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1) Criss Cross
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Alex Cross volume 27
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English
Description
"In a Virginia penitentiary, Alex Cross and his partner, John Sampson, witness the execution of a killer they helped convict. Hours later, they are called to the scene of a copycat crime. A note signed 'M' rests on the corpse. 'You messed up big time, Dr. Cross.' Was an innocent man just put to death? Alex soon realizes he may have much to answer for, as 'M' lures the detective out of the capital to the sites of multiple homicides, all marked with...
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"How can you catch a killer when everyone thinks he's dead? Kendra Michaels was instrumental in bringing serial killer Eric Colby to justice. And yet, despite his apparent execution at San Quentin, Kendra is convinced that Colby is still alive. The problem is that she can't prove it. Even her razor-sharp powers of observation-developed to an amazing capacity during the twenty years she spent blind and now in constant demand by law enforcement agencies-have...
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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"Set in the tumultuous year of 1968 in southern Virginia, a racially-charged murder case sets a duo of white and Black lawyers against a deeply unfair system as they work to defend their wrongfully-accused Black defendants When two wealthy white landowners are found dead, the whole country immediately thinks it must be Jerome Washington, the hired help, who killed them. He was standing over the bodies when the police responded to an anonymous call...
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"Peter Hale is a young attorney with a lot to prove. Crossing his father, one of Portland's most powerful lawyers, was a costly mistake. Now, cut loose from his job and from his inheritance, Peter's landed in the public defender's office of a small Oregon town--and in the middle of a high-profile case that could make or break his career. His mentally retarded client, accused of the savage murder of a college coed, faces the death penalty. And Peter...
5) Moonrise
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Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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With little money or support, Joe Moon, seventeen, travels to Texas to help the older brother he barely knows through his last few weeks before being executed for murder.
6) Cell 8
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English
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An Ohio death row inmate, convicted of killing his 16-year-old girlfriend when he was 17 years old, dies of heart disease. Six years later, the police arrest a Canadian expatriate living in Sweden for repeatedly kicking a drunken man in the head. A cantankerous Det. Supt. Ewert Grens of the Stockholm police discovers that the foreigner in their jail cell is a convicted murderer, the same death row inmate who supposedly died in America six years earlier....
7) Final appeal
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English
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One night as they work late, handsome judge Armen Gregorian makes a pass at lawyer Grace Rossi and a romantic night follows. When on the next day the judge commits suicide, Grace can tell that is bunkum and sets out to find the killer.
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Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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"Once, Detective Buck Schatz patrolled the city of Memphis, chasing down robbers and killers with a blackjack truncheon and a .357. But he's been retired for decades. Now he's frail and demented, and Rose, his wife of 72 years, is ill and facing a choice about her health care that Buck is terrified to even consider. The future looks short and bleak, and Buck's only escape is into the past. But Buck's past is under attack as well. After 35 years on...
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English
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"A first-person diary of a prisoner's final day before being executed for an unspecified crime, Victor Hugo's poignant tale vividly conveys the mental anguish of a man confronted with the intransigent mechanism of justice, as his mind seeks refuge in recollections from his past and philosophical musings on his inevitable fate. As relevant today as when it was first published in 1829, The Last Day of a Condemned Man is an eloquent plea for compassion...
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Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
He used to relish putting suspects in jail, but in his latest case, Luke Garrison-now a defense attorney-will stop at nothing to save a man accused of murder During a sleepover with her two friends, Emma goes missing. The owners of a local news network, her parents have money and power. As the police scour the city, Emma's father offers a $250,000 reward for his daughter's safe return. Eight days after the abduction, two hikers find her. Emma has...
11) The ghost ship
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Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The Barbary Coast, 1621. A mysterious vessel floats silently on the water. It is known only as the Ghost Ship. For months it has hunted pirates to liberate those enslaved by corsairs, manned by a courageous crew of mariners from Italy and France, Holland and the Canary Islands. But the bravest men on board are not who they seem. And the stakes could not be higher. If arrested, they will be hanged for their crimes. Can they survive the journey and...
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Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Sixty-one-year-old Shelby Truman, a romance novelist, has received a request to visit her childhood friend, Eddie, who is on Death Row. Though mentally ill, Eddie is scheduled to be executed for the disturbing, brutal murders of his wife and unborn child. -- amazon.com
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Pub. Date
[2005]
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English
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"...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...
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Publisher
Cumberland House
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Death Eligible is the story of two death penalty cases.
Both of them involve rape and murder, and though the defendants are as different from each other as night and day, the similarities of the two cases are uncanny. As Darcy Cole defends both men, the twists and turns their cases take as they proceed to the courtroom make for compelling and electrifying reading.
Darcy Cole's life has become a bit more complicated than it was in previous books,...
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Series
Malabar House volume 4
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Bombay, 1950. James Whitby, sentenced to death for the murder of prominent lawyer and former Quit India activist Fareed Mazumdar, is less than two weeks from a date with the gallows. In a last-ditch attempt to save his son, Whitby's father forces a new investigation into the killing. The investigation leads Inspector Persis Wadia of the Bombay Police to the old colonial capital of Calcutta, where, with the help of Scotland Yard criminalist Archie...
19) Midnight man
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Publisher
Tyrus Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
""Tomlinson meshes local politics, college basketball, and the South in this wonderfully gritty crime novel you just can't put down."--Dave White, author of An Empty Hell ... Summer, 1994. Dean Goodnight, the first Choctaw Indian employed by the Oklahoma County public defender's office, pulls a new case--the brutal murder of a once-promising basketball star. The only witness is Caleb, the five-year-old son of the prime suspect, Billy. Investigating...
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