Connelly, Michael
Summary: Defense attorney Mickey Haller gets the text, "Call me ASAP - 187," and the California penal code for murder immediately gets his attention. Murder cases have the highest stakes and the biggest paydays, and they always mean Haller has to be at the top of his game. When Mickey learns that the victim was his own former client, a prostitute he thought he had rescued and put on the straight and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2013
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Summary: When attorney Jason Rich's sister Jana is accused of murdering her husband, she begs Jason to defend her. He's reluctant to take on the case because he has no experience with criminal law. Also, Jana isn't the easiest person to get along with, and even Jason isn't so sure she didn't hire someone to do the killing. Nevertheless, he heads back to his hometown to unravel the truth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas & Mercer 2022
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Summary: Court-appointed lawyer Jake Brigance puts his career, his financial security, and the safety of his family on the line to defend a sixteen-year-old suspect who is accused of killing a local deputy and is facing the death penalty.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Grisham 2020Ellis, David
Summary: Years after a party that resulted in a teen's death, Jon Soliday, legal counsel to a politician and close childhood friend who is running for governor, realizes with horror that his fellow partygoers are being killed off.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2003
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Summary: "Television journalist Delaney Wright is on the brink of stardom after she begins covering a sensational murder trial for the six p.m. news. She should be thrilled, yet her growing desire to locate her birth mother consumes her thoughts. When Delaney's friends Alvirah Meehan and her husband Willy offer to look into the mystery surrounding her birth, they uncover a shocking secret they do not...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2016
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Summary: Alejandro "Sandy" Stern, a brilliant defense lawyer ready to retire, is pulled back to the courtroom when an old friend faces criminal charges. But his belief in the power of the judicial system will face a final, terrible test.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Book Group 2020
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Summary: A high-profile murder trial brings together the lives of three women: hot-shot lead prosecutor Erika Lorman, young up-and-coming co-prosecutor Charlie Blair, and a teenage girl standing trial for the murder of her mother. Secrets from the past threaten to undo not just the case, but Erika and Charlie, too.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Summary: When a U.S. Senator is shot and killed, a young black man who was wounded as he fled the scene is arrested. Though the case is a career-maker, no attorney will touch it because of its explosive nature. Yet Joseph Antonelli leaves the comfort of his Portland, Oregon practice to head for "the City" to take on the young man's defense.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2002
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2005
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Summary: Dismas Hardy, a managing partner at his thriving, newly reorganized law firm is a rainmaker and fix-it guy for clients leery of taking their chances in the courtroom, who has lost his faith in the law. Now Hardy's young associate, Amy Wu, grieving over the recent death of her father, brings the firm a high-profile and challenging case: Andrew Bartlett, the seventeen-year-old son of a prominent...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2004
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Summary: Success is fleeting; nobody knows this better than Amanda Jaffe. The case that put her on the map has left her traumatized, doubting her instincts, and shunning the limelight. This ends when she agrees to handle the case of John Dupre, who runs an upscale call girl service. He is accused of murdering a U.S. Senator. Dupre claims to possess proof of an existence of a secret society of powerful...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLargePrint 2003
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Summary: Lawyer Paul Madriani is called on to defend a brilliant research physician who may be a killer. Dr. David Crone, a respected medical researcher and principal in mapping the human genome, is charged with the murder of a young colleague whose dismembered body was found in a nearby bay. Forensic evidence links her murder with items discovered in Crone's garage. Madriani's defense case is hindered...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam's 2001
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Summary: With his resignation from the Washington Police interrupted by a case involving a friend who has been framed for murder, Alex Cross and partner John Sampson journey across military lines to confront the most brutal killer of their careers. Alex Cross is plunged into a case where military codes of honor conceal dark currents of revenge and ambition, and the men controlling the moves have the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown, and Co. 2002
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Publisher / Publication Date: Listen & Live Audio, Inc. 2004
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Summary: "Author David Rosenfelt's hero, Andy Carpenter, plunges into a high-profile murder case with a golden retriever as his key witness"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 2007
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Summary: Andy Carpenter, plunges into a high-profile murder case with a golden retriever as his key witness.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Listen & Live Audio, Inc. 2007
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Summary: An eccentric Chicago heiress and her entourage are watching Fourth of July fireworks in the backyard of her California mansion when she is shot in the head. A self-styled communist and employee at the mansion is tackled and witnesses swear they saw him shoot her. The young man is so offensive, mega lawyer Bomber Hanson posits he couldn't be guilty and takes the case. Bomber's son and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Allen A. Knoll 2002
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Summary: When Amanda Jaffe is forced to represent a pimp accused of murder (a case no other lawyer will touch), her client threatens her, strirring up trauma to such an extent that Amanda must seek the help of a psychiatrist. Her opponent on the murder case, ADA Tom McCorkle, is a local hero -- he won the Heisman Trophy and secured for the University of Oregon its only victory in the Rose Bowl 15 years...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2003
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Summary: After Laurie Collins left him and headed west, New Jersey defense attorney Andy Carpenter didn't expect to ever see her again. So he's shocked when his ex-girlfriend appears on TV - and then calls him pleading for his help. Two coeds in Wisconsin have been found brutally stabbed to death. As the town's acting police chief, Laurie had to arrest a young college student with a car full of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mysterious Press 2006
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Summary: Dog-loving lawyer Andy Carpenter plunges into a high profile murder case in which a rogue German shepherd police dog may be the only hope for its owner, an Iraq war vet and former-cop-turned-thief accused of murder.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Listen & Live Audio 2010
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Summary: "Defense attorney Mickey Haller is pulled over by police, who find the body of a client in the trunk of his Lincoln. Haller is charged with murder and can't make the exorbitant $5 million bail slapped on him by a vindictive judge. Mickey elects to defend himself and must strategize and build his defense from his jail cell in the Twin Towers Correctional Center in downtown Los Angeles, all the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2020
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Summary: The murder of Paul Wheeler has all the elements of a blockbuster: family rivalries, incalculable wealth, and a prominent man dying in the arms of his beautiful mistress. It's a case that could earn Derek Mitchell even greater star power. When the Wheeler family approaches him about defending Creighton for his uncle's murder -- even before he's charged -- he jumps at the chance. But the more...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2009
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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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Summary: "Defense attorney Mickey Haller returns with a haunting case in the gripping new thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Michael Connelly. Mickey Haller gets the text, "Call me ASAP - 187," and the California penal code for murder immediatelygets his attention. Murder cases have the highest stakes and the biggest paydays, and they always mean Haller has to be at the top of his game....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2013