Books

	"Illegal" Author: Paul Levine Published: March 24, 2009 by Bantam Series Name: Jimmy (Royal) Payne Category: THRILLER; HUMAN TRAFFICKING; SEXUAL SLAVERY; ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION; CALIFORNIA FICTION Main Character: Jimmy (Royal) Payne In this breakneck new thriller by Edgar-nominated Paul Levine, a combative Los Angeles lawyer searches for a missing woman and is swept up in the world of illegal immigration, human trafficking, and sexual slavery. Click for more info.

	"Trial & Error" Author: Paul Levine Published: February 1, 2007 by Bantam Series Name: Solomon & Lord Main Character: "Characters you can't help loving, and sparkling dialogue that echoes the Hepburn-Tracy screwball comedies...what we hope will be a long and successful series."--CHICAGO SUN-TIMES When Steve Solomon is awakened from a sound sleep beside his lover and law partner, Victoria Lord, the last thing he expects is to find himself in a high-speed chase against dolphin-kidnapping ecoterrorists on Jet Skis. But that's what you get when your nephew hangs out at water parks and speaks cetacean -- a.k.a. dolphin language. Click for more info.

	"Kill All the Lawyers" Author: Paul Levine Published: September 1, 2006 by Bantam Series Name: Solomon & Lord Category: LEGAL THRILLER & COMIC MYSTERY Main Character: They're the legal world's oddest couple, Steve Solomon, a shorts-and-sandals beach bum and Victoria Lord, a Coral Gables blue blood. Maybe the only thing keeping them from killing each other is that they're on the same side. When Steve is awakened from a sound sleep beside his lover and law partner, Victoria, the last thing he expects is to find himself in a high-speed chase against dolphin kidnapping eco-terrorists on Jet Skis. But that's what you get when your nephew Bobby hangs out at water parks and speaks cetacean - a.k.a. dolphinese. By dawn, one person is dead and Steve has a new client: none other than one of the animal liberators. There's just one problem: Victoria is on the case too - the opposite side - as the prosecutor. Click for more info.

	"The Deep Blue Alibi" Author: Paul Levine Published: February 1, 2006 by Bantam Series Name: Solomon & Lord Category: LEGAL THRILLER & COMIC MYSTERY Main Character: Steve Solomon & Victoria Lord, Miami lawyers who squabble in the tradition of Tracy & Hepburn. What do you get when you mix beautiful people, family secrets, and a yacht washed up on Sunset Key with a hundred grand in cash and a dying man? Click for more info.

	"Solomon vs. Lord" Author: Paul Levine Published: October 1, 2005 by Bantam Series Name: Solomon & Lord Category: LEGAL THRILLER & COMIC MYSTERY Main Character: Steve Solomon, a beer and burger guy who loves baseball, and Victoria Lord, a Chardonnay and pate gal who loves ballet. The mismatched lawyers bring chaos to the courtroom in a trial in which a beautiful young woman is accused of killing her older, richer husband. “Solomon vs. Lord” is a fast-paced, battle-of-the-sexes dramedy featuring two young Miami lawyers who love/hate each other. Steve Solomon and Victoria Lord can’t agree on "good morning." But life sizzles when the law partners are together and fizzles when they’re apart. A 21st Century "Moonlighting in the Courtroom." (Nominated for a Macavity Award and the James Thurber Prize for American Humor). Click for more info.