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Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The place: central Florida. The situation: a sensational murder trial involving a rich, white teenage girl--a twin--on trial for the horrific murder of her toddler brother, and the sequestered jury deciding her fate. Two of the jurors sequestered (she, Juror C-2; he, F-17), holed up at the Econo-Lodge off I-75. As the shocking and numbing details of the crime and its surrounding facts are revealed during a string of days and seemingly endless court...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
A woman under the impression she is being stalked retaliates by murdering several men. At her trial it emerges she suffers from a multiple personality disorder and the defense seeks acquittal because she killed in her "other" state. Based on real events.
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Colleen is an Iraq-war-veteran-turned-Pitchlynn, Mississippi-homemaker, and she works hard to keep her deployment behind her -- until her pregnancy churns up trauma so acute it threatens her husband, her family, and herself. Magnifying her anxiety is the media frenzy surrounding the retrial of Colleen's father-in-law, Hare Hobbs, for a Civil Rights-era murder. As the trial draws nearer, the question of Hare's guilt grows to implicate the town of...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Olivia McAfee knows what it feels like to start over. Her picture-perfect life-living in Boston, married to a brilliant cardiothoracic surgeon, raising a beautiful son, Asher-was upended when her husband revealed a darker side. She never imagined she would end up back in her sleepy New Hampshire hometown, living in the house she grew up in, and taking over her father's beekeeping business. Lily Campanello is familiar with do-overs, too. When she...
6) The alibi
Author
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
Prosecutor Hammond Cross of Charleston receives a jolt when the woman with whom he had a one-night stand names him as her alibi in a murder case. The woman, who is a doctor, says she could not have committed the murder because she was in his arms at the time.
8) Sycamore row
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 28
Language
English
Description
In this novel the author takes you back to where it all began in A Time to Kill. Now we return to that famous courthouse in Clanton as Jake Brigance once again finds himself embroiled in a fiercely controversial trial; a trial that will expose old racial tensions and force Ford County to confront its tortured history. Seth Hubbard is a wealthy man dying of lung cancer. He trusts no one. Before he hangs himself from a sycamore tree, Hubbard leaves...
9) After dark
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1995
Language
English
Description
A judge in Oregon is killed by a bomb which bears the hallmark of a killer he set free. Such ingratitude puzzles police. Why him, why not her, meaning the judge's wife, a lawyer who convicted the killer. Or was this her doing, a way of saving $2 million in alimony?
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
A womanizing TV newscaster goes on trial in California for the murder of a 14-year-old pregnant girl. Such is the strength of evidence against him the only way his lawyer, Luke Garrison, can save him is to find the real killer. And he does--much closer to home.
11) Cimarron rose
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Former Texas Ranger Billy Holland, now a lawyer, is hired to defend a teenage boy accused of killing his girlfriend. It is a family affair of sorts, the man who hired Holland being the boy's stepfather. The real father is Holland.
12) The #1 lawyer
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A small-town lawyer with a big-time reputation, Stafford Lee Penney, Mississippi's #1 lawyer who has never lost a case, when his wife is scandalously killed, spirals into a legal and personal legal streak, ruining his career, and making him the nation's #1 suspect.
13) Monster
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
While on trial as an accomplice to a murder, sixteen-year-old Steve Harmon records his experiences in prison and in the courtroom in the form of a film script as he tries to come to terms with the course his life has taken.
15) Grim city
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1994
Language
English
Description
A woman goes on trial accused of arranging with her lover the torture and murder of her much older husband. Everything points to her guilt, but lawyer Jim Carlos Singer can't believe she would do it and decides to do some digging on his own.
16) The guilty plea
Author
Publisher
Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
17) Silent witness
Author
Publisher
A.A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
In Ohio, a school teacher accused of murdering a pregnant student appeals to lawyer Tony Lord to defend him. For Lord it will be a tricky business. As a youth he was a suspect in the murder of a local girl, a crime never solved, and the town has not forgotten. By the author of The Final Judgment.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The year is 1869. After a brutal triple murder in a remote community in the Scottish Highlands, a young man by the name of Roderick Macrae is arrested for the crime. A memoir written by the accused makes it clear that he is guilty, but the police and the courts must decide what drove him to murder the local village constable. And why did he kill his other two victims? Was he insane? Or was this the act of a man in possession of his senses? Only the...
20) The burning man
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Description
The story of an egomaniac lawyer in Oregon. Fired from his father's company for bungling a crippled woman's multi-million-dollar lawsuit, he tries to redeem himself by taking on a death penalty case, even though he has no experience with capital murder. By the author of Gone, but Not Forgotten.
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