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When a tanker truck crashes and explodes, down-at-the-heels lawyer Jim McSpadden hopes to represent some of the victims, but big-time attorney Rolly Sullivan gets to them first. The only client Jim can muster is Laura, widow of Danny Marcus, the truck driver whose drunken driving allegedly caused the accident.
As Jim struggles to prove that a defect in the truck steering made Danny lose control, trial tactics lock Jim and Rolly in an unwelcome relationship:...
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Little, Brown
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2017.
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The last time Tess de Vere saw William Benson she was a law student on work experience. He was a twenty-one year old, led from the dock of the Old Bailey to begin a life sentence for murder. He'd said he was innocent. She'd believed him. Sixteen years later Tess overhears a couple of hacks mocking a newcomer to the London Bar, a no-hoper with a murder conviction, running his own show from an old fishmonger's in Spitalfields. That night she walks back...
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Miami attorney Gail Conner has her own practice and a wonderful new fiance, Anthony Her happiness is put in jeopardy when she discovers her Cuban-born fiance is tied to her first client through his past involvement in a revolutionary movement, which threatens to destroy his family and Gail's future.
5) Legal tender
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Lawyer Benedetta Rosato has made a career out of prosecuting police misconduct and excessive-force cases, so she does not expect any sympathy when she is accused of murdering her ex-boyfriend and partner and must go into hiding until she can prove her innocence.
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In an exciting new series that critics have called 'John Grisham meets Robert Ludlum,' Miami criminal defense lawyer Jack Swyteck faces his biggest challenge yet. Tatum Knight is a former contract killer. Ruthless. Conniving. And he's Jack's newest client. Tatum is the older brother of Jack's best friend, Theo. Theo himself spent time on death row until Jack found the evidence to prove him innocent. Jack isn't so sure about Tatum. A gorgeous young...
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In modern Israel, warring factions from within and outside the Middle East continue to battle for the soul of a land they all regard as holy while a young Jewish-American lawyer, with help from his father, a famous criminal attorney, defends a possibly innocent Palestinian who has been arrested for an alleged act of terror.
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Atria Books
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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"In "master of the legal thriller" (Chicago Sun-Times) John Lescroart's electrifying new novel, attorney Dismas Hardy is called to defend the least likely suspect of his career: his longtime, trusted assistant who is suddenly being charged as an accessory to murder. Dismas Hardy knows something is amiss with his trusted secretary, Phyllis. Her out-of-character behavior and sudden disappearances concern Hardy, especially when he learns that her convict...
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Defending the brother of a Holocaust hero against allegations of World War II crimes, fiercely independent attorneys Charlotte Gold and Jack Harrington slowly fall for one another, while their client refuses to help in his own defense and claims that proof of his innocence lies within an intricate clock.
13) Naked justice
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Wallace Barrett, the first African-American mayor of Tulsa, turns to attorney Ben Kincaid for help when he is accused of the murders of his pregnant wife and two young daughters.
15) The partner
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Doubleday
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Patrick Lanigan, a young law partner who faked his death and fled the country with millions of dollars stolen from his law firm, is found in Brazil after a four-year chase, but investigators are about to learn that the hunt is really just beginning.
16) Extreme justice
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Retired from law, Ben Kincaid is forced to return to the bar when a caseand a corpsefall in his lap After years of struggling, Ben Kincaid shuts down his small legal office and decides to make a living doing something thatcompared to practicing law in Tulsais easy money: playing jazz piano. He buys a minivan to haul his gear, and gets steady gigs playing in a combo at Uncle Earl's Jazz Emporium. His new career is just starting to take off when a body...
17) The snake eater
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Boston lawyer Brady Coyne helps a Vietnam veteran find an agent for a book he's written, but when the agent rejects it events take a deadly turn.
18) Murder one
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When Ben Kincaid gets an accused cop-killer off the hook, the police declare a vendetta It is one of the most gruesome murders Oklahoma has ever seen. A horribly mutilated man is found chained to a statue in the middle of downtown Tulsa, secured so tightly that it takes the police hours to get him down. As the city's workforce stares, the police realize something terrible: The victim is one of their own. They arrest the dead cop's girlfriend, a...
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When a world-famous law professor is accused of murdering one of his students, he asks his most promising and ambitious former law students, Casey Jordan, to defend him, but Casey soon learns that the teacher she has always admired is hiding some deadly secrets.
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