public prosecutors

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public prosecutors

Southern lights

a novel
2009
Assistant District Attorney Alexa Hamilton reluctantly sends her seventeen-year-old daughter Savannah, to live with her ex-husband and his family in Charleston after she received death threats against Savannah's life for prosecuting serial killer Luke Quentin.

The woods

2007
New Jersey prosecutor Paul Copeland is distracted from his high-profile case against some wealthy college students when his past intrudes with the discovery of the body of a middle-aged man who was one of four young campers presumed to have been murdered twenty years earlier--a crime that occurred while Copeland was neglecting his duties as a security guard to enjoy a tryst with his girlfriend.

Perfect match

2002
Assistant district attorney Nina Frost has always prided herself on the fact that she protects the city's children from abuse and crime, but when her own son is sexually abused, she finds herself overcome with rage and sets out to find his attacker and exact justice for her son.

Defending Jacob

a novel
2013
Assistant district attorney Andy Barber is shocked when his fourteen-year-old son Jacob is accused of murdering a fellow student. Even though damning evidence surfaces, Andy believes in Jacob's innocence; but his marriage crumbles as his wife doubts their son. As the murder trial progresses, Andy must choose between loyalty and justice.

Retribution

2004
C.J. Townsend, a brilliant Miami prosecutor, must fight to keep herself together when she realizes the man she is preparing to try for murder is the same man who raped and tortured her years earlier, leaving her near death and throwing her into an extended mental breakdown.

Lethal legacy

a novel
2009
Assistant district attorney Alex Cooper and her crew are drawn into the strange and privileged world of rich collectors, eccentric library trustees, and the treasures of the great New York Public Library after a librarian disappears and a woman's corpse turns up in the missing librarian's abandoned apartment.

Death dance

2006
Assistant district attorney Alex Cooper learns the behind-the-scene secrets of Broadway when she joins NYPD's Mike Chapman and Mercer Wallace in an investigation of the disappearance of famous dancer Natalya Galinova from Lincoln Center's Metropolitan Opera House during a performance, while at the same time trying to navigate the new world of technology-assisted forensics.

The birthday party

a memoir of survival
2007
Stanley Alpert recounts the events surrounding his 1998 kidnapping, describing how he played on his captors' attitudes and fears to help him escape.

Cold hit

1999
When the body of a famous art dealer washes up on the shores of Manhattan, Assistant District Attorney Alexandra Cooper joins NYPD detectives Mike Chapman and Mercer Wallace in a search for the killer that leads them into the dark underworld of art theft.

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