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The Jailhouse Lawyer: 2 Complete Novels
From James Patterson, the world's #1 bestselling author: a young lawyer takes on the judge who is destroying her hometown-and ends up in jail herself.
In picture-perfect Erva, Alabama, the most serious crimes are misdemeanors. Speeding tickets. Shoplifting. Contempt of court.
Then why is the jail so crowded? And why are so few prisoners released? There's only one place to learn the truth behind these incriminating secrets.
Sometimes the best education a lawyer can get is a short stretch of hard time.
In picture-perfect Erva, Alabama, the most serious crimes are misdemeanors. Speeding tickets. Shoplifting. Contempt of court.
Then why is the jail so crowded? And why are so few prisoners released? There's only one place to learn the truth behind these incriminating secrets.
Sometimes the best education a lawyer can get is a short stretch of hard time.
Editorial Reviews
"I couldn't put down The Jailhouse Lawyer, a page-turning legal thriller that exposes a headline-making crisis in the American courts: the new debtors' prisons, where an inability to pay court costs sentences poor people to jail, with devastating consequences." ―Pulitzer Prize winning columnist Tony Messenger, author of Profit and Punishment: How America Criminalizes the Poor in the Name of Justice
Readers Top Reviews
Betty HarrisBiffo
This is a very good book. Just started reading it, can barely lay it down !
Patricia
This is engrossing summer reading. I normally read mostly historical fiction or non-fiction but I wanted something for my beachouse porch and this was in large print which is a relaxing format for me. The book kept my interest all along but did not stress me in any way. The violence is well-written and did not overly frighten me. I highly recommend it, especially because it comes in large print .
Joe Willerth
Interesting court room drama on abusive treatment of demented defendant, . Court room procedure interesting and fairly authentic. The heroine is realistic and likeable. Good quick read.
HavenKindle William
Jailhouse Lawyer started out with a suicide and Martha Foster traveling across the stare of Alabama to fill a vacancy. She is a single mother with a serious I’ll boy. It’s unbelievable what she goes thru as a public defender and and the judge. I found the loops Maratha and punishment she had to experience wasn’t real. For a lawyer she came across with pathetic.
Colleen LewisHavenKi
I was reading jailhouse lawyer and the story ended and a new story started. They weren’t related except that they both had female lawyers. I enjoyed both books.
