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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Rumpelstiltskin
- 240pages
- 9 heures de lecture
...Bloom shook his head. The sad brown eyes looked even sadder. He sighed and then said, "You know anybody who might’ve wanted that little girl badly enough?" "What?" I said. "The little girl." "I don’t understand." "Badly enough to have killed the mother for it." "I still..." "The little girl's gone, Mr. Hope. Whoever killed Victoria Miller took the little girl with him." 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.
Snow White and Rose Red
- 247pages
- 9 heures de lecture
Sarah Whittaker had everything: stunning good looks, youth, money, social standing. Everything, that is, but her freedom. Sarah Whittaker was currently residing, against her will. in a luxurious private sanatorium. In the State of Florida, Sarah Whittaker was a certified paranoid schizophrenic. That's what the doctors, the courts, and her widowed mother said. It was not what Sarah said - and that was why she had called Matthew Hope. Would he act as her attorney and fight for her freedom? And would he fight for the $650,000 left to her by her father and now controlled by her mother? Hope probed the story of a mother driven by hate to confine her only child to a mental institution and decided that Sarah was telling the truth. He took the case - and in so doing was led into a hall of mirrors in which reality blurred into murder, mutilation, and the greatest danger Hope had ever known.
Cinderella. Roman.
- 253pages
- 9 heures de lecture
Ona, pohádkově krásná a všem unikající, šla po miliónové zásilce kokainu. On, unavený, opíjející se, ale hodně dobrý soukromý detektiv Otto Samalason, šel po ní, ale nepřežil. Na právníkovi Matthewu Hopeovi je, aby našel jeho vrahy dřív, než oni najdou i ji, a v bahně floridského podsvětí spojil dva volné konce jednoho případu.
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.
A Matthew Hope Novel: The House That Jack Built
- 256pages
- 9 heures de lecture
Ralph Parrish is a middle-aged, hard-working Indiana farmer who visits his gay brother in Florida, even though he does not approve of his brother's lifestyle. From the moment he arrives, Ralph and his brother argue heatedly--until the next morning when his brother is found dead . . . and Ralph becomes suspect number one!
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.
Lorsque les corps de trois jeunes filles sont découverts dans le jardin de Mary Barton, l'ancienne enseignante de Floride insiste sur son innocence. Mais une voisine affirme avoir vu "Mary, Mary tout à fait contraire" enterrer quelque chose la veille. Melissa Lowdnes, une ancienne élève de Mary, ne peut croire que l'enseignante joyeuse qu'elle a connue puisse commettre un meurtre, encore moins trois, et demande l'aide de l'avocat Matthew Hope. Matthew n'accepte que des clients qu'il considère innocents et a l'intuition que Mary pourrait dire la vérité, même lorsqu'elle se plaint de ses voisins. Il suit des indices et construit une défense solide, mais sa stratégie rencontre un obstacle majeur : il doit faire face à l'assistante procureure Patricia Hemming, qui propose un accord compromettant pour l'affaire.
Kriminalroman fra Florida med baggrund i cirkusmiljø. Advokaten Matthew Hope er skudt ned, og under opklaringen af mordforsøget møder hans kolleger vold, grådighed og forræderi
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?
