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.
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Segui un tenace avvocato ed ex pugile mentre naviga nei bassifondi della città, cercando giustizia di fronte al pericolo. Ogni episodio presenta intricati misteri e pericolosi scontri con spietati criminali. Con trame avvincenti, colpi di scena inaspettati e un protagonista dedito alla verità, questa serie di narrativa poliziesca offre una suspense incessante.
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Rumpelstiltskin
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...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
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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.
Florida criminal lawyer Matthew Hope never takes a case unless he knows for sure his client is innocent. But retired schoolteacher Mary Barton - known as, "Mary, Mary, quite contrary" to her neighbors - isn't as easy woman to believe in. In fact, Mary doesn't appear interested in hiring Matthew, only in bad mouthing those she feels have done her wrong. But due to the efforts of Mary's former student, Melissa Lowndes, Matthew agrees to try to prove Mary innocent of the charges filed against her: sexually mutilating, murdering, and burying three little girls in her garden. Making the case tougher, the State Attorney's "killer" prosecutor is assigned Mary's case. Max the Ax brings forth witnesses that swear to seeing Mary with each of the girls; Mary carrying bloody clothes to the cleaners; and Mary digging small graves late at night. But Hope's biggest problem is Mary herself, a difficult woman swept up in horrible circumstances - a woman with secrets so terrible she can't tell them - even to save her own life.
Snow White and Rose Red
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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.
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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
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A Matthew Hope Novel: The House That Jack Built
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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!
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Calusa, sulla costa occidentale della Florida, è una città ricca ed esclusiva, anche se non più come in passato. Negli ultimi dieci anni o quindici anni, ondate di immigrati hanno cambiato la natura del posto e, secondo gli abitanti di vecchia data, non certo in meglio. Ciononostante tutta la comunità è sotto shock, quando Jessica Leeds, moglie di un noto proprietario terriero, viene brutalmente violentata. Le indagini della polizia conducono all'arresto di tre vietnamiti. Ma il processo che ne segue si conclude a sorpresa con il loro rilascio. Stephen, il marito di Jessica, è furibondo e minaccia pubblicamente di farsi giustizia da sè. Per cui, quando poco dopo i tre vietnamiti vengono trovati non solo uccisi, ma orrendamente mutilati, Stephen viene imprigionato senza neppure la possibilità di essere rilasciato su cauzione...
Quando i corpi di tre giovani ragazze vengono rinvenuti nel giardino di Mary Barton, la maestra in pensione della Florida insiste di non essere coinvolta. Ma un testimone, la donna che vive accanto, ha una storia diversa: giura di aver visto "Mary, Mary quite contrary", come la chiamano i vicini, seppellire qualcosa la notte precedente. Melissa Lowdnes, una sua ex studentessa, non riesce a credere che l'insegnante spensierata che conosceva possa mai aver commesso un omicidio, tanto meno tre, e cerca l'aiuto dell'avvocato Matthew Hope. Matthew accetta solo clienti che ritiene innocenti e ha il sospetto che Mary possa dire la verità, anche se a volte si sfoga contro i vicini che crede le abbiano fatto del male. Matthew segue indizi e costruisce una difesa solida, ma la sua strategia incontra un grosso ostacolo: deve affrontare l'assistente procuratore distrettuale "killer" Patricia Hemming, che ha un'offerta sul tavolo che compromette l'intero caso.
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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?
