18 books like Burdens of Proof

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Ten thousand a-year Samuel Warren · 1800 · 1086p · ≈ 36h · Demanding Shares Legal stories with this book.
Ten thousand a year
Ten thousand a year Samuel Warren · 1800 · 904p · ≈ 30h · Demanding This is Warren's revision of the novel in preparation for Blackwood's edition, 1841. Vol. 1 autograph manuscript of Parts VII-XIII, XIX-XXI with 5 loose leaves of autograph memoranda and drafts for Part I. Vols. 2-4 contain printed leaves with autograph annotations and revisions. The printed leaves were cut from Blackwood's Edinburgh magazine (1839-1841) vols. 9-13, and tipped into these volumes.… Shares Legal stories
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Heir Apparent Twist Phelan · 2002 · 226p · ≈ 7h · Moderate On the night of lawyer Joe McGuinness's first date with Mia Ortiz, personal assistant to one of his firms̕ wealthiest clients, the young couple walk into a grisly murder scene. Mias̕ boss and her son lie sprawled in a pool of blood. After Mia is arrested for murder, Joe must unravel a web of secrets to discover who is using murder to claim the rights of heir apparent. Shares Legal stories
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The final judgment Richard North Patterson · 1995 · ★ 4.0 · 500p · ≈ 16h · Moderate A woman lawyer returns to her family she has not seen for 20 years. She is Caroline Masters, the daughter of a New Hampshire judge, who agrees to defend her niece, accused of murder. All the ghosts from her past rise up, including the memory of the death of her mother and a man with whom she had an affair. A family drama by the author of Eyes of a Child. Shares Trials, Legal stories
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Accused Mark Gimenez · 2010 · ★ 4.2 · 496p · ≈ 16h · Moderate Shares Trials, Legal stories with this book.
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Putting Lipstick on a Pig Michael Bowen · 2006 · ★ 4.8 · 230p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Shares Legal stories with this book.
Lucky Day
Lucky Day Chuck Tingle · 2025 · ★ 3.8 · 272p · ≈ 9h · Moderate ***Lucky Day* is the latest from Chuck Tingle, *USA Today* bestselling author of *Camp Damascus* and *Bury Your Gays*, where one woman must go up against horrifying odds to save the world.** Four years ago, an unthinkable disaster occurred. In what was later known as the Low-Probability Event, 8 million people were killed in a single day, each of them dying in improbable, bizarre ways:… Shares Accidents
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The Trial Robert Whitlow · 2001 · 445p · ≈ 14h · Moderate Shares Trials, Legal stories with this book.
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Another City, Not My Own Dominick Dunne · 1997 · ★ 3.8 · 360p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Told from the point of view of one of Dunne's most familiar fictional characters - Gus Bailey - Another City, Not My Own tells how Gus, the movers and shakers of Los Angeles, and the city itself are drawn into the vortex of the O.J. Simpson trial. We have met Gus Bailey in previous novels by Dominick Dunne. He is a writer and journalist, father of a murdered child, and chronicler of justice -… Shares Trials, Legal stories
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Silent witness Richard North Patterson · 1997 · ★ 4.1 · 772p · ≈ 25h · Challenging 1967, Lake City, Ohio. Tony Lord and Sam Robb, both in their teens, are best friends and athletic rivals. Twenty-eight years later, Tony is a successful San francisco attorney; sam is an assistant principal at Lake City High School. Sam has never left home, and Tony has never returned since the trauma that changed his life: the brutal murder of his first love, Alison, of which he was wrongly… Shares Trials, Legal stories
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The trial of Dr. Adams Sybille Bedford · 1958 · 245p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Taken from a review: Here is the accused, Dr. John Adams, being tried for the murder of Mrs. Morell (after rumors connected with other ""mysterious"" deaths) six years previously (there were 16 other, earlier charges). Then come the nurses in attendance on Mrs. Morell, next the doctors in the hands of the prosecution. The defense takes over the cross-examination and, after the closing… Shares Trials
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Tell me no secrets Joy Fielding · 1993 · ★ 3.8 · 374p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Shares Trials, Legal stories with this book.
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Salvation Boulevard Larry Beinhart · 2008 · 368p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Some cases test a private investigator's wits, others test his courage, and still others, his character. In Salvation Boulevard, P.I. Carl Van Wagener has found a case that tests them all, and then goes on to test his soul. A professor is dead and a suspect-who has confessed-is in custody. But nothing is what it seems. After all, the dead man is an atheist professor, the accused an Islamic… Shares Legal stories
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The Woman in Black Susan Hill · 1983 · ★ 3.8 · 192p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Shares Legal stories with this book.
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The advocate's devil Alan M. Dershowitz · 1994 · ★ 3.5 · 347p · ≈ 11h · Moderate From the legal tactician who has represented such famous clients as Mike Tyson, O.J. Simpson, and Michael Milken, comes a novel that goes far beyond the limits of the courtroom thriller to probe our deepest fears and asks the controversial legal question--What do you do if you are a defense attorney who suspects your client is guilty and dangerous? Shares Trials, Legal stories
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Rule Of Law Dexter Dias · 1997 · ★ 4.4 · 483p · ≈ 16h · Moderate Shares Trials, Legal stories with this book.
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Cimarron rose James Lee Burke · 1997 · ★ 4.5 · 408p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Former Texas Ranger Billy Holland, now a lawyer, is hired to defend a teenage boy accused of killing his girlfriend. It is a family affair of sorts, the man who hired Holland being the boy's stepfather. The real father is Holland. Shares Trials, Legal stories
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The juror George Dawes Green · 1995 · ★ 4.2 · 430p · ≈ 14h · Moderate Shares Trials, Legal stories with this book.

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