Goodbye Girl: A Novel
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"This is the eighteenth Swyteck novel since The Pardon (1994), and it's just as good as the rest. Grippando keeps coming up with complex and timely cases, and this one is first-rate." — Booklist
A contentious intellectual piracy case leads to an unsolved murder, and Jack Swyteck's client—a pop music icon—is the accused killer.
Piracy costs the movie and music industry billions. No one has been able to stop it. But that won't stop Miami criminal defense lawyer Jack Swyteck. His latest client, Imani Nichols, is a Grammy-winning popstar whose career has skyrocketed. Despite her success, she's the most underpaid superstar on the planet because of an onerous record contract she signed as a teenager with her now ex-husband Shaky Nichols, who has made himself rich off her royalties.
Preferring to see thieves profit from her music than let her ex-husband pocket one more dime, Imani takes to social media and tells her millions of fans to "go pirate" and download her music illegally. Her hardball tactic leads to scorched-earth litigation, and now she needs Jack's help.
The case takes a deadly turn when salacious allegations of infidelity send Imani and Shaky down a path of mutual assured destruction, each implicating the other in the unsolved murder of Imani's extra-marital lover twelve years ago. Tyler McCormick died of asphyxiation, and his body was found in Biscayne Bay, chained to a piling with the words "goodbye girl" impressed on his chest. Despite their fierce denials, Imani and Shakey are both indicted for murder, leading to a sensational trial that exposes shocking secrets about their failed marriage, their cut-throat business partnership, and Imani's astonishing success.
Yet as Jack discovers, uncovering the truth about the killing and the cryptic "goodbye girl" won't just exonerate or convict his client, her ex, and their music empire. It may shape the future of the entire recording industry.
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James Grippando. (2024). Goodbye Girl: A Novel. HarperCollins.
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"This is the eighteenth Swyteck novel since The Pardon (1994), and it's just as good as the rest. Grippando keeps coming up with complex and timely cases, and this one is first-rate." — Booklist
A contentious intellectual piracy case leads to an unsolved murder, and Jack Swyteck's client—a pop music icon—is the accused killer.
Piracy costs the movie and music industry billions. No one has been able to stop it. But that won't stop Miami criminal defense lawyer Jack Swyteck. His latest client, Imani Nichols, is a Grammy-winning popstar whose career has skyrocketed. Despite her success, she's the most underpaid superstar on the planet because of an onerous record contract she signed as a teenager with her now ex-husband Shaky Nichols, who has made himself rich off her royalties.
Preferring to see thieves profit from her music than let her ex-husband pocket one more dime, Imani takes to social media and tells her millions of fans to "go pirate" and download her music illegally. Her hardball tactic leads to scorched-earth litigation, and now she needs Jack's help.
The case takes a deadly turn when salacious allegations of infidelity send Imani and Shaky down a path of mutual assured destruction, each implicating the other in the unsolved murder of Imani's extra-marital lover twelve years ago. Tyler McCormick died of asphyxiation, and his body was found in Biscayne Bay, chained to a piling with the words "goodbye girl" impressed on his chest. Despite their fierce denials, Imani and Shakey are both indicted for murder, leading to a sensational trial that exposes shocking secrets about their failed marriage, their cut-throat business partnership, and Imani's astonishing success.
Yet as Jack discovers, uncovering the truth about the killing and the cryptic "goodbye girl" won't just exonerate or convict his client, her ex, and their music empire. It may shape the future of the entire recording industry.
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September 1, 2023
In Grippando's Goodbye Girl, Jack Swyteck's latest client is Grammy-winning popstar Imani Nichols, who urges fans to pirate her music because her royalties go mostly to ex-husband Shaky Nichols; the result is blazing litigation and the indictment of both for the long-ago murder of Imani's extramarital lover (50,000-copy first printing). Prepub Alert.
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Florida defense lawyer Jack Swyteck hasn't changed much since we last saw him in 2021's Twenty. He's still a tough-as-nails crusader, and his latest case is a doozy. In a conflict that resembles the discord over ownership rights between Taylor Swift and Scooter Braun, a pop musician is embroiled in a dispute over money with her ex-husband, and to make sure her ex doesn't get a dime, she encourages her fans to pirate her music. Now the dispute has escalated. She and her ex are accusing each other in the unsolved murder of her former lover, and Jack must figure out who's telling the truth. This is the eighteenth Swyteck novel since The Pardon, and it's just as good as the rest. Grippando, who practiced law for several years before becoming a novelist, keeps coming up with complex and timely cases, and this one is first-rate.COPYRIGHT(2023) Booklist, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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A feud between a pop-singing phenom and her ex-husband pulls Florida lawyer Jack Swyteck into a whirlpool of murder, betrayal, and modern-day piracy. Music mogul Shaky Nichols has sued his ex, the single-named Imani, for defaming him by charging that he stole much of her back catalog when EML Records, the company he controls, simply bought the copyrights in secret. (He'd been about to present them to her as a surprise, Shaky claims, when she filed for divorce.) Even though Imani publicly accused Shaky of pirating her music and urged her zillions of fans to retaliate by pirating the recordings he owns, Jack, her lawyer, manages to get Shaky's suit dismissed without prejudice, but the trouble doesn't go away. Even worse, the trouble is linked to the corpse of Tyler McCormick, who was strangled and chained to a piling on Florida's Isola di Lolando 12 years ago. The FBI presses Imani to meet privately with Russian oligarch Vladimir Kava, whose teenage granddaughter wants a private concert, so that she can wear a wire and record him acknowledging that he and his son, Sergei, are running a global digital piracy operation. When that meeting doesn't come off as planned, Jack finds himself back in court with his unreliable client, who's charged, like her ex, with that 12-year-old murder, each co-defendant eager to throw the other under the bus. Meanwhile, Jack's agreement with his wife, FBI agent Andie Henning, that they won't discuss their jobs runs aground once again, and his former client and sometime investigator Theo Knight's trip to London suddenly casts him in the role of accessory to a kidnapping and puts him squarely in the Kavas' crosshairs. Enough eye-popping plot developments for a miniseries, which may be exactly the idea.COPYRIGHT(2023) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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A contentious intellectual piracy case leads to an unsolved murder, and Jack Swyteck's client—a pop music icon—is the accused killer.
Piracy costs the movie and music industry billions. No one has been able to stop it. But that won't stop Miami criminal defense lawyer Jack Swyteck. His latest client, Imani Nichols, is a Grammy-winning popstar whose career has skyrocketed. Despite her success, she's the most underpaid superstar on the planet because of an onerous record contract she signed as a teenager with her now ex-husband Shaky Nichols, who has made himself rich off her royalties.
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