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Macy Merit leaves Naval Special Ops after a bizarre mission goes awry to become “The Avenger.” Her first case involves the death of Jack Jordan, the Director of the Centers for Disease Control, whose wife Vanessa is a U.S. Senator from North Carolina. Ruled a suicide by the local police, Macy...

Dissatisfied lawyer Winston Patrick leaves his first career to pursue teaching at a Vancouver high school — but he can't seem to leave the legal world behind. Deadly Lessons Winston Patrick, a successful lawyer but dissatisfied with his career defending the downtrodden of Vancouver's criminal...

This is a rich, absorbing novel about good, evil, and the inability of the legal system to mediate between the two. Two white Milwaukee motorcycle cops pursue and kill a young black man on a bitterly cold winter night in 1959 and with the help of their su

A romantic cowboy. A sunset kiss. Everything is perfect until he's charged with murder. Callie Fletcher just wanted to sit on the terrace of her favorite hot spot and watch the sunset over the Texas Hill Country. A table for one, a glass of pinot and the best view in Austin. When Dominic Jaxson,...

The Bartons are a happy family who are finding it difficult to make ends meet. Then, one day, Mrs Barton wins a large sum on the football pools and their lives change forever. The Bartons are a kind couple and they use their newly won fortune to help their family and friends. This leads them into...

One bullet. One dead teenager. One mistake and everything changed. Sam's worked hard to create a beautiful life for his family. When he fled a war-ravaged Vietnam forty years ago, he had no idea what to expect of his new life in America. But the years have been kind to him until he made one horrible...

Kate Baneberry died with a whimper, not a bang. One moment she was alive, an attractive woman married to a successful businessman. The next moment she was dead, and no one had the slightest suspicion until a lawyer got involved–and shook the legal system to its core.... Living on Alabama’s...

A stunning debut suspense novel in the bestselling tradition of Scott Turow and John Grisham—from a “gifted writer” with a “long and successful career ahead of him” (Publishers Weekly, starred review). At thirty-five, criminal defense attorney Alex Miller is the youngest partner at...

A history of the landmark case of Clarence Earl Gideon's fight for the right to legal counsel. Notes, table of cases, index. The classic backlist bestseller. More than 800,000 sold since its first pub date of 1964.

From one of the most influential journalists of the last half century, an essential explanation and defense of a foundational American idea: free speech More than any other people on earth, we Americans are free to say and write what we think. The press can air the secrets of government, the...

Some see the Internet as a Wild West where those who venture online must be thick-skinned enough to endure verbal attacks in the name of free speech protection. Danielle Keats Citron rejects this view. Cyber-harassment is a matter of civil rights law, and legal precedents as well as social norms of decency and civility must be leveraged to stop it.

Whether you’re considering law school or are already committed, The Law School Decision Game: A Playbook for Prospective Lawyers explains your choice to enter the legal profession with the candor readers have come to expect from Ann Levine's Law School Expert blog including: • What lawyers do,...

"Parker has done an outstanding job of demystifying how any lawyer can make the transition into a new career that offers more potential for success and more importantly, personal satisfaction." - Don E. Hutcheson, Author, Don't Waste Your Talent: The 8 Critical Steps to Discovering What...

This latest publication in the Straightforward Guides Series, Guide to Intellectual property and the Law is a concise guide to the legal framework governing intellectual property. The book is comprehensive and covers all areas relating to copyright, patents etc. It will prove invaluable to all those who seek to understand more about this complex area, whether it be layperson or student.