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STATE vs. LASSITER: This time, Jake is on the wrong side of the bar. He’s charged with murder! The victim? His girlfriend and banker, Pamela Baylins, who was about to report him to the authorities for allegedly stealing from clients. (Nominated for the 2014 Shamus Award.)
SOLOMON vs. LORD SERIES
(Nominated for the Edgar, Macavity, International Thriller, and James Thurber awards.)
“A cross between Moonlighting and Night Court. Courtroom drama has never been this much fun.” —Freshfiction.com
SOLOMON vs. LORD: Trial lawyer Victoria Lord, who follows every rule, and Steve Solomon, who makes up his own, bicker and banter as they defend a beautiful young woman accused of killing her wealthy, older husband.
THE DEEP BLUE ALIBI: Solomon and Lord come together—and fly apart—defending Victoria’s “Uncle Grif” on charges he killed a man with a speargun. It’s a case set in the Florida Keys with side trips to coral reefs and a nudist colony where all is more—and less—than it seems.
KILL ALL THE LAWYERS: Just what did Steve Solomon do to infuriate ex-client and ex-con “Dr. Bill”? Did Solomon try to lose the case in which the TV shrink was charged in the death of a woman patient?
HABEAS PORPOISE: It starts with the kidnapping of a pair of trained dolphins and turns into a murder trial with Solomon and Lord on opposite sides after Victoria is appointed a special prosecutor, and fireworks follow!
STAND-ALONE THRILLERS
IMPACT: A jetliner crashes in the Everglades. Is it negligence or terrorism? When the legal case gets to the Supreme Court, the defense has a unique strategy: kill anyone, even a Supreme Court justice, to win the case.
BALLISTIC: A nuclear missile, a band of terrorists, and only two people who can prevent Armageddon. A “loose nukes” thriller for the twenty-first century. (Also available in a new paperback edition.)
ILLEGAL: Down-and-out lawyer Jimmy (Royal) Payne tries to reunite a Mexican boy with his missing mother and becomes enmeshed in the world of human trafficking and sex slavery.
PAYDIRT: Bobby Gallagher had it all and lost it. Now, assisted by his twelve-year-old brainiac son, he tries to rig the Super Bowl, win a huge bet . . . and avoid getting killed.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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The author of nineteen novels, Paul Levine has won the John D. MacDonald fiction award and has been nominated for the Edgar, Macavity, International Thriller, Shamus, and James Thurber prizes. A former Miami trial lawyer, he also wrote more than twenty episodes of the CBS military drama JAG and cocreated the Supreme Court drama First Monday starring James Garner and Joe Mantegna. The critically acclaimed international bestseller To Speak for the Dead was his first novel. He is also the author of the Solomon vs. Lord series and the thrillers Illegal, Ballistic, Impact, and Paydirt. A graduate of Penn State University and the University of Miami Law School, he lives in Coconut Grove, Florida. Readers can sign up for the author’s newsletter and be eligible for signed books and prizes at www.paul-levine.com. For more information about Paul Levine’s novels, visit his Amazon Author Page at www.amazon.com/Paul-Levine/e/B000APPYKG.