Most dangerous place

James Grippando, 1958-

eAudio - 2017

Defending a woman accused of murdering the man who sexually assaulted her, Miami lawyer Jack Swyteck must uncover where the truth lies between innocence, vengeance, and justice in this spellbinding tale of suspense-based on shocking true-life events-from the New York Times bestselling author of Gone Again. According to the FBI, the most dangerous place for a woman between the ages of twenty and thirty is in a relationship with a man. Those statistics become all too personal when Jack Swyteck takes on a new client tied to his past. It begins at the airport, where Jack is waiting to meet his old high school buddy, Keith Ingraham, a high-powered banker based in Hong Kong, coming to Miami for his young daughter's surgery. But their long-aw...aited reunion is abruptly derailed when the police arrest Keith's wife, Isabelle, in the terminal, accusing her of conspiring to kill the man who raped her in college. Jack quickly agrees to represent Isa, but soon discovers that to see justice done, he must separate truth from lies-an undertaking that proves more complicated than the seasoned attorney expects. Inspired by an actual case involving a victim of sexual assault sent to prison for the death of her attacker, James Grippando's twisty thriller brilliantly explores the fine line between victim and perpetrator, innocence and guilt, and cold-blooded revenge and rightful retribution.

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[United States] : HarperAudio 2017.
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English
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hoopla digital
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James Grippando, 1958- (-)
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hoopla digital (-)
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Jonathan (Narrator) Davis (-)
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Unabridged
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1 online resource (1 audio file (12hr., 10 min.)) : digital
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
ISBN
9780062659750
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AVAILABLE FOR USE ONLY BY IOWA CITY AND RESIDENTS OF THE CONTRACTING GOVERNMENTS OF JOHNSON COUNTY, UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS, HILLS, AND LONE TREE (IA).
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Review by Booklist Review

Near the end of Grippando's new legal thriller, his hero, Miami attorney Jack Swyteck, all but throws his hands in the air when he laments, For once, please, I need someone to tell me everything there is to know. Readers will sympathize. His client, a Venezuelan beauty married to a megabucks money manager, has been arrested for murdering the fellow who raped her years ago. Well, not murder but conspiracy to murder, because maybe she wasn't there when the killing went down. And maybe she wasn't raped after all. Swyteck's lawyer colleague latches onto this as a way of beating the murder rap: No motive, no murder. There are few courtroom confrontations; the plot is mostly Swyteck's attempts to get at the truth under this thick covering of lies. Some readers may feel the obfuscation works all too well and makes the novel a struggle rather than a pleasure. Still, this will find its audience among Grippando fans accustomed to his methodical way of doing business.--Crinklaw, Don Copyright 2016 Booklist

From Booklist, Copyright (c) American Library Association. Used with permission.
Review by Publisher's Weekly Review

In bestseller Grippando's competent 13th Jack Swyteck novel (after 2016's Gone Again), the Florida lawyer comes to the aid of Isabelle "Isa" Bornelli, an old friend's wife, who's arrested on arrival at the Miami airport from Hong Kong for the murder of a man who raped her while she was a college student a dozen years earlier. Isa's apparent inability to provide a straightforward account of what happened back then raises the tension as Swyteck and co-counsel Manny Espinoza plot her defense. Isa, a well-drawn, complex character, has a tortured family history, which becomes clear when her estranged father interjects himself into the case, serving as something of a soapbox for exploring the complicated, often chauvinistic assumptions made about sex crimes. The legal procedures ring true, but when Swyteck operates outside the courtroom, the action takes a melodramatic turn and eventually leads to a violent resolution that's both convoluted and predictable. Agent: Richard Pine, Inkwell Management. (Feb.) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.

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