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61) LaBrava
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402 pages ; 21 cm
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"Joe LaBrava is an ex--Secret Service agent who gets mixed up in a South Miami Beach scam involving a redneck former cop, a Cuban hit man who moonlights as a go-go dancer, and a onetime movie queen whose world is part make-believe, part deadly dangerous. This is vintage Leonard: fast-moving, pitch-perfect, and utterly, authentically irresistible"--Page 4 of cover.
62) Last call
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390 pages ; 19 cm
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Jack Swyteck is drawn into the investigation of a mother who was murdered on a hot Miami night twenty years ago.
Having proved the innocence of a friend who had been falsely accused of murder, criminal defense attorney Jack Swyteck is once again called upon to help his friend when the latter is offered the identity of his mother's killer in exchange for helping an escaped convict.
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Helen Hawthorne and her new husband, Phil, have just opened a private investigation business. Their first client asks them to watch her husband, who she believes is body building at a gym to impress another woman. This leads Helen to another dead-end job, working as a receptionist at Fantastic Fitness, which requires her to workout as well. Meanwhile, Coronado Investigations takes on a decades-old murder case, keeping Helen busy and exhausted.
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341 pages ; 22 cm
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A Miami storekeeper shoots a robber armed with a knife. The knife is nowhere to be found and the law considers six shots excessive self-defense, which means the storekeeper could go to jail. The storekeeper's lawyer hires lady PI Lupe Solano to obtain evidence that the robber was indeed a robber, a task that almost gets her killed. By the author of Bloody Waters.
66) Hear no evil
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451 pages ; 20 cm
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When a beautiful woman is accused of murdering her husband, there is only one person she wants to represent her--Miami criminal defense attorney Jack Swyteck. What begins as a simple assignment, however, swiftly lurches into a twisting thrill-ride of unanswered questions and mounting suspicions on Jack's part, for the victim's husband was an officer at the U.S. naval base in Guantanamo Bay and the son of a prominent Cuban exile, and her story changes...
67) Beautiful storm
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In these connected novels, lightning leads to love, danger, and the unraveling of long-buried secrets that will change not only the past but also the future...From #1 NY Times Bestselling Author Barbara Freethy comes the first book in a new romantic suspense trilogy: Lightning Strikes.
When her father's plane mysteriously disappeared in the middle of an electrical storm, Alicia Monroe became obsessed with lightning. Now a news photographer in Miami,...
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Since her mother died, twelve-year-old Lily has struggled to care for her severely autistic half-brother, Adam, in their Miami home, but she is frustrated and angry because her oncologist step-father, Don, expects her to devote her time to Adam, and is unwilling to admit that Adam needs professional help -- but when Adam bonds with a young dolphin with cancer Lily is confronted with another dilemma: her family or the dolphin's freedom.
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352 pages ; 25 cm
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Lights. Camera. Mayhem. Hollywood gets more than it bargained for when television's hottest star arrives at the Miami Police Department and develops an intense, professional interest in a camera-shy blood spatter analyst named Dexter Morgan. To perfect his role, actor Robert Chase is obsessed with shadowing Dexter's every move and learning what really makes him tick. There is just one tiny problem.... Dexter's favorite hobby involves hunting down...
70) Make them sorry
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306 pages ; 25 cm.
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Life in Miami isn't complicated for ex-army medic Camaro Espinoza: Piloting charter fishing trips, fighting at the gym, drinking at the bar. Simple doesn't mean stable, though, and two complicating factors -- okay, people -- are about to disrupt Camaro's relative peace. Faith Glazer, an accountant with no way to defend herself, begs Camaro's help to stop a stalker who follows her every move. While Ignacio Montellano, a detective on the homicide beat,...
71) With prejudice
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314 pages ; 24 cm
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"Gabriel Soto is a social recluse accused of the murder of Melina Mora, a free-spirited and deeply loved young woman. At the center of the media spotlight is Sandy Grunwald, an ambitious young female prosecutor whose political fortunes depend on her using the limited evidence to secure a conviction. But the criminal justice system is complicated, and everyone has a story -- especially the jury. With striking originality and expert storytelling, the...
72) The forgotten
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Krewe of hunters volume 16
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296 pages ; 25 cm.
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A woman named Maria Gomez is murdered in Miami, apparently by her husband who had been presumed dead, slain by a crime boss. FBI agent Brett Cody can't believe it; dead or alive, the man had loved his wife. Brett also can't help feeling guilty, since he was responsible for protecting Miguel and Maria Gomez. A few miles away, Lara Mayhew has just begun working at a dolphin research facility. She loves her new job -- until a dolphin brings her something...
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31 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm
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When Lazarita's unemployed father cannot afford a party for her "quinces," the birthday celebration that marks a fifteen-year-old girl's entrance into womanhood, her friends in her Miami Cuban-American community enlist the mayor's help to plan a surprise block party.
74) Cloaked
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341 pages ; 19 cm
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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.
76) Havana libre
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In this explosive follow-up to the Edgar Award finalist, Havana Lunar, Dr. Mano Rodriguez takes an undercover assignment to the most dangerous city in Latin America: Miami. During the summer of 1997, a series of bombings terrorize Havana hotels. The targets are tourists, and the terrorists are exiles seeking to cripple Cuban tourism and kill the Revolution. After Mano finds himself helpless to save one of the victims, his nemesis Colonel Emilio Perez...
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310 pages ; 23 cm
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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.
Dos divorcios le han enseñado a Mariela Esteves que la vida es más fácil para las amantes que para las esposas....
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(David Andrew),Ballpark mysteries volume 8
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105 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
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"Mike and Kate are visiting the Miami Marlins ballpark when some rare animals from the ballpark's fish tanks go missing"--
79) Inside man
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388 pages ; 24 cm.
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"When Sam Capra's best customer, and friend, is murdered outside his Miami bar, Sam decides to seek justice. Determined to find out the connection between his friend's death and a beautiful stranger, Sam infiltrates the Ligeras, one of Miami's most prominent, and dangerous, families. He faces a powerful but unstable mastermind intent on dividing his business empire between his three very different children, who may hold murderous secrets of their...
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413 pages ; 23 cm
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520 Luces. Cámara. Mayhem. Hollywood se pone más de lo que esperaba cuando la estrella más caliente de la televisión llega al Departamento de Policía de Miami y se desarrolla un intenso interés, profesional en un analista de salpicaduras de sangre-tímida llamado Dexter Morgan. Para perfeccionar su papel, el actor Robert Chase está obsesionado con el remedo de Dexter cada movimiento y el aprendizaje de lo que realmente lo motiva. Sólo hay...
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