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That certain yearning
Par Claudia Jameson. 1989
Diane's heart went out to vulnerable, ten year old Kirsty, but warning bells sounded in her head when she met…
Kirsty's dynamic, outspoken uncle, Nik Channing. He was determined to make her think twice about her life and her father's remarriage, and there was definitely a disturbing magnetism about him which she found hard to handle. 1989.Sun and candlelight: Alethea Thomas is more than grateful when Dr Sarre van Diederijk saves her pride from being crushed…
by another man. So when Sarre asks her to marry him and become a mother to his children, Alethea accepts. Only when she gets to Holland does she realise the enormity of the task. A star looks down: Professor Alexander van Zeust's four young nieces and nephews need someone to care for them temporarily. As soon as he meets Beth, the professor knows she's the one to help him. Beth is kind, loving and gets on well with the children, so everyone's happy. Except Beth - who's fallen in love with her employer! 2003.Swimming to Catalina: a novel (A Stone Barrington Novel #No. 4)
Par Stuart Woods. 1998
Ex-policeman-turned-investigator Stone Barrington heads to Los Angeles to search for his kidnapped ex-girlfriend, Arrington Carrington. Only a few weeks before,…
she had unexpectedly left Stone to marry a famous movie star. Now that she is missing, Stone hurries to Hollywood. Strong language, descriptions of sex and violence. Bestseller. 1998.Sing a worried song: an Arthur Beauchamp novel (Arthur Beauchamp novels. #6.)
Par William Deverell. 2015
Everything is going well for Arthur Beauchamp in his early middle age. Life is so good for the top-notch defence…
lawyer that, in a moment of career restlessness, he decides to switch sides, just the once, and prosecute a young man charged with murdering a clown. Beauchamp is confident he can prove Randolph Skyler is guilty. Confident, but still worried and surprisingly blind to how precarious the evidence is - and, worse, to the fissures opening in his personal life. Sequel to "I'll see you in my dreams". 2015.Street legal: the betrayal
Par William Deverell. 1995
In the heatwave of 1980, a Toronto law firm tries to fight for justice while fighting one another. Leon must…
defend a peddler of anti-Semitic hate literature and Chuck represents a pornography salesman. Meanwhile, Carrie defends a strangler and rapist and becomes involved in the case of a mob hit, as her marriage begins to crumble. Based on the CBC television series Street legal. Strong language. 1995.Song of my heart (Recorded Books inspirational)
Par Kim Vogel Sawyer. 2012
When Thad McKane, the new sheriff of Goldtree, Kansas, uncovers a connection between the crime he's investigating and singer Sadie…
Wagner, the woman he's courting, he wonders if she's as innocent as she seems. 2012.Special circumstances
Par Sheldon Siegel. 2000
Meet Mike Daley. Ex-priest. Ex-public defender. Ex-husband. And as of yesterday, ex-partner at Simpson & Gates, one of San Francisco's…
most prominent law firms. Today he's out on his own, setting up a private practice on the wrong side of town. Then his best friend and former colleague is charged with a brutal double murder and Daley has his first client. 2000.Snow job
Par William Deverell. 2009
Arthur Beauchamp has followed his wife, the leader and first elected member of the Green Party, to Ottawa. But he…
hates everything there: the cold, the politics, and his place in his wife's shadow. So when a delegation of government officials from Bhashyistan is blown sky high and the shares of a Calgary-based oil company promptly drop like a stone, Arthur is only too happy to jump to the defence of the missing suspected assassin. Some descriptions of sex and violence and some strong language. 2009.So comes tomorrow
Par Essie Summers. 1995
Brodie Nicol returns to New Zealand to visit her friend Una. While driving to Una's home, Brodie is caught in…
a snowstorm and seeks refuge at a nearby farmhouse - only to find that the farm is being looked after by her ex-fiance, Guthrie. Clearly Una had planned a little matchmaking. But what Una doesn't know is why Brodie had ended her engagement to Guthrie two years ago. 1995.Sovereign (Shardlake series. #3.)
Par C. J Sansom. 2007
It was autumn, 1541. Following the uncovering of a plot against his throne in Yorkshire, King Henry VIII has set…
out on a spectacular Progress to the North to overawe his rebellious subjects. Accompanied by a thousand soldiers, the cream of the nobility, and his fifth wife Catherine Howard, the King is to attend an extravagant submission of the local gentry at York. Already in the city are lawyer Matthew Shardlake and his assistant Jack Barak. As well as assisting with legal work processing petitions to the King, Shardlake has reluctantly undertaken a special mission - to ensure the welfare of an important but dangerous conspirator being returned to London for interrogation. But the murder of a local glazier involves Shardlake in a deeper mystery, connected not only to the prisoner in York Castle but to the royal family itself. As the Great Progress arrives in the city, Shardlake and Barak stumble upon a cache of secret papers. 2007, c2006.Slander
Par William Deverell. 1999
Fiery feminist trial lawyer Elizabeth Finnegan sets her sights on an arrogant Supreme Court judge, who has handed down a…
lenient sentence to a convicted rapist. When a woman comes to Finnegan claiming she was raped by the same judge, she jumps at the case. Her research looks damning, but is her client telling the truth? 1999.Skipping Christmas
Par John Grisham. 2001
Tax accountant Luther Krank calculates that a Caribbean cruise will cost less than what he and his wife, Nora, spent…
celebrating the holidays last year. Since daughter Blair is in the Peace Corps, they plan to skip Christmas. Luther, however, doesn't anticipate the town's reaction. Some strong language. Bestseller. 2001.Sins of the fathers
Par James Scott Bell. 2005
A thirteen year old boy has fired a rifle into a baseball game, killing several of the kids on the…
field. As defense attorney Lindy Field delves into the haunted world of her client's torment, she finds a spiritual darkness that dredges up her own troubled past. 2005.Serendipity (Recorded Books inspirational)
Par Cathy Marie Hake. 2011
When Todd travels to Virginia to bring his widowed mother to his Texas farm, illness alters his plan. Maggie makes…
a living by selling soaps and perfumes, using old family recipes. Marriage is the farthest thing from her mind - until Todd shows up on her porch, seeking help for his ailing mother. Maggie's heart skips a beat. And when the handsome Texan proposes to her, life suddenly begins to change for the dark-haired beauty. 2011.Shadow of power: a Paul Madriani novel (Paul Madriani novel #No. 9)
Par Steve Martini. 2008
Terry Scarborough, author of a bestselling book about race, is brutally murdered just when he is poised to reveal a…
divisive Thomas Jefferson letter. Defense attorney Paul Madriani must find the letter and a missing Supreme Court judge to prove his young racist client's innocence. Some violence. 2008. (Paul Madriani novel)Saving Alice: a novel
Par David Lewis. 2005
Stephen Whittaker has his whole life planned, but when he loses his true love - Alice - a gradual undetected…
spiral begins. When everything starts unraveling, who will Stephen turn to? 2005.Santa Fe rules (Ed Eagle Novel #Bk. 1)
Par Stuart Woods. 1992
While flying his private plane to Los Angeles on the day before Thanksgiving, a breakdown forces Hollywood producer Wolf Willett…
to spend the holiday in a small town. In the newspaper, he reads that his wife, his business partner and a third man -- presumed to be Wolf -- have been found dead. Some strong language. 1992.Rumpole: drôles d'affaires (Justice selon Rumpole ; #2)
Par John Mortimer, William Olivier Desmond. 1990
Nous retrouvons l'ineffable avocat londonien Horace Rumpole dans quatre nouvelles histoires où l'humour, le crime et les portraits au vitriol…
se côtoient dans une folie joyeuse. 1990. (Justice selon Rumpole ; 2) Titre uniforme: Rumpole and the golden thread.Rumpole and the Primrose Path (Rumpole mysteries)
Par John Mortimer. 2003
Solving the mystery of the Primrose Path Home proves to be the first of a collection of great new cases,…
as Rumpole defies hospital and returns triumphantly to defend the innocent and the not-so-innocent. 2007. (Rumpole mysteries)Rumpole rests his case (Rumpole mysteries)
Par John Mortimer. 2002
Horace Rumpole, one of the finest barristers ever to defend a client, weaves his way elegantly among the intricacies of…
the courtroom and the human heart, only to find that the advancing years catch up with even the most indomitable spirit. 2002. (Rumpole mysteries)