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Criminal defense attorney Mickey Haller has spent his career protecting the city's low lifes, but when a Beverly Hills playboy hires Mickey to defend him in an assault trial, Mickey believes it will be the easiest and most lucrative case of his career, until the case takes a dangerous turn that threatens everything Mickey loves.
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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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In Clanton, Mississippi, the life of a ten-year-old is shattered by two drunken and remorseless men. The mostly white town reacts with shock and horror at the inhumane crime, until her African-American father acquires an assault rifle and takes justice into his own hands.
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Jack Tobin novels volume 1
Publisher
Yorkville Press
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
420 p. ; 21 cm.
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English
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New York lawyer Jack Tobin tries to save the life of Rudy Kelly, the son of an old friend, who awaits execution for a murder he confessed to under coercion twenty years before, at the age of nineteen.
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2020.
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English
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Defense attorney Mickey Haller utilizes his legal team's resources from behind bars to organize his own defense when he is framed for murder by an unknown adversary.
When defense attorney Mickey Haller is pulled over by police, they find the body of a client in the trunk of his Lincoln. Charged with murder and unable to make the exorbitant $5 million bail slapped on him by a vindictive judge, Mickey must strategize and build his defense from his...
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Amanda Jaffe novels volume 2
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
c2003
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
342 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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Portland attorney Amanda Jaffe defends a man accused of murdering a senator, a man who claims to have information linking the senator--and a number of influential politiciansw̮ith South American drug lords.
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Stone Barrington novels volume 18
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Unabridged
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English
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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 millon 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.
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Crown
Pub. Date
2013
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English
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Noa P. Singleton sits on death row in a maximum security penitentiary, just six months away from her execution date. She is visited by a high-powered Philadelphia attorney who is a heartbroken mother of the victim and now wants to see the death penalty delayed--if only Noa reveals her motive.
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David Sloane thrillers volume 4
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st Touchstone hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
374 p. ; 24 cm.
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English
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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) Poison: a novel
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"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 Carver, the vigorous patriarch of the Carver family and its four-generations...
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2023.
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English
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"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 inundated with pleas from incarcerated people claiming innocence. He enlists 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 killing her...
15) The client
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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Mark Sway is an 11-year-old torn between what he knows and what he can never tell. A hitman will snuff him in half a heartbeat if Mark reveals what he learned about a Mob murder. An ambitious federal prosecutor will keep the pressure on until Mark tells all. Suddenly, Mark isn't a boy playing air guitar anymore. He's a pawn in a deadly game. And his only ally is a courageous but unseasoned attorney who risks her career for him ... but never imagines...
16) Twenty
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Jack Swyteck novels volume 17
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
372 pages ; 24 cm
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English
Description
A nightmarish shooting at their daughter's school finds Jack Swyteck and his law-enforcement officer wife, Andie, investigating a chief suspect's alleged ties to Al Qaeda amid growing anti-Muslim fervor.
After a deadly school shooting claims twenty casualties at Riverside Day School, the tragedy prompts mass hysteria-- and dangerous speculation. The police haven't identified the shooter, but a handgun found on the school grounds is registered to...
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Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
309 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
The town of "Marshall is flooded with patent lawyers, all of whom find work being the local voice for the big-city legal teams that need to sway a small-town jury. One of the best is James Euchre. Euchre's new client is Amir Zawar, a ... CEO forced to defend his life's work against a software patent infringement. Late one night, after a heated confrontation in a preliminary hearing, Judge Gardner is found murdered in the courthouse parking lot. All...
18) Play dead
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Series
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
viii, 308 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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It began innocently enough with the rescue of a golden retriever who was about to be euthanized, but now New Jersey defense attorney Andy Carpenter was up to his well-intentioned heart in the middle of an old case that sent a man to prison for a murder he possibly didn't commit. Planning to use the dog as a witness in court, he soon discovers that there are some people who will do anything to prevent a new trial.
Author
Series
Jack Swyteck novels volume 15
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
347 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"James Grippando's crusader Jack Swyteck is back in his sixteenth adventure, a timely and pulse-pounding thriller"--
Julia Rodriguez and her teenage daughter Beatriz escaped bloodthirsty gangs, random violence and, Julia's abusive husband back in El Salvador. Arriving in Miami, mother and daughter struggled to carve their own piece of the American dream. While life in the States is hard, it is safer, until Julia's rejects her boss's unwanted sexual...
20) Sudden death
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Series
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
323 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
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New Jersey attorney Andy Carpenter is recruited to defend New York Giants' running back Kenny Schilling who has been accused of murdering Tony Preston, a wide receiver for the Jets, and he continues to believe in his client's innocence, even when investigators discover the victim is not the first of Kenny's old acquaintances to die under odd circumstances.
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