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Author
Series
Cartel novels volume 2
Publisher
Urban Books
Language
English
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Description
The Cartel is torn apart by disloyalty, kidnapping, murder, deception, and seduction as Carter faces drug kingpin charges, Zyir discovers Breeze is still alive, and Mecca is exposed as his brother's killer.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Moving from New York to Coral Shores, Miami, food anthropologist Miriam gets a short-term job as a Caribbean cooking expert on a Spanish-language morning TV show, which sets the stage for murder--one that could be the recipe for her own death.
Author
Series
Jack Swyteck novels volume 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
"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...
Author
Series
Jack Swyteck novels volume 13
Language
English
Formats
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...
Author
Publisher
Multnomah Publishers
Pub. Date
[2006], ©1998
Language
English
Description
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. When she returns to picturesque Petoskey, Michigan, for her beloved father's funeral, it's a traumatic emotional and spiritual journey for Ellen -- a rediscovery of what is truly important and eternal.
Author
Series
Dexter books volume 4
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
©2009
Language
English
Description
"Back from his surprisingly glorious honeymoon in Paris, Miami blood spatter analyst Dexter Morgan is one step closer to perfecting his human disguise ... But old habits die hard ... and Dexter's work for the Miami Police Department never fails to offer up new playmates--bad men who appeal to his offbeat and unshakable sense of justice."--Jacket.
Blood spatter analyst Dexter Morgan matches wits with a sadistic "artiste" who is creating bizarre murder...
7) Oye: a novel
Author
Publisher
Hogarth
Pub. Date
[2024].
Language
English
Description
"When Miami residents are ordered to evacuate before a hurricane, everyone in Luciana's family complies, except for her beloved yet batty grandmother, Abue. But it turns out the storm isn't the real crisis: Abue, normally glamorous and full of energy, is given a devastating medical diagnosis once danger passes. Luciana, and the rest of the family, are heartbroken, but Abue is about as interested in getting treatment as she was in evacuating. She'd...
Author
Series
Jack Swyteck novels volume 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
9) The Cartel
Author
Series
Publisher
Urban Books
Language
English
Formats
Description
When the leader of The Cartel, which controls eighty percent of the cocaine industry, dies, his illegitimate son, Carter, takes his place and starts sleeping with the enemy--Miamor, the leader of The Murder Mamas.
10) Hurricane Bay
Author
Language
English
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Description
Dane Whitelaw, an ex-special forces agent turned private investigator, has found a photo under his door of Sheila Warrenś body. She has been strangled with his tie and posed on the beach of his private island in the Florida Keys. The crime appears to be the handiwork of a serial killer terrorizing the Miami area, and Dane is being set up for the murder. Kelsey Cunningham is Sheilaś best friend and determined to find her missing friend, even if she...
11) Got the look
Author
Series
Jack Swyteck novels volume 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
'Pay me what she's worth' A serial kidnapper is out to prove that all human life can be valued in dollars and cents, kidnapping the wives of millionaires. Jack Swyteck has a new girlfriend and life is good--until Mia Salazar goes missing, and the bottom falls out. He finds out Mia is married, and her rich husband has just received a ransom demand that pegs Mia as the kidnapper's latest victim. Worst of all, her husband knows all about Mia and Jack,...
12) Very bad company
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A gripping, darkly comic novel from the national bestselling author of Bad Summer People about a team of wealthy and powerful executives on retreat in Miami when one of them goes missing . . . Every year, executives at the trendy tech startup Aurora gather the company's top employees for an exclusive retreat in Miami and this year, Caitlin Levy-Aurora's newest hire-is joining the team as Head of Events. The benefits are outstanding: a seven-figure...
Author
Series
Jack Swyteck novels volume 9
Pub. Date
©2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
Author
Series
Jack Swyteck novels volume Prequel
Publisher
Harper, an Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"[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...
Author
Series
Jack Swyteck novels volume 8
Language
English
Description
When the U.S. Vice President dies unexpectedly during a hunting trip in the Everglades, the President selects his friend, former Florida governor Harry Swyteck, to fill the vacant position. Called to Washington to serve as his father's legal advisor, Jack Swyteck has mixed feelings about working so closely with the parent he's been at odds with in the past. Jack's duty, however, as a son and as an American, takes top priority. But the vipers are restless...
16) Baby, I'm yours
Author
Series
Baby trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Avon Books
Pub. Date
©1998.
Language
English
Description
"The last place Catherine MacPherson ever expected to find herself was sitting on a Greyhound bus, handcuffed to a surly bounty hunter, with only a suitcase to her twin sister's flashy, shrink-wrap clothing to wear! Just two hours age, the respectable schoolteacher was sitting quietly at home when this big, macho hunk crashed through her door, mistook her for her errant Miami showgirl sister, and hauled her off in his strong arms. And no matter how...
Author
Series
Dexter books volume 5
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
©2010
Language
English
Description
Serial killer Dexter Morgan reevaluates his life views upon the birth of his daughter and investigates the disappearance of a teenage girl who has been running with a group of goths rumored to be engaging in cannibalism.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A colorful cast of residents and visitors to Miami go about their daily activities, both legal and illegal. 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 over at the ballot box. This melting pot is full of hard cases who just won't melt, damn it. He...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
A new day breaks for Michael Westen when he's reinstated by the CIA, but his good fortune is impossibly short-lived. Framed for murder and blackmailed by a diabolical foe, Michael and his team must do whatever it takes to clear his name and catch a killer. As the danger builds, Michael finally comes face-to-face with the man who burned him, leading to an explosive finale, after which nothing will ever be the same. Featuring an exclusive extended episode,...
20) Last call
Author
Series
Jack Swyteck novels volume 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
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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