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62) Jersey law
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
266 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A legal thriller set on the streets and in the courtrooms of Camden, New Jersey, follows the haphazard efforts of former-cops-turned-attorneys June Salerno and Mickie Mezzonatti to defend a charismatic drug lord, a sleazy money launderer, and other guilty clients.
63) A time for mercy
Author
Series
Jake Brigance novels volume 3
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Language
English
Description
Plea bargains may grease the rails of justice, but for Jamie Brock, prosecuting criminals is not about cutting deals. In her three years as assistant DA, she's never plea-bargained a case and vows she never will. But when a powerful defense attorney is indicted for murder and devises a way to bring the entire justice system to a screeching halt, Jamie finds herself at a crossroads. One by one, prisoners begin rejecting deals. Prosecutors are overwhelmed,...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Detective Harry Bosch has retired from the LAPD, but his half-brother, defense attorney Mickey Haller, needs his help. The murder rap against his client seems ironclad, but Mickey is sure it's a setup. Though it goes against all his instincts, Bosch takes the case. With the secret help of his former LAPD partner Lucia Soto, he turns the investigation inside the police department. But as Bosch gets closer to discovering the truth, he makes himself...
Author
Series
Jack Swyteck novels volume 15
Language
English
Description
Julia Rodriguez and her teenage daughter Beatriz escaped bloodthirsty gangs, random violence and, Julia's abusive husband back in El Salvador. Arriving in Miami, mother and daughter struggled to carve their own piece of the American dream. While life in the States is hard, it is safer, until Julia's rejects her boss's unwanted sexual advances. Suddenly--thanks to an "anonymous" tip to U. S. immigration authorities--she is arrested, locked in detention...
68) Twenty
Author
Series
Jack Swyteck novels volume 17
Language
English
Description
After a deadly school shooting claims twenty casualties at Riverside Day School, the tragedy prompts mass hysteria-- and dangerous speculation. The police haven't identified the shooter, but a handgun found on the school grounds is registered to a parent, a Muslim man named Amir Khoury. News of the gun goes viral, and Al Qaeda claims responsibility. When Xavier, Amir and Lilly's oldest child, an eighteen-year-old senior at Riverside, confesses to...
Author
Series
Jack Swyteck novels volume 14
Language
English
Description
When the body of Jamal Cousin, president of the pre-eminent black fraternity at the Florida's flagship university, is discovered hogtied in the stygian water swamps of the Suwanee River, his death sets off a firestorm. And when a fellow student, Mark Towson, the president of a prominent white fraternity, is accused of the crime, the fire threatens to rage out of control. Contending with rising political tensions, racial unrest, and a sensational media,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Mills & Boon
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
384 pages (large print) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Cash Koker has always been a loner, out of luck, and when he's accused of murder, he has no one to turn to except BJ Alexander, a sexy lawyer ready to put everything on the line to prove her client's innocence. But it's getting difficult to separate work and pleasure!" --
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
8 CDs (9.5 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Successful New York City psychotherapist Eric Lavender feels confident that he's a confirmed bachelor. Then he meets sexy divorce attorney Colleen O'Brien Golden. In a whilrwind of change, Eric finds himself married and enjoying his new suburban life with Colleen and a daughter. But when he begins to probe Colleen's unspoken past, events swiftly take a shocking twist. Suddenly Eric is arrested for sexual abuse of a minor--Colleen's daughter.
Author
Series
Publisher
Tyrus Books
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
286 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Young Cape Cod public defender and commercial fisherman Michael Decastro ventures to Saigon with his father, a Vietnam War vet, to come to the aid of his long-lost client and love-interest Tuki Aparecio. The half-Vietnamese, half-African American diva is in a fight of her life with a mysterious dragon lady from Indochina's underworld. At stake is an antique ruby in Tuki's possession and the mortal souls of everyone Decastro loves. Ghosts that the...
73) Unnatural acts
Author
Series
Stone Barrington novels volume 23
Language
English
Description
When a hedge fund billionaire hires Stone Barrington to talk some sense into his wayward son, it seems like an easy enough job; no one knows the hidden sins and temptations of the ultra-wealthy better than Stone. But as Stone and his erstwhile protege, Herbie Fisher, probe deeper into the case--and an old one comes back to haunt him---he realizes that even he may have underestimated just how far some people will go to cover up their crimes...and plan...
Author
Series
Publisher
Forever
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
428 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
"After running wild in his youth, Finn Monroe is now on the other side of the law as the local attorney. Between his practice and working at his family's ranch, his days aren't as exciting as they used to be--until Jessica Blair steps into his office. Gorgeous and determined, Jessie has a hunch her aunt is in trouble, and Finn is her last hope. As someone who relies on facts rather than feelings, Finn is skeptical. But it can't hurt to do a little...
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