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The Pardon

James Grippando · 412 pages

An estranged father and son -- one a brilliant defense lawyer, the other the governor of Florida -- must overcome their differences to stop a cunning psychopath.Jack Swyteck, a brilliant Miami defense attorney has spent years rebelling against his father, Harry, now Florida's governor. Their estrangement seems complete when Harry allows one of Jack's clients -- a man Jack believes is innocent -- t

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Suspicion of Guilt

Barbara Parker · 428 pages

Miami attorney Gail Connor is drawn into a web of violence and conspiracy when she takes on a case of suspected forgery that could bring millions of dollars to her firm, and discovers the crime is masking a brutal murder.

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The Lawyer's Lawyer

James Sheehan

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There Was A Little Girl

Ed McBain · 329 pages

Florida attorney Matthew Hope gets shot after some routine legal work for a circus turns into an investigation of the death of a dwarf.

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Last Witness

Jilliane Hoffman · 380 pages

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Nothing but the Truth

John Lescroart

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The Turquoise Lament

John D. MacDonald · 257 pages

Travis McGee #15 “Now that Linda "Pidge" Lewellen is grown up, she tells Travis McGee, once her girlhood idol, that either she's going crazy or Howie, her affable ex-jock of a husband is trying to kill her. McGee checks things out, and gives Pidge the all clear. But when Pidge and Howie sail away to kiss and make up, McGee has second thoughts. If only he can get to Pidge before he has time for

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The Whistler

John Grisham · 384 pages

Lacy Stoltz is an investigator for the Florida Board on Judicial Conduct. She is a lawyer, not a cop, and it is her job to respond to complaints dealing with judicial misconduct. After nine years with the Board, she knows that most problems are caused by incompetence, not corruption. But a corruption case eventually crosses her desk. A previously disbarred lawyer is back in business with a new ide

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Deadly Justice

William Bernhardt

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Pleasantville

Attica Locke · 432 pages

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Dexter in the Dark

Jeff Lindsay · 318 pages

Is evil alive ...? Dr Jerry Halpern is trying to find out, studying for his PhD on the subject. Dexter Morgan, meanwhile, has a few wicked things of his own to contend with - not least, planning his wedding to Rita to complete his nice-guy disguise. But when a student of Halpern's is found burnt, molested and headless - seemingly sacrificed to an ancient god - and Dex is brought in as forensic ana

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Mississippi Blood

Greg Iles · 704 pages

Grief-stricken and with his world collapsing around him, Penn Cage is shut out of trial preparations by his once-revered Southern doctor father, who is about to be tried for murder in the wake of revelations about a mixed-race child and KKK associations.

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A False Dawn

Tom Lowe · 340 pages

After thirteen years as a homicide detective, his wife dead, and his best friend shot in a robbery, Sean O'Brien feels like he's been through a war. He leaves the streets of Miami for a simpler life on the banks of the St. Johns River near the Ocala National Forest. What he discovers there, however, opens a dark door to something more frightening than anything he ever investigated in Miami.

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Injustice for All

Scott Pratt

Prosecutor Joe Dillard watched in shock as friend and fellow lawyer Ray Miller was pushed to the brink of suicide in the court of Judge Leonard Green. So when Joe arrives at a crime scene to see Green swinging from a tree, it is duty rather than remorse that drives him to catch the killer. But soon the investigation takes Joe away from the halls of justice into his own home. And he's not sure he c

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Con Law

Mark Gimenez · 400 pages

"John Bookman - Book to his friends - is a tenured professor at the University of Texas School of Law. He's 35, handsome and unmarried. He teaches Constitutional Law, reduces senators to blithering fools on talk shows, and is often mentioned as a future Supreme Court nominee. But Book is also famous for something more unusual - he likes to take on lost causes and win. Consequently, when he arrives

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The Last Witness

Joel Goldman · 361 pages

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Prime Witness

Steve Martini · 405 pages

A series of bizarre murders leads to the arrest of a prime suspect and sparks the most explosive trial in lawyer Paul Madriani's career.

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Black Widow

Randy Wayne White · 337 pages

Revenge becomes very personal for Doc Ford, in the stunning new novel by the New York Times-bestselling author.It was a simple exchange. Clean.So why did things go so terribly wrong?It went against all of Ford's instincts. When his goddaughter, Shanay, called one day, he assumed it was with details of her imminent wedding, but the news was anything but cheerful. She and her bridesmaids had thrown

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Sacred

Dennis Lehane · 416 pages

The master of the new noir, Dennis Lehane brilliantly interweaves beauty and violence, integrity and evil in this thrilling, powerfully resonant novel.A beautiful, grief-stricken woman has vanished without a trace. So has the detective hired to find her. And a lot of money. Enter saavy, tough-nosed private investigators Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro. Rooted in the no-nonsense streets of Boston

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Shadow Men

Jonathon King · 314 pages

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The Lincoln Lawyer

Michael Connelly · 464 pages

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Cold Paradise

Stuart Woods · 424 pages

Palm Beach is the most glamorous scene of the crime yet for cop turned investigator Stone Barrington, who becomes reacquainted with a case he thought was buried years ago - and must settle romantic entanglements that haunt him still.... **Fair-Weather Friend** Luxuriating in Palm Beach's winter warmth, Stone is stunned to recognize someone he thought was dead. Former client Allison Manning i

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Double Exposure

Michael Lister

When Remington James returns to the small North Florida town he grew up in, he decides to resume his love for photography. Remington ventures into the deep swamp where he has already set up some cameras to discover that his camera has captured, frame-by-frame a shocking crime.

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Palm Beach Nasty

Tom Turner · 304 pages

Burned out New York homicide cop Charlie Crawford goes south to take it slow. But after six months in steamy Palm Beach, Florida, he's bored out of his mind and desperate for a face-down stiff with a little rigor setting in. One Halloween night, Crawford is first on the scene and finds a twenty-year-old male swinging from a stately banyan tree. This sets in motion colliding plots involving a billi

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