Lamar Public Library

This suspenseful novel is about a vicious triple murder and the man condemned to die for it. Complicating the situation is that the judge who originally found the man guilty is only recently out of prison herself, having served time for taking bribes.

Patrick Lanigan was a young partner in a prominent Biloxi law firm. He had a pretty wife, a new daughter, and a bright future. One winter night, Patrick apparently died, trapped in a burning car. He watched his own funeral, then fled. Six weeks later, a fortune was stolen from his law firm's offshore account.

"Jamie Wagner is a young lawyer who is happy to be flying under the radar at a large firm doing background research for the partners. It's not that he isn't smart. He is. It's just that hard work, the whole legal world, isn't really his thing. Underachiever? Yes. Content? At least until the firm puts him on a case that turns his whole world upside down. Sheryl Harrison has served four years of a thirty-year murder sentence for killing her husband...

"Peter Hale is a young attorney struggling to make his own mark in his father's venerable law firm when he is presented with the opportunity of a lifetime. During the trial of a multimillion-dollar case, Peter's father, the lead counsel, suffers a heart attack and asks Peter to move for a mistrial until he's feeling better. Peter decides this is his only chance to prove to his father that he is the terrific lawyer he knows himself to be, and he chooses...

Becoming suspicious when a homeless client produces a large amount of cash just before a murdered body is discovered in the car in which the client lives, Miami attorney Jack Swyteck finds himself racing to save the life of his best friend.

North Carolina attorney 'Work' Pickens struggles to build a stable career on the emotional wreckage of his personal life. His marriage is cold, his sister is deeply troubled, his mother is dead, and his father has been missing for more than a year. When his father's corpse is finally discovered, Work becomes a suspect, forcing him to begin a search for answers. But every step that brings him closer to the truth also opens old wounds that are better...

Defending the brother of a Holocaust hero against allegations of World War II crimes, fiercely independent attorneys Charlotte Gold and Jack Harrington slowly fall for one another, while their client refuses to help in his own defense and claims that proof of his innocence lies within an intricate clock.

Can he trust his client's dreams and visions - even when they threaten to destroy his future? Supernatural visions filled with images of keys, hatchets, hammers, and fires. An eccentric old man in jail - accused of robbing a church and knowing things he has no right to know. A lawyer turned pastor - suddenly summoned to a stranger's cell by a dream. How much will one man risk to defend another, when the truth lands him in prison...and the only evidence...

An investigation into the murder of an Oregon State Supreme Court Justice unearths a bizarre maze of corruption and assassination in this gripping legal thriller.

In the middle of a multimillion-dollar legal hurricane, a jury must make a decision in a precedent-setting lawsuit against a tobacco giant. But few know the truth: this jury has a leader, and the jury belongs to him.