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1) That night
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Toni Murphy was eighteen when she and her boyfriend, Ryan, were wrongly convicted of the murder of her younger sister. Now she is thirty-four and back in her hometown, working every day to forge and adjust to a new life on the outside. She's doing everything in her power to avoid violating her parole and going back to prison. But nothing is making that easy--not Ryan, who is convinced he can figure out the truth; not her mother, who clearly doubts...
Author
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Tessa Jamison couldn't have imagined anything worse than losing her beloved twin girls and husband--until she was convicted of their murder. For ten years, she has counted off the days in Florida's Correctional Center for Women, fully expecting to die behind bars. Fighting to prove her innocence holds little appeal now that her family's gone. But on one extraordinary day, her lawyers announce that Tessa's conviction has been overturned due to a technicality,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
"Readers looking for an updated Charlie's Angels in 'wild women' mode will be most satisfied" with this thriller in the New York Times bestselling series (Publishers Weekly).
The fun, smart, sassy women of the Sisterhood 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...
The fun, smart, sassy women of the Sisterhood 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...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
For every innocent man sent to prison, there is a guilty one left on the outside. He doesn?t understand how the police and prosecutors got the wrong man, and he certainly doesn?t care. He just can?t believe his good luck. Time passes and he realizes that the mistake will not be corrected: the authorities believe in their case and are determined to get a conviction. He may even watch the trial of the person wrongly accused of his crime. He is relieved...
5) Redemption
Author
Series
Amos Decker volume 5
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Amos Decker and his FBI partner Alex Jamison are visiting Decker's hometown of Burlington, Ohio, when he's approached by Meryl Hawkins-- the first person Decker ever arrested for murder back when he was a young detective. A dozen years in prison have left Hawkins unrecognizably aged and terminally ill, but one thing hasn't changed: he maintains he never committed the murders. Could it be possible that Decker made a mistake all those years ago? Digging...
Author
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
When nurse Sophie Lee, who has spent 10 years in prison for a crime she did not commit, is exonerated and released, she retreats to her attorney's home to avoid the media frenzy that surrounds her and must learn how to make her way back into the world and adjust to her freedom.
7) Rope burn
Author
Series
Publisher
Pinnacle Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"When a barroom brawl lands Ace and Chance Jensen in jail, it's just the beginning of a nightmare that will never end. Their jailmates are army deserters. Even worse, their jailers assume Ace and Chance are deserters, too. Which earns them even more hard time-on a brutal prison chain gang . Things go from bad to worse awfully fast. One prisoner tries to escape and gets blasted in the back. Others face horrific torture at the hands of sadistic renegades....
Author
Publisher
Grand Central
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"An innocent father serving life for the murder of his own son receives evidence that his child may still be alive, and must break out of prison to find out the truth"-- Provided by publisher.
David and Cheryl Burroughs were living the dream life when tragedy struck. Now, five years after that terrible night, Cheryl is remarried. And David is serving a life sentence in a maximum-security prison for the brutal murder of their son. Then Cheryl's sister,...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
In a small Florida town, a young lawyer is shot to death. A young black man, a former client, named Quincy Miller is charged and convicted. For 22 years, Miller maintains his innocence from inside prison. Finally, Guardian Ministries takes on Miller's case, but the Episcopal minister in charge gets more than he bargained for as powerful people do not want Miller exonerated.
10) Criss cross
Author
Series
Alex Cross volume 27
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"In a Virginia penitentiary, Alex Cross and his partner, John Sampson, witness the execution of a killer they helped convict. Hours later, they are called to the scene of a copycat crime. A note signed 'M' rests on the corpse. 'You messed up big time, Dr. Cross.' Was an innocent man just put to death? Alex soon realizes he may have much to answer for, as 'M' lures the detective out of the capital to the sites of multiple homicides, all marked with...
11) The innocent
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
One night, Matt Hunter innocently tried to break up a fight--and ended up a killer. Now, nine years later, he's an ex-con who takes nothing for granted. His wife, Olivia, is pregnant, and the two of them are closing on their dream house. But all it will take is one shocking, inexplicable call from Olivia's cell phone to shatter Matt's life a second time.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
From bestselling author Diane Chamberlain comes an irresistible new novel. North Carolina, 2018: Morgan Christopher's life has been derailed. Taking the fall for a crime she did not commit, she finds herself serving a three-year stint in the North Carolina Women's Correctional Center. Her dream of a career in art is put on hold-until a mysterious visitor makes her an offer that will see her released immediately. Her assignment: restore an old post...
13) We'll meet again
Author
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
America's "Queen of Suspense" returns with the dramatic story of two women, best friends, one of whom is charged--and convicted--of a murder the other may have committed. When Julia is released from prison at the age of 36, the first item on her agenda is to settle the score with her former friend.
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