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1) The summons
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Ray Atlee and his brother, Forrest, receive a letter from their father, a reclusive, retired judge, instructing them to return home to Clanton, Mississippi, to discuss his estate, but the judge dies before his sons arrive, leaving behind a secret known only to Ray.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Washed-up public defender Clay Carter's latest case, a routine street killing, takes an unexpected turn when he discovers evidence of a conspiracy involving a large drug company and a lawsuit with a huge potential settlement.
3) The brethren
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
In a minimum security federal prison, home to drug dealers, swindlers, and tax evaders, three former judges meet each day to write briefs, handle cases for other inmates, and dispense jailhouse justice. They also spend hours hatching schemes to make money. When one of their schemes goes awry, snaring an innocent on the outside, the Brethren's days of quietly marking time are over.
4) The broker
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
After being pardoned, a former Washington powerbroker is released from prison and smuggled out of the country, given a new identity, and hidden in a small town in Italy, but old enemies from the past are out to destroy him.