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Weighed in the Balance

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The Case of the Glamorous Ghost

Erle Stanley Gardner · 230 pages

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Rumpole and the Primrose Path

John Mortimer · 313 pages

In a collection of stories, curmudgeonly London barrister Horace Rumpole, recovering from a heart attack, takes on a nasty head nurse at his run-down convalescent center as he investigates the mysterious death of an elderly patient.

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The Motive

John Lescroart · 448 pages

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Snow Falling on Cedars

David Guterson · 424 pages

On San Piedro, an island of rugged, spectacular beauty in Puget Sound, home to salmon fishermen and strawberry farmers, a Japanese-American fisherman stands trial, charged with murder. The year is 1954, and the shadow of World War II, with its brutality abroad and internment of Japanese Americans at home, hangs over the courtroom. Ishmael Cambers, who lost an arm in the Pacific war and now runs th

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The Reversal

Michael Connelly

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The Guilty Plea

Robert Rotenberg · 336 pages

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Goodnight Sweet Prince

David Dickinson · 320 pages

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Malice Prepense

Kate Wilhelm · 412 pages

A man with the mind of an eight-year-old is accused of murdering an Oregon senator. He is Teddy Wendover, 28, who as a child was stunted by an accident on a field trip led by the senator. For defense lawyer Barbara Holloway it's a frame-up, but who is behind it?

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One Dog Night

David Rosenfelt · 387 pages

Defense lawyer Andy Carpenter takes on a cold case when the suspected murderer turns out to be the man who saved his beloved dog.

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Proof of Guilt

Charles Todd · 343 pages

When the clues in a hit-and-run investigation lead him to two families famous for producing and selling the world's best Madeira wine, Scotland Yard's Ian Rutledge is pitted against his new supervisor, who has his own suspect.

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Sans Pareil Mystery, The

Karen Charlton

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Involuntary Witness

Gianrico Carofiglio · 274 pages

A nine-year-old boy is found murdered at the bottom of a well near a beach in southern Italy and a Senegalese peddler is accused of the crime.

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Perfect Alibi

Sheldon Siegel · 359 pages

Mike Daley and Rosie Fernandez take on their daughter's boyfriend as a client when he is accused of murdering his father.

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Sad Cypress

Agatha Christie · 237 pages

Cousins by marriage and lovers by inclination, Roddy and Elinor were the ideal match. He loathed any display of emotion, while she was composed at all times. Then they got an anonymous letter warning that their rich Aunt Laura was thinking of cutting them off, and their perfect world vanished. Roddy did the unthinkable, and fell in love. And Elinor found herself charged with murder. When Hercule P

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The Verdict

Nick Stone · 512 pages

Terry Flynt is a struggling legal clerk, desperately trying to get promoted. And then he is given the biggest opportunity of his career: to help defend a millionaire accused of murdering a woman in his hotel suite. The only problem is that the accused man, Vernon James, turns out to be Terry's sworn enemy - a man who betrayed him and turned all his friends against him at university. This case coul

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Bleak House

Charles Dickens · 815 pages

As the interminable case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce grinds its way through the Court of Chancery, it draws together a disparate group of people: Ada and Richard Clare, whose inheritance is gradually being devoured by legal costs; Esther Summerson, a ward of court, whose parentage is a source of deepening mystery; the menacing lawyer Tulkinghorn; the determined sleuth Inspector Bucket; and even Jo, t

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Presumed Innocent

Scott Turow · 431 pages

Hailed as the most suspenseful and compelling novel in decades. Presumed Innocent brings to life our worst nightmare: that of an ordinary citizen facing conviction for the most terrible of all crimes. It's the stunning portrayal of one man's all-too-human, all-consuming fatal attraction for a passionate woman who is not his wife, and the story of how his obsession puts everything he loves and valu

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Prime Witness

Steve Martini · 405 pages

A series of bizarre murders leads to the arrest of a prime suspect and sparks the most explosive trial in lawyer Paul Madriani's career.

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The Widow

John Grisham · 416 pages

'A classic, compulsive, taut and thrilling novel from one of the great storytellers of our time. No one does it better' CHRIS WHITAKER SHE NEEDS A LAWYER. HE NEEDS A PAYDAY. Lawyer Simon Latch is struggling with debt, gambling issues and an impending divorce. But when Eleanor Barnett, an 85-year-old widow, visits his office to secure a new will, it seems his luck has finally changed: she claims sh

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Murder One

William Bernhardt · 319 pages

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A Spectacle of Corruption

David Liss · 390 pages

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Phineas Redux

Anthony Trollope · 387 pages

*The Palliser Novels*, book 4: *Phineas Redux*

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Worthy Brown's Daughter

Phillip Margolin

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