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21) The dark of day
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Barbara Parker introduces one of the most unforgettable female characters in suspense fiction: high-profile Miami defense attorney C. J. Dunn. C J. Dunn is an expert at spinning her clients' image in the media. She is the perfect lawyer to deflect police interest in Rick Slater, head of security for Bob Shelby, a US congressman from Miami. Slater was seen at a South Beach party with the recently vanished Alana Martin, and in election season, any hint...
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"Two divorces have taught Mariela Estevez that she's better suited to being a mistress than a wife. Whose heart needs all that "forever after" trouble? Still, her affair with her married lover, Hector, has become problematic--especially because he's also a tenant in her apartment building in the heart of Miami's Calle Ocho in Little Havana"--Page 4 of cover.
23) Tropic of night
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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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Britt Montero novels volume 7
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What was the nude, recently slain body of Kaithlin Jordan doing spoiling the pristine turquoise waters of Miami Beach -- especially when the dead socialite's convicted killer husband is sitting on Death Row for having murdered her...ten years ago! Reporter Britt Montero lives for this kind of story. But she may die for this one as well. Because each question raises many others -- and every hard-won answer reveals secret passions and explosive truths...
25) Picture me dead
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New York Times–Bestselling Author: "A real page-turner . . . romantic suspense that will appeal to fans of Catherine Coulter, Iris Johansen, and Linda Howard." —Booklist
Police rookie Ashley Montague is shocked by the discovery of a body on the highway—and her glimpse of a mysterious hooded figure watching from the side of the road.
At another crime scene in the heart of the Everglades, Detective Jake Dilessio...
Police rookie Ashley Montague is shocked by the discovery of a body on the highway—and her glimpse of a mysterious hooded figure watching from the side of the road.
At another crime scene in the heart of the Everglades, Detective Jake Dilessio...
26) The informant
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In Miami, a man calls a newspaper offering to sell names of the future victims of a serial killer who removes people's tongues. Police are certain the caller is the killer himself, but FBI agent Victoria Santos has a hunch the caller is someone else.
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"L ike settling down with a Gabriel Garcia Marquez novel-if it was rewritten by James M. Cain." - Denver Post Michael Gruber's Night of the Jaguar -like his earlier novels featuring Miami detective Jimmy Paz (Tropic of Night, Valley of Bones)-transforms the conventional thriller into something extraordinary, taking the crime novel to a place it has never gone before. Combining a grisly murder investigation with chilling supernatural elements and provocative...
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With more than a million copies of her books in print, bestselling author Karen Kingsbury delights multitudes of fans with her inspirational tales. Grief-stricken over her father's death, Ellen Barrett returns to her hometown, temporarily leaving behind a troubled marriage. The heartache and confusion that swirl about her threaten to further weaken her already slipping faith. Yet even in this difficult time, God's path is before her-if only she has...
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Jack Swyteck novels volume 15
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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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In the eighth title in the Suspicion series, Suspicion of Rage, Gail Connor agrees to accompany her new husband, Anthony Quintana, to his beloved native Cuba. Caught between a family that supports the Revolution; ties to a radical underground group; a threatening secret message from the CIA to his brother-in-law, a Cuban General; threats of terrorism; and a long-lost love, the hard-won peace of a new family is at risk. Suspicion of Rage is the 8th...
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From Anthony and Agatha Award-winning author Elaine Viets-the thrilling mystery series about one woman trying to make a living... while other people are making a killing.
Newly married, Helen Hawthorne can't wait to start her life anew-and start an investigation agency with her PI hubby, Phil. Her penchant for working dead-end jobs comes in handy when they're hired to look into a fitness fanatic who may be cheating on his wife.
Taking a receptionist...
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Miami, 1981. Cocaine Central. Murder Capital, USA.
A city about to catch fire.
Detective Max Mingus and his partner, Joe Liston, are anticipating a routine murder investigation when they are called to the scene of death at Miami's Primate Park-until the victim's family is found slaughtered, and a partly digested tarot card, the King of Swords, is discovered in the victim's stomach.
A trail that's growing bloodier by the hour is leading Max and...
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Les Standiford's Deal novels, including Presidential Deal, hit best-seller lists across the country like thunderbolts. Readers can't get enough of the adventures of contractor John Deal as he clashes with the twisted villains of the south Florida underworld. While Deal is trying to salvage his relationship with his estranged wife Janice, a string of murders rocks Miami. The first victim is independent bookseller Arch Dolan, Janice's boss. But the...
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A mother and child are the recent victims of a carjacking followed by a fatal hit-and-run. Miami crime reporter Britt Montero witnesses the tragedy-and relentlessly pursues the story. But at the same time, trouble lurks in the newsroom. A new, ambitious reporter covets Britt's job, and Britt begins to suspect that her rival's "breaking news" stories may not be what they seem.
As she investigates, Britt herself becomes the prime suspect in a shocking...
35) If I survive you
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"In the 1970s, Topper and Sanya flee to Miami as political violence consumes their native Kingston. But America, as the couple and their two children learn, is far from the promised land. Excluded from society as Black immigrants, the family pushes on through Hurricane Andrew and later the 2008 recession, living in a house so cursed that the pet fish launches itself out of its own tank rather than stay. But even as things fall apart, the family remains...
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Britt Montero novels volume 6
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While attempting an arrest, a sheriff is slain by an enigmatic young woman who promptly vanishes into the northern Florida landscape. As the story comes over the wire, reporter Britt Montero is intrigued. Few copkillers escape so easily.
The murders continue. Men are lured into sex by the same woman, their lifeless bodies dumped half-naked in ditches, woodlands and along the road, their cars, cash, and valuables gone. The murderer, who leaves lipstick...
37) Magic city
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A simple black-and-white photograph taken during the 1964 Cassius Clay–Sonny Liston fight on Miami Beach may hold the key to a horrific, politically motivated crime forty-two years earlier. After it mysteriously reappears, the photo is burned in an act of arson that sets off a modern-day killing spree reaching from the quiet neighborhoods of Miami to the back corridors of the White House.What the killer did not know is that a copy of the photograph...
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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...
39) Beautiful storm
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Lightning strikes trilogy volume 1
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"In a flash of lightning, news photographer Alicia Monroe sees an apparent murder. Rushing she to the scene, she finds only a military tag belonging to a woman who has been missing for over a year. Her search for the missing woman takes her into the heart of Miami's Cuban-American community where she finds romance and danger"--
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