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Leo Maxwell mysteries volume 2
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Leo Maxwell always lived in the shadow of his older brother Teddy, but is now an ambitious criminal defense attorney in his own right practicing in Oakland under Teddy's ex-wife. At night he comes home to the quiet apartment he shares with his brother, who is slowly recovering from a gunshot wound to the head. Leo has been tasked with building the defense for a sexual offender, but after talks with his client veer into dangerous territory, Leo finds...
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Leo Maxwell mysteries volume 4
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Taking a job as a public defender in San Francisco, Leo Maxwell successfully defends a homeless man, only to be wrongly implicated in the brutal murder of his co-counsel, a crime that their former client confesses to committing.
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Leo Maxwell mysteries volume 5
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"Leo Maxwell is no ordinary attorney. He spends as much time tracking corrupt politicians and gangland leaders across the Bay area to piece together the facts of a crime as he does crafting courtroom rhetoric. But Leo has never quite recovered from discovering his mother's murdered corpse as a child, or from growing up in the shadow of his brilliant older brother. In Wolf's Revenge, the fifth novel in Lachlan Smith's Shamus Award-winning series,...
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Leo Maxwell mysteries volume 3
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Faced with evidence of stunning prosecutorial misconduct, a San Francisco judge has ordered a new trial for the Maxwell brothers' father, Lawrence, who was convicted of killing their mother twenty-one years before. A prison snitch soon turns up dead, with Lawrence the only suspect, and Leo teams up with hotshot attorney Nina Schuyler to defend Lawrence against murder charges both old and new. Working the streets while Nina handles the action in the...
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Leo Maxwell mysteries volume 1
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English
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"Leo Maxwell grew up in the shadow of his older brother, Teddy, a successful yet reviled criminal defense attorney who racked up enemies as quickly as he racked up acquittals. As children, their father was jailed for the murder of their mother, and Teddy was left to care for Leo who tried to emulate his older brother, even following him into the legal profession. The two are at lunch one day when Teddy, supposed to give the closing argument of his...