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1) To die for
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For fitness center owner Blair Mallory, trouble begins when a club member is murdered.
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"Interweaving his account of the Steven Avery trial at the heart of Making a Murderer with other high profile cases from his criminal defense career, attorney Jerome F. Buting explains the flaws in America's criminal justice system and lays out a provocative, persuasive blue-print for reform. Over his career, Jerome F. Buting has spent hundreds of hours in courtrooms representing defendants in criminal trials. When he agreed to join Dean Strang...
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With business going stale at Zydeco Cakes, Rita Lucero has plenty of worries. But blind trumpet player Old Dog Leg Magee needs a favor. His brother, Monroe, disappeared forty years ago, and someone is now claiming to be him. Old Dog Leg needs Rita to be his eyes, and sets her up with sexy Cajun bartender Gabriel Broussard to pose as newlyweds and check into the bed-and-breakfast where Monroe is staying - and where a murder has just occurred.
4) Out of Eden
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Sometimes paradise isn't all it's cracked up to be
That's what I, Kylie McGraw, have discovered since sacrificing my dreams of traveling the world to run the family shoe store. But if I have my way, peaceful Eden, Indiana, is in for a major shake-up....
It all began on my birthday, when I got drunk and disorderly all over Eden's hunky new police chief (and my former high school crush), Jack Reynolds. Then I may have, in my Cosmo...
That's what I, Kylie McGraw, have discovered since sacrificing my dreams of traveling the world to run the family shoe store. But if I have my way, peaceful Eden, Indiana, is in for a major shake-up....
It all began on my birthday, when I got drunk and disorderly all over Eden's hunky new police chief (and my former high school crush), Jack Reynolds. Then I may have, in my Cosmo...
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Honest but mistaken eyewitnesses are the leading cause of wrongful convictions in the United States. As the innocent go to prison their lives are shattered; as the criminal goes free, the public remains vulnerable. With a vivid cast of brilliant scientists, street-wise cops, and former prosecutors--all haunted by the legacy of wrongful convictions, some directly involved with one--Doyle sheds light on the intersection of personal ambition, legal and...
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Serena Manchester volume 1
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Depressed from the complications of a head injury, SERENA MANCHESTER seeks solitude in the hometown she left almost twenty-five years before. Unknown to Serena, her hometown's landscape has changed and unseemly elements have seeped into the quaint Southern seaport town. One night Serena witnesses a gang-related crime. She thinks she recognizes one of the young men, but chooses not to identify him. What if her brain injury has deceived her perceptions?...
7) Slow burn
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Ford Cole is a big-city district attorney with his eye on the mayor's office and a big problem on his hands. One of his deputies, the beautiful assistant district attorney, Nora Timmer, has just confessed to killing a man in what she claims was self-defense. A bad situation gets worse when a stranger named Luther turns up at the police station to contradict Nora's story and paints a very different picture of Ford's talented colleague. With his career...
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Explores the bitter internal rivalries among police investigators, the political pressures of high-profile cases, and the legal maneuverings of defense attorneys and prosecutors. Police probe an abandoned house concealing multiple murders, a dysfunctional family with a deeply troubled musical prodigy, the mysterious disappearance of a well-connected woman, and a shadowy sex club for London's elite.
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Top researchers in the field of eyewitness research present full reviews of the literature on key issues such as the nature and composition of police lineups, the relative effectiveness of sequential versus simultaneous lineups, the importance of double-blind lineup administrations, the effectiveness of lineups versus showups, and the slippery nature of eyewitness memory. In each chapter, authors turn research into practice by providing clear and...
12) Morir de amor
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Blair parece tenerlo todo en la vida: es joven, guapa y, tras un razonable divorcio, duena de su propio negocio: un exclusivo gimnasio. De repente toda su vida se desmorona al ser testigo del asesinato de una de sus clientas. Para complicar mas las cosas, el policia encargado del caso es Wyatt, un ex-novio de Blair que la dejo un buen dia sin mas explicaciones. Wyatt parece decidido a proteger a la joven del asesino que sigue ahi fuera, y tambien...