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• Unreliable Truth

  Methos, Victor,

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  The chin tattoo confirms the victim is Māori. The whorls of ink from her lower lip to her chin—the moko - is worn only by Māori women. So, her ethnicity is a given. The mystery of who dumped her body in the volcanic rock pool at the base…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Twenty

  Grippando, James, 1958-

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  Attorney Jack Swyteck and his family are caught in the crossfire after a deadly school shooting claims twenty casualties in this provocative and timely thriller from Harper Lee Prize–winner James Grippando that touches on some of the most…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Final Judgment

  a Samantha Brinkman Legal Thriller

  Clark, Marcia,

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  A murder investigation draws firebrand attorney Samantha Brinkman into her boyfriend’s past in this novel of high-risk suspense by bestselling author Marcia Clark.

• Cheater's Game

  Levine, Paul (Paul J.),

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  CHEATER'S GAME dives deep into the true-to-life college admissions scandal with an explosive federal trial that rocks the courthouse.

• Bluebird, Bluebird

  a Novel

  Locke, Attica,

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  A black lawyer and a white woman have been found dead, triggering racial disputes and simmering tension. Can Darren Mathews solve the murders before it all kicks off?

• Relative Justice

  Whitlow, Robert, 1954-

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  A powerful legal drama novel that explores what happens when in-laws with vastly divergent backgrounds end up practicing law together and find themselves in the midst of a complicated lawsuit against a huge drug manufacturer.

• Suspect

  Turow, Scott,

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  For as long as Lucia Gomez has been the police chief in the city of Highland Isle, she has known that any woman in law enforcement must walk a precarious line between authority and camaraderie to gain respect. She has maintained a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Jailhouse Lawyer

  Patterson, James, 1947-

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  A young lawyer takes on the judge who is destroying her hometown--and ends up in jail herself. In picture-perfect Erva, Alabama, the most serious crimes are misdemeanors. There's only one place to learn the truth behind these incriminating…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Law of Innocence

  Connelly, Michael, 1956-

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  Defense attorney Mickey Haller is pulled over by police, who find the body of a client in the trunk of his Lincoln. Haller is charged with murder and can't make the exorbitant $5 million bail slapped on him by a vindictive judge. Mickey…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• All Her Little Secrets

  a Novel

  Morris, Wanda M. (Wanda Michelle), 1959-

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  Ellice Littlejohn seemingly has it all: an Ivy League law degree, a well-paying job as a corporate attorney, great friends, and a "for fun" relationship with a rich, charming executive, who just happens to be her white boss. But everything…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• False Witness

  Slaughter, Karin, 1971-

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  Leigh Collier has a good job as a defense attorney, Then a case lands on her desk, ,defending a wealthy man accused of rape. It's the highest profile case she's ever been given. But when she meets the accused, she realizes that it's no…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Missing Piece

  a Novel

  Lescroart, John T.,

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  No one mourned when San Francisco DA Wes Farrell put Paul Riley in prison eleven years ago for the rape and murder of his girlfriend. But when Riley is murdered, The search takes PI Abe Glitsky through an investigative hall of mirrors…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Darkest Place

  Margolin, Phillip,

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  As a favor to a judge, attorney Robin Lockwood takes on the pro bono defense of a reprehensible defendant charged with even more reprehensible crimes. But what she doesn't know--what she can't know--is how this one decision, this one case,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Judge's List

  Grisham, John,

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  A serial killers; he knows forensics, police procedure, and most important: he knows the law. He is a judge, in Florida. He has a list, with the names of his victims and targets, all unsuspecting people unlucky enough to have crossed his…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Quiet Boy

  Winters, Ben H.,

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  In 2008, a cheerful ambulance-chasing lawyer named Jay Shenk persuades the grieving Keener family to sue a private LA hospital. Two thrilling trials braid together, medical malpractice and murder, jostling us back and forth in time.

• American Traitor

  Taylor, Brad, 1965-

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  While working as a contractor at an Australian F-35 facility, former Taskforce member Clifford Delmonty, callsign Dunkin, saw something he shouldn't have, and now he is on the run from Chinese agents.

• While Justice Sleeps

  a Novel

  Abrams, Stacey,

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  When the shocking news breaks that Justice Wynn--the cantankerous swing vote on many current high-profile cases--has slipped into a coma, Attorney Avery Keene’s life turns upside down. She is immediately notified that Justice Wynn has left…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Firm

  a Novel

  Grisham, John,

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  Mitch McDeere is a young, intelligent and ambitious lawyer. When he gets a job with a top law firm in Memphis, he is delighted, but soon Mitch discovers that the firm is listening in on his phone calls and that the FBI wants to speak to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Color of Law

  a Novel

  Gimenez, Mark

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  Lawyer Scott Fenney is not thrilled when he is appointed to defend Shawanda Jones, a prostitute accused of killing the son of Texas senator and presidential candidate, Mack McCall.

• The Lincoln Lawyer

  Connelly, Michael, 1956-

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  Mickey Haller is a Lincoln Lawyer, a criminal defense pro who operates out of the backseat of his Lincoln Town Car, to defend clients at the bottom of the legal food chain. It's no wonder that he is despised by cops, prosecutors, and even…Read moreRead more of this annotation