In the 20th and second to last novel featuring Travis McGee the intrepid detective helps out his buddy, Meyer. Meyer lent his boat to his niece, Norma, and her husband, only to have the boat explode with the couple on it in the middle of the Florida Keys.

Michael Carpo investigates a serial killer case in Greenwich Village, and gets a chance at love.

A violent incident at a Little League game suggests that attorney Ami Vergano's new tenant, furniture builder Dan Morelli, is not quite what he seems to be. According to Vanessa Kohler, Morelli is actually US Army Captain Carl Price, a government assassin formerly employed by her father, a high-ranking general currently running for President. With Ami's help and Price's evidence, Vanessa intends to prove her father's culpability in a shadowy government conspiracy. But given that Vanessa is a tabloid reporter who spent some time in a mental hospital, can Ami really believe Vanessa's fantastic-sounding tale?

Young attorney Daniel Ames is fired from his firm after mistakenly giving out damaging, top-secret documents that could cause a major client, Geller Pharmaceuticals, to lose a gargantuan lawsuit. Ames feels that he was set up, and, furthermore, that the documents he gave out were faked. In order to clear his own name, Ames must clear Geller Pharmaceuticals, too. And what does the lawsuit against Geller have to do with a brutal murder that occurred long ago? Along with investigator Kate Ross, Ames attempts to find out.

Dr. Vincent Cardoni, a prominent surgeon, is charged with murder when several dead bodies are found whose vital organs have been professionally harvested by someone who knew what he was doing. The father-and-daughter legal team of Frank and Amanda Jaffe have been retained to defend Cardoni--but even though she gets him off, Amanda is sure he is guilty. Then Cardoni's severed hand is found at the scene of another murder that seems to be done by the same sadistic killer. The novel builds to a surprise ending that overturns everyone's assumptions.

Amanda Jaffe returns with a new case--this time she is defending a pimp accused of murdering a powerful business figure and member of the clandestine Vaughn Street Glee Club, a society of hoodlums who, over the years, have moved into respectable ventures but whose past is littered with violence and murder.

Amanda Jaffe returns with a new case--this time she is defending a pimp accused of murdering a powerful business figure and member of the clandestine Vaughn Street Glee Club, a society of hoodlums who, over the years, have moved into respectable ventures but whose past is littered with violence and murder.

Six years ago, someone invaded teenager Ashley Spencer's home, murdering her father and her friend Tanya, who was sleeping over at the time. Ashley gets a fresh start on life when she accepts a scholarship at an exclusive prep school. But when she takes a writing class, she realizes that the details of her teacher's new novel mirror her personal tragedy. Then, a few days later, Ashley finds her teacher Joshua Maxwell with knife in hand, having apparently killed her mother and put Casey in a coma. What's Maxwell's grudge against Ashley's family? And is this case really as open-and-shut as it appears to be?

In this 10th mystery starring Deborah Knott, the judge visits a tourist town that's not as tranquil as it first appears. Judge Deborah Knott is having doubts about her recent engagement to Deputy Sheriff Dwight Bryant, and so she eagerly seizes the opportunity to travel five hours away to fill in for a vacationing judge in the charming North Carolina mountain town of Cedar Gap. But if Deborah was looking for a peaceful idyll in which to clear her head, she's doomed to disappointment. She's presiding over a murder trial almost as soon as she arrives; and the dead man, a respected doctor, won't be the last corpse to show up in Cedar Gap....

A novel by ex-convict Dannie Martin about a pimp and bank robber named Vernon Coy. A gang left over from his old prison days is out to kill him, and only his brother Weldon knows what's going on. But Weldon is in prison himself, serving a life sentence.