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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
When his 14-year-old son is charged with the murder of a fellow student, assistant district attorney Andy Barber is torn between loyalty and justice as facts come to light that lead him to question how well he knows his own son.
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Series
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
At first glance, the crimes appear random. Arson. Theft. Fraud. Murder. But these are more than random crimes. They're moves in an increasingly deadly game. And the one element they have in common: a woman who is gorgeous, clever...and lethal. Elizabeth Avery has a winsome smile and flawless figure, but underneath is a heart of ice. She's a master at manipulating people, convincing strangers to do the unthinkable. And she orchestrates it all without...
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Language
English
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Prosecutor Vicki Allegretti goes to meet a confidential informant, is almost killed, and a cop is gunned down before her eyes. She saw the killers, now all she has to do is find them. The deeper Vicki probes, the more she becomes convinced that the murder wasn't random. When another murder takes place, Vicki is thrown together with an unlikely ally -- The Girlfriend from Hell. Will they find the killers before they kill each other?
Author
Series
Marty Nickerson crime novels volume 1
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
After Martha “Marty” Nickerson, an assistant district attorney on Cape Cod, won a murder case, the suspect is put behind bars. But soon another body turns up in disturbingly similar circumstances. Did Marty and her colleagues target the wrong man?
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
"...another winner that thriller, mystery and general fiction readers alike will relish." - Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"Arvin weaves together disparate elements into a coherent and often thought-provoking tale." - Pittsburgh Tribune
"Intriguing...clever. A-" - Entertainment Weekly
"A suspenseful story line that takes hold of the reader from the very beginning to the book's close." - New York Law Journal
"(BLOOD OF ANGELS is) the kind of...
Author
Series
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
Book Nine of the bestselling Butch Karp legal thriller series: Karp goes up against a formidable defense attorney in a case that threatens to divide the city against itself. Back as head of the district attorney's homicide bureau, Butch Karp comes up against one of his most bizarre cases yet. A series of racially motivated murders in Harlem prove to be the work of a wealthy suburbanite out to relive a twisted episode from his childhood. The killer's...
7) The alibi
Author
Language
English
Description
Hammond Cross is determined to become Charleston's next district attorney. He takes on a murder case where the prime suspect is a woman who claims that her alibi involves Hammond.
Author
Series
Butch Karp and Marlene Ciampi thrillers volume 16
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
New York District Attorney Butch Karp goes head-to-head with a crooked wannabe mayor, the rap underworld, and rogue churchmen in yet another pile-driving thriller in the New York Times bestselling series. When a rap impresario is gunned down in his limo in New York City, it appears that gang-related violence has reared its ugly head once again. But nothing's as it seems in this taut, virtuoso thriller from the pen of Robert K. Tanenbaum. For a start,...
9) Guilty
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Language
English
Formats
Description
Kate White, single mother and assistant Philadelphia DA, must fight for her life and the life of her son as the terrible events of her past return with a vengeance and the only hope she seems to have lies with homicide detective Tom Braga--a man she has no reason to trust.
10) The quiet game
Author
Series
Penn Cage novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 27
Language
English
Formats
11) Innocent
Author
Series
Kindle County novels volume 8
Language
English
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Description
"Innocent continues the story of Rusty Sabich and Tommy Molto who are, once again, twenty years later, pitted against each other in a riveting psychological match after the mysterious death of Rusty's wife"--Provided by publisher.
12) Retribution
Author
Series
C.J. Townsend novels volume 1
Language
English
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Description
When an elite prosecuter faces the most lethal predator she's ever encountered, she must decide between justice and retribution.
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Series
Language
English
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Assistant D.A. Savannah Smith, her jealous sister Susan, and society wife Megan Vandermeer are old friends-and sometimes bitter rivals. Then one horrifying night, Megan is kidnapped. Together the two sisters try to find her, wrestling with the secrets that have stood between them and following a dangerous trail that leads to two charismatic men.
One is Jared Snow, the radio star with the voice Savannah cannot resist. The other is Sam Craig, the tough...
14) Whispering rock
Author
Series
Virgin River volume 3
Language
English
Description
LAPD officer Mike Valenzuela, a twice-married, decorated U.S. Marine Corps reservist who had been wounded in the line of duty, finds peace and healing in the town of Virgin River, as well as new love in the person of Brie Sheridan.
"Virgin River became a safe haven for Sacramento prosecutor Brie Sheridan after she nearly lost her life at the hands of a crazed criminal. Though tough and courageous, she has some fears she can't escape--but now she...
15) Malice
Author
Series
Butch Karp and Marlene Ciampi thrillers volume 19
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Author
Series
Samantha Kincaid novels volume 3
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
17) Overkill
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Language
English
Description
"Former Super Bowl MVP quarterback Zach Bridger hasn't seen his ex-wife, Rebecca Pratt, for years--not since their volatile marriage imploded--so he's shocked to receive a life-altering call about her. Rebecca has been placed on life support after a violent assault, and he--despite their divorce--has medical power-of-attorney. Zach is asked to make an impossible choice: keep her on life support or take her off of it. Buckling under the weight of the...
19) Vanished
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Language
English
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Description
Ten years after her six-year-old daughter disappears without a trace, Sarah Mason receives a phone call from a child with her daughter's six-year-old voice, causing Sarah to turn in desperation to private investigator Jake Hogan.
20) Perfect match
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
Jodi Picoult is a author whose books have been adapted for both the small and silver screen. In Perfect Match, she spins a story of a mother who does the unthinkable to protect her child. Lines blur when assistant DA Nina Frost learns that her five-year-old son Nathaniel was sexually abused by a priest. She takes the law into her own hands, killing the man accused. But then details surface clearing the priest and putting Nina's future in jeopardy....
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