Gaines, Ernest J.
Summary: In a small Cajun community in 1940s Louisiana, a young black man is about to go to the electric chair for murder. A white shopkeeper had died during a robbery gone bad; though the young man on trial had not been armed and had not pulled the trigger, in that time and place, there could be no doubt of the verdict or the penalty.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Contemporaries 1997
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Summary: Twenty years ago Dennis Danson was arrested for murder. Now he's the subject of a true-crime documentary seeking to free an innocent man. The filmmaker, Samantha, is so invested she marries him to campaign, as his wife, for his release. But once she succeeds, Samantha learns he may not be innocent after all.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harlequin Audio 2018
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Summary: "Once, Detective Buck Schatz patrolled the city of Memphis, chasing down robbers and killers with a blackjack truncheon and a .357. But he's been retired for decades. Now he's frail and demented, and Rose, his wife of 72 years, is ill and facing a choice about her health care that Buck is terrified to even consider. The future looks short and bleak, and Buck's only escape is into the past. But...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2020
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC FRIHill, Ernest
Summary: Tyrone Stokes was imprisoned for shooting a man in a convenience store. His wife, Pauline, saw her chance to end their marriage and raise their son, Marcus, on her own. Now Tyrone has returned to Brownsville, Louisiana, to discover that Marcus needs help. Marcus has been convicted of the rape and murder of a young white girl.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2003
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HILCornwell, Patricia Daniels.
Summary: Now that her job as Virginia's Chief Medical Examiner has come to an end, Kay Scarpetta moves to sunny Florida where she takes on a job as a private forensic consultant. Before too long, she's deep into a case that has left colleagues in neighboring Louisiana baffled. A wowan- keys in her hand and dressed to kill - is found dead in a seedy hotel. Foul Play?
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2003
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Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Library 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LONWright, Richard
Summary: Right from the start, Bigger Thomas had been headed for jail. It could have been for assault or petty larceny; by chance, it was for murder and rape. Native Son tells the story of this young black man caught in a downward spiral after he kills a young white woman in a brief moment of panic. Set in Chicago in the 1930s, Richard Wright's novel is just as powerful today as when it was written --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial Modern Classics 2005
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Summary: "No man truly fears a woman. Not even one who is her father's daughter. The case was sensational. Kaylee Pierson had confessed from the very beginning, waived all appeals. She had called herself "death," but people called her the devil. Despite the media's chronicling of her tragic circumstances-the childhood spent with a violent father-no one could find sympathy for "the Beautiful Butcher" who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central 2024
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Summary: "Once, Detective Buck Schatz patrolled the city of Memphis, chasing down robbers and killers with a blackjack truncheon and a .357. But he's been retired for decades. Now he's frail and demented, and Rose, his wife of 72 years, is ill and facing a choice about her health care that Buck is terrified to even consider. The future looks short and bleak, and Buck's only escape is into the past. But...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2020
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Summary: Many children have grown up in the shadow of Louisiana’s Greenmount State Penitentiary. Most of them—sons and daughters of corrections officers and staff—left the place as soon as they could. Yet Ginny Polk chose to come back to work as a prison cook. She knows the harsh reality of life within those walls—the cries of men being beaten, the lines of shuffling inmates chained together. Yet she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Mikulencak 2018Lippman, Laura
Summary: Eliza Benedict's peaceful suburban life is shattered after she is contacted by Walter Bowman, the man who kidnapped and held her hostage as a teen in 1985, and who now claims to want forgiveness while on death row.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollinsPublishers 2010
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Summary: "Fifteen years ago, Lilith Wade was arrested for the brutal murder of six women. After a death row conviction, media frenzy, and the release of an unauthorized biography, her thirty-year-old daughter Edie Beckett is just trying to survive out of the spotlight. She's a recovering alcoholic with a dead-end city job and an unhealthy codependent relationship with her brother. Edie also has a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2018
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Summary: Leaving Virginia in search of peace and quiet, Dr. Kay Scarpetta journeys to Florida, where a series of baffling murders entangles her in an international conspiracy that confronts her with the most unexpected circumstance of her life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2003
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS CORSheehan, 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 SHEBaldacci, David
Summary: Melvin Mars awaits his fate on Death Row. He was one of America's most promising football stars until, aged twenty-years-old, he was arrested and convicted for the murder of his parents just as he was due to begin a very lucrative contract with the NFL. When Amos Decker, newly appointed special agent with the FBI, hears the news that Melvin was saved in the final seconds before his execution...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Baldacci 2016Blanchard, Alice
Summary: Sixteen years ago, Kate Wolfe's young sister Savannah was brutally murdered. Forced to live with the guilt of how her own selfishness put Savannah in harm's way, Kate was at least comforted by the knowledge that the man responsible was on death row. But when she meets a retired detective who is certain that Kate's sister was only one of many victims of a serial killer, Kate must face the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Titan Books 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Blanchard 2018Oppel, Kenneth.
Summary: Oncologist Laura Donaldson and FBI agent Kevin Sheldrake embark on a manhunt to find David Haines, a murderer who has escaped from death row, when it is discovered that Haines' blood could hold the key to curing cancer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2001
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Summary: "Ansel Packer is scheduled to die in twelve hours. He knows what he's done, and now awaits execution, the same chilling fate he forced on those girls, years ago. But Ansel doesn't want to die--he wants to be celebrated, understood. Through a kaleidoscope of women--a mother, a sister, a homicide detective--we learn the story of Ansel's life. As the clock ticks down, these three women sift...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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Summary: John Grisham returns to Ford County, Mississippi, the setting of his immensely popular first novel, "A Time to Kill," with this wholly surprising collection of stories.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2009
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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: HarperLuxe, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2016
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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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Summary: Twenty years ago, Dennis Danson was arrested and imprisoned for the brutal murder of a young girl. Now he's the subject of a true-crime documentary that's whipping up a frenzy online to uncover the truth and free a man who has been wrongly convicted. A thousand miles away in England, Samantha is obsessed with Dennis's case. She exchanges letters with him, and is quickly won over by his apparent...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 2018
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Summary: In this first book in a new series, Thomas Pitt's son Daniel races to save his client from execution, setting him against London's Special Police Branch. It's 1910, and Daniel Pitt is a reluctant lawyer who would prefer to follow in the footsteps of his detective father. When the biographer Russell Graves, who Daniel is helping defend, is sentenced to execution for the murder of his wife,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2018
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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