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The juror
By George Dawes Green. 1995
Single mother and struggling artist Annie Laird is selected for jury duty on a mob murder case. From the moment…
she is chosen, Annie is tracked by a man called the Teacher. After posing as an art dealer and purchasing Annie's sculptures, the Teacher reveals that the safety of Annie's adolescent son depends on her securing an acquittal for the mobster. Strong language, violence, and some explicit descriptions of sexThe heart of Midlothian
By Walter Scott. 1982
Jeanie Deans, a peasant girl, is the heroine of this eighteenth-century novel that revolves around a Scottish prison. Jeanie treks…
from Edinburgh to London to gain a pardon for her sister Effie, falsely accused of child-murder, but Effie escapes with her lover. Meanwhile, when John Porteous--a guard condemned for murder--is reprieved by the queen, a mob takes justice into its own handsDeath benefits: a Rachel Gold mystery
By Michael A Kahn. 1992
Stoddard Anderson was the managing partner for the St. Louis office of Abbott and Windsor. Several days ago he committed…
suicide. Rachel Gold has been retained by the law firm to prove that Anderson was insane when he killed himself. Rachel and her best friend Benny travel to St. Louis looking for proof of insanity. They become involved with a missing Aztec artifact and just a little romance. Some strong languageA death for a dodo
By E. X Giroux. 1993
Years ago, all but one member of a family was murdered by arsenic, and the killer was never found. Now…
all of the people who were at the scene of the crime have reassembled at a posh health facility nicknamed DODO. Also recuperating at the home is barrister and amateur sleuth Robert Forsythe. As the group describes the crime to Forsythe, the killer strikes again. And again. Violence and some strong languageDead eyes
By Stuart Woods. 1994
Chris Callaway is a rising Hollywood actress stalked by a stranger who leaves notes signed only as "Admirer". Beverly Hills…
policeman Jon Larsen takes on the case, but "Admirer" is cunning and evades detection. A freak accident blinds Chris and Larsen becomes desperate. He devises a trap, with a vulnerable Chris as the bait. 1994.Mortal sin (Jake Lassiter Mystery Ser. #Bk. 4)
By Paul Levine. 1994
Tough-talking, meat-eating, beer- drinking attorney Jake Lassiter finds himself reluctantly defending his occasional lover's husband, Miami developer Nicky Florio, against…
a murder charge. The victim, found frozen in Florio's wine cellar, was an environmentalist Florio had invited to his pool party to convince him to stop protesting a development project. Strong language, violence, and descriptions of sexJudge on trial
By Ivan Klíma. 1993
Judge Adam Kindl lives in Prague with his wife Alena and their two children. His friendship with the liberals has…
put him in a precarious position with the authorities, who are forcing him to adjudicate in a murder trial from which they want a conviction. That would mean the death penalty, and Kindl is against it. But Kindl has other problems also. He isn't sure he loves his wife anymore, he has a lover, and he learns that his wife is pregnant by another manCriminal conversation
By Evan Hunter. 1994
New York District Attorney Michael Welles learns that young playboy Andrew Faviola is acting head of the Mafia operation run…
by his imprisoned father, Anthony Faviola. Planning to take him down, Welles orders heavy surveillance of the younger Faviola. What Welles doesn't realize is that his wife is having an affair with the mafioso, who has hidden his true identity from her. Strong language, violence, and explicit descriptions of sexTown on trial
By William Harrington. 1994
When Congressman Bailey and two of his aides are murdered while on retreat in Ohio, Bailey's socialite lover, Marietta Rheinlander,…
is arrested since she was found standing over the bodies and holding the smoking gun. Small-town Judge Bill MacIntyre, who presides over Rheinlander's well-publicized trial, mulls over the confusing details of Bailey's sex life exposed during testimony. Violence, explicit descriptions of sex, and some strong languageBody of a crime
By Michael C Eberhardt. 1994
Young defense attorney Sean Barrett has been handed a great case: a murder without a body. The accused is ex-baseball…
player Chad Curtis, and the supposed victim is his former girlfriend Robin Penrose. Chad was seen carrying Robin's body, but he claims she was drunk and unconscious. Barrett's investigation takes nightmarish twists right up to the trial. Strong language, violence, and some explicit descriptions of sexPerfectly pure and good
By Frances Fyfield. 1994
Red-haired Elisabeth Tysall kills herself in the coastal town of Merton to escape her abusive husband, Charles. Charles then becomes…
obsessed with his London attorney's red-haired colleague, Sarah Fortune. After an ugly incident, he returns to Merton and kills himself. But when Sarah goes to Merton to settle the legal fights of the dysfunctional Pardoe family, she again comes under Charles's shadow. Some violence and some descriptions of sexThe chamber: A Novel
By John Grisham. 1994
The chamber is of the gas variety, and Klan member Sam Cayhill is only weeks away from spending his last…
moments in one. After two mistrials, he has been convicted of the murder of the two sons of a Jewish civil rights activist in 1967. Adam Hall, a Chicago lawyer and Cayhill's grandson, sets out to prove that Cayhill is innocent. Strong language and some violence. 1994.Guard of honor: a novel
By William P. Kennedy, William P Kennedy. 1993
A select group of military cadets train in the techniques of counterinsurgency warfare in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains.…
Their immediate goal is to earn the green beret. Suddenly their rugged shells are cracked when some of their officers are murdered--clearly by a person trained in covert killing tactics. The ensuing court martial exposes the motives of the murderer and questions the morality of warfare. Violence and strong languageWinter in the heart
By David Poyer. 1993
When elderly, hermit-like Mr. Halvorsen collapses, tests show exposure to poison. High schooler Phil Romanelli puts aside his own troubles…
and suicidal thoughts to help Halvorsen track the source of poisoning to local tycoon Brad Boulton. Meanwhile, after learning she has contracted syphilis from the married Boulton, Jaysine Farmer joins the unlikely duo in their effort to stop the man. Strong language, some violence, and some descriptions of sexUndue influence (Paul Madriani Ser. #No. 3)
By Steve Martini. 1994
Before she died, the wife of attorney Paul Madriani asked that he help her younger sister, Laurel Vega. Laurel is…
fighting her ex-husband and his new wife for custody of her teenaged children. Then the second Mrs. Vega is killed and Laurel is in real trouble: she was seen at the house, she fled the state, and she destroyed evidence. Strong language, explicit descriptions of sex, and some violence. 1994.Hard evidence (Dismas Hardy. #3.)
By John T Lescroart. 1993
After marrying newly widowed Frannie and adopting her child, and with a baby on the way, Dismas Hardy leaves his…
bartending and goes back to law. As a new assistant district attorney, Hardy itches for a murder, and when he finds a human hand in a shark while volunteering at an aquarium, he demands the case. But before the murder is solved, Hardy is defending the accused. Includes strong language, violence, and sex. 1993.Southern discomfort
By Margaret Maron. 1993
In the sequel to Bootlegger's Daughter (DB 37825), Deborah Knott's brand new career as a district court judge is overshadowed…
by her personal life. Her brother Herman is hospitalized for arsenic poisoning, his daughter narrowly escapes rape, pets are vanishing, and the Knotts may be implicated in a murder. Meanwhile, Deborah and other women are building a house for a poor family. Some violence and some strong language. 1993In the presence of enemies
By William Jeremiah Coughlin, William J Coughlin. 1993
After five years with a firm, probate attorney Jake Martin knows that if he doesn't make partner now he will…
be let go. Meanwhile his wife (who has been given partnership in another firm) is treating him very cooly. The death of banker Augustus Daren offers the perfect chance for Martin to prove his worth. Instead, Martin is soon risking his career defend- ing Daren's young determined widow against Daren's grown children and employees. Strong languageThe trial of Abigail Goodman
By Howard Fast. 1993
Shortly after a state law is signed stating that abortion after the first trimester is murder punishable by death, forty-one-year-old…
professor Abigail Goodman is arrested. How did the district attorney obtain Goodman's medical records? And is ninety-one days really the second trimester? Abigail's attorney-husband and two married civil-rights attorneys must convince a southern judge and jury that the case is a fraud. Some strong languageDisclosure: a novel
By Michael Crichton. 1994
Tom Sanders, a manager at a high-tech company, is on the way up the corporate ladder. But Meredith Johnson, a…
former lover, gets the position that he expected and tries to show Tom who is boss. Spurned, Meredith accuses Tom of sexual harassment. He hires a female lawyer with expertise in sexual misconduct cases and scans the computer files for evidence of Meredith's manipulative ability. Strong language and some explicit descriptions of sex. Bestseller