In this sophisticated thriller, lawyer Jay Porter, hero of Attica Locke’s bestseller Black Water Rising,
returns to fight one last case, only to become embroiled once again in a
dangerous game of shadowy politics and a witness to how far those in
power are willing to go to win.
Blanche White returns to Farleigh, North Carolina for the summer to help
her best friend with her catering business. It’s a homecoming rich with
the potential for new romance and fraught with the pain of facing the
man who raped her at knife-point years ago but was never prosecuted for
the crime. Shortly after Blanche arrives, a young woman is murdered and
the clues point to the rapist. Blanche investigates, determined not to
let him get away with another crime…
Xavier Knight was an angel—until Heaven
kicked him out. Now he’s a private detective in New Orleans, trying to
put his old immortal life behind him while avoiding Lucifer’s bounty
hunters. But when his latest case uncovers a plot to end the world with a
supernatural drug, he’ll need all the otherworldly help he can get to
stop it. An apprentice mage on the run, a nosy storefront
psychic, a vial of angel blood, and a surly cherub are hardly the stuff
of legends. But they’re all he’s got.
In the fifth Leonid McGill novel, Leonid is approached by an unemployed office manager named Hiram Stent
to track down the whereabouts of his cousin, Celia, who is about to
inherit millions of dollars from her father's side of the family. Leonid
declines the case, but after his office is broken into and Hiram is
found dead, he gets reeled into the underbelly of Celia's wealthy
old-money family. It's up to Leonid to save who he can and incriminate
the guilty...
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