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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
When a federal judge and his secretary fail to appear for a scheduled trial and panicked clerks call for an FBI investigation, a harrowing murder case ensues and culminates in the imprisonment of a lawyer who imparts the story of who killed the judge and why. Given the importance of what they do, and the controversies that often surround them, and the violent people they sometimes confront, it is remarkable that in the history of this country only...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
In The Whistler, Lacy Stoltz investigated a corrupt judge who was taking millions in bribes from a crime syndicate. She put the criminals away, but only after being attacked and nearly killed. Three years later and approaching 40, she is tired of her work for the Florida Board on Judicial Conduct and ready for a change. Then she meets a mysterious woman who is so frightened she uses a number of aliases. Jeri Crosby's father was murdered 20 years earlier,...
3) Friction
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
A Texas Ranger, relegated to desk work due to past recklessness, petitions to regain custody of his five-year-old daughter, and his case is assigned to a family court judge who is as attractive as she is ambitious. When a masked gunman barges in during the custody hearing with his sights on the judge, the Ranger reacts instinctually and goes after him. But authorities apprehend the wrong man, and the real gunman remains unknown, at large, and a threat....
Author
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
When Deborah Knott's terminally ill aunt, Rachel, is found smothered to death in her bed at a hospice center, all of her Colleton County kith and kin are shocked. Who kills a dying woman? As Deborah and her husband, Sheriff's Deputy Dwight Bryant, try to find Rachel's killer, they cross paths with the Designated Daughters, a support group for caregivers, not all of whom are women. Rachel's flamboyant daughter, Sally, is a member, and when a con artist...
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Pub
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
While in New York, Judge Deborah Knott has been asked to deliver a package to Lt. Sigrid Harald of the NYPD. Sigrid offers to swing by the apartment with her husband to pick up the box, but when they reach the apartment, they discover that the box is missing and the doorman has been murdered.
Author
Series
Publisher
Grand Central Pub
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
A mysterious ornithologist staying at Mrs. Lattimore's Victorian home and doing research on Southern vultures seems familiar to Judge Deborah Knott and Sheriff's Deputy Dwight Bryant, expecially after a murderer strikes.
7) Hard row
Author
Language
English
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Description
"As Judge Deborah Knott presides over a case involving a barroom brawl, it becomes clear that deep resentments over race, class, and illegal immigration are simmering just below the surface in the North Carolina countryside"--Provided by publisher.
9) Slow dollar
Author
Series
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
viii, 276 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When an inflatable carnival ride is destroyed, the first in a series of strange events surrounding a traveling carnival, judge Deborah Knott wonders about a carny's charm bracelet and her connection to Deborah's own family.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
352 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Avery Keene is back, trying to get her feet on solid ground after unraveling a conspiracy that took down the President of the United States. But as the sparks of impeachment hearings and political skirmishes swirl around her, Avery is approached at a legal conference by Preston Davies, an unassuming young man and fellow law clerk to a federal judge in Idaho. Davies believes his boss, Judge Francesca Whitner, was being blackmailed in the days before...
Author
Series
Savannah secrets volume 9
Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
266 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Meredith's old friend, Davis Hedgerow, is writing a new book to highlight Savannah's most popular attractions. He calls on Magnolia Investigations when he receives a threatening note demanding he cancel his book's publication or else. From restored diners to haunted bed-and-breakfasts and a beloved bookstore, Meredith and Julia find themselves with lots of suspects, but no clear motive.
Author
Series
Publisher
Grand Central Pub
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
After a beautiful young cheerleader dies in a car crash that was not an accident, Judge Deborah Knott and sheriff's deputy Dwight Bryant must uncover what really happened before more death further clouds the Christmas season in North Carolina's Colleton County.
Author
Series
Cedar Cove volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Family court judge Olivia Lockhart becomes front page news when she refuses to grant a divorce to a naval officer and his wife after the death of their baby, and discovers the lives of her family and friends to be increasingly complex.
14) The intern
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2023
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
378 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Madison Rivera lands the internship of a lifetime working for Judge Kathryn Conroy. But Madison has a secret that could destroy her career. Her troubled younger brother Danny has been arrested, and Conroy is the judge on his case. When Danny goes missing after accusing the judge of corruption, Madison's quest for answers brings her deep into the judge's glamorous world. Is Kathryn Conroy a mentor, a victim, or a criminal? Is she trying to help Madison...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
When a local commissioner is murdered in the wake of struggles between housing developers and farmers in the North Carolina countryside, judge Deborah Knott and her husband find themselves in the middle of an increasingly violent dispute.
16) The brethren
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
In a minimum security federal prison, home to drug dealers, swindlers, and tax evaders, three former judges meet each day to write briefs, handle cases for other inmates, and dispense jailhouse justice. They also spend hours hatching schemes to make money. When one of their schemes goes awry, snaring an innocent on the outside, the Brethren's days of quietly marking time are over.
Author
Language
English
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Description
In picture-perfect Erva, Alabama, the most serious crimes are misdemeanors. Speeding tickets. Shoplifting. Contempt of court. Then why is the jail so crowded? And why are so few prisoners released? There’s only one place to learn the truth behind these incriminating secrets.
Author
Series
Scarpetta novel volume 26
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Forensic pathologist Kay Scarpetta has just inherited one of the most notorious cases of her career. Two years ago, a former beauty queen's body washed up on the shore of Wallops Island, Virginia. She was last seen on a boat with her fianc�e, who has since been held in jail while awaiting trial. Scarpetta must act as the expert witness for the case--an investigation previously botched by another forensic pathologist. After a grueling cross-examination...
19) Anthem: a novel
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The wheels are coming off in America. Opioid addictions accelerate unstoppably. Environmental collapse can be read in every weather report. Vigilante bands take over streets at night, wearing clown face makeup. The very idea of government, of citizenship, is challenged daily. And something is happening to teenagers across the country, spreading through memes only they understand. At the Float Anxiety Abatement Center, in a suburb of Chicago, Simon...