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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
When Travis Boyette is paroled because of inoperable brain tumor, for the first time in his life, he decides to do the right thing and tell police about a crime he committed and another man is about to be executed for.
2) Redemption
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Series
Language
English
Description
"Decker is visiting his hometown of Burlington, Ohio, when he's approached by a man named Meryl Hawkins. Hawkins is a convicted murderer. In fact, he's the very first killer Decker ever put behind bars. But he's innocent, he claims. Now suffering from terminal cancer, it's his dying wish that Decker clear his name. It's unthinkable. The case was open and shut, with rock solid forensic evidence. But then Hawkins later turns up dead with a bullet in...
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Language
English
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From #1 New York Times bestselling author Fern Michaels--one of the most beloved authors of our time--comes a gripping new novel filled with heart and hope, as a young woman wrongly found guilty of murder receives the gift of a second chance. . .
On the eve of her retirement, Georgia attorney Mikala Aulani is as vivacious and vibrant as ever, eagerly anticipating a happy future with her partner, Ben. But if Kala has learned anything...
On the eve of her retirement, Georgia attorney Mikala Aulani is as vivacious and vibrant as ever, eagerly anticipating a happy future with her partner, Ben. But if Kala has learned anything...
4) The innocent
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Author
Series
Sisterhood series volume 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
The women of the Sisterhood are fun, smart, sassy, and determined to get their way every time. But most of all, they are the best friends a woman wants by her side in good times and bad. Meeting once again in Myra Rutledge's beautiful Virginia home, they're ready to face a new challenge and right a vicious wrong. . .
Alexis Thorn, once a successful securities broker, spent a hellish year behind bars for a crime she never committed. Now she has her...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • A classic legal thriller—with a twist. • "A suspenseful thriller mixed with powerful themes such as false incarceration, the death penalty and how the legal system shows prejudice.” —Associated Press
In the small Florida town of Seabrook, a young lawyer named Keith Russo was shot dead at his desk as he worked late one night. The killer left no...
In the small Florida town of Seabrook, a young lawyer named Keith Russo was shot dead at his desk as he worked late one night. The killer left no...
9) Criss cross
Author
Series
Alex Cross novels volume 27
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
10) We'll meet again
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Investigative reporter Fran Simmons looks into the case of Mary Carpenter Lasch. She had been convicted of murdering her husband, a Greenwich, Connecticut doctor, but now claims she is innocent.
11) Dear daughter
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Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
After being released from prison on a technicality, Janie Jenkins tracks down the one lead she has on her mother's real killer and is startled by what she uncovers about her mother's past in a small South Dakota town.
Author
Publisher
Mulholland Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
After serving time in Rikers Island solitary for assault, Joe King Oliver, who is an ex-NYPD investigator working as a private detective, receives a note from a woman who admits she was paid to frame him, compelling him to investigate.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
While writing letters to Innocence X, a justice-seeking project, asking them to help her father, an innocent black man on death row, teenaged Tracy takes on another case when her brother is accused of killing his white girlfriend.
Author
Series
The jewels of Kalispell volume 1
Language
English
Description
After witnessing a wrongful conviction as a young girl, Rebecca Whitman--the first female court reporter in Montana--is now determined to defend the innocent. During a murder trial, something doesn't sit well with her about the case, but no one except the handsome new Carnegie librarian will listen to her. Librarian Mark Andrews's father sent him to college hoping he would take over the business side of the family ranch, but Mark would rather wrangle...
15) Clear my name
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Language
English
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"When Carrie was accused of brutally murdering her husband's lover, she denied it. She denied it again when they found her blood inside the victim's house, again when they put her in front of a jury, and again when they sent her to prison. Now three years into her fifteen-year sentence, gradually losing hope and separated from her pregnant daughter, she is still maintaining her innocence. Tess is the only employee of Innocence UK, a charity that helps...
Author
Series
Hanne Wilhelmsen novels volume 10
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"In 2001, three-year-old Dina is killed in a tragic car accident. Not long thereafter Dina's mother dies under mysterious circumstances, and Dina's father Jonas is convicted of her murder. Now it's 2016, and the cold case ends up on the desk of Detective Henrik Holme, who tries to convince his mentor Hanne Wilhelmsen that Jonas might have been wrongly convicted. Holme and Wilhelmsen discover that the case could be connected to the suicide of an eccentric...
17) Los guardianes
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español, una división de Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Description
"En la pequeña ciudad de Seabrook, Florida, un prometedor abogado llamado Keith Russo fue asesinado a tiros una noche mientras trabajaba hasta tarde en su despacho. El culpable no dejó pistas. No hubo testigos, nadie tenía un motivo. Pero la policía pronto sospechó de Quincy Miller, un joven negro que había sido cliente de Russo. Miller fue juzgado y condenado a cadena perpetua. Durante veintidós años languideció en prisión, manteniendo...
18) Punching the air
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
From award-winning, bestselling author Ibi Zoboi and prison reform activist Yusef Salaam of the Exonerated Five comes a powerful YA novel in verse about a boy who is wrongfully incarcerated. The story that I thought was my life didn't start on the day I was born. Amal Shahid has always been an artist and a poet. But even in a diverse art school, he's seen as disruptive and unmotivated by a biased system. Then one fateful night, an altercation in a...