Mary Magruder Katz Mystery series by Barbara Levenson (#1-3)
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Overview: Barbara Levenson has spent much of her life in the criminal justice building in Miami, Florida. She began her legal career as a prosecutor. Later she headed her own law office handling criminal defense and civil rights cases. She was elected to serve as a circuit court judge in Miami-Dade County. She recently retired as a senior judge. Barbara has lived in Miami for 37 years and now spends summers in Quechee, Vermont. She was raised in Central Ohio and in a former career, was the first woman elected to the Columbus, Ohio, Board of Education and served as its first woman president.
Genre: Mystery
1. Fatal February (2009)
For half-Jewish, half-Southern Baptist Miami criminal defense attorney, Mary Magruder Katz, life is about to get completely complicated. When her car is rear-ended during a routine trip to the car wash, Mary’s life starts to spin out of control. Carlos Martin, the other car’s driver isn’t just a distracted driver; he’s distracting. Carlos is charming, handsome, and mysterious. This fender bender turns out to be an unlikely shot from Cupid’s bow. Before she knows what’s hit her, Mary breaks off her engagement, jumps into a sizzling romance with Carlos, gets fired from the highbrow law firm of her former fiancé starts her own practice, and lands her first client. But Lillian isn’t just any client; she’s accused of stabbing her husband to death in what has become the Miami society murder of the year and the talk of the town. Now it’s up to Mary to prove Lillian’s innocence. But first, Mary will have to prove her own innocence by defending an ethics claim brought by her former fiancé. While investigating Lillian’s alleged crime of passion and trying to clear her own name, Mary finds that this case, like all matters of the heart, is anything but black and white. And Mary has clearly stumbled onto something that has someone seeing red. February may be the shortest month of the year, but Mary’s got some long days (and nights) ahead. She only wanted a clean car, but can Mary emerge with a clean conscience?
2. Justice in June (2010)
Miami in June: it’s raining, it’s pouring, but the life of criminal defense attorney Mary Magruder Katz is anything but boring—especially when she gets caught up in a whirlwind of three different cases. Judge Liz Maxwell’s job, sanity, and reputation are at stake, and she needs Mary to ferret out wrongdoing in Miami’s courts. Solving this case won’t just mean going out on a limb; it will mean risking life and limb. Luis Corona, a family friend of Mary’s boyfriend, Carlos, needs help with a legal matter that, to Mary’s horror, turns out to be a terrorism charge. And this case will leave some catastrophic damage—and unwelcome notoriety—in its wake. Just when Mary thought things couldn’t get worse, Carlos gets in his own nasty legal quandary—one that could cost him everything. One Mary. One torrential downpour of turmoil.Can she weather the storm? Ride out the cold front that settles over her once-hot romance? Salvage what remains of her—and her clients’—reputations? For Mary Magruder Katz, this month’s forecast calls for trouble.
3. Outrageous October (2013)
Mary Magruder Katz, Miami criminal defense attorney, discovers her boyfriend, Carlos, is sneaking away to a rendevous with his ex-wife. Broken-hearted, she returns his engagement ring, packs her dog and her disappointment in her SUV and runs away to Vermont where she holes up in her friend’s summer house.
Mary can’t stay idle for long. She meets a a young attorney, Dash, who persuades her to do some legal work for him. Meanwhile, Mary reconnects with the daughter of a former client, Sherry Yarmouth, who confides in Mary that she is in the midst of a torrid affair with a local. When Sherry disappears, Mary and Dash comb Vermont’s Upper Valley in an all-out search. As if that isn’t enough to keep Mary busy, she lands in the middle of a court fight over a neigborhood spat. Tree removal becomes the village’s high publicity case. The plaintiff is dubbed the "tree Nazi, but Mary suspects he may be a real Nazi when he is found murdered. Will Mary find Sherry before she’s killed? And who actually killed the Nazi and the owner of the summer house? How and when will Mary return to Miami?
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