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Jack Swyteck novels volume 2
Pub. Date
[2002]
Description
A woman is given less than two years to live. She works a deal with an insurance company to get cash in exchange for allowing investors to collect on her policy when she dies. When she discovers that she has been misdiagnosed, she asks Jack Swyteck to defend her in court.
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Jack Swyteck novels volume 6
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Becoming suspicious when a homeless client produces a large amount of cash just before a murdered body is discovered in the car in which the client lives, Miami attorney Jack Swyteck finds himself racing to save the life of his best friend.
Author
Series
Britt Montero novels volume 3
Pub. Date
[1995]
Description
When a brash cub reporter, Trish Tierney, begins taking the headline stories on Britt's crime beat, the scene in the newsroom becomes hotter than on the violent streets.
4) Cane and Abe
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Miami's top prosecutor becomes a prime suspect when his wife's disappearance may have a chilling connection to the vicious murders of beautiful women in the Florida Everglades.
Author
Series
Britt Montero novels volume 4
Pub. Date
[1996]
Description
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.
6) Hear no evil
Author
Series
Jack Swyteck novels volume 4
Description
A woman is about to be arrested for the murder of her husband, an officer who was stationed at Guantanomo Bay. When she asks Jack to represent her, he hesitates, as he has no expertise in military law. He's blackmailed into helping her, however, when the woman claims she is the mother of Jack's biological child, a son he has never seen.
7) Nobody knows
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KEY News thrillers volume 5
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With her career shortened by accusations of "ambitious reporting," former Washington journalist Cassie Sheridan is banished to Miami, where she stumbles across a body--and a mystery--while reporting on a hurricane.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
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Dexter Morgan appears to be the perfect handsome gentleman, but appearances are decieving. He is a serial killer who has slain many people. But in this tale, he's the good guy--he only snuffs out other murderers. When another serial killer, with an eerily similar style, starts grabbing headlines, Dexter has a fairly morbid thought: am I being challenged?
9) Cloaked
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 9
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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.
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At thirty-one, Ellen Barrett has already won a Pulitzer prize. Sadly, though, her skill as a journalist far surpasses her ability to sort out her troubled past, so she's less than eager to return to picturesque Petoskey, Michigan, for her beloved father's funeral. When she most needs comfort, her husband is distant and her siblings antagonistic -- and the solace an old sweetheart offers is almost too much to resist. In the end, going home to the shores...
Author
Series
Britt Montero novels volume 1
Pub. Date
c1992
Description
A crime reporter for a major Miami newspaper, Cuban-born Britt Montero practically sleeps with a police scanner by her bedside. When a high-speed police chase leads to the death of a black football hero, Britt discovers that what seems like an open-and-shut case is actually an intricate web of racially charged violence. As the city she loves explodes into a major riot, Britt is caught up in life-threatening events that bring the case to a final shocking...
Author
Series
Britt Montero novels volume 2
Pub. Date
c1994
Description
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 . . .
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Pub. Date
[1995]
Description
A legal thriller featuring Miami attorney Gail Connor who takes on a client contesting an inheritance. The client is Patrick Norris, a former boyfriend, and he believes his aunt's will is a fake. If Gail can prove this, he will become the sole beneficiary of a multi-million dollar estate. Simple enough, until police discover the aunt was murdered and Gail's client becomes the prime suspect. By the author of Suspicion of Innocence.
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Jack Swyteck novels volume 8
Description
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.
Author
Series
Britt Montero novels volume 6
Pub. Date
[1999]
Description
Reporter Britt Montero tracks the path of a murderer, dubbed the Kiss Me Killer, who is luring men into sex then leaving lipstick traces on the bullets that she uses to kill them.
Author
Series
Britt Montero novels volume 7
Pub. Date
2001.
Description
Newspaper reporter Britt Montero investigates when the nude corpse of a beautiful woman washes up on the beach. The victim was murdered ten years ago, and her convicted killer--her husband--sits on death row awaiting execution.
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Pub. Date
[1998]
Description
Lawyer Gail Connor investigates the murder of Miami's opera director, a victim of Cuban politics. One of the suspects is her Cuban fiance and she wants to clear his name. But as her investigation deepens the question arises, is she going to save--or destroy--the man she loves.
19) Pulse
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Pub. Date
[1998]
Description
Out of gratitude, a Miami accountant with a transplanted heart contacts the donor's family to see if he can help. On learning the donor may have been murdered, he joins the widow in a search for the killer, an enterprise threatening his marriage and his life.
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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:...