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Presumed innocent

2011
The county's chief deputy prosecutor is asked to investigate the rape and murder of one of his colleagues, a former lover.

Pride and premeditation

Jane Austen Murder Mysteries, Book 1
Seventeen-year-old aspiring lawyer Lizzie Bennet seeks to solve a murder before her rival Mr. Darcy beats her to it.

Take it back

Zara Kaleel is one of London's brightest legal minds, and her world is turned upside down when she takes the case of Jodie Wolfe, a sixteen-year-old with facial deformities who accuses four boys in her class of rape. All the boys have soild alibis, and no one believes Jodie is telling the truth. But Zara believes Jodie, and she is determined to find out the truth, no matter how devastating it may be.

Miracle Creek

2020
"A literary courtroom thriller about a mother accused of murdering her eight-year-old autistic son"--Provided by publisher.

The accomplice

"When his best friend Woody is arrested--an unwitting accomplice to a robbery--Theodore Boone must work to prove his innocence"--Provided by publisher.

The associate

A dark episode from college haunts Kyle McAvoy's future after he graduates from Yale and takes a shady job at a large law firm where his new employer blackmails him into unethical work, which includes a scheme that could put Kyle in jail or even get him killed.
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To kill a mockingbird

A large print edition of Harper Lee's novel "To Kill a Mockingbird", in which eight-year-old Scout Finch tells of life in a small Alabama town where her father is a lawyer.
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To kill a mockingbird

Scout Finch, the young daughter of a local attorney in the Deep South during the 1930s, tells of her father's defense of an African-American man charged with the rape of a white girl.
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Theodore Boone

the accused
While all of Strattenburg anxiously awaits the new trial of infamous murder suspect Pete Duffy, problems arise for their own kid lawyer. There's been a robbery, and Theo is the accused.

The lemonade crime

When money disappears from fourth-grader Evan's pocket and everyone thinks that his annoying classmate Scott stole it, Evan's younger sister stages a trial involving the entire class, trying to prove what happened.

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