It’s the summer of 1879, and Annie Fuller, a young San Francisco widow, is in trouble. Annie’s husband squandered her fortune before committing suicide five years earlier, and one of his creditors is now threatening to take the...
Legal fiction (Literature)
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Author:Locke, M. LouisaSummary: - Author:Haig, BrianSummary:
Dispatched to investigate the suicide of one of DCs most influential defense officials, an ardent, early supporter of the war in Iraq, Army lawyer Sean Drummond and his female partner find themselves in the middle of a tug-of-war...
- Author:Kim, AngieSummary:
This program includes a bonus interview with the author and original music composed and performed by Steve Draughn. A thrilling debut about how far we'll go to protect our families-and our deepest secrets. My husband asked me to...
- Author:Deaver, JefferySummary:
Taylor Lockwood spends her days working as a paralegal in one of New York's preeminent Wall Street law firms and her nights playing jazz piano anyplace she can. But the rhythm of her life is disrupted when attorney Mitchell Reece...
- Author:Fairstein, LindaSummary:
Bestselling author Linda Fairstein, who "makes legal issues more exciting than any high-speed chase" (The New York Times), presents these thrilling stories of lawyers under pressure, criminals facing the needle, and...
- Author:Deverell, WilliamSummary:
Lawyer Foster Cobb prosecutes the mysterious Dr. Au, the West Coast’s primary drug trafficker. But Cobb — under pressure of a failing practice and a disintegrating marriage — has himself taken up a long-abandoned heroin habit. With a...
- Author:Tanenbaum, RobertSummary:
Manhattan assistant district attorney Roger "Butch" Karp has been around New York long enough to realize that the judicial system can be dirty and cynical. But he still believes in justice. So when a vicious sociopath tries to dodge a...
- Author:Raglin, RodSummary:
Crazy for You?Maggie talks to trees. Dieter talks to corporations. Maggie embraces mystery and flirts with magic. Dieter adheres to logic and the doctrine of Nietzsche.Dieter's client wants to destroy the trees. The trees want Maggie to...
- Author:Patterson, James, Ledwidge, MichaelSummary:
A successful lawyer and loving mother, Nina Bloom would do anything to protect the life she's built in New York--including lying to everyone, even her daughter, about her past. But when an innocent man is framed for murder, she knows...
- Author:Karp, MarshallSummary:
Finding a single assassin in a city of nine million is daunting. Finding five is a nightmare. A network of professional assassins is on the loose in New York City, and it's up to the Red team to find them.
- Author:Rotenberg, RobertSummary:
Radio personality Kevin Brace, the "Voice of Canada," confesses to murder--but the case is far from closed.
- Author:MacDougal, BonnieSummary:
Successful Philadelphia lawyer Cam Smith has just married Doug, a fellow attorney and aspiring politician. Life seems perfect. But on her way to a party given in their honor, Cam spots a wild teenager smashing mailboxes. He is the son...
- Author:Luo, SusieSummary:
Set in New York and China over three decades, Paper Names explores what it means to be American from three different perspectives. There's Tony, a Chinese-born engineer turned Manhattan doorman, who immigrated to the United States...
- Author:Jean-Pierre GagnéSummary:
L'avocat criminaliste Sark écoute avec attention les aventures de son ami Jacques Poirier, un éminent chirurgien de Québec qui a dénoncé de façon fracassante l'achat de nouveaux appareils médicaux. Poirier, qui ne...
- Author:Picoult, JodiSummary:
Eighteen-year-old, unwed Katie Fisher is accused of birthing then smothering her baby at the family dairy farm. But not only does Katie claim her innocence, she also says she didn't even bear the child. Enter high-profile Philadelphia...
- Author:Kahn, Michael A.Summary:
Every law firm has its backroom bench of brilliant workaholic nerds ferocious in their commitment to the law and to their clients. Such a player is Milton Bernstein of Abbott & Windsor. He's highly valued by the partners for...
- Author:Swinson, KikiSummary:
National bestselling author Kiki Swinson never lets up with relentless characters, unpredictable twists, and a merciless depiction of Southern striving, scheming--and dying. Now she takes you to the explosive beginnings of wild-card...
- Author:Lescroart, John T.Summary:
In this riveting new book by "master of the legal thriller" (Chicago Sun-Times) John Lescroart, attorney Dismas Hardy investigates the murder of a wealthy man whose heirs are all potential suspects.Finally recovered from two...
- Author:Twain, MarkSummary:
When a mulatto slave woman switches her own infant with the look-alike son of a wealthy merchant, it takes Pudd'nhead Wilson, the town eccentric, to put things right again.
- Author:Bowen, MichaelSummary:
Vance Hayes died while joyriding on a snowmobile late one night and breaking through thin ice near the Wisconsin Dells. The cold-hearted, hard-headed lawyer goes unmourned by clients, colleagues, or anyone else, including his reluctant...
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