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Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Returning to Whiskey Hill, Wyoming after serving time for a crime he didn't commit, Colt McCrae, vowing to avenge his father's murder, goes up against the man responsible--ruthless range baron Frank Drummond, who will kill anyone who stands in his way.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Twelve years ago, librarian Betsy Treading was convicted of murdering her neighbor, the bohemian loner Linda Sue. After DNA testing finally exonerates Betsy, she returns to her suburban community determined to salvage her life and find the true killer. As she begins to pick apart the web of secrets, lies, and love affairs uncovered in the wake of her trial, Betsy suspects that her tight-lipped neighbors may know something that she has denied even...
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A young lawyer takes on the judge who is destroying her hometown--and ends up in jail herself. 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. Sometimes the best education a lawyer can get is a short stretch of hard time.
Author
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Ever since her best friend Molly was murdered fifteen years before, Blair Butler has returned to her small hometown in the Pocono mountains as seldom as possible. Now she has been summoned home to see her terminally ill sister one last time--only for Celeste to make a shocking deathbed confession. Is it really true that the wrong man has spent fifteen years in jail for a crime he didn't commit? Having promised her dying sister that she would do her...
66) The Son
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Sonny Lofthus, in his early thirties, has been in prison for the last dozen years: serving time for crimes he didn't commit. In exchange, he gets an uninterrupted supply of heroin?and the unexpected stream of fellow prisoners seeking out his uncanny abilities to soothe and absolve. His addiction started when his father committed suicide rather than be exposed as a corrupt cop, and now Sonny is the center of a vortex of corruption: prison staff, police,...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Pfaff argues that existing accounts of the causes of mass incarceration are fundamentally misguided. The most widely accepted explanations--the failed War on Drugs, draconian sentencing laws, an increasing reliance on private prisons--actually tell us much less than we like to think. Instead, Pfaff urges us to look at other factors, including a major shift in prosecutor behavior that occurred in the mid-1990s, when prosecutors began bringing felony...
68) Fog Island
Publisher
Sinister Cinema
Pub. Date
[2005?]
Language
English
Description
"Leo Granger is wrongfully imprisoned for embezzlement. He suspects his colleagues framed him and upon his release he invites them to a secluded island where he has set up an elaborate treasure hunt in order to expose and destroy the betrayers. In their pursuit of the treasure they uncover perilous traps and countless dangers"--Container.
Author
Series
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The location of the glymera's notorious prison camp was lost after the raids. When a freak accident provides Nyx clues to where her sister may still be doing time, she becomes determined to find the secret subterranean labyrinth. Embarking on a journey under the earth, she learns a terrible truth -- and meets a male who changes everything forever. The Jackal has been in the camp for so long he cannot recall anything of the freedom he once knew. Trapped...
Publisher
Greenhaven Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Approximately ten thousand children are imprisoned in adult correctional facilities in the United States on any given day. Children as young as thirteen have received life sentences in prisons far from their family and community, vulnerable to abuse and neglect. These are often the same conditions that led them there in the first place. What is the most effective method of dealing with youth offenders? Should they be tried as adults and incarcerated...
72) Alta's curse
Author
Publisher
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Inspired by the life of a notorious West Georgia moonshiner, Sam Alta Dryden. Ready to end his criminal lifestyle after many years in the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary, Alta heads home with the best of intentions. His new success becomes legendary: he regains the trust of his dying wife Shelby, sells off his moonshine empire, launches a major home building company, and is elected mayor of Tallapoosa. Yet he is haunted by the advice of Doc Dorothy,...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jacko Argyle is convicted of his mother's murder and dies in prison. Two years later, a stranger arrives to confirm Jacko's disbelieved alibi. But if Jacko wasn't guilty, who is? Each family member becomes detective, suspect, and potential victim.
75) Harm
Author
Publisher
Del Rey/Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Paul Fadhil Abbas Ali winds up in custody after a repressive British regime takes a dim view of his novel, which contains a passing reference to the assassination of the prime minister. Tortured unmercifully, Ali finds refuge only in his imagination, conjuring up an alternate universe in which humans have fled Earth and attempted to start anew on the planet Stygia. On Stygia, Ali inhabits the body and mind of Fremant, a bodyguard for that world's...
Author
Publisher
Law & Crime Books
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
Body cams and dashcams have fundamentally transformed law enforcement in recent years. These innovations can help prove someone committed a crime, or didn't. Real-life footage has cleared people initially accused of wrongdoing, and in certain instances even implicated officers. But that same type of footage can also be used to clear police falsely accused of misdeeds. From allegations of harassment or bias to false arrests or even criminal conduct,...
77) Masks
Author
Series
Masks (E.C. Blake) volume 1
Publisher
DAW
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Masks, the first novel in a mesmerizing new fantasy series, draws readers into a world in which cataclysmic events have left the Autarchy of Aygrima-the one land blessed with magical resources-cut off from its former trading partners across the waters, not knowing if any of those distant peoples still live. Yet under the rule of the Autarch, Aygrima survives. And thanks to the creation of the Masks and the vigilance of the Autarchs Watchers, no one...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 34
Language
English
Formats
Description
A beautiful new clothbound edition of Alexandre Dumas's classic novel of wrongful imprisonment, adventure and revenge. Thrown in prison for a crime he has not committed, Edmond Dantes is confined to the grim fortress of the Château d'If. There he learns of a great hoard of treasure hidden on the Isle of Monte Cristo and becomes determined not only to escape but to unearth the treasure and use it to plot the destruction of the three men responsible...
Author
Series
Rosato and Associates novels volume 12
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Mary DiNunzio has just been promoted to partner and is about to take on her most unusual case yet, brought to the firm by a thirteen-year-old genius with a penchant for beekeeping."--Dust flap.