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Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Up-and-coming Mission County, Pennsylvania, prosecutor Kate Magda has been given the assignment of a lifetime: lead counsel on a string of murders rocking the community. As the privileged daughter of a powerful local judge, Kate views the case as her chance to show her boss, her family, and the public that she is more than just "the judge's daughter." As Kate delves into the case, she becomes convinced that she shares a personal link with the killer,...
Author
Series
Birthright volume 1
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a future where chocolate and caffeine are contraband, teenage cellphone use is illegal, and water and paper are carefully rationed, sixteen-year-old Anya Balanchine finds herself thrust unwillingly into the spotlight as heir apparent to an important New York City crime family.
87) Notorious
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Formats
Description
About to take a controversial rap star to trial for a past crime, Melanie Vargas receives an important piece of information from his lawyer. On the steps of New York City's federal courthouse, he tells her that his client may have had ties to a wanted fugitive. Moments later, a powerful car bomb blows the lawyer to pieces, with Melanie only steps away. As shocking as the murder is, it has other repercussions for Melanie. Her relationship with the...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First Touchstone hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
"From Allison Leotta, the "highly entertaining storyteller" (George Pelecanos) who writes "in a style that's as real as it gets" (USA TODAY), a ripped-from-the-headlines novel featuring prosecutor Anna Curtis at the center of a national story involving campus rape and the disappearance of a young woman. Emma, a freshman at a Michigan university, has gone missing. She was last seen leaving a bar near the prestigious and secretive fraternity known on...
Author
Series
Eddie Flynn volume 5
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
They call him the King of Death Row. Randal Korn has sent more men to their deaths than any district attorney in the history of the United States. When a young woman, Skylar Edwards, is found murdered in Buckstown, Alabama, a corrupt sheriff arrests the last person to see her alive, Andy Dubois. It doesn't seem to matter to anyone that Andy is innocent. Everyone in Buckstown believes Andy is guilty. He has no hope of a fair trial. And the local defense...
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"On a steaming night in 1977, New York City is plunged into darkness and two boys, Joe and Robbie, are abandoned by their mother, Lois. Forty years to the day after this unforgivable moment, Joe is a hard-drinking ADA and Lois has resurfaced: Joe wakes from another alcoholic fog to learn she's been found murdered on a Coney Island beach. Joe throws himself into his work, struggling to reconcile his memories of Lois with the relative stranger found...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
Primera edición.
Language
Español
Description
La comunidad de Newton es un elegante barrio residencial que ofrece una instantánea perfecta de la vida acomodada, hasta que un día aparece en mitad del bosque el cadáver de Ben Rifkin, de tan solo catorce años, con tres puñaladas en el pecho, momento en que el apacible vecindario pierde la inocencia para siempre. El ayudante del fiscal del distrito, Andy Barber, se hace cargo del caso, al que se le da la máxima prioridad. Sin embargo,...
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English
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"The first drug overdose comes just after midnight, when a young woman dies on the dirty floor of a gas station bathroom. To the people of the small town of Acker's Gap, West Virginia, it is just another tragedy. It is sad--but these days, depressingly familiar. But then there is another overdose. And another. And another. Prosecutor Bell Elkins soon realizes that her Appalachian hometown is facing its starkest challenge yet: a day of constant heroin...
Author
Series
Desert plains volume 2
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Retiring prosecutor Jessica Yardley can't turn down one last investigation. This time, it's a set of murders inspired by a series of grisly paintings called The Night Things. She's the only one who can catch the killer, who's left a trail of bodies in a rural community outside of Las Vegas. But the more Jessica finds out, the less clear her case becomes. Out of options, she's forced to consult her serial killer ex-husband--to gain additional insight...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Forensic pathologist Lars Pohjanen has only a few weeks to live when he asks Rebecka Martinsson to investigate a murder that has long since passed the statute of limitations. A body found in a freezer at the home of the deceased alcoholic, Henry Pekkari, has been identified as a man who disappeared without a trace in 1962: the father of Swedish Olympic boxing champion Börje Ström. Rebecka wants nothing to do with a fifty-year-old case - she has...
95) A killer's wife
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Fourteen years ago, prosecutor Jessica Yardley's husband went to prison for a series of brutal murders. She's finally created a life with her daughter and is a well-respected attorney. She's moving on. But when a new rash of homicides has her ex-husband, Eddie, written all over them - the nightmares of her past come back to life. The FBI asks Jessica to get involved in the hunt for this copycat killer - which means visiting her ex and collaborating...
96) Dominic
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Only two other people know that Dominic, a charming Englishman, prosecutor, and musician in Austin, Texas, is also a psychopath. They also know that a year ago he got away with murder. One of those people is his "special lady," and the other is her brother, a teenager and fellow psychopath called Bobby. When a wily homicide detective starts digging up that past murder, little Bobby offers to take care of the problem--permanently. Dominic tries to...
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"As the old ways of the nineteenth century fade, Out of the Darkness tells a story that touches on the themes and issues America will face in the new century that looms ahead. It is a story of technology and its place in society. It is a story of violence, a doctor's responsibility to his patient, and a lawyer's responsibility to his client. It is a story of forbidden love, and a story of a timid, terrified young woman's finding her courage. It questions...
98) Renegade
Author
Series
An anonymous justice novel volume 1
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Since the mysterious death of her father, a NYC cop, Assistant District Attorney Kate Stone has fought against injustice in New York City. Now with no one to turn to, Kate blows off steam with martial arts and whatever bourbon happens to be on hand that night. When she can't imagine that life could get any darker, she's proven wrong as she argues a case against Max James, a serial assaulter of women. It's a case she desperately wants to win. Only...
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