A divorced lady who daughter is murdered five years ago contacted a contract killer in a bar. She wants his professional services. Contract killer asked her to whom she wanted to kill. She told the contract killer that she wanted to kill herself. After some days the lady was killed at red light on road in daylight. Some days later contract killer elder brother contacted a lawyer who wants to represent his brother. Once the same lawyer saved Contract Killer Elder brother life from death Row. The Lawyer met the contract killer on request of his elder brother. Contract killer told the all conversation happened with the lady. The lawyer listened him carefully and asked “did he killed her”. But contact killer denied for the same. Contract killer show him the letter that he found from lawyer of the murdered lady. The lawyer asked contract killer elder brother to check the truth in his version. After the lot of interrogation by the elder brother of contract killer but contract killer did not move his words at any point. Later lawyer attend the lady lawyers office. There he found 4 more person waiting for the deceased lawyer. There are ex-husband of deceased, a divorc lawyer, a press reporter and a assistant attorney general. Later deceased lawyer arrived in the meeting room and address all with the “Bill of Deceased”. In the “Bill” all 5 members were the beneficiaries of deceased Estate and shares. One more beneficiary is also there but he will be hidden according to bill. But there is a condition for being a beneficiary. And condition is - according to the bill of deceased the last one who survived himself out of six will get the all assets and share of deceased. It means if someone aged 99 years and one among them will death at age of 98 years, 99 years aged who survived himself till last will be the owner of estate.WHO LAST DIE……………………………..
An earlier Jack Swyteck novel, Last To Die has an interesting premise. Having lost her daughter to an intruder some years before Sally Fenning has remarried and then divorced a wealthy French businessman who, among other things, is involved in the cocoa business in the Ivory Coast using child slave labour to enhance his profits. After only 18 months married to him, Sally gets a sizeable divorce settlement which has now grown to $46 million. For reasons which don't become clear until late in the novel Sally decides to hire a hit man to kill her. And she is killed. Jack Swytek becomes involved when he is asked to represent Tatum, criminal brother of Theo whom he had rescued from death row some years before. Tatum informs Jack that he was approached by Sally about killing her but turned the job down.Then Jack and Tatum are invited to a lawyer's office re Sally's will. Sally has named six heirs, none of whom are family and one of whom is Tatum.The wrinkle is that only the last surviving of the six named will inherit the money. Then the games begin as there are attempts to scare some out of the running and the killing begins.There is an interesting twist at the very end which helps make sense of the whole shebang.Not Grippando's best novel but an interesting read nonetheless.
The third book in the Jack Swyteck series is a strong entrant. It's got greed, deception, mystery, stalking, and a character haunted by their tragic past.The tortured character is a woman whose daughter was murdered, unable to stand life anymore she attempts to hire a contract killer to murder her however she is turned down, only to still turn up dead two weeks later.At the reading of her will six people who made her life difficult are named in her will, all beneficiaries to 46 million dollars... if they are the last one alive.Enter dead bodies and subterfuge.Overall a well paced legal thriller/murder mystery that was not at all predictable and an easy pleasurable read.
—Henri Moreaux
Loved it. Great story, great murder mystery, set in Florida in places I know.A young Sally Fenning is murdered and leaves her millions to several folks.....but only to the one that survives. Obviously, they were not Sally's friends, so as one is bumped off after the other, who is the killer? Who killed her child, why was her child killed.Love, mystery and friendship as criminal defense lawyer Jack Swytek trys to solve the mystery, and in doing so, becomes the target! Actually, this was on the book tape, and read by Ken Howard...great to listen to while ironing! Get lots ironed!!!!
—Jan
The best part of this thriller was the plot; a beatiful young woman was found shot dead in her Mercedes...it seemed she had moved on from her struggling waitress days when she was brutally attacked and her young daughter killed in their own home. Having divorced and then remarried a wealthy foreign man, she left a will distributing $48 million--but the potential heirs (including a hired killer, her ex-husband, a newspaper reporter) start dying off.The payoff (to the story!)was feasible and a little shocking. A good entertainment read but, like a rich dessert, will soon become another on the long list of thrillers and mysteries I have read.
—Sharon
