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1) The summons
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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"Once Judge Atlee was a powerful figure in Clanton, Mississippi--a pillar of the community who towered over local law and politics for forty years. Now the judge is a shadow of his former self, a sick, lonely old man who has withdrawn to his sprawling ancestral home. Knowing the end is near, Judge Atlee has issued a summons for his two sons to return to Clanton to discuss his estate. Ray Atlee is the eldest, a Virginia law professor, newly single...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"When Boady Sanden first receives the case of Elijah Matthews, he's certain there's not much he can do. Elijah, who believes himself to be a prophet, has been locked up in a psychiatric hospital for the past four years, convicted of brutally murdering the pastor of a megachurch. But as a law professor working for the Innocence Project, Boady agrees to look into Elijah's file. When he does, he is alarmed to find threads that lead back to the death...
3) Daddy's girl
Author
Language
English
Description
Natalie Greco loves being a law professor, even though she can't keep her students from cruising sex.com during class. When a colleague talks Nat into teaching a class at a local prison, her comfortable world turns upside. A violent prison riot breaks out, and in the chaos, Nat rushes to help an injured guard. Before he dies, he asks her to deliver a cryptic message. The dying declaration plunges Nat into a nightmare. Suddenly, the girl who has always...
Author
Series
Capital crimes series volume 15
Language
English
Description
Gallery owner Annabel Smith and her husband, law school professor Mac, become involved in a murder investigation when a man is found shot to death in the parking garage of the Watergate complex in the middle of a speech by presidential candidate Joe Aprile.
Author
Series
Capital crimes series volume 16
Language
English
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Description
The Washington art gallery owner, Annabel Smith, investigates the blackmarket in rare books. This follows several murders, connected to an attempt to obtain a journal of the voyage of Columbus to the New World
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
A moving story of a first-year Harvard Law School student who comes to terms with his dreams in America's most competitive school. Hart finds he must survive much more than the pressures, all-night cramming and insecurities he expected. He becomes fearful of a brilliant professor, who terrorizes some, inspires others and who easily seperates the men from the boys.
Author
Series
Capital crimes series volume 12
Language
English
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Description
Truman's favorite protagonists, Mac and Annabel Smith, are called in when a weed-covered body is discovered along the banks of the Potomac.
9) Redemption
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
A professor saves the ex-wife of a Wall Street millionaire from jumping off a bridge and falls in love. Professor Goldman, 78, proposes and Elizabeth Hopper, 47, accepts. A few days later she is arrested for her husband's murder. Will Goldman run or stand by her?
11) La citacion
Author
Publisher
debolsillo
Pub. Date
2013
Language
Español
Description
Ahora casi se ha vuelto un recluso. Al ver de cerca su fin, el juez Atlee manda llamar a su hijo Ray, un profesor de Derecho en la Universidad de Virginia, para acordar los detalles de la herencia. Su hijo se encamina, reticente, hacia el sur, pero el encuentro familiar no tiene lugar. El juez muere demasiado pronto. Y con ello, deja tras de sí un secreto sorprendente que solo llega a conocer Ray.Y quizá alguien más.
Author
Series
Capital crimes series volume 6
Publisher
Arbor House
Pub. Date
[1985]
Language
English
Description
Special agent George Pritchard was nobody's favorite at the FBI. But when his murdered body is found, agents Ross Lizenby and Christine Saksis look for answers--only to find that the bureau wants questions kept to a suspicious minimum ...
Author
Series
Capital crimes series volume 19
Language
English
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Description
When Washington, DC, police detectives Mo Johnson and Rick Klayman arrive at this famous venue, they find the body of Nadia Zarinski, a congressional intern romantically linked to Senator Bruce Lerner. Fate throws in a twist when the detectives discover that the senator's ex-wife is directing the theater's current production. Their son becomes the number one suspect when the footprint from a pair of shoes he has matches the one found in the alley...
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
""Beguiling. Longworth evokes the pleasures of France in delicious detail--great wine, delicious meals, and fine company."--Publishers Weekly When a scandalous author moves to the outskirts of Aix-en-Provence, Verlaque and Bonnet are called in to investigate whether he's haunted by more than just his past, in this delightful new mystery from M. L. Longworth One hot summer night, Aix-en-Provence is aflutter with news that controversial author Valere...
Author
Series
Capital crimes series volume 11
Language
English
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Description
The investigation of the murder of a chief scientist on an antimissle system brings Major Margit Falk of the Pentagon's legal staff close to the heart of a web of espionage and betrayal.
Author
Series
Capital crimes series volume 14
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
"Congressman Latham has maintained an impeccable record in Washington, and so he seems the logical choice when nominated by his friend, President Scott, to become the next secretary of state. His confirmation hearings appear to be a formality until rumors emerge of sexual misconduct and influence peddling. Then, early one morning, he is found shot to death, an apparent suicide."--BOOK JACKET. "Nobody close to Paul Latham believes his demise a suicide;...
Author
Series
Verlaque and Bonnet mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Soon after winery owner Olivier Bonnard discovers that a priceless cache of rare vintages has been stolen from his private cellar, a man arrives at Aix-en-Provence's Palais de Justice to report his wife's mysterious disappearance. After the wife is found dead in Bonnard's vineyard, Verlaque and Bonnet are once again investigating.
Author
Series
Capital crimes series volume 5
Language
English
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Description
After a gala party at the British Embassy, the British Ambassador to the United States--gourmand, lover of women and general bon vivant--is found mysteriously poisoned.
19) Trial by fire
Author
Series
Joseph Antonelli novels volume 7
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Author
Series
Capital crimes series volume 13
Publisher
Random House
Language
English
Description
"What happens when a world-class art expert wants not only to exhibit a long-lost painting by Caravaggio but to own it himself? Margaret Truman takes us into a heady, exciting world of genius with this story of a senior curator at the nation's famed National Gallery of Art who plans a brilliant exhibition around the masterpiece. He also begins to make another, more personal, daring plan. His masterly scheme promises prestige, fame, a small fortune,...