Leo Maxwell mysteries
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Leo Maxwell mysteries volume 1
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
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"Leo Maxwell grew up in the shadow of his older brother, Teddy, a successful yet reviled criminal defense attorney who racked up enemies as quickly as he racked up acquittals. As children, their father was jailed for the murder of their mother, and Teddy was left to care for Leo who tried to emulate his older brother, even following him into the legal profession. The two are at lunch one day when Teddy, supposed to give the closing argument of his...
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Publisher
The Mysterious Press, an imprint of Grove/Atlantic, Inc
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Caring for his superstar lawyer brother, who survived a shooting attack, defense attorney Leo pursues what he hopes will be his big career break only to stumble on a corrupt network in the Oakland Police Department and unsettling questions about his client's actual identity.
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Leo Maxwell mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Mysterious Press, an imprint of Grove/Atlantic, Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Faced with evidence of stunning prosecutorial misconduct, a San Francisco judge has ordered a new trial for the Maxwell brothers' father, Lawrence, who was convicted of killing their mother twenty-one years before. A prison snitch soon turns up dead, with Lawrence the only suspect, and Leo teams up with hotshot attorney Nina Schuyler to defend Lawrence against murder charges both old and new. Working the streets while Nina handles the action in the...
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Leo Maxwell mysteries volume 4
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In Panther's Prey, the latest novel from Shamus Award winner Lachlan Smith, tragedy once again strikes near the heart for lawyer-detective Leo Maxwell. After working to free his father from prison in Fox Is Framed, Leo has now left private practice and is working as a public defender in San Francisco. He and his co-counsel Jordan Walker are in the midst of trial, brilliantly defending Randall Rodrigues, a mentally ill homeless man whom they contend...
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Leo Maxwell mysteries volume 5
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Lachlan Smith's Shamus Award–winning series continues with attorney-detective Leo Maxwell seeking an exit strategy from his family's deepening entanglement with a ruthless prison-based gang. Caught between the criminals and the FBI, Leo charts his own path in defending a young woman who was manipulated into brazenly murdering a member of the Aryan Brotherhood in San Francisco's Tenderloin neighborhood. When the consequences strike heartbreakingly...