[Jake Lassiter 01] • To Speak for the Dead

**NO. 1 BESTSELLING HARDBOILED MYSTERY**

**NO. 1 BESTSELLING LEGAL THRILLER**

"TOP MYSTERIES OF THE YEAR" - ** *Los Angeles Times* **

**OVERVIEW**

*A doctor in love with his patient's wife...*

*A fatal mistake during surgery...*

*Accident?  Malpractice?  Or murder?*

Defending a surgeon in a malpractice case, Jake Lassiter begins to suspect that his client is innocent of negligence...but guilty of murder. Add a sexy widow, a deadly drug, and a grave robbery to the stew, and you have the recipe for Miami's trial of the century.

"**To Speak for the Dead**" introduced the world to Jake Lassiter, the linebacker-turned-lawyer with a hard bark and a tender heart. An international bestseller, Paul Levine's debut novel was named by the Los Angeles Times as one of the best mysteries of the year.

If you enjoy the suspense and thrills of John Grisham, Harlan Coben, Carl Hiaasen, and James Patterson, you'll love "To Speak for the Dead" from Paul Levine, winner of the John D. MacDonald fiction award. Levine has also been nominated for the Edgar, Macavity, International Thriller, and James Thurber prizes. A former trial lawyer, he wrote more than 20 episodes of the CBS military drama "JAG."

** *MORE JAKE LASSITER THRILLERS* **

**FOOL ME TWICE**: From Miami to Aspen, someone is framing Lassiter for murder. And just why are men willing to kill to find a missing artifact of the Old West?

**NIGHT VISION**: Someone is murdering women on an Internet sex chat site, and Jake becomes a special prosecutor to hunt down the serial killer.

**FALSE DAWN**: After his client confesses to a murder he didn't commit, Jake follows a bloody trail from Miami to Havana to discover the truth.

**MORTAL SIN**: Talk about conflicts of interest. Jake is sleeping with Gina Florio and defending her mob-connected husband in court.

**RIPTIDE**: Jake Lassiter chases a beautiful woman and stolen bonds from Miami to Maui.

**FLESH AND BONES**: Jake falls for his beautiful client even though he doubts her story. She claims to have recovered "repressed memories" of abuse...just before gunning down her father.

**LASSITER**: Jake retraces the steps of a model who went missing 18 years earlier...after his one-night stand with her.

**More info at paul-levine.com**