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Meredith's old friend, Davis Hedgerow, is writing a new book to highlight Savannah's most popular attractions. He calls on Magnolia Investigations when he receives a threatening note demanding he cancel his book's publication or else. From restored diners to haunted bed-and-breakfasts and a beloved bookstore, Meredith and Julia find themselves with lots of suspects, but no clear motive.
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"Orphaned at thirteen, Grace Silva clawed her way out of poverty and violence to become one of the most respected judges on the federal bench. Grace believes in the rule of law - lives it, breathes it. She has always been buttoned up and buttoned down. Except once." "Until a friend dies trying to kill him. Now Faroe is out of the business. Retired. He's through trying to save a world that doesn't want to be saved. Then Grace comes to him, past and...
43) The hidden gate
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Meredith Bellefontaine left her job as president of the Savannah historical society and reopened her late husband's investigation agency with her best friend, and retired juvenile court judge, Julia Foley. Julia accidentally discovers their first case with a rusty key that unlocks the secrets of a 64-year-old murder case.
45) Facing the facts
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Several years have passed since Meredith's husband died, giving her time to grieve and find a new love. But then a woman comes to Magnolia Investigations claiming that Ron's car accident was not an accident at all and that someone was trying to silence Ron for good because of what he was trying to expose. As Meredith dives into Ron's final case, she finds evidence of government corruption and greed. She even discovers information about the car accident...
46) Double trouble
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Meredith sees a mysterious man lurking around her home who bares an uncanny resemblance to her late husband. At the same time, the newly reveled 1733 diary of one of the first women to settle Savanah, which might contain clues to the location of Blackbeard's treasure, is stolen. Meredith and Julia are on the case.
47) Whispering bells
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Pastor Ed Markham calls on Magnolia Investigations and shows Meredith and Julia an old ledger dating back to the founding of Savannah. When someone breaks into the pastor's homes and steals the ledger, Meredith and Julia must solve both a historic mystery and a modern-day theft.
50) Killer market
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North Carolina district court judge Deborah Knott unintentionally "crashes" several manufacturer's receptions at the internationally known Southeastern Furniture Market in High Point, where she becomes involved in murder. Initially befriended by a mysterious and elusive woman with bogus name tags, series protagonist Knott soon runs into an old woman friend from law school as well as a hunky ex-beau now in the furniture business. When Deborah later...
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The first major biography of one of our most influential but least known activist lawyers that provides an eye-opening account of the twin struggles for gender equality and civil rights in the 20th Century.
Born to an aspirational blue-collar family during the Great Depression, Constance Baker Motley was expected to find herself a good career as a hair dresser. Instead, she became the first black woman to argue a case in front of...
Born to an aspirational blue-collar family during the Great Depression, Constance Baker Motley was expected to find herself a good career as a hair dresser. Instead, she became the first black woman to argue a case in front of...
52) The cheater
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Investigating a web site providing alibis for cheating spouses, Lily Forrester is again on the trail of a vicious criminal, and teams up with an FBI agent tracking a murderer who targets unfaithful husbands.
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A few days after Dallas Stancil refuses to sell his land to a speculator, his stepson and wife murder him. Then, Dallas's peripatetic cousin Allen, the devil from Deborah's past, comes to town. Several days later, Dallas's father, Jap, is killed just before he can divide the property between Merrilee Grimes, his late wife's niece, and Allen. So who killed Jap, and who gets the Stancil land?Dallas's widow? Allen? Merrilee and her husband, Pete? Billy...
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"She was born in 1930 in El Paso and grew up on a cattle ranch in Arizona. At a time when women were expected to be homemakers, she set her sights on Stanford University. When she graduated near the top of her class at law school in 1952, no firm would even interview her. But Sandra Day O'Connor's story is that of a woman who repeatedly shattered glass ceilings--doing so with a blend of grace, wisdom, humor, understatement, and cowgirl toughness....
55) Quantico rules
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While investigating the background of Judge Brenda Thompson, the first African American woman to be nominated to the Supreme Court, FBI agents Puller Monk and Lisa Sands follow a trail of corruption pointing to the bureau's top levels.
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This is a remarkable and unique book, an informal portrait of Justice Ginsburg, drawing on a series of her conversations with Rosen, starting in the 1990s and continuing through the Trump era. Rosen, a veteran legal journalist, scholar, and president of the National Constitution Center, shares with readers the justice's observations on a variety of topics, and her intellect, compassion, sense of humor, and humanity shine through.
57) Slow dollar
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For Judge Knott, the case before her seems to be an ordinary misdemeanor--except that the personal property that's been destroyed is an inflatable carnival ride. When the carnival comes to her own town a few weeks later, Deborah soon discovers there's nothing ordinary about this rag-tag collection of rides and games.
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Inspired by the powerful true story of a young Ruth Bader Ginsburg, On the Basis of Sex depicts a then-struggling attorney and new mother facing adversity in her fight for equal rights. When Ruth takes on a ground-breaking case, she knows the outcome could alter the courts' view of gender discrimination. Stronger together, Ruth teams up with her husband, Martin Ginsburg, to fight the case that catapults her into one of the most important public figures...
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Judge Deborah Knott has a severe case of anxiety in the final days before her late December nuptials to Deputy Sheriff Dwight Bryant. Her calendar is booked solid with receptions and parties, last-minute details, and family obligations. There is absolutely no way she can fit a homicide case into her schedule. Nevertheless, when a friend and colleague is shot on the icy drive home and Dwight becomes the lead detective on the case, Deborah is immediately...
60) Winter's child
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One month after her marriage to Deputy Sheriff Dwight Bryant, judge Deborah Knott finds their union tested when Bryant's ex-wife takes flight with their eight-year-old son, forcing Bryant to launch a search for the boy before he comes to harm.