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John Grisham Author Read Alikes December 26, 2018
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If you enjoy reading books by John Grisham try these authors
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The Rule of Law
by John T Lescroart
Attorney Dismas Hardy finds himself in the unlikely position of having to defend his faithful longtime assistant, Phyllis, from being charged as an accessory to murder at the same time her brother is released from prison. Scheduled release date: January 22, 2019 - place holds now.
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Mississippi Blood
by Greg Iles
A conclusion to the best-selling trilogy that includes The Bone Tree finds a shattered Penn Cage shut out by his once-revered Southern doctor father, who is about to be tried for murder in the wake of revelations about a mixed-race child and KKK associations.
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Amagansett
by Mark Mills
Conrad Labarde, a reclusive, first-generation Basque fisherman, finds his life transformed forever when he pulls up the body of a beautiful young woman in his fishing nets, in a story of love, death, and redemption set against the backdrop of a small Long Island fishing community in 1947.
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The Fifth Assassin
by Brad Meltzer
The hero of The Inner Circle, archivist Beecher White, discovers a connection that may link the individuals responsible for the only four successful assassinations of American Presidents after discovering a modern-day killer who is recreating the assassins' crimes.
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Backfire
by Catherine Coulter
When a San Francisco judge is shot at the same time as a once-relentless federal prosecutor turns cautious, FBI agents Lacey Sherlock and Dillon Savich receive an ominous note from the culprit that blames them for the incident.
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Smash Cut
by Sandra Brown
Hired by a woman who believes that the accidental shooting of her Atlanta businessman friend was actually orchestrated by the victim's depraved nephew, famed defense lawyer Derek Mitchell comes to realize that the nephew is a psychotic movie buff who enjoys acting out favorite violent film plots.
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Criminal Intent
by Sheldon Siegel
Ex-priest and ex-corporate lawyer Mike Daley, and his ex-wife, lawyer Rosie Fernandez, investigate the murder of a legendary filmmaker when Rosie's niece is accused of the crime, a case that forever changes their views on truth, justice, life, and death.
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Soul Cage
by Tetsuya Honda
Investigating the disappearance of a man whose blood and severed hand have been found in different locations, Lt. Reiko Himekawa of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department encounters numerous dead ends in a case that is complicated by a childhood friend's declaration that the victim is not who he is believed to be.
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Hot Springs
by Stephen Hunter
Earl Swagger is a lawman just returned from World War II to Hot Springs, Arkansas, where his latest battle is with the Mafia and the corrupt men who run the casinos.
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Yesterday
by Felicia Yap
A tale set in a stratified world where classes are divided by their members' ability to recall one or two days of memory follows a rare mixed marriage that is shattered by the secrets and murder of the husband's mistress, a situation that is further complicated by the perpetually erased memories of both investigator and suspect.
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Kill or Be Killed
by James Patterson
Collects four fast-paced suspense novellas, including "The Trial," in which a vicious drug lord unleashes unexpected violence on the lawyers, jurors, and police involved in his case.
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The Killing Lessons
by Saul Black
Investigating the latest victims of a pair of serial killers, increasingly unstable San Francisco homicide detective Valerie Hart investigates the murderers' only survivor, a traumatized 10-year-old girl.
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No Lesser Plea
by Robert K. Tanenbaum
Prosecuting a murder case, Butch Karp, an assistant D.A., is determined to insure that Mandeville Louis, a vicious killer, does not escape the justice he so richly deserves, but Louis, confined to a psychiatric ward, has come up with a scheme to escape, a plot that targets Karp's lover Marlene Ciampi.
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The Last Place You Look
by Kristen Lepionka
Hired by the sister of a man on death row who swears he is innocent of the murders of his missing girlfriend and her parents, private investigator Roxane Weary, reeling from her police officer father's death in the line of duty, links sightings of the missing girl to one of her late father's cold cases.
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The Gold Coast
by Nelson DeMille
Along the wealthy North Shore of New York's Long Island, the once-affluent Wall Street attorney John Sutter meets Mafia kingpin Frank Bellarosa and finds himself drawn into a seductive world of money and violence.
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