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Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
A small-town lawyer with a big-time reputation, Stafford Lee Penney, Mississippi's #1 lawyer who has never lost a case, when his wife is scandalously killed, spirals into a legal and personal losing streak, ruining his career, and making him the nation's #1 suspect.
2) The partner
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Language
English
Description
A young partner in a Biloxi law firm who staged his own death and stole a fortune from the firm's offshore account is found living in Brazil.
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Language
English
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For most of the last hundred years, Biloxi was known for its beaches, resorts, and seafood industry. But it had a darker side. It was also notorious for corruption and vice, everything from gambling, prostitution, bootleg liquor, and drugs to contract killings. The vice was controlled by small cabal of mobsters, many of them rumored to be members of the Dixie Mafia. Keith Rudy and Hugh Malco grew up in Biloxi in the sixties and were childhood friends,...
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Language
English
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When struggling artist Morgan Guidry dies of a heart defect, she leaves custody of her young son, Beau, to her friend Ellie Holt, along with half of her Biloxi house and a portrait of a woman. In Biloxi, Ellie makes contact with the Guidrys, who are interested in knowing how she came to own the portrait, as Morgan stole it from her grandmother, Aimee. The woman in the painting is Carolyn Guidry, Aimee's mother-in-law, and as Aimee tells her story,...
6) Revenant
Author
Publisher
MIRA
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Biloxi reporter Carson Lynch pulls herself out of a pit of alcohol and self-loathing to investigate a terrible mystery. A decades-old mass grave is uncovered containing the remains of five women, each wearing a bridal veil and missing their ring finger. When two new bodies are discovered arranged in the same fashion, the question is could there be a copycat murderer, or has a serial killer re-emerged after twenty-five years?
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Mary Miller seizes the mantle of southern literature with this wry tale of middle age and the unexpected turns a life can take. Like her predecessors Ann Beattie and Raymond Carver, Mary Miller brings an essential voice to her generation. Building on her critically acclaimed novel, The Last Days of California, and her biting collection, Always Happy Hour, Miller slyly transports readers to her unapologetic corner of the South--this time, Biloxi,...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Espanol
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
"Desde hace casi un siglo, Biloxi es conocida por sus playas, complejos turísticos e industria pesquera. Pero también tiene un lado oscuro. Esta ciudad de Mississippi es además famosa por el crimen y la corrupción: desde el juego, la prostitución y el contrabando hasta el narcotráfico y los asesinatos a manos de sicarios. Un pequeño grupo controla la actividad criminal y se rumorea que muchos de ellos son miembros de la mafia del sur, conocida...
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