TY  - BOOK
AU  - Grippando,James
TI  - A death in Live Oak
T2  - A Jack Swyteck novel
SN  - 9780062791979 (paperback)
AV  - PS3557.R534 D43 2018
U1  - 813/.54 23
PY  - 2018///]
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
KW  - Swyteck, Jack (Fictitious character)
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Lawyers
KW  - Florida
KW  - Trials (Murder)
KW  - Attorney and client
KW  - African American fraternal organizations
KW  - Lynching
KW  - Race relations
KW  - Legal fiction (Literature)
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Thrillers (Fiction)
KW  - Large type books
N1  - Sequel to: Most dangerous place
N2  - "When the body of Jamal Cousin, president of the preeminent black fraternity at Florida's flagship university, is discovered hogtied in the stygian swamps of the Suwanee River, his death sets off a firestorm. And when a fellow student, Mark Towson, the president of a prominent white fraternity, is accused of the crime, the fire threatens to rage out of control. 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, which includes a threatening text message referencing "strange fruit" on the river, seems overwhelming. Then Jack gets a break that could turn the case. Jamal's gruesome murder bears disturbing similarities to another lynching that occurred back in the Jim Crow days of 1944. Are the chilling parallels purely coincidental? With a community in chaos and a young man's life in jeopardy, Jack will use every resource to find out. As he navigates each twist and turn of the search, Jack becomes increasingly convinced that his client may himself be the victim of a criminal plan more sinister than the case presented by the state attorney. Risking his own reputation, this principled man who has devoted his life to the law plunges headfirst into the darkest recesses of the South's past, and its murky present, to uncover answers. For Jack, it's about the truth. Traversing time, from the days of strict segregation to today, he'll find it--no matter the cost--and bring much-needed justice to Suwanee County."--
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