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The Guilty Plea

Robert Rotenberg · 336 pages

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The Case Of The Borrowed Brunette

Erle Stanley Gardner · 250 pages

Perry Mason and Della Street counted eight in succession, standing on corners a block apart, before pulling up to the curb to investigate. That's how they met Cora Felton, the eighth brunette, and Eva Martell, her roommate, and Adelle Winters, the chaperone who carried a .32 caliber revolver as a persuader. It wasn't just curiosity for long because Mr. Hines, who paid Eva $50 a day to wear anot

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A Plague of Secrets

John Lescroart

Dismas Hardy, Abe Glitsky, and Wyatt Hunt return in a compelling and timely legal thriller filled with blackmail, political intrigue, and multiple murder.The first victim is Dylan Vogler, a charming ex-convict who manages the Bay Beans West coffee shop in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury district. When his body is found, inspectors discover that his knapsack is filled with high-grade marijuana. It s

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The Brass Verdict

Michael Connelly · 533 pages

Things are finally looking up for defense attorney Mickey Haller. After two years of wrong turns, Haller is back in the courtroom. When Hollywood lawyer Jerry Vincent is murdered, Haller inherits his biggest case yet: the defense of Walter Elliott, a prominent studio executive accused of murdering his wife and her lover. But as Haller prepares for the case that could launch him into the big time,

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House Rules

Jodi Picoult · 532 pages

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Pleasantville

Attica Locke · 432 pages

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The Woods

Harlan Coben · 442 pages

Twenty years ago, four teenagers at summer camp walked into the woods at night. Two were found murdered, and the others were never seen again. Four families had their lives changed forever. Now, two decades later, they are about to change again.For Paul Copeland, the county prosecutor of Essex, New Jersey, mourning the loss of his sister has only recently begun to subside. Cope, as he is known, is

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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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Th1rt3en

Steve Cavanagh · 356 pages

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The Inheritance

Simon Tolkien · 357 pages

"When a famed Oxford historian is found dead in his study one night, all evidence points to his son, Stephen. About to be disinherited from the family fortune, Stephen returns to home after a long estrangement - and it happens to be the night his father is shot to death. When his fingerprints are found on the murder weapon, Stephen's guilt seems undeniable. But there were five other people in the

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Hounded

David Rosenfelt · 368 pages

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A Walk in the Dark

Gianrico Carofiglio · 215 pages

Drawn to a hopeless cause, only Guido Guerrieri will take the case when a woman accuses her well-connected ex-boyfriend of assault and battery. Some of the attraction to take the case involves Sister Claudia. In charge of the shelter where his client is living, she shares his love of martial arts and hatred of injustice.

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A Calamity of Souls

David Baldacci

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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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Beach Road

James Patterson, Peter de Jonge · 387 pages

Montauk lawyer Tom Dunleavy's client list is woefully small - occasional real estate closings barely keep him in paper clips. When he is hired to defend a local man accused in a triple murder that has the East Hampton world in an uproar, he knows that he has found the case of his lifetime. The crime turns the glittering playground for the super-rich into a blazing inferno. Dunleavy's client is a

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The Strangers in the House

Georges Simenon · 200 pages

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The Alibi

Sandra Brown · 576 pages

Assistant DA Hammond Cross has his sights set on the DA's office. Prosecuting a high-profile murder case practically ensures him the job. But a Saturday night encounter with a mysterious woman is the start of a living nightmare.

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Rumpole and the Golden Thread

John Mortimer · 292 pages

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Weighed in the Balance

Anne Perry · 400 pages

"When Countess Zorah Rostova sweeps into the office of London barrister Sir Oliver Rathbone and asks him to defend her against a serious charge of slander, he is astonished to find himself accepting. For, from what he learns of the case, a defense of the countess can only earn him notoriety.". "Twenty years earlier, Countess Zorah's countryman Prince Friedrich had abdicated his throne to marry a

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Long Knives

Charles Rosenberg

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Natchez Burning

Greg Iles · 791 pages

Penn Cage must investigate when his father, a beloved family doctor and pillar of the community, is accused of murdering Violet Davis, the beautiful nurse with whom he worked in the dark days of the early 1960s.

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A Certain Justice

P.D. James · 437 pages

"Venetia Aldridge QC is a distinguished barrister. When she agrees to defend Garry Ashe, accused of the brutal murder of his aunt, it is one more opportunity to triumph in her career as a criminal lawyer. But Regina V. Ashe initiates events both frightening and unpredictable... Just four weeks later, Miss Aldridge is found dead in her Middle Temple chambers. Commander Adam Dalgliesh, called in

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The Brief

Simon Michael · 277 pages

In the 60s London of gangsters, prejudice and terrifying gang wars, Barrister Charles Holborne spends his life dealing with the worst examples of violent criminality. After successfully winning a number of high profile cases, he is building a reputation among Soho's criminal classes as a man who gets the job done, a reputation that doesn't endear him to his establishment colleagues. Yet Charles is

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