Nesbit, TaraShea
Summary: "Ten years after the Mayflower pilgrims arrived on rocky, unfamiliar soil, Plymouth is not the land its residents had imagined. Seemingly established on a dream of religious freedom, in reality the town is led by fervent puritans who prohibit the residents from living, trading, and worshipping as they choose. By the time an unfamiliar ship, bearing new colonists, appears on the horizon one...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NESGrisham, John.
Summary: With two attorneys for parents, thirteen-year-old Theodore Boone knows more about the law than most lawyers do. But when a high profile murder trial comes to his small town and Theo gets pulled into it, it's up to this amateur attorney to save the day.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Children's Books 2010
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Grisham 2010Grisham, John.
Summary: With two attorneys for parents, thirteen-year-old Theodore Boone knows more about the law than most lawyers do. But when a high profile murder trial comes to his small town and Theo gets pulled into it, it's up to this amateur attorney to save the day.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC GRICavanagh, Steve
Summary: "Alexandra Avellino has just found her father's mutilated body, and needs the police right away. She believes her sister killed him, and that she is still in the house with a knife. Sofia Avellino has just found her father's mutilated body and needs the police right away. She believes her sister, Alexandra did it, and that she is still in the house, locked in the bathroom. Both women are to go...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orion 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAVSims, Guy A.
Summary: While on trial as an accomplice to a murder, sixteen-year-old Steve Harmon records his experiences in prison and in the courtroom in the form of a film script as he tries to come to terms with the course his life has taken.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2015
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 MYEPatterson, James
Summary: Ruby Bozarth, a newcomer to Rosedale, Mississippi, is also fresh to the Mississippi Bar--and to the docket of Circuit Judge Baylor, who taps Ruby as defense counsel in a racially charged felony. The murder of a woman from one of the town's oldest families has Rosedale's upper crust howling for blood, and the prosecutor is counting on Ruby's inexperience to help him deliver a swift conviction....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Brown & Company 2018
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: Fiction Patterson 2018Dorn, L. R.
Summary: "A modern tale of striving ambition, envy, desire and murder, and a mesmerizing take on Theodore Dreiser's classic novel An American Tragedy, this time set among California's beautiful people"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC DORDoughty, Louise
Summary: "An intelligent, erotically charged thriller with deep moral implications. Yvonne Carmichael, renowned geneticist, public authority, happily married mother of two, sits in the accused box. The charge is murder. Across the courtroom, not meeting her eye, sits her alleged accomplice. He wears the beautiful pin-striped suit he wore on their first meeting in the Houses of Parliament, when he put...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DOURosenfelt, David.
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: Teenage addict Emily "Killer" Keller stands accused of killing the family she babysits for, and is on trial for murder.
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Publisher / Publication Date: CamCat Books 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC FINGrisham, John
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: FIC GRIGrisham, John
Summary: Jake is the court-appointed lawyer for Drew Gamble, a young man accused of murdering a local deputy. Many in Clanton want a swift trial and the death penalty, but Brigance sees it another way. Once he learns the details of the case, he realizes he has to do everything he can to save Drew, who is sixteen. Jake's commitment to the truth puts his career and the safety of his family at risk.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GRIField, Rachel
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicago Review Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FIEHutchins, Pamela Fagan.
Summary: When a killer threatens his family before their testimony in a capital murder trial, Patrick Flint will do anything to keep them safe. "Best book I've read in a long time!"--Kiersten Marquet, author of Reluctant Promises "A roller-coaster ride from the first page to the last!" -- Merry, Amazon reader A peaceful day of skiing for the family. The murder of a prominent judge's wife. A witness...
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Publisher / Publication Date: SkipJack Publishing 2020
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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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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROSChampion, David.
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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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHABuckley, Christopher
Summary: When First Lady Beth MacMann is charged with killing her philandering husband, the President of the United States, during a bedroom argument, she turns for help to notorious defense attorney Boyce "Shameless" Baylor, her former flame.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BUCPatterson, James
Summary: "Tough-as-nails criminal defense attorney Jane Smith is hip-deep in the murder trial of the century. Actually, her charmless client might've committed several murders. She's also fallen in love with a wonderful guy. And an equally wonderful dog, a mutt. But Jane doesn't have much time. She's just received a terminal diagnosis giving her twelve months. Unless she's murdered before her expiration...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC PATTyce, Harriet
Summary: A young lawyer's outwardly perfect life spirals out of control as she takes on her first murder case in this dark and twisty debut thriller for readers of Paula Hawkins, A.J. Finn, or Shari Lapena. I did it. I killed him. I should be locked up. Alison, a young lawyer, has just been given her first murder case to defend. Her new client is a meek housewife who doesn't deny that she stabbed her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction TyceWright, 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: Inseparable friends since childhood, brothers David and Michael and their neighbor Kay embark on a night of adventure during which a drug-influenced David jumps off a bridge and sets a devastating series of events in motion.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OSBBabson, Marian.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2002
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Summary: Anna Vincenzi, who has been in the shadow of her movie-star sister, remakes herself into the ultimate sexy woman and is declared a prime suspect in her sister's murder, a situation that prompts the valley residents to rally together.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GOUConnelly, Michael
Summary: Defense attorney Mickey Haller enlists Harry Bosch to help investigate the death of a deputy, blamed on the wife. But danger comes from those who covered up what the deputy's killing was really about.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023