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1) Last to die
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Jack Swyteck novels volume 3
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"Miami criminal attorney Jack Swyteck doesn't want Tatum Knight as a client. But the allegedly "reformed" contract killer is the brother of Jack's best friend, and the assassin swears he had nothing to do with the schooting death of Sally Fenning, though he claims the beautiful, depressed multi-millionairess wanted him to do the deed..."--Cover
2) Got the look
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Jack Swyteck novels volume 5
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English
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Jack Swyteck's new girlfriend, Mia, is keeping secrets from the love-struck Miami attorney, not the least of which is a wealthy and powerful husband. Then Mia is kidnapped by a manipulative abductor who makes a chilling ransom request, "Pay me what she's worth." Now Jack's the one under the gun, since Mia's spouse has decided his unfaithful wife is worth nothing. Time is of the essence, and if Jack picks the wrong number, Mia could end up like the...
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Jack Swyteck novels volume 2
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English
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After six exciting thrillers in seven years, bestselling author James Grippando is at last bringing back the main character from his blockbuster debut novel, The Pardon. Criminal lawyer Jack Swyteck doesn't handle many civil cases. But this one is different. His client, Jessie Merrill, is a gorgeous ex-girlfriend who's being sued. At the trial, Jack pulls off a brilliant victory and Jessie gets a hefty settlement. But then Jack finds out it was all...
4) Hear no evil
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Jack Swyteck novels volume 4
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English
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When a beautiful woman is accused of murdering her husband, there is only one person she wants to represent her--Miami criminal defense attorney Jack Swyteck. What begins as a simple assignment, however, swiftly lurches into a twisting thrill-ride of unanswered questions and mounting suspicions on Jack's part, for the victim's husband was an officer at the U.S. naval base in Guantanamo Bay and the son of a prominent Cuban exile, and her story changes...
5) Born to run
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Jack Swyteck novels volume 8
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English
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Intrepid Miami attorney Jack Swyteck comes to the aid of his former governor father as he investigates the suspicious hunting death of the vice president.
6) Last call
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Jack Swyteck novels volume 7
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English
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Jack Swyteck is drawn into the investigation of a mother who was murdered on a hot Miami night twenty years ago.
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Jack Swyteck novels volume 6
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English
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In the latest novel from the bestselling author, lawyer Jack Swyteck tackles a case in which the life of his best friend hangs in the balance-and in which nothing is as it seems.
Miami criminal defense attorney Jack Swyteck isn't looking for a new client, at least not one who is homeless and in jail for threatening to jump off a bridge. But from the moment Jack is called to defend the man, who goes by the name Falcon, something is amiss. For one...
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Jack Swyteck novels volume 13
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English
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It begins at the airport, where Jack is waiting to meet his old high school buddy, Keith Ingraham, a high-powered banker based in Hong Kong, coming to Miami for his young daughter's surgery. But their long-awaited reunion is abruptly derailed when the police arrest Keith's wife, Isabelle, in the terminal, accusing her of conspiring to kill the man who raped her in college. Jack quickly agrees to represent Isa but soon discovers that to see justice...
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In the first title in the Suspicion series, Suspicion of Innocence, Gail Connor is a fast-rising attorney in a major law firm, about to make partner-until her life is derailed by the discovery of her sister's murdered body and the quick revelation that Gail herself is the prime suspect. Gail must fight for her life as she gets a firsthand look at the dark underside of the legal system. Suspicion of Innocence is the 1st book in the Suspicion series,...
10) Criminal justice
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For refusing to let a lying police informant take the stand, Miami prosecutor Don Galindo is fired from his job and now ekes out a living. He eagerly agrees to represent a lady rock singer, falls for her, but she turns out to be a drug baron's moll and Galindo is in trouble again, caught between drug dealers and the police.
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Britt Montero novels volume 6
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English
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While attempting an arrest, a sheriff is slain by an enigmatic young woman who promptly vanishes into the northern Florida landscape. As the story comes over the wire, reporter Britt Montero is intrigued. Few copkillers escape so easily.
The murders continue. Men are lured into sex by the same woman, their lifeless bodies dumped half-naked in ditches, woodlands and along the road, their cars, cash, and valuables gone. The murderer, who leaves lipstick...
12) Tropic of night
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Jimmy Paz series volume 1
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English
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Jane Doe lives in the shadows under an assumed name. A once-promising anthropologist and an expert on shamanism, everyone thinks she's dead. Or so she hopes. Jimmy Paz is a Cuban-American police detective. Straddling two cultures, he understands things others cannot. When the killings start -- a series of ritualistic murders -- all of Miami is terrified. Especially Jane. She knows the dark truth that Jimmy must desperately search to uncover. As their...
13) The informant
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In Miami, a man calls a newspaper offering to sell names of the future victims of a serial killer who removes people's tongues. Police are certain the caller is the killer himself, but FBI agent Victoria Santos has a hunch the caller is someone else.
14) Valley of bones
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Jimmy Paz series volume 2
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English
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Investigating the murder of an oil tycoon, detective Jimmy Paz interviews an unlikely suspect in pious young Emmylou Dideroff, whose claim about her ability to commune with saints places her sanity in question.
15) Pronto
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Raylan Givens thrillers volume 1
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English
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"The feds want Miami bookmaker Harry Arno to squeal on his wiseguy boss. So they're putting word out on the street that Arno's skimming profits from 'Jimmy Cap' Capotorto--which he is, but everybody does it. Harry was planning to retire to Italy someday anyway, so he figures now's a good time to get lost. U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens knows Harry's tricky--the bookie ditched him once in an airport while in the marshal's custody--but not careful. So Raylan's...
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Britt Montero novels volume 2
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English
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On the police beat for her Miami newspaper, Cuban-born Britt Montero has a lot on her hands. She's investigating a series of bizarre deaths involving sex, electrocution, and freshly poured concrete. As if that isn't enough, there's the long-unsolved murder of a young girl that may implicate the frontrunner in the governor's race. And at the same time, she's on the trail of a serial rapist-who targets her in retaliation for her stories . . .
17) Mrs. Ted Bliss
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The life of a retired senior citizen. She is Dorothy Bliss, a widow after a butcher who lives in a condo in Miami. The novel follows her everyday life--cleaning, cooking, writing letters--all the while recording her memories and her wise observations on life. A slice of life enlivened by a brush with drug dealers. By the author of George Mills.
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African Immortals series volume 2
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Jessica Jacobs-Wolde has survived the worst a woman can endure--the deaths of her husband and first daughter. Four years later, her husband's legacy begins to unfold in her remaining daughter. Young Fana becomes the target of those who would exploit her and the touchstone of an ancient supernatural battle.
19) Act of betrayal
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In Miami, crime reporter Britt Montero juggles two assignments at once. In one of them, a number of boys have disappeared and are believed to have been murdered by a serial killer, in another a Cuban journalist is killed by a car bomb.
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In the fifth title in the Suspicion series, Suspicion of Malice, Gail and Anthony have recently broken up and find themselves on opposite sides of a tangled case when Anthony's teenage daughter comes to Gail to defend her boyfriend in a capital murder case. Gail takes the case, expecting to have easy access to a reluctant but nonetheless available exonerating witness-until she meets her witness's lawyer, Anthony Quintana. The personal and professional...
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