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Sashi Burgette vanished three years ago on her way to school. The night after the teenager's disappearance, ex-con Dylan Kyle was stopped for drunk driving. An article of Sashi's clothing was found in his truck, and a police videotape of his drunken explanation under interrogation sealed his fate at trial. Now, just days from Kyle's execution, Sashi's mother visits Jack Swyteck, doing pro bono work at the Freedom Institute, and delivers shocking news:...
5) Cloaked
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Seventeen-year-old Johnny is approached at his family's struggling shoe repair shop in a Miami, Florida, hotel by Alorian Princess Victoriana, who asks him to find her brother who was turned into a frog.
6) Hear no evil
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A woman is about to be arrested for the murder of her husband, an officer who was stationed at Guantanomo Bay. When she asks Jack to represent her, he hesitates, as he has no expertise in military law. He's blackmailed into helping her, however, when the woman claims she is the mother of Jack's biological child, a son he has never seen.
7) Cane and Abe
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Miami's top prosecutor becomes a prime suspect when his wife's disappearance may have a chilling connection to the vicious murders of beautiful women in the Florida Everglades.
8) Last call
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Now the owner of a successful Miami bar, ex-con Theo enjoys his new life--until a former gang associate breaks out of prison. But when the fugitive turns up dead, Theo finds himself in prison desperately trying to connect two murders and a recent attempt on his life.
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Dexter Morgan appears to be the perfect handsome gentleman, but appearances are decieving. He is a serial killer who has slain many people. But in this tale, he's the good guy--he only snuffs out other murderers. When another serial killer, with an eerily similar style, starts grabbing headlines, Dexter has a fairly morbid thought: am I being challenged?
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Miami attorney Jack Swyteck lands in the heart of the contentious immigration debate when he takes on the heart-wrenching case of an undocumented immigrant who fled to America to protect her daughter and save herself.
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...
12) Criminal justice
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"Dan Galindo was once one of the best and brightest young lawyers in the U.S. attorney's office. That was before he refused to put a lying witness on the stand and lost the case. That was before he was tossed out of his job. That was before his wife left him, keeping their beautiful home and young son. And that was before he wound up trying to scrape a living off the bottom of society in a shabby Miami law office."--BOOK JACKET. "But if Dan thinks...
13) Tropic of night
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Jane Doe is nothing, a shadow. Once a promising anthropologist, she's now hiding from an unimaginable horror. Miami police detective Jimmy Paz knows that Jane is connected to the ritualistic murders terrifying the city. Together, they must battle a psychopath whose shamanistic powers can alter reality itself.
14) 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...
15) Act of betrayal
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In Miami, crime reporter Britt Montero juggles two assignments at once. In one of them, a number of boys have disappeared and are believed to have been murdered by a serial killer, in another a Cuban journalist is killed by a car bomb.
16) Terminal
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Third year medical student Sean Murphy goes to a renowned cancer treatment center and discovers the horror of their remarkable cures.
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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, so she's less than eager to return to picturesque Petoskey, Michigan, for her beloved father's funeral. When she most needs comfort, her husband is distant and her siblings antagonistic -- and the solace an old sweetheart offers is almost too much to resist. In the end, going home to the shores...
18) Nobody knows
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With her career shortened by accusations of "ambitious reporting," former Washington journalist Cassie Sheridan is banished to Miami, where she stumbles across a body--and a mystery--while reporting on a hurricane.
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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 our master chronicler 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 city, he introduces the Cuban mayor, the black police chief, a wanna-go-muckraking young journalist and his Yale-marinated...