legal stories

Santa Fe attorney Ed Eagle, recovered from his run-ins with Mexican organized crime and his ex-wife Barbara, acquires a new client who sheds light on Ed's past and brings new danger to his door.

"Clanton, Mississippi. 1990. Jake Brigance finds himself embroiled in a deeply divisive trial when the court appoints him attorney for Drew Gamble, a timid sixteen-year-old boy accused of murdering a local deputy. Many in Clanton want a swift trial and the death penalty, but Brigance digs in and discovers that there is more to the story than meets the eye. Jake's fierce commitment to saving Drew from the gas chamber puts his career, his financial security, and the safety of his family on the line"--Provided by publisher.

Black lawyer Ellice Littlejohn's perfect life--with an Ivy League degree under her belt and a high-paying job as a midtown Atlanta corporate attorney--comes crashing down when her charming white boss and "just for fun" boyfriend is found dead in his executive suite with a bullet in his head. She hopes to not be thrust into the spotlight, given her past and a brother who often has been on the wrong side of the law, but when her firm offers her the dead man's job, she can't pass up the opportunity--but something is off, and shady dealings come to light within the firm that lead Ellice to discover a dangerous conspiracy.

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

Seventeen-year-old aspiring lawyer Lizzie Bennet seeks to solve a murder before her rival Mr. Darcy beats her to it.

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.

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

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

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.

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.