes on a Miami street. Tatum denies that he had anything to do with it, but he admits to Jack that he did meet with her in Theo's...
14) Turning angel
Author
Series
Penn Cage novels volume 2
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
501 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Lawyer Penn Cage is shocked to discover that his best friend Drew Elliott was involved with Kate Townsend, a recently-murdered student of their alma mater St. Stephen's Prep, and may be accused of killing her. Although his instincts counsel against it, Penn agrees to defend Drew, but before he can begin, both men are drawn into a web of blackmail and violence.
15) Play dead
Author
Series
Andy Carpenter novels volume 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Few can rival attorney Andy Carpenter's affection for golden retrievers, especially his own beloved Tara. After he astonishes a New Jersey courtroom by successfully appealing another golden's death sentence, Andy discovers that this gentle dog is a key witness to a murder that took place five years before. Andy pushes the boundaries of the law even further as he struggles to free an innocent man by convincing an incredulous jury to take canine testimony...
Author
Series
Jack Swyteck novels volume 6
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
328 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Criminal defense attorney Jack Swyteck tackles a case in which nothing is as it seems. Falcon is a homeless man who comes up with $10,000 bail in cash. Then the body of a brutally murdered woman is found in the car Falcon is living in, and while on the run, Falcon takes Jack's best friend and others hostage. Jack works with the hostage negotiator, unaware that Falcon has a much bigger agenda.
17) Sudden death
Author
Series
Andy Carpenter novels volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Kenny Schilling is the new star running back for the New York Giants. Troy Preston was a wide receiver for the Jets, until his recent murder. Could rivalry have turned Kenny Schilling into a cold-blooded killer? The police say yes. And now the football hero needs a good lawyer -- quick. Still basking in the glow of his last successful case, Andy Carpenter is called to defend Kenny's innocence. Then it's revealed that Troy wasn't the only murdered...
Author
Publisher
Covenant Communications
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
296 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Law student Rob Sterling is an innocent man trapped in a nightmare--accused of murder. The court has appointed one of the the state's most successful criminal lawyers to represent him. Rob should feel fortunate. Ambitious and arrogant, defense attorney Dan Smathers will do whatever it takes to protect his own interests, even if it means sentencing an unsuspecting Rob to prison--or even death. The duplicitious Smathers is not above bribery, evidence...
19) First degree
Author
Series
Andy Carpenter novels volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
The mysterious legacy of defense attorney Andy Carpenter's late father has made him a rich man-22 million dollars rich, to be exact. But as Andy relaxes in his office, imagining ways to spend his money, he has an unexpected visitor: a stranger who confesses to decapitating and burning a man-cooly relying on the confidentiality of attorney-client privilege. When an innocent man is charged with the crime, Andy decides to take on the case. But the case...
20) Dark fire
Author
Series
Matthew Shardlake novels volume 2
Language
English
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Description
It is 1540, and Matthew Shardlake, the lawyer renowned as "the sharpest hunchback in the courts of England," is pressed to help a friend’s young niece who is charged with murder. Despite threats of torture and death by the rack, the girl is inexplicably silent. Shardlake is about to lose her case when he is suddenly granted a reprieve — one that will ensnare him in the dangerous schemes of Thomas Cromwell, Henry VIII’s feared vicar-general.
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