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Attorney and client Fiction Cambridge (Mass.) Fiction Death row inmates Fiction Forensic pathologists Fiction Judicial error Fiction Medical examiners (Law) Fiction Scarpetta, Kay (Fictitious character) Fiction Terrorism Prevention Fiction United States. Dept. of Defense Fiction Women physicians FictionGrisham, John
Summary: Jake Brigance returns, a death-row inmate makes an unusual final request, and a dysfunctional legal family gets their day in court. These are just a few of the stories you'll encounter in these three novellas.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Random House Audio 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GRIKlavan, Andrew.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 1995
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KLAGrippando, James
Summary: Sashi Burgette vanished three years ago on her way to school. The night after the teenager's disappearance, ex-con Dylan Kyle was stopped for drunk driving. An article of Sashi's clothing was found in his truck, and a police videotape of his drunken explanation under interrogation sealed his fate at trial. Now, just days from Kyle's execution, Sashi's mother visits Jack Swyteck, doing pro bono...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION GRIGrisham, John.
Summary: Sam Cayhall is a former Klansman and unrepentant racist now facing the death penalty for a fatal bombing in 1967. He has run out of chances -- except for one: the young, liberal Chicago lawyer who just happens to be his grandson. While the executioners prepare the gas chamber, while the protesters gather and the TV cameras wait, Adam has only days, hours, minutes to save his client. For between...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1994
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GRIGrisham, John.
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Publisher / Publication Date: BDD Audio 1994
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GRIPatterson, Richard North.
Summary: Fifty-nine days. That's how long Rennell Price has to live - after spending fifteen years on death row for the horrifying sexual assault and murder of a girl whose body was found floating in San Francisco Bay. But attorney Terri Paget, who has fought her own way out of hopelessness and abuse, has dedicated her life to fighting for people like Rennell Price. This time, Terri has a client she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PATSheehan, James
Summary: Trial attorney Jack Tobin takes on two death row cases when he is asked to represent Benny Avrile, a New York City gangster set up in the killing of a retired oilman, and Henry Wilson, a career criminal whose Florida execution is just weeks away.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHEFord, G. M. (Gerald M.)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Morrow 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FORGrisham, John.
Summary: When Travis Boyette is paroled because of inoperable brain tumor, for the first time in his life, he decides to do the right thing and tell police about a crime he committed and another man is about to be executed for.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday Publishing Group 2010
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Summary: In this mother and daughter story, one is running from a horrible truth and the other fighting to reveal it. And the first rule is: Make them like you. Second rule: Make them need you. Third rule: Make them pay.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC MCTGrisham, John.
Summary: Nine years ago, Travis Boyette raped and murdered a popular high school student in Sloan Texas. To his amazement, Donte Drumm, the school's football star, was wrongly convicted of his heinous crimes and sent to death row. Now, Travis, who has an inoperable brain tumor and is stricken with guilt, decides to confess in a bid to save Donte, who has just four days before his execution.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2010
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GRITurow, Scott.
Summary: Rommy "Squirrel" Gandolph is a Yellow Man, an inmate on death row for a 1991 triple mureder in Kindle County. His slow progress toward certain execution is nearing completion when Arthur Raven, a corporate lawyer who is Rommy's reluctant court-appointed representative, receives word that another inmate may have new evidence that will exonerate Gandolph. Arthur's opponent in the case is Muriel...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TURCornwell, Patricia Daniels.
Summary: When Scarpetta examines a young man's body, she discovers stunning indications that he may have been alive when he was zipped inside a pouch and locked inside the cooler of her new Cambridge Forensic Center in Massachusetts. Various 3-D radiology scans reveal more shocking details about internal injuries unlike any Scarpetta has ever seen. These suggest the possibility of a conspiracy to cause...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2010
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Cornwell 2010Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS CORCornwell, Patricia Daniels.
Summary: When Scarpetta examines a young man's body, she discovers stunning indications that he may have been alive when he was zipped inside a pouch and locked inside the cooler of her new Cambridge Forensic Center in Massachusetts. Various 3-D radiology scans reveal more shocking details about internal injuries unlike any Scarpetta has ever seen. These suggest the possibility of a conspiracy to cause...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CORCornwell, Patricia Daniels.
Summary: Twenty years have passed since forensic medical examiner Kay Scarpetta joined the Air Force to help pay for med school. Her time in service scored an exclusive training fellowship at the Dover Air Force Base and recently propelled her into her new position as the chief of the high-tech Cambridge Forensic Center in Massachusetts. However, when Scarpetta faces the toughest case of her career, she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD MYS CORBuffa, Dudley W.
Summary: When renowned lawyer Joseph Antonelli--the defense attorney who has never lost a case--takes on the most shocking and controversial case of his storied career, he has no idea of the depths of trouble he's about to get into. A man has murdered the President of the United States, but has invoked the "Law of Necessity," which states that a crime is justified if it serves the greater good and thus...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Polis Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BUFPatterson, James
Summary: Successfully arresting Dominic "the Electrician" Cavello, an influential mafia boss, in an operation that leaves two fellow agents dead, senior FBI agent Nick Pellisante struggles with internal corruption that could prevent the man's conviction.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2006
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS PATConnors, Rose.
Summary: When can a citizen become a killer? Is homicidal insanity ever a moral or legal justification for murder? And what should a jury do when the facts are clear but they don't tell the real story? Cape Cod attorney Marty Nickerson, until recently a Massachusetts prosecutor, must ask herself those questions in her new role as defense attorney for Buck Hammond. The charge is murder one. When Buck's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CONGrippando, James
Summary: As the Electoral College battle for the White House lands in a Florida courtroom, Miami attorney Jack Swyteck has never felt farther from the truth, fighting for a faithless elector, caught between a corrupt president and his manipulative opponent--with each revelation more explosive than the next. The country is reeling. For the sixth time in American history, the winner of the popular vote...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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Summary: A New York psychiatrist recounts her mother's death for which she was arrested. At the time, Dr. Ellen Gulden was accused of killing her mother with an overdose of morphine, a charge in part based on a high school essay in which she advocated euthanasia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1994
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Summary: When electric light innovator Thomas Edison sues his only remaining rival for patent infringement, George Westinghouse hires untested Columbia Law School graduate Paul Ravath for a case fraught with lies, betrayals, and deception.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Moore 2016Abrams, Stacey
Summary: Avery Keene is back, trying to get her feet on solid ground after unraveling a conspiracy that took down the President of the United States in While Justice Sleeps. But as the sparks of impeachment hearings and political skirmishes swirl around her, Avery is approached at a legal conference by Preston Davies, an unassuming young man and fellow law clerk to a federal judge in Idaho. Davies...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: "A literary courtroom thriller about a mother accused of murdering her eight-year-old autistic son"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KIMQuindlen, Anna.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Pub. 1994