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1) Short straw
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Having married the seductive Barbara Kennedy against his better judgment, Santa Fe lawyer Ed Eagle awakens the morning after his fortieth birthday to discover that his wife has vanished and that all of his money has been wired to Mexico, a circumstance that is complicated by a new case involving a part-time mechanic who has been charged with a triple homicide.
3) Hear no evil
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Jack Swyteck novels volume 4
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Miami defense attorney Jack Swyteck handles a case that starts with the murder of an officer at the U.S. Naval base on Guantanamo Bay and the arrest of his wife for the crime, and concludes with a shocking surprise that will change Jack's life.
4) Got the look
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Jack Swyteck novels volume 5
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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...
6) Last call
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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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Miami attorney Jack Swyteck takes Falcon, a man who lives in his car but has access to a lot of cash, as a client after he vows to jump off a bridge to get the mayor's daughter to speak to him. Jack gets more than he bargained for after hours after Falcon makes bail, a brutally murdered woman is found in his car. --
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Jack Swyteck novels volume 13
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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...
10) Prime witness
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A legal thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of the Paul Madriani series.
It started with a series of bizarre double murders. It led to the arrest of one prime suspect. And it sparked the most explosive trial in a lawyer’s career.
Paul Madriani knows that the man he’s persecuting is guilty. But one disturbing fact could destroy the case . . . He may not be the only killer....
It started with a series of bizarre double murders. It led to the arrest of one prime suspect. And it sparked the most explosive trial in a lawyer’s career.
Paul Madriani knows that the man he’s persecuting is guilty. But one disturbing fact could destroy the case . . . He may not be the only killer....
11) Poison: a novel
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Atria Books
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2018.
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Dismas Hardy is looking forward to easing into retirement and reconnecting with his family. But this plan is cut short when, against his wife’s wishes, he is pulled back into the courtroom by the murder of Grant Wagner, the steely owner of a successful family business. The prime suspect is Wagner’s bookkeeper, Abby Jarvis, a former client of Hardy’s who had been receiving large sums of cash under the table from the company. As he prepares for...
12) The enemy inside
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One of the most successful lawyers in the country, Olinda Serna is a master at managing money as well as her influential clients. After years of fierce combat in the political trenches, Serna knows all the dirty secrets. When she’s killed in a roadside crash in the high desert of Southern California, powerful heads in Washington begin to panic. Alex Ives, a friend of Paul Madriani’s daughter, is accused of vehicular manslaughter in Serna’s death....
13) Last to die
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Jack Swyteck novels volume 3
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Miami criminal defense attorney Jack Swyteck's best friend's brother, former contract killer Tatum Knight, stands to inherit $48 million if five other people die. Jack has to find out if his newest client is an innocent man or a killer.
14) Turning angel
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Lawyer Penn Cage returns to defend his best friend since childhood for the murder of a young female student, with whom his friend was intimate, at their old alma mater, St. Stephen's Prep.
16) The pardon
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In Florida, a man plans a series of murders to frame the son of the state governor. The purpose of his diabolical scheme is to put the governor, a law and order man, in a position where he will be forced to sign his son's death warrant. The motive is revenge, pay back the governor for sending a man to death, despite evidence that the man was innocent. A first novel.
17) A time for mercy
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Clanton, Mississippi. 1990. Jake Brigance finds himself embroiled in a deeply divisive trial when the court appoints him attorney for Drew Gamble, a timid sixteen-year-old boy accused of murdering a local deputy. Many in Clanton want a swift trial and the death penalty, but Brigance digs in and discovers that there is more to the story than meets the eye. Jake’s fierce commitment to saving Drew from the gas chamber puts his career, his financial...
18) Santa Fe edge
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Ed Eagle, the six-feet-six, take-no-prisoners Santa Fe attorney, has recovered from his encounters with Mexican organized crime and--more treacherously--his ex-wife, Barbara. Now a mysterious new client has come his way, one who may shed light into some dark corners of Ed's past ... and put him in danger once more.