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A parent's worst nightmare. A lawyer's biggest challenge. A young boy's life on the line. The unimaginable has happened. A thirteen-year-old boy has fired a rifle into a baseball game, killing several of the kids on the field. Parents are devastated. The townspeople are horrified. When public opinion swells to an enraged cry for justice, an ambitious deputy district attorney sees his opportunity-a sensational trial that will catapult him into the...
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Jack Tobin, a Florida trial lawyer, is dedicated to ending capital punishment one prisoner at a time. Jack is convinced that doomed convict Henry Wilson is innocent, but can he delay execution and get Henry a new trial in time?Benny Avrile is a small-time crook with his eye on an oilman's big billfold. But as he makes his move, a shot rings out and the oilman falls dead; Benny blacks out. Just when his fate is all but sealed, an old friend from Jack's...
83) A dark devotion
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A criminal lawyer returns home to investigate the disappearance of the wife of an old family friend-and soon discovers a web of secrets and betrayals darker than she could have imagined Grace Dearden is a woman so beautiful and virtuous that no one would dare question her excellence or standing in the community. When Grace disappears-seemingly evaporating into the eerie Norfolk marshes-and police investigations fail to find her, her husband, Will,...
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Texas Cattleman's Club: Houston volume 6
Texas Cattleman's Club Houston volume 6
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Texas Cattleman's Club Houston volume 6
Harlequin desire volume 2678
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"For attorney and Texas Cattleman's Club member Roarke Perry, Annabel Currin is about as forbidden as it gets. A just-jilted bride, gorgeously sexy, tender-hearted ... and the daughter of his father's nemesis. The sexual currents crackling between him and his client should have been warning enough. Now they're both playing with fire. And someone's gonna get burned ... "--Back cover.
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By-the-book attorney Morgan Colton has vowed to extinguish the flames she once foolishly ignited with Roman DiMera. But when a man threatening her family goes on the run, Morgan discovers street-smart bar owner Roman is far more than the sum of his mistakes. And the sparks flying between them make Morgan wonder if he could be so much more than her partner in getting justice for the Coltons.
86) Czas zabijania
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A Southern town is shocked when a 10-year-old black girl is raped by two white men--until the girl's father takes the law into his own hands.
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Guido Guerrieri series volume 6
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"One spring afternoon Lorenza, a former lover of Guerrieri, shows up in his office. Her son Jacopo stands convicted of the first-degree murder of a local drug dealer. For the appeal, Lorenza turns to Guerrieri. But he is not convinced of the innocence of Lorenza's son, nor does he have fond memories of how their relationship ended two decades earlier. Nevertheless, he accepts the case; perhaps to pay a melancholy homage to the ghosts of his youth....
90) El inocente
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Novela negra) volume 1
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Los Angeles criminal defense attorney Mickey Haller signs on to defend young real estate agent Louis Roulet against charges of assault. Roulet's imperious mother will spend any amount to prove her son's innocence. But probing the details of the case, Mickey and private investigator Raul Levin dig up a far darker picture of Roulet's personality and his past. Levin's murder and a new connection to the Menendez case, which he mishandled, make Mickey...
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Monty Collins is a sharp-tongued public defender who just wants to represent an upstanding character for a change. A priest with something to hide isn't quite what he had hoped for, but when the literate, arrogant, and tight-lipped Father Brennan Burke is implicated in the strange murder of a young woman, Monty doesn't just take the case-the case takes him. When Burke won't come clean, Monty is forced to play private detective, traveling into his...
92) Tiempo de matar
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En Clanton, un pequeño pueblo de Mississippi, los delitos tienen distinto valor según la raza del culpable. Cuando Carl Lee Hailey mata a tiros a los rufianes que violaron a su hija de diez años, los habitantes de la zona -indignados al principio por la suerte de la pequeña, pero inmersos después en una espiral de violencia racista- pretenden llevarse por delante todo lo que obstruya su particular noción de justicia.--
94) Zona peligrosa
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"Cuando asume la defensa de una mujer acusada de asesinar al hombre que la agredió sexualmente, el abogado de Miami, Jack Swyteck, debe descubrir dónde reside la verdad, entre la inocencia, la venganza y la justicia en este fascinante relato de suspense del gran maestro del thriller legal. Según el FBI, la situación más peligrosa para una mujer de entre veinte y treinta años es estar en una relación con un hombre, y esas estadísticas cobran...
95) Hear no evil
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Jack Swyteck novels volume 4
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Miami attorney Jack Swyteck is involved in the most explosive criminal trial of his career -- a case that starts with a murder on a military base and concludes with a shocking surprise that will change Jack's life forever.