Books for the Reading Lawyer: Fiction
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Alias Grace
by Margaret Atwood
The bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments reveals the life of one of the most notorious women of the nineteenth century in …
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The Emperor of Ocean Park
by Stephen L. Carter
After the funeral of his powerful father, Talcott Garland, an African American law professor at an Ivy League university, is left to unravel the meaning …
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The Shortest Way to Hades
by Sarah Caudwell
Inheritance becomes deadly in this gripping literary puzzle—the second installment of the Hilary Tamar mysteries that began with Thus Was Adonis Murdered. “Sarah Caudwell is …
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The Sirens Sang of Murder
by Sarah Caudwell
A lawyer’s lucrative case has deadly consequences in the third installment of the Hilary Tamar mysteries that began with Thus Was Adonis Murdered “Sarah Caudwell …
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The Sibyl in Her Grave
by Sarah Caudwell
Follow the money in this gripping literary puzzle—the fourth and final installment of Sarah Caudwell’s brilliant Hilary Tamar mystery series. “Sarah Caudwell is one of …
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Bleak House
by Charles Dickens
Written in 1852, this grand indictment of Victorian society--on its surface a mystery story--deals with the themes of vagaries of the High Court of Chancery …
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A Lesson Before Dying
by Ernest J. Gaines
In a small Cajun community in the late 1940s, a young black man named Jefferson is an unwitting party to a liquor store shootout in …
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Snow Falling on Cedars
by David Guterson
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • PEN/Faulkner Award Winner • A gripping, tragic, and densely atmospheric masterpiece of courtroom suspense—one that leaves us shaken and changed. "Haunting .... …
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A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian
by Marina Lewycka
Nominated for the Man Booker Prize “A charming comedy of eros . . . A ride that, despite the bumps and curves in the road, …
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The Westing Game (Puffin Modern Classics)
by Ellen Raskin
A Newbery Medal Winner "A supersharp mystery...confoundingly clever, and very funny." —Booklist, starred review A bizarre chain of events begins when sixteen unlikely people gather …
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Trial and Error
by Fred R. Shapiro
Collects 32 English-language stories that depict individuals who are caught up in the legal system as practitioners, participants, or victims. The selections focus on legal …
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Crows Over a Wheatfield
by Paula Sharp
Judge Melanie Klonecki, herself the daughter of an abusive father, becomes involved--personally and professionally--with Mildred Steck, a woman who kidnaps her child to protect him …
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A Woman Determined
by Jean Swallow
"When Margaret Donovan, the administrator of a Seattle women's health clinic, is hit by a car the day she finds out her partner has been …
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Death Qualified
by Kate Wilhelm
Lucas Kendricks arrives at his wife Nell's property seven years after disappearing and is instantly shot dead. Accused of murder, Nell turns to lawyer Frank …