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21) Love her madly
Author
Series
Publisher
Henry Holt & Co
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
A tense, death-row drama-meet brash FBI investigator Poppy Rice in Love Her Madly, the first of a winning new series by Mary-Ann Tirone Smith
Poppy Rice is home in her D.C. apartment with very little furniture and lots of boxes she still hasn't unpacked after five years. It's three a.m. and she's suffering from her usual insomnia. While polishing her nails, she watches a tape of the CBS Evening News-Dan Rather is interviewing convicted ax-murderer...
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Jack Tobin, a Florida trial lawyer, is dedicated to ending capital punishment one prisoner at a time. Jack is convinced that doomed convict Henry Wilson is innocent, but can he delay execution and get Henry a new trial in time?Benny Avrile is a small-time crook with his eye on an oilman's big billfold. But as he makes his move, a shot rings out and the oilman falls dead; Benny blacks out. Just when his fate is all but sealed, an old friend from Jack's...
Author
Series
Ballad novels volume 5
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
One hundred years after a woman is hanged, the search for justice reveals a story of faith, obsession, and murder.
In 1832, 18-year-old Frankie Silver was charged with murdering her young husband. In 1833, she became the first woman in the state of North Carolina to be hanged for murder. But was she guilty? More than 100 years later, Tennessee sheriff Spencer Arrowood is determined to reveal the truth behind this unanswered question. A spellbinding...
24) Native son
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Right from the start, Bigger Thomas had been headed for jail. It could have been for assault or petty larceny; by chance, it was for murder and rape. Native Son tells the story of this young black man caught in a downward spiral after he kills a young white woman in a brief moment of panic. Set in Chicago in the 1930s, Richard Wright's novel is just as powerful today as when it was written -- in its reflection of poverty and hopelessness, and what...
Author
Series
Kindle County novels volume 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
27) The speed queen
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
A woman on death row dictates her life story into a tape recorder. She is Marjorie Standiford whose robberies left several people dead. As her accomplice already published two bestsellers Marjorie wants to tell her version, which a famous novelist has agreed to write. The novel follows the women's adventures, robbing, killing and enjoying lesbian and heterosexual romances. By the author of Names of the Dead.
28) Face of a killer
Author
Series
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
FBI forensic artist Fitzpatrick questions the guilt of a man about to be executed for her father's murder twenty years earlier.
Author
Series
Christopher Paget novels volume 4
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Author
Series
Frankie Elkin novels volume 3
Publisher
Grand Central
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Formats
Description
"No man truly fears a woman. Not even one who is her father's daughter. The case was sensational. Kaylee Pierson had confessed from the very beginning, waived all appeals. She had called herself "death," but people called her the devil. Despite the media's chronicling of her tragic circumstances--the childhood spent with a violent father--no one could find sympathy for "the Beautiful Butcher" who had led eighteen men home from bars before viciously...
Author
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Five a.m.: Amanda Mallorie wakes to the knowledge that her son Robbie is gone. And a new chapter of her own life must begin. She has spent four years as her son's only support, desperately trying to understand the actions that landed him on death row and to change his fate. Now Amanda faces an even more difficult task--finding a way, and a reason, to move forward with her own life. Before the tragedy that unfolded in a South Dakota mall, Robbie was...
35) The crying tree
Author
Publisher
Broadway Books
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Irene and Nate Stanley are living a quiet and contented life with their two children, Bliss and Shep, on their family farm in southern Illinois when Nate suddenly announces he's been offered a job as a deputy sheriff in Oregon. Irene does not want to uproot her family and has deep misgivings. They are just settling into their life in Oregon's high desert when 15-year-old Shep is shot and killed during an apparent robbery in their home. The murderer...
37) Two lost boys
Author
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Death row appeals attorney Janet Moodie investigates a kidnapping, rape, and murder conviction, and discovers a series of errors made by her client's previous counsel and the possibility that there is far more to the murders than was first thought.
39) Madman walking
Author
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"John Grisham had better look to his laurels--there's a new writer of legal thrillers in town." Richard A. Lupoff, author of The Classic Car Killer Howard Henley is not a killer. That seems obvious to lawyer Janet Moodie when she's called in to work his appeal. Her new client was convicted of arranging the shooting of a drug dealer, but the man who pulled the trigger has always said Henley had nothing to do with it. So why is Henley the one on death...
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Waiting on death row after confessing to several homicides, a master assassin writes his life story to protect his younger brother, a process during which he remembers their murderously violent father. After pleading guilty to a series of homicides, Esau Till sits on death row, writing his life story. But his memoir is his one last chance to protect his brother. When the genetic cards were dealt, Esau drew a genius IQ, and a crippled body. His brother...
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