More freebies from Oceanview today:
Justice in June by Barbara Levenson.
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Miami in June: it’s raining, it’s pouring, but the life of criminal defense attorney Mary Magruder Katz is anything but boring—especially when she gets caught up in a whirlwind of three different cases.
Judge Liz Maxwell’s job, sanity, and reputation are at stake, and she needs Mary to ferret out wrongdoing in Miami’s courts. Solving this case won’t just mean going out on a limb; it will mean risking life and limb.
Luis Corona, a family friend of Mary’s boyfriend, Carlos, needs help with a legal matter that, to Mary’s horror, turns out to be a terrorism charge. And this case will leave some catastrophic damage—and unwelcome notoriety—in its wake.
Just when Mary thought things couldn’t get worse, Carlos gets in his own nasty legal quandary—one that could cost him everything.
Three cases. One Mary. One torrential downpour of turmoil.
Can she weather the storm? Ride out the cold front that settles over her once-hot romance? Salvage what remains of her—and her clients’—reputations?
For Mary Magruder Katz, this month’s forecast calls for trouble.
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Devil Wind by Linda Reid and Deborah Shlian
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Fired from her job as a TV producer, Sammy Greene gets a second chance when she lands an after-midnight show at a small radio station in LA.
It’s December 1999, days before the dawn of the new millennium. With Y2K looming and the Santa Ana winds threatening to turn the city into a fiery inferno, LA is on edge—and Sammy’s listeners are burning up the phone lines predicting the end of time.
When a listener calls in to report the discovery of a burned body, Sammy starts to investigate and to her horror, learns that the victim is the wayward daughter of an old friend.
As she blazes a trail to find answers, Sammy realizes that this death was no accident. All signs point to murder—murder conveniently obscured by the raging wildfires.
But Sammy’s investigation takes a chilling turn when she uncovers a sinister plot that could claim thousands of innocent lives.
There’s evil at work in the City of the Angels. Time is running out. And Sammy Greene is playing with fire.
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South Beach Shakedown (The Mick Sever Music & Mystery Series) by Don Bruns.
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Mick Sever lands in the middle of a Miami music mystery. Ginny, commissioned to write the biography of music icon Gideon Pike, calls Mick in need of help. Seems Pike is missing and it’s up to Mick to look into the disappearance of the legendary musician. Pike, whom Mick befriended early in Pike’s career, has “disappeared” before, but this time – did he disappear because he wanted to, or because he had to?
Soon Mick and Ginny launch an all-out hunt for the flamboyant performer. But after a series of too-close close calls, frighteningly near near-misses, and murders, Mick must question just how well he knows Gideon. How much access had Gideon granted him? What – or from whom – is Gideon hiding?
As Mick and Ginny delve deeper into Gideon’s world, they are introduced to an unseemly cast of shady characters and pulled into a shadowy underworld replete with crooked contracts, blackmail and dirty deals. And Mick and Ginny aren’t the only ones looking for Gideon Pike. Jimmy Shinn, a ruthless Korean mobster, is hot on Gideon’s trail, and it is clear that chart hits aren’t necessarily the only hits that reign in this business.
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