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By James Patterson

By Nancy Allen

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On Sale
Aug 25, 2026
Page Count
576 pages
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
ISBN-13
9780316610681

Price

$14.00

Price

$19.00 CAD

Format

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  1. Trade Paperback (Special Edition) $14.00 $19.00 CAD
  2. ebook $9.99 $12.99 CAD
  3. Audiobook Download (Unabridged) $31.99
  4. Trade Paperback (Large Print) $33.99 $43.99 CAD
  5. Trade Paperback $18.99 $23.99 CAD
  6. Audiobook CD (Unabridged) $40.00 $50.00 CAD

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From 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.

Genre:

  • “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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James Patterson

About the Author

James Patterson is the most popular storyteller of our time―an Edgar, ten-time Emmy, and Literarian-award-winning creator of beloved series including Alex Cross, the Women’s Murder Club, and Maximum Ride. He has coauthored #1 bestselling novels with Bill Clinton, Dolly Parton, Michael Crichton, and Viola Davis, as well as #1 bestselling nonfiction, including The Idaho Four, Walk in My Combat Boots, and Filthy Rich.

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Nancy Allen

About the Author

​Nancy Allen practiced law for fifteen years in her native Ozarks and served as a law instructor at Missouri State University for sixteen years. She is also the author of the Ozarks Mystery series.    

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