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1561) Lie Down With Dogs
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Trooper Jim Duncan's first day with the Criminal Investigation Division starts off with a bang when he is called to a murder scene with a badly decomposed body. After he finds an abused greyhound in the victim's garage, the simple homicide becomes more complicated. Why would anyone want an unreliable racetrack employee dead, especially when greyhound racing is illegal in Pennsylvania?
Assistant public defender Sally Castle is facing her own career...
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"¿Por qué alguien daría muerte a un recién nacido? ¿Qué pasaba si el ejecutor del crimen era la madre o el padre de la criatura? ¿Se denunciaban estas muertes o eran anónimas para los jueces y alcaldes? Estas fueron algunas preguntas iniciales que dieron lugar a una investigación sobre el lugar del infanticidio —comprendido como el acto de quitarle la vida a un niño pequeño, en la Provincia de Antioquia durante la segunda mitad del siglo...
1563) Witness Chase
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In this pulse-pounding thriller from acclaimed author R.J. Jagger, an up-and-coming associate attorney discovers that she's on a murder list and frantically searches for answers, not only to save her life but also to find out whether she was tricked into participating in a murder herself.
Author of over twenty hard-edged thrillers, R.J. Jagger is a trial attorney who lives in Colorado. In addition to his own books, he also ghostwrites books for...
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Welcome to the most celebrated patisserie competition in Paris - ready, steady, bake!
Watching snowflakes settle on the Eiffel Tower, Rachel Smithson's cosy English village feels very far way - as, thankfully, does her commitment-phobic ex, probably already kissing someone else under the mistletoe. But Rachel hasn't come to Paris to mope she's come to bake. Hard.
Because the search for Paris's next patisserie apprentice is about to begin! And super-chef...
1565) First To Fall
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Aiden Connelly's first case...
Lawyer Aiden Connelly has traded the frenzy of Chicago for a slower pace in sleepy Avalon - and his first case appears to be as open-and-shut as he could hope for. Hired to defend a local ex-beauty queen accused of murdering her husband, he's confident that he'll have the case closed in record time. But below the surface lurks a darker truth...
Will be one he'll never forget.
Suddenly, a quiet backwater has transformed...
1566) Love And Liability
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Sometimes your sensibilities make absolutely no sense!
Holly James is looking for her big break. A young journalist for BritTEEN magazine, she is dying to write about something more meaningful than pop stars and nail varnish. So when she spots a homeless teenager outside the office, she feels compelled to tell her story. But her evil boss Sasha has other ideas…
Holly is sent to interview a city solicitor she has never heard of. But Alex Barrington...
1567) My Cousin Skinny
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A dream of a wedding turns into a bloody nightmare for LA family lawyer Sandy Moss's cousin Skinny in the latest instalment of the critically acclaimed Jersey Girl Legal mystery series. Sandy might have to take on her trickiest case yet!
An uncomfortable weekend awaits LA family lawyer Sandy Moss when she makes her way to her hometown in New Jersey for the wedding of her cousin Stephanie, sweetly nicknamed Skinny. Uncomfortable, because Sandy is...
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Perry Mason mysteries volume 21
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The lawyer who inspired the HBO series unravels a mystery surrounding a back-from-the-dead banker in "one of the best of the Perry Mason tales" (The New York Times).
Helen Kendal's woes begin when she receives a phone call from her vanished uncle Franklin, long presumed dead, who urges her to contact criminal defense attorney Perry Mason; soon after, she finds herself the main suspect in the murder of an unfamiliar man. Her kitten has just survived...
1569) If I'm Dead
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It started with a haunting image: a Ford Explorer, iridescent in the moonlight and alone on a desolate stretch of beach. Its owner, Melissa Gibbons, has gone missing. Her husband says she flew the coop. But Los Angeles Deputy DA Rachel Knight is convinced otherwise: Melissa Gibbons has been murdered.
So begins the confounding case that Rachel must present before a disbelieving jury. A dissatisfied heiress and her philandering husband-- what really...
1570) Law and Murder
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"Over my dead body." Bad choice of words, when you work for the vampire night court.Sarah Anderson loves her job at the supernatural night court of Washington DC. She especially looks forward to the trial of the century, where her testimony might put the world's most bloodthirsty vampire behind bars forever.But like any hard-working millennial, Sarah has a couple of problems. She can't decide if she'd rather kiss her enigmatic vampire boss or kill...
1571) Big Horn
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Nora Roberts meets Yellowstone in this brand new must read series from USA Today bestselling author Pamela Fagan Hutchins. When an investment guru turns up dead in the septic tank behind her husband's new Wyoming lodge, Jennifer must put the campaign that could make her the youngest ever female district attorney in Houston on hold to defend the well-lubricated lodge caretaker, or he'll go down for a murder she's convinced he didn't commit. Prosecutor...
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Perry Mason mysteries volume 33
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Edward Garvin is a very successful businessman with a very unhappy ex-wife-who wants his money. So Garvin calls on lawyer Perry Mason to protect his company from her schemes, and ensure the divorce they'd gotten in Mexico is actually finalized.
This whodunit is part of Edgar Award—winning author Erle Stanley Gardner's classic, long-running Perry Mason series, which has sold three hundred million copies and serves as the inspiration for the HBO...
1573) Damage Control
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Senate candidate Parker Livingston chose his political dreams over a future with the man he loved. He lives with constant regret about not having Jackson Kane in his life. Or his bed. And when a strange woman is found murdered in Parker's apartment, Jackson is the only person Parker trusts to help clear his name.
Jackson never forgave Parker for the way their relationship ended. He moved on, built a name for himself as a criminal defense attorney...
1574) Bad Seed
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Bad Seed, the story of a young woman scientist who genetically engineers a health enhancing food, and her path from poverty to billionaire icon, is a riveting portrait of a complex, flawed woman set in the worlds of science, Silicon Valley, and contemporary culture. A literary work that encompasses today's momentous concerns arising from cutting edge GMO science, this is a unique and important book.
1575) Diabolo-Nantes
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Alors que Nadège Pascal, accusée de double meurtre, se démène pour prouver son innocence et sortir de prison, le policier Philippe Bory reçoit une nouvelle affaire surprenante...
Un meurtre est commis sur la terrasse d'une résidence de l'île de Nantes. Il serait passé inaperçu si un satellite n'avait, par hasard, photographié la scène.
Pour Philippe Bory et sa nouvelle unité spéciale, l'enquête s'annonce complexe car le propriétaire...
1576) The Legalist Reformation: The Struggle For Civil Rights In The Southern Paper Industry, 1945-1980
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Based on a detailed examination of New York case law, this pathbreaking book shows how law, politics, and ideology in the state changed in tandem between 1920 and 1980. Early twentieth-century New York was the scene of intense struggle between white, Anglo-Saxon, Protestant upper and middle classes located primarily in the upstate region and the impoverished, mainly Jewish and Roman Catholic, immigrant underclass centered in New York City. Beginning...
1577) The Supreme Court and Religion in American Life, Volume 1: The Odyssey of the Religion Clauses
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James Hitchcock is Professor of History at St. Louis University. He is the author of six books, including Catholicism and Modernity.
School vouchers. The Pledge of Allegiance. The ban on government grants for theology students. The abundance of church and state issues brought before the Supreme Court in recent years underscores an incontrovertible truth in the American legal system: the relationship between the state and religion in this country...
1578) Murder.com
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A not-so-anonymous victim sends Reuben Frost on a chase to catch a high-tech killer. The girl is found lying beside the East River, strangled. She's in her late twenties-so why was she carrying a fake ID? The case should have nothing to do with Reuben Frost, legendary retired Wall Street lawyer, but Frost has never been known to mind his own business. Not to mention, his wife, Cynthia, has been slowed down by arthritis, and his social calendar is...
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In Paul Lisnek's sequel to Assume Guilt, Assume Treason takes readers on a mysterious ride in this Chicago-based political thriller.
With time running out to prove an assassination plot is in the works, jury consultant, Matt Barlow must dig deep to find answers.
Matt Barlow and his team are back, this time using their research skills on behalf of presidential candidate, Senator Marie Kent. Matt's okay using his jury consulting firm in service of...
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Criminal defense attorney Jessica Frost is hired to defend twenty-one-year-old daughter college student Stephanie Dozier who is accused of stabbing to death her roommate Kristine McVeigh, the daughter of a prominent local judge, Ralph McVeigh, as a result of a love triangle. The accused and victim attended Wryer College, a private women's institution in Creighton Hills, Oregon. Stephanie was caught holding the murder weapon, a ten-inch serrated knife,...
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