The Jury is a Mississippi-born courtroom thriller that rivals those previously released by another Mississippi native, John Grisham. Thomas Urlacher knows his wife wants him dead. So, when he is killed in a mysterious boat explosion, it's not long before law enforcement points the finger at his young bride. Following a sensational trial, Britt Urlacher is found not guilty. Within a week, jurors from the trial start dying under unusual circumstances. Has Thomas come back from the dead, exacting revenge on those who allowed his killer to go free, or is someone else defending Thomas, even in death? This pulse-pounding thriller will keep you on the edge of your seat with unpredictable suspense, intrigue, and explosive action.
An unprecedented literary landmark: the first comprehensive history of American women writers from 1650 to the present. In a narrative of immense scope and fascination, here are more than 250 female writers, including the famous--Harriet Beecher Stowe, Dorothy Parker, Flannery O'Connor, and Toni Morrison, among others--and the little known, from the early American bestselling novelist Catherine Sedgwick to the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Susan Glaspell. Showalter integrates women's contributions into our nation's literary heritage with brilliance and flair, making the case for the unfairly overlooked and putting the overrated firmly in their place.
The Sisterhood: a group of women from all walks of life bound by friendship and a quest for justice. Armed with vast resources, top-notch expertise, and a loyal network of allies around the globe, the Sisterhood will not rest until true justice is served. Before they became the indomitable force they are today, the Sisterhood were seven devoted friends who had been tested but not broken by bad luck and betrayal. They vowed to empower themselves, back each other, and right some wrongs. Especially when it's time to put a powerful man in his rightful place... The women of the Sisterhood know life isn't fair, but that doesn't mean they have to like it--or let it pass. Even reeling from the loss of one of their own, the Sisterhood is always prepared to rally behind a new friend. For years, Paula Woodley has suffered the broken bones and shattered self-esteem caused by an abusive marriage. But what can she do? Her high-profile, Washington powerbroker husband is not a man to be crossed. Or so he thinks. The Sisterhood may not be an organization found in any of his memos, but he's about to take a meeting with them--and they'll be setting the agenda...
An unhappy wife is found dead in her bed, in circumstances that point to murder. Her husband, Roderick Strood, is arrested and put on trial. But before this happens we have become intimately acquainted not only with the Stroods and their problems, but with the individual members of the jury on whose verdict Roderick's fate is to depend. We see them first in their private lives, each unaware of the others' existence; watch them enter the jury-box; and finally go with them into the jury-room and hear them debating the issue of life and death. What is the truth? And what will the verdict be?
From Lee Goldberg, the #1 New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Publishers Weekly bestselling author of True Fiction, The Walk, and Lost Hills, comes **all four** of his acclaimed JURY SERIES novels...collected into one mega-sized, pulse-pounding, thrill-ride that will leave you breathless JUDGMENT * ADJOURNED * PAYBACK * GUILTYThe complete saga of Brett Macklin, a one-man judge, jury, and executioner, fighting a war on terror on the streets of Los Angeles in the mid-1980s. Over 160,000 words/550 pages of non-stop action, wildly erotic sex, and wicked humor in a new edition for 2020.."As stunning as the report of a .357 Magnum, a dynamic premiere effort ...] The Best New Paperback Series of the year " West Coast Review of BooksThe series, published in 1985, under the title 357 Vigilante was written by "Ian Ludlow"... a pseudonym for Lee Goldberg, who wrote the books while he was a UCLA student, under the supervision of his professor, novelist Lewis Perdue (The DaVinci Legacy, The Queensgate Reckoning, Daughter of God etc). Goldberg would later go on to write and/or produce such TV shows as Monk, Diagnosis Murder, SeaQuest, and The Glade co-create the hit Hallmark Mystery movie series Mystery 101 and write many more novels, including fifteen best-selling "Monk" mysteries, five internationally bestselling "Fox & O'Hare" novels co-authored with Janet Evanovich, and in a nod to THE JURY SERIES, the "Ian Ludlow Thriller" trilogy: True Fiction, Killer Thriller, and Fake Truth. A SAMPLING OF THE CRITICAL ACCLAIM FOR LEE GOLDBERG: "A high-octane mystery that moves like a bullet-train " Janet Evanovich"Can books be better than television? You bet they can -- when Lee Goldberg's writing them," Lee Child"Leaves you guessing right up until the heart-stopping ending," Lisa Gardner"Lee Goldberg can plot and write with the best of them," Mystery Scene Magazine"If great pacing with awesome characters is what keeps you up at night, then make a pot of coffee and open this book." Crimespree"Grabs you from page one with brilliant wit, sharply honed suspense, and a huge helping of pure originality." -Jeffery Deaver, "A delight from start to finish, a round-the-world, thrill-a-minute, laser-guided missile of a book." -Joseph Finder"An action-packed treasure filled with intrigue, engaging characters, and exciting, well-rendered locales. With Goldberg's hyper-clever plotting, dialogue, and wit on every page, readers are in for a blast with this one " -Mark Greaney"Entertaining and ruefully funny," Honolulu Star Bulletin"Harrowing and funny..." -Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine "With books this good, who needs TV?" Chicago Sun Times"Lee is one of my favorite writers for so many reasons--plotting, character, or his incredible sense of humor. Suffice to say that Goldberg is one infinitely readable master of crime fiction, and King City is Lee at his best." -Craig Johnson"You'd be hard-pressed to find another recent work that provides so many hip and humorous moments," Bookgasm
Juries have a bad reputation. Often jurors are seen as incompetent, biased and unpredictable, and jury trials are seen as a waste of time and money. In fact, so few criminal and civil cases reach a jury today that trial by jury is on the verge of extinction. Juries are being replaced by mediators, arbitrators and private judges. The wise trial of “Twelve Angry Men” has become a fiction. As a result, a foundation of American democracy is about to vanish. The Jury Crisis: What’s Wrong with Jury Trials and How We Can Save Them addresses the near collapse of the jury trial in America – its causes, consequences, and cures. Drury Sherrod brings his unique perspective as a social psychologist who became a jury consultant to the reader, applying psychological research to real world trials and explaining why juries have become dysfunctional. While this collapse of the jury can be traced to multiple causes, including poor public education, the absence of peers and community standards in a class-stratified, racially divided society, and people’s reluctance to serve on a jury, the focus of this book is on the conduct of trials themselves, from jury selection to evidence presentation to jury deliberations. Judges and lawyers believe – wrongly – that jurors can put aside their biases, sit quietly through hours, days or weeks of conflicting testimony, and not make up their minds until they have heard all the evidence. Unfortunately, the human brain doesn’t work that way. A great deal of psychological research on jurors and other decision-makers shows that our brains intuitively leap to story-telling before we rationally analyze “facts,” or evidence. Weaving details into a narrative is how we make sense of the world, and it’s very hard to suppress this tendency. Consequently, a majority of jurors actually make up their minds before they have heard much of the evidence. Judges, arbitrators and mediators have similar biases. The Jury Crisis deals with an important social problem, namely the near collapse of a thousand year old institution, and proposes how to fix the jury system and restore trial by jury to a more prominent place in American society.
The Third Edition of Winning Jury Trials combines the same strong premise of its previous editions (evidence sponsorship) and the same strong theme (there is, in fact, a right way to teach trial skills) with many new features, including more detailed guidance on the critical questions of whether and when to impeach one's own witness with harmful material. This text, by Robert Klonoff and Paul Colby, takes a solid approach to evidence and focuses on issues such as: - Choosing witnesses - Introducing negative evidence - How to handle marginal evidence - Weaving the fundamental elements of your case into your evidence, for example, opening statements and cross-examination
