By-the-book Florida attorney Victoria Lord and her partner/lover, bypass-the-book Steve Solomon return in this novel. Hal Griffin, an entrepreneur and onetime business partner of Victoria Lord's late father, stands accused of murdering an EPA official with a speargun. There's plenty of evidence pointing to Griffin's guilt, and it's up to Victoria to prove his innocence. Spurning Steve's help, she begins an investigation that leads her to uncover long...

They are the legal world's oddest couple: a shorts-and-sandals beach bum and a Coral Gables blue blood. The only thing keeping them together is that they're on the same side. Why does an ex-client want to kill Steve Solomon? Who doesn't want to kill a lawyer? Still, a 300-pound marlin stuck in your front door is a weird death threat, even by south Florida standards. How can Steve Solomon explain to his partner why an ex-client wants him dead? When...

A favorite client has been swindled out of $1.6 million, just as Jake learns of the death of a friend -- a friend who had switched careers from law to drug smuggling. The trail of clues to both crimes leads Jake to Hawaii and a seriously deranged windsurfer whose beautiful companion could prove to be a fatal distraction for Jake.