New Fiction Novels by Patron Favorites

We have recently added three new novels to our collection from authors that many of our patrons enjoy.

First is the latest book by American lawyer and novelist James Grippando.  Gone Again is the twelfth novel in the series featuring Jack Swyteck, Miami criminal defense attorney.

In this fast paced novel, Swyteck takes on his first death-row client since The Pardon (the first in the Jack Swyteck series, also available in our collection).







The next novel is Once a Rancher by popular romance novelist Linda Lael Miller.  The first book of her newest series, The Carsons of Mustang Creek, follows the eldest of three brothers.  Slater Carson is a documentary filmmaker by trade, but still a rancher at heart.  He shares the running of the family ranch with his two younger brothers, Drake and Mace.

Things change when former Seattle cop Grace Emery comes to town to manage the local resort spa with her ward in tow, Ryder - the rebellious son of her ex-husband.

Last is The Other Side of Silence, the eleventh novel in the Bernie Gunther series by Scottish author, Philip Kerr.

The year is 1956 and Bernie Gunther is hiding in plain sight under an assumed name with fake papers.  Posing as a concierge at the Grand Hotel, he is drawn into a nest of vipers when he is asked to assist author W. Somerset Maugham, who is being blackmailed.




These and many other titles can be found on our New Adult Fiction shelves.  Enjoy!

Sit Down with "The Associate"

The Associate is John Grisham's latest legal thriller. The book is set in New York City and stars newly-graduated Yale Law Journal editor and Yale Law School Graduate Kyle McAvoy. All his life, Kyle has dreamed of becoming a lawyer "for the people" and loathing his friends and acquaintances who joined high-powered law firms after graduation, to work like a dog, make a huge pile of money and hopefully become a partner in a couple of years. Kyle dreams of becoming a small-town lawyer like his dad, John McAvoy, who's payment was often given in vegetables and free lawn mowings. Encouraged by Yale to pursue his dream, Kyle is looking forward to a salary of $32,000 per year helping immigrant's receive justice, when he is approached by a sinister man who drags up an incident from Kyle's past involving him and his fraternity brothers at a late-night party in his apartment. Fearing blackmail from his past actions, Kyle abandons his dream to become an Associate at Scully & Pershing, the biggest law firm in New York City, and break many laws in order to pass information on to the sinister men who haunt his every step. The story exposes the brutal world of the "law firm associate" and exactly what it takes to make it to the top. The book is a great expose' of the deals and corruption that occur in law firms and the unscrupulous practices of some lawyers.