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Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Feeling unfulfilled in the face of an imminent legal partnership and a broken engagement, Manhattan lawyer Clementine Evans learns of a long-buried family secret that leads her to the inner circles of World War I British society and the red hills of Kenya.
84) Rough justice
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Marta Richter, a lawyer with the all-female firm Rosato & Associates, is hours away from winning an acquittal for millionaire businessman Elliot Steere, when she learns he has lied to her and is really guilty of murder, but her efforts to find evidence to convict her own client are thwarted by her boss Benedetta Rosato, who has a better plan for dealing with their crooked client.
85) Pursuit
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
After rookie lawyer Jessica Monaghan meets with the First Lady, the VIP is killed in a car accident in which Jessica manages to survive. When she suspects the accident was something else and she becomes the next target, she and experienced FBI agent Mark Ryan team up to uncover the plot behind the First Lady's murder.
86) Exposed
Author
Series
Rosato and DiNunzio novel volume 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mary DiNunzio wants to represent her old friend Simon Pensiera, a sales rep who was wrongly fired by his company, but her partner Bennie Rosato represents the parent company. When she confronts Mary, explaining this is a conflict of interest, an epic battle of wills and legal strategy between the two ensues -- ripping the law firm apart, forcing everyone to take sides and turning friend against friend. Sometimes loyalty can be lethal.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
An innocent man accused of murder forces Nina Bloom, a successful lawyer and mother, to return to Florida, where she must face a deadly secret she has kept for eighteen years in order to prevent the wrong man from paying for a killer's crimes.
92) Trial by fire
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
Description
The tables are turned for prosecutor Stella Cataloni, when she is charged with setting the fire that killed her parents and murdering a former boyfriend who may have had information about the crime.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A murder case with ties to a convicted serial killer leads a young defense lawyer and NYPD homicide detective Ellie Hatcher into parallel investigations with explosive and deadly results.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Miama attorney Gail Connor has just taken on the biggest case of her career, but what begins as a suspected forgery of a wealthy woman's will turns out to mask a brutal murder...and what looked like a greedy family's battle over an inheritance turns out to be a complex and monumentally brazen scheme that involves every layer and dimension of Miami's multicultural worlds.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Description
Lake Tahoe attorney Nina Reilly and prosecutor Collier Hallowell find their attempts at romance thwarted when their hike up Mount Tallac to view a meteor shower leads to their witnessing a death that Hallowell, at least, believes was not the result of natural causes.
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.
Author
Publisher
Little Brown & Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A young lawyer takes on the judge who is destroying her hometown--and ends up in jail herself. In picture-perfect Erva, Alabama, the most serious crimes are misdemeanors. Speeding tickets. Shoplifting. Contempt of court. Then why is the jail so crowded? And why are so few prisoners released? There's only one place to learn the truth behind these incriminating secrets. Sometimes the best education a lawyer can get is a short stretch of hard time.
98) Waking Kylie
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Ex comes a new e-short featuring an excerpt from her forthcoming novel, The Wife.
After losing a criminal case, a prosecutor asks herself how far she's willing to go to protect the young girl whose future hangs in the balance . . .
99) Malice prepense
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Description
Teddy Wendover, a twenty-eight-year-old who suffered an accident that left him at the mental age of eight, is acquitted of charges that he killed the teacher who was in charge on the day he was injured fifteen years earlier, but then suspicion falls on Teddy's father, Ted, and it is up to Barbara Holloway to defend him.
100) Between friends
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The story of a remarkable friendship-told in a remarkable way. A story in which every woman will recognize herself…and her best friend
Jillian Lawton and Lesley Adamski. Two girls from very different backgrounds become best friends in the turbulent 1960s, but their circumstances and choices-and their mistakes-take them in opposite directions. Lesley stays in their hometown. She marries young, living a life defined by the demands of small children,...
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