Fiction, Legal
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Olav's Story
by Bill Flowers
There are many uncommon things about Olav Williams: his upbringing in the tiny town of Twin Rivers on the coast of Labrador; his photographic memory that allows him to recall everything he has ever seen and heard in perfect detail; and the fact that ...
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Architect
by Don Lohnes
Lonnie Donaldson was born and raised in Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia. He leads an enjoyable childhood on the banks of the LaHave River and has developed a strong friendship with a neighbor. A family tragedy results in his move to Halifax, the ...
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Old Bill's Last Will and Testament
by Lee Stuesser
It is the summer of 1972: the Vietnam War is still raging, the Cold War is still hot and WWII is still a lurking memory. This legal thriller travels from the Canadian bush to the Australian outback; from courtroom battles to barroom brawls. Old Bill ...
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Playing with Players
The Sacred and Profane Meanderings of a Tax Auditor by Chris Stock
“Every man is entitled, if he can, to order his affairs so that the tax attaching under the appropriate Acts is less than it would otherwise be. If he succeeds in ordering them so as to secure this result, then, however unappreciative the ...
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Triangular
by William Hancock
Nina Johnstone has a mission. CPS attorney, childhood abuse survivor, and overall badass, Nina has a bone to pick—and she's playing for keeps. Nina can't believe that the perpetrators of her latest child abuse case have—yet again—gotten off ...
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The Gratitude of Wasps
by CM Klyne
Following the violence and death on Bloody Saturday, June 21, 1919 that crushed the Winnipeg General Strike, corrupt sedition trials imprisoned strike leaders. So-called aliens were deported as the iron-fist of an unforgiving establishment sought to ...
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Puzzle of Pieces
by Sally Hill Brouard
Elisabeth Nielsen had a difficult life almost from birth. Her father died when she was young, her mother didn’t have much money and Elisabeth was a very lonely only child. As an adult, she finds herself still alone and trapped in an unfulfilling ...
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Degrees of Guilt
by Jim Bennett
When a helicopter chartered by an anti-seal hunting group buzzes his boat off the coast of Newfoundland, Billy Wheeler downs it with a single shot, killing everyone on board. As his crewmates reel from shock, one thing becomes irrevocably clear: ...
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The Gyroscope Of Guilt
by George Wilgus III
When a well-respected Princeton trial lawyer is compelled to defend a distinguished anesthesiologist accused of murdering her husband, he fails to grasp that the seeds of their mutual destruction, or salvation, already were embedded in earlier ...
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The Plea Bargain
by Phil Messina
Phil Vinci grew up in an underprivileged neighborhood of East Philadelphia, where crime and hopelessness seemed to be the controlling forces of everyday life. Fast money and the sense of belonging were the greatest temptations for a kid in those ...
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