02286cam a2200397 4500 606455548 TxAuBib 20190226120000.0 170526s2018||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2017022885 9780062657800 trade 0062657801 trade DLC eng DLC ICrlF TxAuBib Grippando, James. A Death in Live Oak / James Grippando. 1st ed. New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2018] 371 p. ; 24 cm. Jack Swyteck novel ; 14 Booklist, December 2017. Booklist. "When the body of Jamal Cousin, president of the pre-eminent black fraternity at the Florida's flagship university, is discovered hogtied in the ... Suwanee River Valley, the death sets off a firestorm that threatens to rage out of control when a fellow student, Mark Towson, the president of a prominent white fraternity, is accused of the crime. 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... The evidence against his client ... 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... 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..."--Amazon. Adult Follett Library Resources. Adult. 20190226. Swyteck, Jack (Fictitious character) Fiction. Swyteck, Jack (Fictional character) Fiction. FICTION / Crime. Legal stories. Suspense fiction. Legal fiction (Literature.) Thrillers (Fiction.) Grippando, James, New York : Harper, 2018 Death in Live Oak. Jack Swyteck novel ; 14. TXNAV