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Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Description
Lacy Stoltz is an investigator for the Florida Board on Judicial Conduct. She is a lawyer, not a cop, and it is her job to respond to complaints dealing with judicial misconduct. After nine years with the Board, she knows that most problems are caused by incompetence, not corruption. But a corruption case eventually crosses her desk. A previously disbarred lawyer is back in business with a new identity. He now goes by the name Greg Myers, and he claims...
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English
Description
"In The Whistler, Lacy Stoltz investigated a corrupt judge who was taking millions in bribes from a crime syndicate. She put the criminals away, but only after being attacked and nearly killed. Three years later, and approaching forty, she is tired of her work for the Florida Board on Judicial Conduct and ready for a change. Then she meets a mysterious woman who is so frightened she uses a number of aliases. Jeri Crosby's father was murdered twenty...
3) Blindsided
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English
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"When Maggie Spritzer, former editor-in-chief of the Post and an honorary member of the Sisterhood, arrives with a new mission in mind, the Vigilantes are soon gathering in their war room once more. While catching up on each other's lives, they plan a brilliant campaign against a duo of corrupt judges running a moneymaking racket that sends young offenders to brutal boot camps, often on trumped-up charges. Their enemies are powerful and ruthless,...
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Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
What started out as a joke landed seventeen-year-old Dillon Yates in a lockdown juvenile facility in Boston Harbor. When he set up a prank Twitter account for his vice principal, he never dreamed he could be brought up on criminal charges, but that's exactly what happened. This is Blackburn, Massachusetts, where zero tolerance for minors is a way of life. Leading the movement is tough-as-nails Judge Joe Scali, who gives speeches about getting tough...
5) Skin tight
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English
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Bestselling author Carl Hiaasen serves up a humorous helping of "taut, fast-paced action...crisp and hot” (The New York Times).
After dispatching a pistol-packing intruder from his home with the help of a stuffed Marlin head, Mick Stranahan can't deny that someone is out to get him. His now-deceased intruder carries no I.D., and as a former Florida state investigator, Stranahan knows there are plenty of potential culprits....
After dispatching a pistol-packing intruder from his home with the help of a stuffed Marlin head, Mick Stranahan can't deny that someone is out to get him. His now-deceased intruder carries no I.D., and as a former Florida state investigator, Stranahan knows there are plenty of potential culprits....
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English
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A corrupt judge in a mob murder case. A disillusioned pastor, hungry for power. A cynical reporter, sniffing for a scandal. A gambling addict whose secret tape threatens the lives of everyone who hears it.New York Times bestselling author, Lee Strobel, weaves these edgy characters into an intricate thriller set in a gleaming, suburban megachurch, a big-city newspaper struggling for survival, and the shadowy corridors of political intrigue. The unexpected...
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Publisher
Akashic Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
359 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"From CSI to Forensic Files to the celebrated reputation of the FBI crime lab, forensic scientists have long been mythologized in American popular culture as infallible crime solvers. Juries put their faith in {28}expert witnesses
8) Blood heir
Author
Series
Blood heir trilogy volume Bk. 1
Pub. Date
[2019]
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Description
In the Cyrilian Empire, the gifts Affinites use to control the world are unnatural and dangerous. Anastacya Mikhailov, the crown princess, has a secret and deadly Affinity to blood; it is her curse, and the reason she has lived her life behind palace walls. When Ana's father, the emperor, is murdered, her world is shattered. Framed as his killer, Ana must flee the palace to save her life. To clear her name, she must find her father's murderer...
Author
Publisher
Mulholland Books / Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
322 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
After serving time in Rikers Island solitary for assault, Joe King Oliver, who is an ex-NYPD investigator working as a private detective, receives a note from a woman who admits she was paid to frame him, compelling him to investigate.
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Publisher
Fremantle Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
Utilizing court transcripts and interviews, this is the gripping account of a courtroom drama that titillated the public during an era of crooked cops and corporate fraud. When the Perth Mint was swindled out of more than a half-million dollars’ worth of gold, the local police thought they had the culprits: the Mickelberg brothers-Ray, Peter, and Brian. Already accused of defrauding Australian millionaire Alan Bond by manufacturing a phony gold...
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Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
413 pages ; 20 cm
Language
Español
Description
Basándose en una historia real, John Grisham se adentra en la vida de un hombre condenado injustamente a la pena de muerte: Ronald Keith Williamson, acusado del asesinato de una mujer. Tras doce años de prisión, sus abogados lograron demostrar su inocencia cinco días antes de la fecha en que debía ser ajusticiado.--Desde la descripción de la editorial.
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
422 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
J.D. Scrbacek has just won the biggest trial of his career, but even as he crows to the press, his entire life blows sky-high. Was the bomb meant for him, or for his mobster client? In this seaside casino town where the tables run hot and the tensions run high, the odds say the attorney is a marked man. Alone and on the run, Scrbacek flees into the citys forgotten underbelly, a ruined corridor called Crapstown, where he is forced to confront the ghosts...
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Publisher
Calkins Creek, an imprint of Astra Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
192 pages : illustrations, photographs ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Beginning in the early 2000s, two judges exerted a mighty influence over the workings of the Luzerne County court of Common Pleas in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. Under their guidance a stern warning aimed at young people spread throughout the county: follow the rules. A simple misstep could result in severe punishment. In the post-Columbine era, many believed this type of old-school discipline was just what juveniles needed to stay on the straight...
14) El soborno
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Publisher
Vintage Español, una división de Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
Primera edición Vintage Español.
Physical Desc
428 pages ; 21 cm
Language
Español
Description
"Lacy Stoltz es una joven investigadora y abogada de Florida, y su trabajo consiste en responder a las demandas relacionadas con la mala praxis judicial. Tras nueve años en el puesto, sabe que la mayor parte de los problemas derivan de incompetencias. De repente le llega un caso de corrupción. Greg Myers afirma conocer un juez de Florida que ha robado más dinero que el resto de los jueces poco honestos juntos. Estaba involucrado en secreto con...
15) Touch of evil
Pub. Date
2000
Edition
Anamorphic widescreen (aspect ratio 1.85:1)
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (111 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An elaborate mystery involving a corrupt police official in a squalid town on the Mexican border and a murder that ensnares a narcotics agent and his wife.
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
Primera edición.
Physical Desc
426 pages; 21 cm
Language
Español
Description
Un thriller lleno de tensión y con una premisa impactante:¿y si un asesino en serie buscado durante más de veinte años fuera un juez en ejercicio? Lacy Stoltz se ha encontrado en numerosas ocasiones frente a problemas de corrupción en su trabajo como investigadora de la Comisión de Conducta Judicial de Florida. Pero nada la ha preparado para el caso que una asustada pero decidida desconocida quiere poner en sus manos. El padre de Jeri Crosby...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press, an imprint of St. Martin's Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xix, 316 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Marked for Life is the incredible memoir of a wrongfully imprisoned man's epic journey to free himself and others like him. Isaac Wright Jr. was wrongly accused of drug charges in New Jersey and sentenced to life in prison in 1991. He was arrested, tried, and convicted under a draconian 'kingpin' statute even though he never dealt drugs a day in his life. Even though the prosecutor knew he was innocent, as did the detectives who investigated and...