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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
Real-estate agent Lacey Farrell, accidently walked in on a murder. The dying victim entrusts her with a journal that contains information so damaging that even the government's witness protection program can not keep Lacey safe.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Description
History is about to repeat itself when young attorney Peter Hale, fired from a job with his father's legal firm for mishandling a multi-million dollar case, takes a job as a public defender and lets his ego overule his good sense in a death-penalty case.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
Description
Probation officer Nile Eddgar is accused of arranging for a drive-by shooting that killed his mother and the case stirs up a lot of old, best forgotten secrets, when it is brought before Judge Sonny Klonsky who spent her turbulent college years in the company of Nile's father, a leading campus revolutionary in the 1960s.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[1993]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
In Clanton, Mississippi, the life of a ten-year-old is shattered by two drunken and remorseless men. The mostly white town reacts with shock and horror at the inhumane crime, until her African-American father acquires an assault rifle and takes justice into his own hands.
8) Dark lady
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
When two prominent men are found dead within days of each other, it is up to Assistant County Prosecutor Stella Marz to determine if their deaths were coincidence or not.
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Formats
Description
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 Derek learns about Creighton and his darker side, the more...
12) Mary, Mary
Author
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
c1992
Language
English
Description
Hope, the defense attorney, believes Mary Barton is innocent of murdering 3 young girls, but evidence convicts her until a long buried secret is revealed.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Formats
Description
Bennie Rosato is surprised by the physical resemblance between her and her new client, and when her client announces she is Bennie's identical twin, Bennie doesn't believe her, but she finds herself drawn to her and as she investigates her client's case, she uncovers secrets her family would kill to keep from her.
14) The alternate
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
Courtroom adversaries Grace Harris and Barrett Dickson become dangerously close outside the halls of justice when they are called upon to try the case of Elliot Ashford, an ex-congressman with mob connections who has been accused of killing his trophy wife.
15) Monster
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
16) Silent witness
Author
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seventeen-year-old Tony Lord leaves town under a cloud of suspicion after his girlfriend is found raped and murdered, but he returns twenty-seven years later to act as lawyer for his old friend Sam Robb who has been accused of killing a female student and finds himself enmeshed in conflicts from the past.
17) Wilde Lake
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Luisa "Lu" Brant is the newly elected—and first female—state’s attorney of Howard County, Maryland, a job in which her widower father famously served. Fiercely intelligent and ambitious, she sees an opportunity to make her name by trying a mentally disturbed drifter accused of beating a woman to death in her home. It’s not the kind of case that makes headlines, but peaceful Howard County doesn’t see many homicides.
19) The hidden man
Author
Publisher
Putnam's
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Attorney Jason Kolarich agrees to help a long-estranged friend who has been charged with murder, but as the trial draws near, Jason begins to doubt his friend's innocence and must face his own personal demons in order to crack the case.
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Theodore Boone, who knows every judge, police officer, and court clerk in the small town of Strattenburg, finds himself involved in a murder trial because of knowledge he might have about a cold-blooded killer.
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