Soft-hearted attorney Matthew Hope has never been known for taking easy cases, and this is no exception. A mother and her two little girls are brutally murdered on Florida's steamy west coast, and the only person who doesn't have a motive is confessing--and insists that Hope defend him.
Matthew Hope Séries
Suivez un avocat tenace et ancien boxeur alors qu'il navigue dans la pègre de la ville, cherchant la justice face au danger. Chaque volet présente des mystères complexes et des confrontations périlleuses avec des criminels impitoyables. Avec des intrigues captivantes, des rebondissements inattendus et un protagoniste dévoué à la vérité, cette série de fiction policière offre un suspense implacable.
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The third Matthew Hope mystery novel from the acclaimed author of the popular 87th Precinct series. What begins as an ordinary one-night-stand for attorney Matthew Hope turns into a deadly mystery when the woman--a 60's rock star trying for a comeback--is brutally murdered, and her daughter turns up missing.
Beauty and the Beast
- 256pages
- 9 heures de lecture
Matthew Hope spots her on Saturday, exquisitely beautiful, strolling topless on the beach. On Monday, she shows up in his law office, beaten and bruised, ready to file for divorce. By Tuesday, she is dead--and her big, ugly husband is arrested for murder. But Matthew believes he is innocent; now, he has to prove it.
Délaissant l'inspecteur Carella du 87e, l'auteur fait enquêter le paisible Matthew Hope dans une histoire d'assassinat et de vol en Floride.
Schneeweisschen und Rose tot
- 270pages
- 10 heures de lecture
Cinderella. Roman.
- 253pages
- 9 heures de lecture
Puss in Boots
- 256pages
- 9 heures de lecture
This crime novel describes how Florida's Matthew Hope assumes defence of a husband against circumstantial evidence that he killed his actress wife. Hope is soon on the trail to solving the mystery but the actress, meanwhile, is stashed away - naked but for her red leather boots.
The House that Jack Built
- 256pages
- 9 heures de lecture
Matthew Hope embarks on the seemingly impossible case of defending one Ralph Parrish, brother of gay dissolute Jonathan who has been savagely murdered after a no-holds-barred gay party. Ralph is prime suspect as he has never seen eye-to-eye with Jonathan.
Three Blind Mice
- 293pages
- 11 heures de lecture
When the wife of a wealthy landowner is brutally raped, the police arrest three recent immigrants, who are later found murdered. The lawyer Matthew Hope is called in to defend the landowner, but soon realizes that he is involved in a situation far more complex than he or his client had imagined.
There was a little girl
- 339pages
- 12 heures de lecture
Private eye Warren Chambers joins forces with police detective Morris Bloom to investigate a shooting that leaves Matthew Hope in a coma and uncovers a shady circus world of perversion, drugs, blackmail, and murder
Lainie Commins, a freelance designer of children's toys, hires attorney Matthew Hope for a lawsuit against her old employers, Brett and Etta Toland. At stake are the lucrative rights to Gladly, a teddy bear with crossed eyes and corrective lenses. It's a straightforward case--until Brett Toland is shot in the throat aboard his luxury yacht and Lainie becomes the chief suspect.
A woman approaches Florida attorney Matthew Hope to find her husband, Jack, whom she wishes to sue for divorce. Soon afterwards Jack turns up dead - or is he? If he is still alive, who is the corpse in his bed and who are the cops who knew Jack and take an interest in his disappearance?
