James Grippando, Author HarperCollins $25 (416p) ISBN 978-0-06-019240-2
A workaholic attorney is forced to examine his priorities when his wife disappears amid a spree of serial killings in the Pacific Northwest. Grippando's fifth thriller (The Pardon; Found Money) springs energetically from the gate, creating tension...
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James Grippando. Harper, $26.99 (368p) ISBN 978-0-06-244055-6
In bestseller Grippando’s competent 13th Jack Swyteck novel (after 2016’s Gone Again), the Florida lawyer comes to the aid of Isabelle “Isa” Bornelli, an old friend’s wife, who’s arrested on arrival at the Miami airport from Hong Kong for the murder
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James Grippando. Harper, $26.99 (400p) ISBN 978-0-06-236870-6
Bestseller Grippando addresses the challenges of adopting psychologically damaged children in his uneven 12th legal thriller featuring Florida attorney Jack Swyteck (after 2014's Black Horizon). Jack has honored a promise to the widow of his mentor,
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James Grippando. Harper, $25.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-06-229545-3
FBI special agent Andie Henning, a regular in bestseller Grippando’s Jack Swytek series (Black Horizon, etc.), plays a leading role in this tragicomic crime novel. In the heist of a bank transfer at a Miami International Airport warehouse, Ruban...
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James Grippando. Harper, $26.99 (368p) ISBN 978-0-06-229539-2
Abe Beckham, the narrator of much of this gripping but flawed stand-alone from bestseller Grippando (Need You Now), still mourns the death of his first wife, Samantha Vine. That’s why Abe, senior trial counsel at the state attorney’s office in Miami-
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James Grippando. Harper, $25.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-06-210988-0
Bestseller Grippando draws inspiration from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill for his fantastic 11th Jack Swyteck novel (after 2013’s Blood Money). Criminal defense lawyer Jack Swyteck and his new wife, FBI agent Andie Henning, cut short their...
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James Grippando. Harper, $26.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-06-210984-2
The real-life Casey Anthony case provides the spark for bestseller Grippando’s melodramatic 10th legal thriller featuring Florida attorney Jack Swyteck (after 2011’s Afraid of the Dark). When Swyteck wins an acquittal for his client, Sydney Bennett,
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James Grippando. Harper, $25.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-06-184030-2
A Ponzi scheme of Bernie Madoff proportions drives this winning financial thriller from bestseller Grippando (Money to Burn). Abe Cushman, “a former chairman of the NASDAQ stock market and a force on Wall Street trading for nearly fifty years,”...
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James Grippando, Harper, $25.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-06-184028-9
In Grippando's rousing ninth Jack Swyteck legal thriller (after Born to Run), Jack successfully defends a supposed Somali prisoner in his mid-20s held at Guantánamo. But then the prisoner is identified as an American, Jamal Wakefield, and is...
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James Grippando, Author HarperCollins Publishers $23 (360p) ISBN 978-0-06-017693-8
The title character of attorney Grippando's second thriller (after The Pardon) is the anonymous man who contacts Miami Tribune reporter Mike Posten and claims that he can predict the next victim of a serial killer who has eluded the FBI's Child...
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James Grippando, Author HarperCollins Publishers $22 (311p) ISBN 978-0-06-017782-9
Matters like realism and credibility take a back seat to high concept in this brisk but far-fetched first novel by a Florida attorney who poses a nifty question: What if a governor who favors the death penalty faced the prospect of allowing his own...
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Attorney-turned-novelist Grippando's (Under Cover of Darkness; Found Money) sixth effort kicks off when Matthew Rey, a Florida fisherman with a partnership in a Nicaraguan seafood operation, is kidnapped while on business in Colombia by a group...
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James Grippando, Author HarperCollins Publishers $25 (336p) ISBN 978-0-06-018263-2
For anyone who's ever dreamed of finding a cash windfall, Grippando's (The Abduction) new crime novel offers a cautionary tale of greed, family secrets and the dangers of getting what you wish for. Just before Frank Duffy dies, he tells his...
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James Grippando, Author HarperCollins $23 (400p) ISBN 978-0-06-018262-5
The presidential election of 2000 is coming down to the wire in this disappointing thriller, when Democratic candidate (and attorney general) Allison Leahy blows a solid lead by refusing to answer the question whether she's ever been unfaithful to...
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James Grippando, Author Harper $25.99 (360p) ISBN 978-0-06-155630-2
Bestseller Grippando’s overwrought financial thriller gives its hero, Michael Cantella, almost as rude an awakening as Kafka’s Gregor Samsa. Scandals involving subprime lending, short selling, and Ponzi schemes provide a timely backdrop.
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James Grippando, Author . HarperCollins $24.95 (391p) ISBN 978-0-06-113838-6
Beautiful doctor Peyton Shields, head resident at Boston's Children's Hospital, and handsome lawyer husband Kevin Stokes would appear to have bright futures at the start of Grippando's stand-alone, which falls short of the standard of...
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James Grippando, Author . HarperCollins $24.95 (328p) ISBN 978-0-06-083113-4
A tense hostage crisis in Miami propels the action in bestseller Grippando's solid sixth thriller to feature criminal defense lawyer Jack Swyteck (after Got the Look
). Jack represents an armed homeless man known as Falcon, who takes among his...
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James Grippando, Author . HarperCollins $24.95 (390p) ISBN 978-0-06-056458-2
Attorney Jack Swyteck and his jazz musician sidekick Theo Knight josh, joke and kid, but unfortunately the case they're working—the kidnapping of Jack's girlfriend by a sadistic murderer—doesn't lend itself to humor. The...
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James Grippando, Author . HarperCollins $23.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-06-056457-5
Miami lawyer Jack Swyteck is in for one hell of a roller coaster ride in this lapel-grabbing thriller, Grippando's ninth (Last to Die
; etc.). Lindsey Hart, about to be charged with the murder of her husband, Marine Capt. Oscar Pintado, comes to
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James Grippando, Author . HarperCollins $23.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-06-000555-9
Dangle $46 million in front of six people and tell them the last one standing gets it all. From that shopworn yet undeniably tantalizing premise springs Grippando's latest thriller starring Miami attorney Jack Swyteck. The big pot of money comes
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James Grippando, Author . HarperCollins $24.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-06-621344-6
Grippando might not be the most lapidary of legal thriller writers, but he certainly has the imagination and research skills to plot up a storm. Readers of his seventh book (after A King's Ransom) will find themselves riveted as Miami criminal...
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James Grippando, Author, Jonathan Davis, Performed by , read by Jonathan Davis. HarperAudio $39.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-172628-6
In this newest installment of the Jack Swyteck mysteries, the vice president dies during an alligator hunt in the Everglades, and Jack’s father, the former governor of Florida picked by the president to fill the vacant v-p slot, brings Jack to
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James Grippando. Harper, $27.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-06-265780-0
The lynching of University of Florida student Jamal Cousin, the president of a prominent black fraternity, kick-starts bestseller Grippando’s gripping 14th novel about lawyer Jack Swyteck (after 2017’s Most Dangerous Place). When Mark Towson, the...
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James Grippando. Harper, $27.99 (368p) ISBN 978-0-06-265783-1
Julia Rodriguez, an undocumented immigrant from El Salvador, works as a barista in a Miami café, in bestseller Grippando’s timely 16th Jack Swyteck novel (after 2018’s A Death in Live Oaks). When she refuses the sexual advances of her boss, he...
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James Grippando. Harper, $27.99 (368p) ISBN 978-0-06-291504-7
An all-too-timely scenario drives bestseller Grippando’s solid 16th Jack Swyteck novel (after 2019’s The Girl in the Glass Box). President Malcolm MacLeod, whom Democrats had been threatening to impeach since they retook the House in the midterms,...
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James Grippando. Harper, $27.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-06-291508-5
Bestseller Grippando’s subpar 17th thriller featuring Florida defense attorney Jack Swyteck (after 2020’s The Big Lie) opens with a harrowing scene. Swyteck’s daughter, Righley, goes to kindergarten at Riverside Day School, and his FBI agent wife,...
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James Grippando. Harper, $27.99 (368p) ISBN 978-0-06-322378-3
At the start of this uneven standalone from bestseller Grippando (the Jack Swyteck series), Kate Gamble, an American University law student and would-be playwright, arrives at her parents’ penthouse apartment in Tysons Corner, Va., to find that her...
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