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In Biloxi, Mississippi, a woman sues a tobacco company for the death of her husband from lung cancer. The protagonists are a jury fixer, that is a lawyer whose role is to assure a jury favorable to the company, and a rogue juror whom the fixer cannot eliminate or control. This is a landmark tobacco trial with hundreds of millions of dollars at stake which begins routinely, then swerves mysteriously off course. The jury is behaving strangely, and at...
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Hester Monk, wife of the commander of the Thames River Police, questions the finances of a London church whose members' hard-earned donations appear to go into the pocket of charismatic preacher Abel Taft. Brilliant barrister Oliver Rathbone, newly appointed a judge, presides over the trial. Taft's guilt seems clear, until a last-minute witness undermines the charges and Rathbone makes a well-meaning but reckless move that could ruin his life.
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Pete Banning was Clanton's favorite son, a returning war hero, the patriarch of a prominent family, a farmer, father, neighbor, and a faithful member of the Methodist church. Then one cool October morning in 1946. he rose early, drove into town, walked into the church, and calmly shot and killed the Reverend Dexter Bell. As if the murder wasn't shocking enough, it was even more baffling that Pete's only statement about it - to the sheriff, to his...
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"After working one of the worst mass killings in U.S. history, Scarpetta returns home to Cambridge, Massachusetts. Exhausted and ill, she's recovering at home when she receives an unsettling call. The body of a young woman has been discovered on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's rugby field. The victim, a graduate student named Gail Shipman, is oddly draped in ivory linen and posed in a way that is too deliberate to be the killer's first...
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"Newly promoted, Detective Inspector William Warwick, is tasked with a dangerous new line of work--to go undercover and expose corruption at the heart of the Metropolitan Police. Along with constables Rebecca Pankhurst and Nicky Bailey, his team is focused on following Detective Sergeant Jerry Summers, a young officer whose lifestyle exceeds his income. But the investigation risks being compromised when Nicky falls for Summers. As the undercover...
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