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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
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Pete Banning was Clanton's favorite son, a returning war hero, the patriarch of a prominent family, a farmer, father, neighbor, and a faithful member of the Methodist church. Then one cool October morning in 1946. he rose early, drove into town, walked into the church, and calmly shot and killed the Reverend Dexter Bell. As if the murder wasn't shocking enough, it was even more baffling that Pete's only statement about it - to the sheriff, to his...
2) Rogue lawyer
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
"On the right side of the law?sort of?Sebastian Rudd is not your typical street lawyer. His office is a customized bulletproof van, complete with Wi-Fi, a bar, a small fridge, and fine leather chairs. He has no firm, no partners, and only one employee: his heavily armed driver, who also so happens to be his bodyguard, law clerk, confidant, and golf caddie. Sebastian drinks small-batch bourbon and carries a gun. He defends people other lawyers won?t...
3) Camino winds
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Series
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English
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"Welcome back to Camino Island, where anything can happen - even a murder in the midst of a hurricane, which might prove to be the perfect crime ... Just as Bruce Cable's Bay Books is preparing for the return of bestselling author Mercer Mann, Hurricane Leo veers from its predicted course and heads straight for the island. Florida's governor orders a mandatory evacuation, and most residents board up their houses and flee to the mainland, but Bruce...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
In a small Florida town, a young lawyer is shot to death. A young black man, a former client, named Quincy Miller is charged and convicted. For 22 years, Miller maintains his innocence from inside prison. Finally, Guardian Ministries takes on Miller's case, but the Episcopal minister in charge gets more than he bargained for as powerful people do not want Miller exonerated.
5) El soborno
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español, una división de Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Español
Description
"Lacy Stoltz es una joven investigadora y abogada de Florida, y su trabajo consiste en responder a las demandas relacionadas con la mala praxis judicial. Tras nueve años en el puesto, sabe que la mayor parte de los problemas derivan de incompetencias. De repente le llega un caso de corrupción. Greg Myers afirma conocer un juez de Florida que ha robado más dinero que el resto de los jueces poco honestos juntos. Estaba involucrado en secreto con...
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Español
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Un thriller lleno de tensión y con una premisa impactante:¿y si un asesino en serie buscado durante más de veinte años fuera un juez en ejercicio? Lacy Stoltz se ha encontrado en numerosas ocasiones frente a problemas de corrupción en su trabajo como investigadora de la Comisión de Conducta Judicial de Florida. Pero nada la ha preparado para el caso que una asustada pero decidida desconocida quiere poner en sus manos. El padre de Jeri Crosby...
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Language
English
Description
As an investigator for the Florida Board on Judicial Conduct, Lacy Stoltz sees plenty of corruption among the men and women elected to the bench. In The whistler, she took on a crime syndicate that was paying millions to a crooked judge. Now, in The judge's list, the crimes are even worse. The man hiding behind the black robe is not taking bribes--but he may be taking lives"--
Lacy Stoltz is tired of her work for the Florida Board on Judicial Conduct,...
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