Les marais des Everglades sont troubles, ce matin. On vient de trouver le corps d’une femme. Une femme noire. Abe est procureur, réputé irréprochable et sans tache et, pour lui, cette scène de crime n’est pas différente d’une autre. Mais quand on identifie le corps, et que l’agent Victoria Santos lui demande s’il connait cette femme, Abe hésite à répondre. Une seconde d’hésitation qui le propulse du côté des suspects. Et l’entraîne dans les profondeurs d’une spirale infernale le jour où sa propre femme, Angelina, disparaît à son tour. Meurtres en série. Infidélités conjugales. Secrets inquiétants. Machination. Qu’y a-t-il vraiment sous la surface des êtres et des choses ?

Les profondeurs - Occasion

From the 2017 winner of the Harper Lee Prize for legal fiction comes a powerful and timely story of race, politics, injustice, and murder as shocking and incendiary as today's headlines. When the body of Jamal Cousin, president of the pre-eminent black fraternity at the Florida's flagship university, is discovered hogtied in the Stygian water swamps of the Suwanee River Valley, the death sets off a firestorm that threatens to rage out of control when a fellow student, Mark Towson, the president of a prominent white fraternity, is accused of the crime.  Contending with rising political tensions, racial unrest, and a sensational media, Towson's defense attorney, Jack Swyteck, knows that the stakes could not be higher-inside or outside the old Suwanee County Couthouse.  The evidence against his client, which includes a threatening text message referencing "strange fruit" on the river, seems overwhelming. Then Jack gets a break that could turn the case. Jamal's gruesome murder bears disturbing similarities to another lynching that occurred back in the Jim Crow days of 1944. Are the chilling parallels purely coincidental? With a community in chaos and a young man's life in jeopardy, Jack will use every resource to find out.  As he navigates each twist and turn of the search, Jack becomes increasingly convinced that his client may himself be the victim of a criminal plan more sinister than the case presented by the state attorney. Risking his own reputation, this principled man who has devoted his life to the law plunges headfirst into the darkest recesses of the South's past, and its murky present, to uncover answers.  For Jack, it's about the truth. Traversing time, from the days of strict segregation to the present, he'll find it-no matter what the cost-and bring much-needed justice to Suwanee County.

A Death in Live Oak - A Jack Swyteck Novel

Dans une nouvelle série passionnante que les critiques ont appelée «John Grisham rencontre Robert Ludlum», l'avocat de défense pénale de Miami, Jack Swyteck, fait face à son plus grand défi.  Tatum Knight est un ancien tueur de contrats. Impitoyable. Connaissance. Et il est le plus récent client de Jack. Tatum est le frère aîné du meilleur ami de Jack, Theo. Theo lui-même a passé du temps dans le couloir de la mort jusqu'à ce que Jack ait trouvé la preuve pour le prouver innocent. Jack n'est pas si sûr de Tatum.  Une jeune femme magnifique a été abattue dans sa Mercedes sur une rue de Miami. Tatum nie qu'il ait eu quelque chose à voir, mais il admet à Jack qu'il l'a rencontrée dans le bar de Theo, où elle a tenté de l'embaucher.  Sally Fenning valait 48 millions de dollars quand elle est décédée. L'argent ne l'avait jamais rendue heureuse, alors elle l'a laissé tout à ses ennemis - il a laissé à eux de se battre, c'est-à-dire. Elle a nommé six héritiers dans son gré, mais il y a une prise: personne ne reçoit un sou jusqu'à ce que tous les héritiers, sauf un, soient morts. C'est la survie du plus génial.  Rapidement, les avocats se préparent à une bataille juridique amère, mais Jack s'accroche pour bien pire. Il seul sait que l'héritier numéro six - Tatum Knight - est un tueur professionnel. Comme les héritiers commencent à tomber, Jack et son accompagnateur inoubliable, Theo, sont dans une course contre le temps pour découvrir si Tatum est derrière tout le meurtre. Ou est-ce que quelqu'un est encore plus effrayant, plus dangereux, le favori pour être le dernier à mourir?  De la première scène affligeante à travers son apogée choquante, Last to Die offre une action sans escale et un suspense de refroidissement que les fans du monde entier attendent de l'auteur de best-seller James Grippando.

Le dernier à mourir

Defending a woman accused of murdering the man who sexually assaulted her, Miami lawyer Jack Swyteck must uncover where the truth lies between innocence, vengeance, and justice in this spellbinding tale of suspense-based on shocking true-life events-from the New York Times bestselling author of Gone Again. According to the FBI, the most dangerous place for a woman between the ages of twenty and thirty is in a relationship with a man. Those statistics become all too personal when Jack Swyteck takes on a new client tied to his past. 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 done, he must separate truth from lies-an undertaking that proves more complicated than the seasoned attorney expects. Inspired by an actual case involving a victim of sexual assault sent to prison for the death of her attacker, James Grippando's twisty thriller brilliantly explores the fine line between victim and perpetrator, innocence and guilt, and cold-blooded revenge and rightful retribution.

Most Dangerous Place - A Jack Swyteck Novel

Miami attorney Jack Swyteck is involved in the most explosive criminal trial of his career -- a case that starts with a murder on a military base and concludes with a shocking surprise that will change Jack's life forever. A beautiful woman comes to see Jack and begs him to represent her. She says she's about to be arrested for the murder of her husband, an officer stationed at Guantanamo Bay. Having no expertise in military law and sensing that the woman isn't telling him the entire truth, Jack turns her down. Then she drops a bombshell: She claims she's the adoptive mother of Jack's biological son -- a child he's never met. Either Jack must represent her or he'll never see the boy. So Jack agrees, but with great foreboding. He has an unreliable client -- a blackmailer who just might be a murderer -- and he has to travel to Gitmo and on to Havana to tussle with people who clearly have a lot to hide. This is a case with as many twists and turns as it has unanswered questions, and the personal toll on Jack won't end until he's forced to confront the ultimate surprise witness in a trial that rocks the city of Miami. In signature Grippando style, Hear No Evil is an intricate, fast-paced, and captivating thriller that will keep you guessing until the very end.

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