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The Jailhouse Lawyer
- Author
- Nancy Allen
- Narrator
- Megan Tusing
- Publisher
- Hachette Audio
- Publish Date
- 20 September 2021
- Run Time
- 14 hours 50 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
In picture-perfect Erva, Alabama, young lawyer Martha Foster takes on the judge who is destroying her hometown—and ends up in jail herself. Sometimes the best education an attorney can get is a short stretch of hard time.
“Fast-paced, intriguing, and often politically charged.” –PopSugar
“A page-turning legal thriller that exposes a headline-making crisis in the American courts: the new debtors’ prisons.” ―Pulitzer Prize winning columnist Tony Messenger
Critics Review
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“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
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Details
- Author
- Nancy Allen
- Narrator
- Megan Tusing
- Duration
- 14 hours 50 minutes
- Release Date
- 20 September 2021
- ISBN
- 9781549190674
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Hachette Audio
- Genre
- Political / legal thriller, Thriller / suspense fiction, Crime and mystery fiction, Thriller / suspense fiction
Synopsis
From the world's #1 bestselling author, young lawyer Martha Foster takes on the judge who is destroying her hometown—and ends up in jail herself.   In picture-perfect Erva, Alabama, young lawyer Martha Foster takes on the judge who is destroying her hometown—and ends up in jail herself. Sometimes the best education an attorney can get is a short stretch of hard time.“Fast-paced, intriguing, and often politically charged.”  –PopSugar   “A page-turning legal thriller that exposes a headline-making crisis in the American courts: the new debtors’ prisons.” ―Pulitzer Prize winning columnist Tony Messenger
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