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1) 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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As the Electoral College battle for the White House lands in a Florida courtroom, Miami attorney Jack Swyteck has never felt farther from the truth, fighting for a faithless elector, caught between a corrupt president and his manipulative opponent--with each revelation more explosive than the next. The country is reeling. For the sixth time in American history, the winner of the popular vote will not occupy the Oval Office. President Malcolm MacLeod,...
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Sisterhood series volume 33
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English
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Maggie Spritzer’s nose for a story doesn’t just make her a top-notch newspaper editor, it also tells her when to go the extra mile for a friend. When she gets a strange message from her journalism pal, Gabby Richardson, Maggie knows her services are needed. Gabby has become involved with The Haven, a commune that promises to guide its members toward a more spiritually fulfilling life. But Gabby’s enthusiasm has turned to distrust ever since...
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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:...
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Jack Swyteck novels volume 8
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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.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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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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Jack Swyteck novels volume Prequel
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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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. But a band of amateur thieves pulls off one of the biggest airport heists in history with deadly consequences.
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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 of his best friend.
9) Hear no evil
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Jack Swyteck novels volume 4
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English
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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.
10) Last call
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Jack Swyteck novels volume 7
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English
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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 books volume 2
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English
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Dexter the Demon, Dexter the Avenger-whatever he chooses to call himself, the hero of this intelligent, darkly humorous series knows he's a monster who loves slicing people into little pieces. That Dexter limits his killing to "acceptable" victims-usually other serial killers-is designed to keep the reader from having to worry too much about the morality of his avocation. Dexter's just added his 40th victim, a homicidal pedophile, and is eagerly looking...
12) Cane and Abe
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English
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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.
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English
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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...
14) Last to die
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Jack Swyteck novels volume 3
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English
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Tatum Knight is a former contract killer. And he's Miami criminal defense lawyer Jack Swytek's newest client. Tatum is the older brother of Jack's best friend, Theo. Theo himself spent time on death row until Jack found the evidence to prove him innocent. Jack isn't so sure about Tatum.
15) Beyond suspicion
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Jack Swyteck novels volume 2
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HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2002]
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English
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A woman is given less than two years to live. She works a deal with an insurance company to get cash in exchange for allowing investors to collect on her policy when she dies. When she discovers that she has been misdiagnosed, she asks Jack Swyteck to defend her in court.
16) Got the look
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Jack Swyteck novels volume 5
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HarperCollins Publishers
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English
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A beautiful woman is kidnapped, and a chilling ransom demand is sent to her wealthy husband. FBI agent Andie Henning is up against a unique breed of serial kidnapper. Enter Jack Swyteck. He has a new girlfriend, and life is good until Mia Salazar goes missing. Then the bottom falls out. Jack finds out his lover is married. Worse, her rich husband gets a ransom demand that pegs Mia as the kidnapper's next victim. Worst of all, her husband knows about...
17) The forgotten
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Krewe of Hunters volume 16
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English
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Maria Gomez is murdered in Miami, apparently by her husband who'd been presumed dead, slain by a crime boss. FBI agent Brett Cody, who was responsible for protecting the Gomezes, can't believe it; Miguel had loved his wife. Lara Mayhew has just begun working at a dolphin research facility when a dolphin brings her a human hand. More body parts show up, and Brett discovers that the dismembered corpse is Miguel's. Rumors of zombies abound in the...
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After his surprisingly glorious honeymoon in Paris, life is almost normal for Dexter Morgan. Married life seems to agree with him: hes devoted to his bride, his stomach is full, and his homicidal hobbies are nicely under control. But old habits die hard--and Dexters work as a blood spatter analyst never fails to offer new temptations that appeal to his offbeat sense of justice...and his Dark Passenger still waits to hunt with him in...
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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...
20) Magic city
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St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
[2007]
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English
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It was a simple black-and-white photograph taken during the 1964 Clay-Liston fight in Miami Beach but when the last remaining copy falls into Thorns hands, he and everyone he loves become the target of madmen and trained killers who are determined to see the photograph destroyed and its secrets along with it. Thorn must join forces with a dangerous enemy to solve the exasperating puzzle. But unraveling the riddle shakes the foundation of his bond...