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82) Betrayal
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Robin Lockwood novels volume 7
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"Robin Lockwood is now a prominent defense attorney in Portland, Oregon but a decade ago, she was a ranked and rising MMA fighter. Her career came to a quick end when she was knocked out and concussed in the first round by Mandy Kerrigan, a much more talented fighter. Now the situation couldn't be more different, with Kerrigan on her last legs, her career nearly over, arrested for the quadruple murder of the entire Finch family ... and Kerrigan's...
83) Fox is framed
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Leo Maxwell mysteries volume 3
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Lachlan Smith won great critical acclaim for his first novel in the Leo Maxwell series, Bear Is Broken, a Shamus Award finalist and a Kirkus Reviews best book of the year that William Bernhardt called "one of the best debuts I've read in years." The second Leo Maxwell mystery, Lion Plays Rough, continued the story, and now, in the utterly suspenseful Fox Is Framed, Smith confronts anew the drama that has haunted Leo-and his recently brain-damaged...
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The compelling story of a murder case in Vancouver in 1965. When Esther Castellani died a slow and agonizing death, the cause was at first undetermined. But soon, her husband, Rene, was charged with capital murder for poisoning his wife with arsenic-laced milkshakes. Their daughter, eleven-year-old Jeannine, clung to her father's innocence, even committing perjury during his trial.
85) Th1rt3en
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Eddie Flynn novels volume 4
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"Hollywood actor Robert Soloman stands accused of the brutal stabbings of his wife and her lover, but he is desperately pleading that he had nothing to do with it. This is the trial of the century, and the defence want Eddie Flynn on their team. The biggest case Eddie has ever tried before, he decides to take it on despite the overwhelming evidence that Robert is guilty. As the trial starts, Eddie becomes sure of Robert's innocence, but there's something...
86) The judge
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"Big city lawyer Hank Palmer returns to his childhood home where his father, the town's judge, is suspected of murder. Hank sets out to discover the truth and, along the way, reconnects with his estranged family"--www.imdb.com.
88) Punative damage
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The true story of a death in East Timor and the power of a mother's grief. In 1991, Helen Todd received the phone call that every parent dreads. Half a world away, in East Timor, her son Kamal had been shot. Kamal's tragic death at the hands of the Indonesian military set Helen on a course that would span five countries and four years, and which culminated in a landmark legal case in a United States court. Independence for East Timor seemed a long...
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“Alice is cast in the mold of a character created by an earlier Alcott, the passionate and spunky Jo March. A refreshingly old-fashioned heroine, she makes THE DARING LADIES OF LOWELL appealing”
—The New York Times Book Review
“Offers up a compelling slice of both feminist and Industrial Age history”—Christian Science Monitor
From the New York Times bestselling author of THE...
—The New York Times Book Review
“Offers up a compelling slice of both feminist and Industrial Age history”—Christian Science Monitor
From the New York Times bestselling author of THE...
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In 1958 Peter Manuel breaks into a suburban villa in Glasgow and murders three members of the Watt family. William Watt, the father, a successful businessman is promptly arrested for the crime. But police aren't able to find enough evidence to charge him so he is released. Determined to clear his own name, Watt offers to pay for information. Peter Manuel contacts him and offers to help. The two men meet in a bar and spend the next twelve hours drinking...
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Alex Cross novels volume 25
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With explosive charges and shocking evidence, Alex Cross is about to face the trial of the century in the #1 New York Times bestselling series.
Alex Cross is on the wrong side of the law. Charged with gunning down followers of his nemesis Gary Soneji in cold blood, he is being turned into the poster child for trigger-happy cops. Cross knows it was self-defense. But will a jury see it that way?
When his former partner Sampson shows...
Alex Cross is on the wrong side of the law. Charged with gunning down followers of his nemesis Gary Soneji in cold blood, he is being turned into the poster child for trigger-happy cops. Cross knows it was self-defense. But will a jury see it that way?
When his former partner Sampson shows...
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In December 2005 Toño Zuniga was picked up off the street in Mexico City, Mexico, and sentenced to 20 years for a murder he knew nothing about. A friend of Toño's contacted two young lawyers, Roberto Hernández and Layda Negrete, who gained prominence in Mexico when they helped bring about the release of another innocent man from prison. Looking into Toño's case, Roberto and Layda managed to get a retrial--on camera--and enlisted the help of filmmaker...
95) The Collini case
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"2001, Fabrizio Collini (Franco Nero), a retired Italian worker, who had been living in Germany for 35 years, kills an elderly wealthy industrialist well known throughout the country. Collini's defense has been assigned to a public defender, the young lawyer Caspar Leinen (Elayas M'Barek), at his first major trial. However, Caspar had been a protegee of the murdered person, who he considered as a kind of father"--from www.imdb.com.
97) Alias Grace
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"In 19th-century Canada, a psychiatrist weighs whether a murderess should be pardoned due to insanity"--From www.imdb.com.
98) Plea of insanity
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C.J. Townsend novels volume 3
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Prosecutor Julia Vacanti sets out to prove that surgeon David Marquette killed his family in cold blood in spite of the claim by Marquette's defense team that their client should not be convicted because he is insane. To bring a killer to justice, Julia will have to journey into the mind of madness herself, embarking on a terrifying personal journey back into her own past.
99) Stranglehold
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Set on the streets and in the courtrooms of Toronto, Detective Ari Greene is caught in the fight of his life when the detective becomes the accused.
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