18 books like Old Filth
Death Walks the Woods
Also published as *That Yew Tree's Shade*
The archdruid's yew, Yew Hill, Markshire, had provided cover in its day for a variety of activities, but never before had it been shelter for murder. Then one day, in the calm of Eastertide, murder was found; and overnight, as the police began their remorseless questioning, Yewbury was shocked out of admiring foliage.
Detective Superintendent…
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The Woman in Black
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A Hallowed Place
Beneath the calm exterior of the elite barristers' chambers at 5 Caper Court rumour and uncertainty begin to take their toll. Cameron Renshaw, the head of chambers, is dying, and Leo Davis, the QC with the charmed but amoral life, is about to find his dubious past catching up with him.
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A chain of evidence
missing pages 10-11
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All's Fair in Love and Law
"Dufty Dufty Popple & Dunn is a traditional solicitors' firm in the small Midlands town of Hockam (pronounced Hokum, as the local residents are at pains to point out). This heart-warming collection of stories revolves around the lives, relationships, triumphs and failures of the good people of Hockam and of the lawyers to whom they look for help. We meet the lonely dentist and his noisy…
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Defending Billy Ryan
Twelve years ago Jerry Kennedy delivered his first report, Kennedy for the Defense, on being the classiest sleazy criminal lawyer in Boston, as Mack, his then-wife, called him. Seven years ago, Jerry called in again, with Penance for Jerry Kennedy. After that, things only got worse. Much worse. But in this latest dispatch, we learn that Jerry is digging himself out of a big hole, defending Billy…
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Death Divided
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Depraved Indifference
A DRUNK DRIVING CASE IS ONLY A DRUNK DRIVING CASE... UNTIL SOMEONE DIESAn Audi sports car, speeding in the wrong lane, forces an oncoming van off the road. The van bursts into flames, killing all nine occupants...eight of them children.Criminal defense attorney Harrison J. Walker, known simply as Jaywalker, is trying to keep his nose clean while serving a three-year suspension. But when a woman…
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Proposal
Proposal
The short story Mediator fans everywhere have been waiting years to read… a fun, fast-paced, never-before-read scene in which Suze Simon agrees to marry her no-longer-dead ghost boyfriend, Jesse de Silva!The last place Suze Simon expects to find herself during Valentine’s Day is a cemetery. But that’s what happens when you’re a mediator—cursed with the “gift” of communicating with the dead.That’s…
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Ten thousand a year
Ten thousand a year
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.…
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Heir Apparent
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.
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Ten thousand a-year
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The intruder
Can a good man go too far to protect his family? That is the question underlying this gripping tale of a family fighting for its life, which pulls the reader into its stranglehold of terror in the tradition of Straw Dogs and Cape Fear.
Having survived a childhood of physical beatings and psychological torture, successful Manhattan lawyer Jacob Schiff cherishes his stable family life with his…
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Cloth Girl
Matilda Lamptey, the Cloth Girl of the title, is fourteen years old when sophisticated black Gold Coast lawyer, Robert Bannerman, sets eyes on her and resolves to take her as his second wife. For Julie, his first wife, this is a colossal slap in the face, which she is not willing to tolerate. For Matilda it is a cruel-end to childhood.
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Diary of a yuppie
Driven by an insatiable hunger for power, Bob Service, a thirty-two year-old New York lawyer whose morals are tempered by expediency, tramples his associates and cripples his marriage.
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Miracle Creek
"A literary courtroom thriller about a mother accused of murdering her eight-year-old autistic son"--
In rural Virginia, Young and Pak Yoo run an experimental medical treatment device known as the Miracle Submarine-- a pressurized oxygen chamber that patients enter for therapeutic 'dives' with the hopes of curing issues like autism or infertility. When the Miracle Submarine mysteriously…
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One Big Damn Puzzler
"On a remote South Pacific island paradise the struggles of an elderly tribesman to translate Shakespeare's Hamlet into the local pidgin English are interrupted by the unexpected arrival of a young American lawyer with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. From that moment on, nothing will ever be the same." "What follows is an ambitious and joyfully original novel, inviting us into a world teeming with…
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The devil's half mile
"Seven years after a financial crisis nearly toppled America, traders chafe at government regulations, racial tensions are rising, gangs roam the streets and corrupt financiers make back-door deals with politicians... 1799 was a hell of a year. Thanks to Alexander Hamilton, America has recovered from the panic on the Devil's Half Mile (aka Wall Street), but the young country is still finding its…
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