A Death in Live Oak, James Grippando
A Death in Live Oak, James Grippando
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A Death in Live Oak
A Jack Swyteck Novel

Author: James Grippando

Narrator: Jonathan Davis

Unabridged: 12 hr 6 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 02/06/2018

Synopsis

From New York Times bestselling author James Grippando, a riveting, timely story ripped from the headlines. Defense attorney Jack Swyteck defends a white college student charged in Florida’s first racial terror lynching in more than a half century.  When the body of Jamal Cousin, president of the pre-eminent black fraternity at the University of Florida, is discovered hogtied in the Stygian water swamps of the Suwanee River Valley, the death sets off a firestorm that threatens to rage out of control when a fellow student, Mark Towson, the president of a prominent white fraternity, is accused of the crime. Contending with rising political tensions, racial unrest, and a sensational media, Towson’s defense attorney, Jack Swyteck, knows that the stakes could not be higher—inside or outside the old Suwanee County Courthouse. The evidence against his client seems overwhelming. Then Jack gets a break that could turn the case. Jamal's murder bears disturbing similarities to another lynching that occurred back in the Jim Crow days of 1944. Are the chilling parallels purely coincidental? With each twist and turn, Jack is convinced that his client may be the victim of something even more sinister than the case presented by the state attorney. For Jack, it’s about the truth. And he’s determined to find it, no matter what the cost.

About James Grippando

James Grippando is a New York Times bestselling author with more than thirty books to his credit, including those in his acclaimed series featuring Miami criminal defense attorney Jack Swyteck, and is the winner of the Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction. He is also a trial lawyer and teaches law and literature at the University of Miami School of Law. He lives and writes in South Florida.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Carole on February 14, 2018

This review can also be found at Carole's Random Life in Books. This really was a fantastic book. I have been a fan of James Grippando for a long time so I was really eager to get my hands on this newest installment in his long running Jack Swyteck series. This is the fourteenth book in the series bu......more

Goodreads review by Kelly on February 05, 2018

This is such an insanely good book. Obviously going in, I had some preconceived ideas of what happened to Jamal and who was responsible. (I didn't believe it was Mark, but I definitely thought someone from the frat was responsible, because frats.) I'm obviously not sharing whether or not I was right......more

Goodreads review by Mary on January 17, 2018

What effort do we make every day to not repeat the history of hate? Mark Towson is an active college student and believes in respectability of the Greek life he has taken over on the campus of the University of Florida. He knows the other Presidents of the fraternities socially but not to the extent......more

Goodreads review by Karen on February 13, 2018

I have read all of the Jack Swyteck novels and have enjoyed them. The latest was enjoyable BUT I was definitely turned off by the need to include Andie, the wife and FBI agent. The main story was great and we really did not need Andie in the story at all. I am really tired of the little lady fightin......more

Goodreads review by Donna on April 09, 2019

This wasn't an easy book to read. The lynching of young black men and the racism involved was very difficult to deal with. The offshoot of that was the quick belief that an innocent young white man was guilty of lynching an up and coming young black college student without waiting for any proof. So......more

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