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Retribution

Jilliane Hoffman · 496 pages

One rainy night in New York City, outstanding law student Chloe Larson wakes from a terrible nightmare. But it's not a nightmare it's real. Not only is she savagely violated in her own bedroom, Chloe then has to deal with the horror of nobody being brought to justice. Twelve years later a very different Chloe is forging a formidable reputation in the Miami Dade State Attorney's Office, as a viciou

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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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Rogue Lawyer

John Grisham · 344 pages

Sebastian Rudd is not your typical street lawyer. He works out of a customized bulletproof van, complete with Wi-Fi, a bar, a small fridge, fine leather chairs, a hidden gun compartment, and a heavily armed driver. He has no firm, no partners, no associates, and only one employee, his driver, who's also his bodyguard, law clerk, confidant, and golf caddy. He lives alone in a small but extremely sa

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Th1rt3en

Steve Cavanagh · 356 pages

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The Reversal

Michael Connelly

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The Ex

Alafair Burke · 288 pages

After agreeing to defend her ex-fiancé when he is arrested for a triple homicide, top criminal lawyer, Olivia Randall begins to have doubts as the evidence mounts against him.

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The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest

Stieg Larsson · 602 pages

> Lisbeth Salander—the heart of Larsson’s two previous novels—lies in critical condition, a bullet wound to her head, in the intensive care unit of a Swedish city hospital. She’s fighting for her life in more ways than one: if and when she recovers, she’ll be taken back to Stockholm to stand trial for three murders. With the help of her friend, journalist Mikael Blomkvist, she will not only have t

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Devil's Corner

Lisa Scottoline · 432 pages

When prosecutor Vicki Allegretti arrives at a rowhouse to meet a confidential informant, she finds herself in the wrong place at the wrong time -- and is almost shot to death. She barely escapes with her life, but cannot save the two others gunned down before her disbelieving eyes. Stunned and heartbroken, Vicki tries to figure out how a routine meeting on a minor case became a double homicide.Vic

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My Sister's Grave

Robert Dugoni · 410 pages

Seattle police officer Tracy Crosswhite lost her sister Sarah over 20 years ago, and she has never forgiven herself. With no corpse discovered, there was still enough evidence to convict the man thought responsible for Sarah's disappearance. Now a body has been found and Tracy learns the remains are of her sister. Tracy has had her doubts about the guilt of the man behind bars, and she's absolutel

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Blood Defense

Marcia Clark · 389 pages

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Salem Falls

Jodi Picoult · 434 pages

Another fluent and absorbing tale by the author of The Pact, Nineteen Minutes and Plain Truth. Jodi Picoult has touched readers deeply with her acclaimed novels. She is gifted with an ability to make us share her characters' feelings.'Picoult writes with a fine touch, a sharp eye for detail, and firm grasp of the delicacy and complexity of human relationships.' -The Boston GlobeWrongfully convicte

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The Ophelia Cut

John Lescroart · 418 pages

Moses McGuire has good reason to be concerned about his beautiful twenty-three-year-old daughter, Brittany. She moves quickly from one boyfriend to the next, and always seems to prefer a new and mysterious stranger to a man she knows something about. But her most recent ex, Rick Jessup, isn’t willing to let her go, culminating in a terrible night when Brittany is raped. Within twenty-four hours

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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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Damaged

Pamela Callow

Haunted by the death of her sister and wounded by her ex-fiance's accusations, Kate Lange throws herself into her new career at a high-powered law firm.When the grandmother of a lonely private school student seeks her counsel, Kate thinks it's just another custody case. But then the teen is brutally murdered. And it isn't only Kate who wonders if her legal advice led to the girl's death.Put on not

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The 6th Target

James Patterson, Maxine Paetro · 400 pages

When a horrifying attack leaves one of the four members of the Women's Murder Club struggling for her life, the others fight to keep a madman behind bars before anyone else is hurt. And Lindsay Boxer and her new partner in the San Francisco police department run flat-out to stop a series of kidnappings that has electrified the city: children are being plucked off the streets together with their na

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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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Defending Jacob

William Landay

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Turning Angel

Greg Iles · 646 pages

Lawyer Penn Cage returns to defend his best friend since childhood for the murder of a young female student, with whom his friend was intimate, at their old alma mater, St. Stephen's Prep.

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Quicksand

Malin Persson Giolito · 501 pages

"A mass shooting has taken place at a prep school in Stockholm's wealthiest suburb. Maja Norberg is eighteen years old and on trial for her involvement in the massacre where her boyfriend and best friend were killed. When the novel opens, Maja has spent nine excruciating months in jail awaiting trial. Now the time has come for her to enter the courtroom. But how did Maja, the good girl next door w

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Move to Strike

Perri O'Shaughnessy · 412 pages

Nina's client is her son's best friend, Nikki Zack, a 16-year-old girl charged with murder. Nikki is accused of stealing from her uncle, a plastic surgeon, and killing him with an ancient samurai sword. Nina must pull an ace out of her sleeve in the courtroom to save her client.

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Escape

Robert K. Tanenbaum · 520 pages

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Crisis

Robin Cook · 468 pages

When Boston-based Dr. Craig Bowman is served with a summons for medical negligence, he's shocked, enraged, and more than a little humiliated. A devoted physician who has endured grueling years of training and worked continuously in the service of others, he is now a partner in an exclusive concierge medical practice. No longer forced to see more and more patients while spending less and less time

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Déjà Dead

Kathy Reichs · 509 pages

Un beau jour d'été à Montréal, sur la table de dissection du laboratoire de médecine légale de la police provinciale, arrive un cadavre découvert dans l'ancien parc du Grand Séminaire. Le docteur Temperance Brennan est chargé d'autopsier ce qu'il reste d'une femme découpée en morceaux. Sa sinistre expertise va l'amener en première ligne de l'enquête, face à l'assassin pervers qui collectionne les

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Naked in Death

J.D. Robb · 313 pages

It is the year 2058, and technology now completely rules the world. But Lieutenant Eve Dallas knows that the irresistible impulses of the human heart are still ruled by just one thing-passion. Crime and punishment is her business. Murder her speciality. Named by the social worker who found her when she was a mere child roaming that city's streets, Eve is a New York police detective who lives for h

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