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Jack Swyteck novels volume Prequel
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English
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"[I]n which a band of amateur thieves pulls off one of the biggest airport heists in history with deadly consequences" --
"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...
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"Food anthropologist Miriam Quinones-Smith's move from New York to Coral Shores, Miami, puts her academic career on hold to stay at home with her young son. Adding to her funk is an opinionated mother-in-law and a husband rekindling a friendship with his ex. Gracias to her best friend, Alma, she gets a short-term job as a Caribbean cooking expert on a Spanish-language morning TV show. But when the newly minted star attends a Women's Club luncheon,...
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"In Miami, Cuban-American cooking show star Miriam Quiñones-Smith wakes up to find a corpse in her yard. The body is the woman that was kicked out of the school's Fall Festival the day before. Miriam's luck does not improve. Her mother-in-law puts her in charge of the Women's Club gala. While making plans at the country club, she hears an argument between the head chef and the club's manager. Not long after, the chef dives to his death at the bottom...
4) The Lost
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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Detective Tom Moon and his multi-talented team face off against an international crime ring looking to seize control of America's most vibrant city, Miami. The city of Miami is Detective Tom Moon's back yard. He's always kept it local, attending University of Miami on a football scholarship, and, as a Miami PD officer, protecting the city's most vulnerable. Now, as the new leader of an FBI task force called "Operation Guardian," it's his mission to...
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Jack Swyteck novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2002.
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English
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Believing himself settled into a quiet life, lawyer Jack Swyteck is horrified when a former client turns up dead, placing Jack under suspicion and forcing him to find the real killer before he becomes the next victim.
6) Last to die
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Jack Swyteck novels volume 3
Pub. Date
2003.
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English
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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.
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Jack Swyteck novels volume 15
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English
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"James Grippando's crusader Jack Swyteck is back in his sixteenth adventure, a timely and pulse-pounding thriller"--
Julia Rodriguez and her teenage daughter Beatriz escaped bloodthirsty gangs, random violence and, Julia's abusive husband back in El Salvador. Arriving in Miami, mother and daughter struggled to carve their own piece of the American dream. While life in the States is hard, it is safer, until Julia's rejects her boss's unwanted sexual...
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Jack Swyteck novels volume 6
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English
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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 his best friend.
9) Last call
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Jack Swyteck novels volume 7
Pub. Date
2008.
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English
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Having proved the innocence of a friend who had been falsely accused of murder, criminal defense attorney Jack Swyteck is once again called upon to help his friend when the latter is offered the identity of his mother's killer in exchange for helping an escaped convict.
10) Born to run
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Jack Swyteck novels volume 8
Pub. Date
2008.
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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.
11) Retribution
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C.J. Townsend novels volume 1
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English
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When an elite prosecuter faces the most lethal predator she's ever encountered, she must decide between justice and retribution.
12) Criminal justice
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Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[1997]
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English
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The New York Times-bestselling author of Suspicion of Innocence brings her prodigious legal experience and storytelling gifts to this riveting thriller about a disgraced US attorney determined to prove his innocence and get justice Dan Galindo was a highly respected US attorney until a single lapse in judgment cost him everything. A year ago, he refused to put a lying witness on the stand. As a result, a drug kingpin walked, earning Galindo the eternal...
13) The forgotten
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Krewe of Hunters volume 16
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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With rumors of zombies in Miami, FBI agent Brett Cody and the Krewe of Hunters, a team of paranormal investigators are called into investigate.
14) The ice maiden
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Britt Montero novels volume 8
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English
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A chance encounter with a stranger changes the life of reporter Britt Montero forever. The encounter is at Miami's morgue, where the unidentified stranger lies dead. His unusual old scars capture her curiosity-the dead man clearly had a tale to tell. This thief, who was accidentally electrocuted, may be the key that unlocks the long-sought secrets of a sensational cold murder mystery unsolved for more than fourteen years.
Sunny and Ricky, teenagers...
15) Cane and Abe
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HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Wrongfully implicated in the disappearance of his second wife, Miami prosecutor Abe Beckham is forced to consider his missing wife's accusations about his enduring love for his dead first wife.
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Jack Swyteck novels volume 9
Pub. Date
[2011]
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English
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Sergeant Vince Paulo held his best friend's daughter, McKenna, bleeding in his arms as she uttered the name of her murderer and ex-boyfriend, Jamal. That was minutes before a blast made everything go black for Vince--forever. Now Miami criminal defense lawyer Jack Swyteck has been called in to save Jamal from the death penalty.
17) Tropic of night
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Jimmy Paz series volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollins Publisher
Pub. Date
2003.
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English
Description
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...
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Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
A colorful cast of residents and visitors to Miami go about their daily activities, both legal and illegal. This is a big, panoramic story of the new America, as told by the author of the way we live now. The police launch speeds across Miami's Biscayne Bay with officer Nestor Camacho on board. Into the feverous landscape of the only city in the world where people from a different country with a different language and a different culture have taken...
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English
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"A sweeping, masterful debut about a daughter's fateful choice, a mother motivated by her own past, and a family legacy that begins in Cuba before either of them were born. In present-day Miami, Jeanette is battling addiction. Daughter of Carmen, a Cuban immigrant, she is determined to learn more about her family history from her reticent mother and makes the snap decision to take in the daughter of a neighbor detained by ICE. Carmen, still wrestling...
20) The informant
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Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
Description
By the author of the bestselling The Pardon, this fast-paced novel teams a resourceful FBI agent and an embattled journalist in a hunt for two men -- a serial killer and his elusive informant.
When an informer chooses Miami Tribune crime reporter Michael Posten as his conduit, giving him information about murders that haven't yet taken place, investigators speculate on whether the killer and informer are the same person. As the newspaper continues...
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