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1) Last call
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Jack Swyteck is drawn into the investigation of a mother who was murdered on a hot Miami night twenty years ago.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
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In an exciting new series that critics have called 'John Grisham meets Robert Ludlum,' Miami criminal defense lawyer Jack Swyteck faces his biggest challenge yet. Tatum Knight is a former contract killer. Ruthless. Conniving. And he's Jack's newest client. Tatum is the older brother of Jack's best friend, Theo. Theo himself spent time on death row until Jack found the evidence to prove him innocent. Jack isn't so sure about Tatum. A gorgeous young...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1996
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
292 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
When Miami crime reporter Britt Montero reports a missing teenager, she discovers that the case may be related to a string of unsolved disappearances. As Britt delves into the baffling case, an old mystery opens new wounds: she unexpectedly meets two men who knew her deceased father-who was executed long ago in a Cuban jail. Through them, Britt learns that he left a diary identifying the man who betrayed him. But the diary isn't easily possessed:...
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Series
Pub. Date
2011
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
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Description
Twelve-year-old football stars Troy White and Ty Lewis are eager to face each other in a seven-on-seven tournament being held at the Super Bowl in Miami, unaware that bad choices made by members of their families will put both boys in danger.
Author
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
359 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In the sixth title in the Suspicion series, Suspicion of Vengeance, Gail Connor takes on a hot potato of a case when new evidence comes to light and she agrees to guide the appeal of a man convicted years ago of a brutal murder. The transcripts show that he was wrongfully convicted, but they offer no indication of the further crimes that will be committed to leave the verdict intact. Suspicion of Vengeance is the 6th book in the Suspicion series,...
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English
Description
Sashi Burgette vanished three years ago on her way to school. The night after the teenager's disappearance, ex-con Dylan Kyle was stopped for drunk driving. An article of Sashi's clothing was found in his truck, and a police videotape of his drunken explanation under interrogation sealed his fate at trial. Now, just days from Kyle's execution, Sashi's mother visits Jack Swyteck, doing pro bono work at the Freedom Institute, and delivers shocking news:...
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English
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When Georgia Qullian returns to her hometown of Miami, her toddler and husband in tow, she is hoping for a fresh start. They have left Illinois trailing scandal and disappointment in their wake, and for months, their three-year-old son has refused to speak a word. On a whim, Georgia takes a job as an errand runner for a reclusive artist and is surprised at how her life changes dramatically. But as a hurricane bears down on South Florida, Georgia must...
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English
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Journalist Ellen Barrett must return to her childhood home in Michigan after learning of her father's death. Once home, an avalanche of memories is unleashed and Ellen must make peace with the people who still live there, with the losses and changes that time has wrought and with the future God has laid before her.
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"With the Great War finally behind them, thousands of civilians and business moguls alike flock to South Florida with their sights set on making a fortune. When wealthy industrialist Robert Barnes and his wife, Anna, build Marbrisa, a glamorous estate on Biscayne Bay, they become the toast of the newly burgeoning society. Anna and Robert appear to have it all, but in a town like Miami, appearances can be deceiving, and one scandal can change everything....
12) Cloaked
Author
Lexile measure
HL 540L
Language
English
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Description
Seventeen-year-old Johnny is approached at his family's struggling shoe repair shop in a Miami, Florida, hotel by Alorian Princess Victoriana, who asks him to find her brother who was turned into a frog.
13) Beautiful storm
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Series
Language
English
Description
"When her father's plane mysteriously disappeared in the middle of an electrical storm, Alicia Monroe became obsessed with lightning. Now a news photographer in Miami, Alicia covers local stories by day and chases storms at night. In a flash of lightning, she sees what appears to be a murder, but when she gets to the scene, there is no body, only a military tag belonging to Liliana Valdez, a woman who has been missing for two months. While the police...
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Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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Description
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...
15) Done deal
Author
Series
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
Language
English
Description
While trying to resuscitate his father's development company, Florida building contractor John Deal crosses paths with a powerful businessman pressuring him to sell a property he's building on. When he refuses, he finds himself the target of the man's ruthlessness and launches an investigation into the businessman's underhanded dealings.
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English
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"Every week, a hundred million dollars in cash arrives at Miami International Airport, shipped by German banks to the Federal Reserve. A select group of trusted workers moves the bags through Customs and loads them into armored trucks. Ruban Betancourt has always played by the rules. But the bank taking his house and his restaurant business going bust has driven him over the edge. He and his wife deserve more than life has handed them, and he's come...
19) Deal to die for
Author
Series
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
Language
English
Description
Miami building contractor John Deal finds himself getting mixed up with Chinese gangsters after his new building contract requires him to spy on the local Mafia and report back to the Feds. To make matters worse, his best friend Barbara Cooper commits suicide after revealing her movie star sister was adopted. Not convinced her death was a suicide, John begins to investigate what really happened to Barbara and discovers connections between both cases....
20) Raw Deal
Author
Series
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
Language
English
Description
John Deal's Miami construction business is booming following Hurricane Andrew, and he has been reunited with his wife and child. But things go horribly wrong when an arsonist sets Deal's house ablaze and his wife is badly burned. He soon learns he has gotten on the wrong side of sugar cane magnate and Cuban immigrant power broker, Vicente Luis Torreno, who has ties with members of the highest levels of the U.S. Government. Deal must uncover who is...