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Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Description
In Biloxi, Mississippi, a woman sues a tobacco company for the death of her husband from lung cancer. The protagonists are a jury fixer, that is a lawyer whose role is to assure a jury favorable to the company, and a rogue juror whom the fixer cannot eliminate or control. This is a landmark tobacco trial with hundreds of millions of dollars at stake which begins routinely, then swerves mysteriously off course. The jury is behaving strangely, and at...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In this illustrated novel told through journal entries, news clippings, and letters, twelve-year-old Lily finds herself on the jury of a murder trial while conducting her own undercover investigation of the case.
Author
Publisher
Donald I. Fine Books
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Description
A grand jury in New York indicts an elderly Chinese couple for possession and conspiracy to sell narcotics. But one of the jurors, a woman of Chinese origin, cannot believe they would do such a thing. She joins forces with a white juror and their probe uncovers corruption at the highest level, a discovery which places both their lives in danger.
8) Resurrection
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Resurrection, the last of Tolstoy's major novels, tells the story of a nobleman's attempt to redeem himself for the suffering his youthful philandering caused a peasant girl. Tolstoy's vision of redemption achieved through loving forgiveness, and his condemnation of violence dominate the novel. An intimate, psychological tale of guilt, anger, and forgiveness, Resurrection is at the same time a panoramic description of social life in Russia at the...
17) The Lamorna wink
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Detective Richard Jury solves a string of disappearances and murders in Cornwall, including two grandchildren of an American fast-food magnate. But the leg work is done for him by his aristocratic and eccentric friend, Melrose Plant.
Author
Publisher
A.A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1995
Language
English
Description
Scotland Yard superintendent Richard Jury flies to Santa Fe, New Mexico, where an address links three women murdered in England. One died in Salisbury's Roman ruins, a second in Exeter Cathedral and a third at the Tate Gallery in London. By the author of The Horse You Came in on.
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"When the body of a French woman washes up on a wild inlet off the Cornish coast, Brian Macalvie, divisional commander with the Devon-Cornwall police is called in. Who could have killed this beautiful tourist, the only visible footprints nearby belonging to the two little girls who found her? While Macalvie reexamines the scene in the Scilly Islands, inspector Richard Jury-twenty miles away on Land's End-is at The Old Success pub, sharing a drink...
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