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222) Most wanted
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On an innocent evening stroll with her child, Melanie stumbles across a horrifying crime scene. A wealthy former prosecutor from her office has been tortured and murdered, his luxurious town house set ablaze to destroy evidence of the crime. It's the kind of high-profile case that can make her name, and Melanie wants in. Needs in. But what she doesn't realize is that this opportunity will bring her dangerously close to a hard-to-resist FBI agent who...
224) Her deadly game
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"Keera Duggan was building a solid reputation as a Seattle prosecutor, until her romantic relationship with a senior colleague ended badly. For the competitive former chess prodigy, returning to her family's failing criminal defense law firm to work for her father is the best shot she has. With the right moves, she hopes to restore the family's reputation, her relationship with her father, and her career. Keera's chance to play in the big leagues...
225) Gangsta twist 1
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A modern-day Robin Hood meets "Mission: Impossible" with a witty urban twist that will take readers on a fast-paced ride full of deceit, fast money, and revenge, where the winner takes all.
226) Mission Hill
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"Abby Endicott is chief of the District Attorney's homicide unit in Boston, where she investigates and prosecutes the city's most dangerous killers. She attended the elite Winsor school, graduated from Harvard Law School, and has been known to change into an evening gown amidst bodies in the morgue. She loves her job, and is committed to it. But among Abby's many secrets is her longtime affair with fellow prosecutor Tim Mooney, a married father of...
227) Bones don't lie
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Private investigator Lance Kruger was just a boy when his father vanished twenty-three years ago. Since then he's lived under the weight of that disappearance--until his father's car is finally dredged up from the bottom of Grey Lake. It should be a time for closure, except for the skeleton found in the trunk. A missing person case gone cold has become one of murder, and Lance and attorney Morgan Dane must face the deadly past that's risen to the...
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Returning to her native Dominican Republic, forty-nine-year-old Urania Cabral discovers that Rafael Trujillo, the depraved dictator called "the Goat," still reigns over his inner circle, which includes Urania's father, with brutality and blackmail. But Trujillo's grasp is slipping. There is a conspiracy against him, and a Machiavellian revolution is already under way that will have bloody consequences of its own. This magisterial novel recounts the...
229) Second sight
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Eliza Carmody returns home to the country to work on the biggest law case of her career. The only problem is this time she's on the 'wrong side' - defending a large corporation against a bushfire class action by her hometown of Kinsale. On her first day back Eliza witnesses an old friend, Luke Tyrell, commit an act of lethal violence. As the police investigate that crime and hunt for Luke they uncover bones at The Castle, a historic homestead in the...
230) ¿Solo amigos?
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Ha pasado mucho tiempo desde que Susana, hoy convertida en una abogada de exito, vio por ultima vez a Fran, su primer amor y el hombre al que nunca podra olvidar. Ahora que las circunstancias la instan a reencontrarse con el, la nostalgia del pasado acude sin remedio a su mente. Hace unos anos, Susana era una timida y poco agraciada alumna de Derecho obligada a sacar las mejores notas para no perder la beca que le permitia seguir estudiando. EStaba...
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"Legal thriller based on true events. Quick-witted Gina Romano built her career as a criminal trial lawyer playing by all the rules to win justice for her clients. But the gruesome murder of her beloved law partner turns her world upside down, and now settling scores and winning in the courtroom aren't all she wants to accomplish"--
232) Winter's child
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"Margaret Coel's New York Times bestselling series continues as Arapaho attorney Vicky Holden and Father John O'Malley discover that a centuries-old mystery is tied to a modern-day crime on the Wind River Reservation ... In the midst of a blizzard, Myra and Eldon Little Shield found an abandoned baby on their doorstep and brought her inside. Five years later, no one has come back to claim the little girl now known as Mary Anne Little Shield. But now...
233) Ms. Nice Nasty
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Camille Holden-Shannon has always been a woman who can command a courtroom and bedroom without opening her mouth! She's sexy, confident and not afraid; her credentials speak for themselves. She loves her family and her career but she cannot deny the fact that she loves sex and lots of it. She doesn't break up homes; she simply gets what she needs and she's gone! Her career suddenly takes a turn in the right direction and she is thrown into the public's...
234) Snap judgment
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When the daughter of prominent civil litigator Graham Hutchins is found with her throat slashed, the woman's spurned ex-boyfriend seems the likely suspect. But only days later, the young man dies in what appears to be a suicide. Or was it? Now authorities are faced with a possible new crime. And their person of interest is Hutchins. After all, avenging the death of his daughter is the perfect reason to kill. If he's as innocent as he claims, only...
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"Lila Bennett's bad choices have finally caught up with her. And one of those decisions has split her life in two. Literally. In one life, she's taken hostage by someone who appears to be a stranger but knows too much. As she's trapped in a concrete cell, her kidnapper forces her to face what she's done or be killed. In an alternate life, she eludes her captor but is hunted by someone who is dismantling her happiness, exposing one secret at a time....
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A taste of passion: The exquisite night Maya North spends with a seductive stranger is the perfect prelude to her new life in Paris as co-owner of a French vineyard. Unitl she discovers that her mystery lover is her new business partner, Nicolas Rayo and he's trying to buy her out. That's when the LA corpporate consultant decides it's war-- even if her heart says Nic's the one...
Ambitious seduction : Heir to his family's international empire,...
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Night shift: When Detective Boyd Fletcher is assigned to protect radio DJ Cilla O'Roarke, he is surprised by the intense attraction he feels for his charge. Cilla keeps her vulnerability hidden behind an impenetrable wall, but when the threatening phone calls she's receiving force her to rely on Boyd, she finds herself letting him into her heart.
Night shadow: Prosecutor Deborah O'Roarke has always prided herself on following the law to the letter....
238) Take me there
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What would you do if the woman sitting across from you at the negotiating table is the same woman you shared a bed with twelve years earlier? That's exactly the situation when Adrienne Phillips enters the offices of Foster McKenzie. Sloan Merchant, the opposing attorney, is a rising star in the world of corporate law with one of the premier companies in the world. Adrienne has never forgotten the thrill of desire in Sloan's eyes, the sound of her...
239) Obsesión
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Francine Day es una joven y brillante abogada especializada en divorcios que necesita conseguir un caso importante para poder ser nombrada para el Consejo de la Reina (Queen's Counsel). Pero las cosas se ponen feas cuando comete la imprudencia de iniciar una tórrida aventura con su cliente, Martin Joy. Obsesionada con su nuevo amante, Francine se siente celosa de Donna, la esposa de Martin. Una noche les sigue hasta casa para espiarlos. Esa noche...
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"El marido de Sophie, James, es un padre amoroso, un hombre apuesto, una figura pública carismática y exitosa. Y sin embargo, se le acusa de un terrible crimen. Sophie está convencida de su inocencia y está desesperada por proteger a su preciosa familia de las mentiras que amenazan con separarla. Kate es la abogada encargada de llevar la acusación en el juicio: una profesional experimentada que sabe que solo se puede ganar el caso a través...