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1) Dirty Blonde
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Language
English
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Cate Fante is strong and sexy and wears designer suits like overpriced armor. She's just become a judge but leads a dark double life that she hides from everyone.
Her cover is blown when a high-profile case in her courtroom takes a stunning turn. Overnight the tabloids tell her secret, her boyfriend dumps her, and her new career hangs in tatters. But Cate's troubles are only beginning. An enemy no one anticipated sends her running for her life, and...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 17
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English
Description
When a federal judge and his secretary fail to appear for a scheduled trial and panicked clerks call for an FBI investigation, a harrowing murder case ensues and culminates in the imprisonment of a lawyer who imparts the story of who killed the judge and why.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 29
Language
English
Description
Jodi Picoult, bestselling author of My Sister's Keeper and Small Great Things pens her most riveting book yet, with a startling and poignant story about the devastating aftermath of a small-town tragedy.
Sterling is an ordinary New Hampshire town where nothing ever happens—until the day its complacency is shattered by a school shooting. Josie Cormier, the daughter of the judge sitting on the case, should be the state's...
Sterling is an ordinary New Hampshire town where nothing ever happens—until the day its complacency is shattered by a school shooting. Josie Cormier, the daughter of the judge sitting on the case, should be the state's...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
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Edgar Award-winning and New York Times best-selling author Margaret Maron has earned a starred review from Publishers Weekly for this small town saga starring Judge Deborah Knott and her new husband Dwight Bryant, chief deputy of Colleton County, NC. When local handyman J.D. Rouse is found dead in his pickup truck with a bullet in his head, the mayhem-and the body count-grows. But Dwight launches his own investigation after his son and ex-wife turn...
5) Sand sharks
Author
Series
Deborah Knott mysteries volume 15
Publisher
Grand Central Pub
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Judge Deborah Knott can't wait to trade the lush fields of Colleton County for the clear blue ocean and long stretches of sand at Wrightsville Beach. A summer conference for the North Carolina district court judges couldn't come soon enough for Deborah, who is overwhelmed by her newly married life and the responsibilities of being a mom. Lying beneath the hot summer sun in Wrightsville and reconnecting with old friends over delicious seafood dinners...
6) The cheater
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Series
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
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Lily Forrester, a Ventura County judge, finds herself in a mix of bizarre circumstances that lead her onto the trail of a vicious criminal mind. Her husband calls her from a Las Vegas jail where he has been arrested for attempted rape-but Las Vegas wasn't on his itinerary. His accuser, Anne Bradley, is an enigmatic woman with an eerie past, a woman to whom Lily is strangely drawn.
FBI Agent Mary Stevens is tracking a killer whose victims are husbands...
Author
Publisher
WaterBrook Press
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
It starts innocently enough in the town square of Possum, Virginia. But it becomes a spectacular national scandal: Can a federal judge outlaw Christmas? Thomas Hammond and his wife play Joseph and Mary in the annual live nativity in their hometown. But a federal judge rules the display unconstitutional. Thomas refuses to abide by the court order-and ends up in jail. From the courtrooms of Virginia to the talk shows of New York City, the battle escalates...
8) The brethren
Author
Pub. Date
2000.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
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Series
Savannah secrets volume 4
Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Pastor Ed Markham calls on Magnolia Investigations and shows Meredith and Julia an old ledger dating back to the founding of Savannah. When someone breaks into the pastor's homes and steals the ledger, Meredith and Julia must solve both a historic mystery and a modern-day theft.
Author
Series
Savannah secrets volume 8
Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
During a tour of historic homes, Meredith and Julia meet Cora Chisholm, a wealthy Savannah matron who is in need of their services. She asks Magnolia Investigations to find the history of five children who were sold during the Great Depression.
Author
Series
Deborah Knott mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
[1993]
Language
English
Description
The governor of North Carolina has appointed Deborah to a judicial seat in the District Court Division. On her weekends, the fledgling judge has been helping an all-woman building crew complete a home for a needy single mother. Her attempts to gain positive P.R. go awry when her niece is found battered and half-naked in the partially completed home, with Deborah's own bloody hammer lying nearby.
12) The hidden gate
Author
Series
Savannah secrets volume 1
Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Meredith Bellefontaine left her job as president of the Savannah historical society and reopened her late husband's investigation agency with her best friend, and retired juvenile court judge, Julia Foley. Julia accidentally discovers their first case with a rusty key that unlocks the secrets of a 64-year-old murder case.
Author
Series
St. Kilda Consulting volume 1
Language
English
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Description
When federal judge Grace Silva's son is kidnapped by a violent killer, she turns to ruthless Joe Faroe, an ex-kidnapping specialist and a man from her past, to help save her son from an underground world Joe is trying to leave behind.
14) Killer market
Author
Series
Deborah Knott mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Mysterious Press/Warner Books
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
The Deborah Knott mysteries have won a devoted following, as well as Edgar, Agatha, Anthony and Macavity awards. Readers across the country love Judge Knott's new southern woman's sensibilities and the intelligence she uses to unravel the snarled cases that come her way. Killer Market takes the quintessential steel magnolia to the hub of North Carolina's massive furniture industry. Although she's there to sub for a fellow judge, Deborah soon gets...
Author
Series
Deborah Knott mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
[1994]
Language
English
Description
From the pen of the Edgar Award-winning author of Bootlegger's Daughter and Southern Discomfort flows a tale of mystery, money, and murder on the Outer Banks. Populated with colorful, richly drawn characters, Margaret Maron's latest novel captures the flavor of life in rural North Carolina. Arriving in Carteret County to fill in for a sick colleague, Judge Deborah Knott finds herself in the thick of battles between sport and commercial fishermen and...
18) Storm track
Author
Series
Deborah Knott mysteries volume 7
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Best-selling author Margaret Maron creates entertaining mysteries filled with warm southern charm, colorful down-home characters, and smoldering grudges. In Storm Track, swirling dark clouds of illicit affairs and brutal murder threaten Colleton County, North Carolina. No one worries much about the scantily clad woman found strangled in the Orchid Motel-she must be a tourist who brought along her own problems. But when the victim turns out to be the...
19) Double trouble
Author
Series
Savannah secrets volume 3
Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Meredith sees a mysterious man lurking around her home who bares an uncanny resemblance to her late husband. At the same time, the newly reveled 1733 diary of one of the first women to settle Savanah, which might contain clues to the location of Blackbeard's treasure, is stolen. Meredith and Julia are on the case.
Author
Series
Deborah Knott mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
Description
Best-selling author Margaret Maron's colorful Deborah Knott mysteries crackle with sassy Southern dialogue and rural wisdom. In Up Jumps the Devil, fast-moving progress is threatening to forever destroy the leisurely, heart-warming pace of Colleton County, North Carolina. District court judge Deborah Knott sees trouble brewing when plans for a new interstate highway start pushing up property values. As her own relatives battle lifelong neighbors over...
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