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MIAMI LAW: "Bum Rap," "Bum Luck" & "Bum Deal"
THREE SIZZLING LEGAL THRILLERS FROM THE AMAZON #1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR★Lassiter vs. Solomon & Lord. Buckle up. It's going to be a bumpy trial!★THE Jake Lassiter, the linebacker-turned-lawyer who searches for justice against overwhelming odds. Victoria Lord, a brilliant young lawyer who practices law by the book. And Steve Solomon, who believes that if the facts don't fit the law...you bend the facts.BUM Bar girls, pricey champagne, and Russian gangsters make a deadly mix for Solomon who's accused of killing a South Beach club owner. Defending him, Lassiter tries to beat the murder rap...and resist his growing feelings for Victoria Lord. "Bum Rap" is a #1 overall bestseller on Amazon with more than 4,000 four and five-star reviews.BUM Why does Lassiter want to kill his own client? On the opposite side of a lawsuit, Solomon and Lord fear he's had too many concussions playing football and is suffering from a fatal brain disease. Lassiter meets Dr. Melissa Gold, who will play a role in his medical life and his romantic life.BUM Lassiter vs. Solomon & Lord in a murder trial. Sparks fly when Lassiter prosecutes a prominent surgeon accused of killing his wife...and Solomon and Lord defend the case. Lassiter's mental condition worsens, while his relationship with Dr. Melissa Gold ripens into love.★★★★★"The pages fly by and the laughs keep coming in this irresistible South Florida romp. A delicious mix of thriller and comic crime novel." - Booklist (starred review of "Bum Rap")★★★★★"Is any crime novelist funnier and more serious and more quotable than Levine?" - Mystery Scene (review of "Bum Luck")★★★★★"Fascinating, fully developed characters and smart, well-paced dialogue keep the pages turning." - Publishers Weekly (starred review of "Bum Deal")★★★★★
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Published September 18, 2020
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Paul Levine
81 books558 followersThe Genius and the Tramp Fight Fascists in 1930's Hollywood
MIDNIGHT BURNING - September 2025
“Ingeniously pairs real-life friends Albert Einstein and Charlie Chaplin on a roller coaster ride to save America from a fascist threat within its borders.” – Jacqueline Winspear, author of the Maisie Dobbs series.
Award-winning author Paul Levine weaves historical figures into a gripping, true-to-life plot to overthrow the U.S. government in the sizzling thriller MIDNIGHT BURNING.
It's 1937 and clouds of war gather over Europe, and American fascists march at home. While the FBI chases suspected communists, Nazi agents plot an armed insurrection. When the world’s two most famous men–Albert Einstein and Charlie Chaplin–uncover the scheme, which includes the assassination of Hollywood’s biggest stars, they fight back with nothing but their ingenuity, raw courage, and the fierce resolve of Georgia Ann Robinson, LAPD’s first Black female officer.
Levine—praised by The New York Times for his “realistic, gritty, and fun” novels—delivers a breathtaking thriller laced with humor and a larger-than-life cast, including Charles Lindbergh, Douglas Fairbanks, William Randolph Hearst, and Joseph Goebbels.
"This could be Levine's masterpiece." - Lee Goldberg, New York Times #1 Bestselling Author
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Jake Lassiter tackles high school football and becomes the most hated man in Miami in EARLY GRAVE, Paul Levine's sizzling legal thriller.
"An extraordinary hero stars in a legal tale as believable as it is riveting." - Kirkus Reviews
"Levine scores with this complex and witty legal thriller. This winner works even for those new to the series." - Publishers Weekly (★starred review★)
When his godson suffers a catastrophic injury in a high school football game, lawyer Jake Lassiter sues to abolish the sport and becomes Public Enemy Number One. The former NFL linebacker also battles CTE, the fatal brain disease caused by repetitive head injuries. His personal life, too, hits a rocky patch. He's in couple's therapy with fiancée Dr. Melissa Gold and vows to live long enough to fix his relationship and achieve justice for his godson.
"Grounded in reality, EARLY GRAVE is a novel with heartfelt emotion, flashes of humor, and high-octane excitement." - Franco Harris, NFL Hall of Fame Running Back
STILL GOING STRONG:
CHEATER’S GAME is a stand-alone entry in the Jake Lassiter series.
"Clever, funny and seriously on point when it comes to the inequities of society and the justice system, CHEATER'S GAME is top-notch stuff from Paul Levine. His Jake Lassiter is my kind of lawyer!" - Michael Connelly
You may ORDER HERE.
ALSO AVAILABLE: BUM DEAL.
“Fascinating, fully developed characters and smart, well-paced dialogue keep the pages turning. Levine manipulates the expectations of the reader as skillfully as Jake manipulates the expectations of the jury” — Publishers Weekly (★starred review★)
"Drop everything...Read it now...BUM DEAL is fantastic." - Lee Child
MIDNIGHT BURNING - September 2025
“Ingeniously pairs real-life friends Albert Einstein and Charlie Chaplin on a roller coaster ride to save America from a fascist threat within its borders.” – Jacqueline Winspear, author of the Maisie Dobbs series.
Award-winning author Paul Levine weaves historical figures into a gripping, true-to-life plot to overthrow the U.S. government in the sizzling thriller MIDNIGHT BURNING.
It's 1937 and clouds of war gather over Europe, and American fascists march at home. While the FBI chases suspected communists, Nazi agents plot an armed insurrection. When the world’s two most famous men–Albert Einstein and Charlie Chaplin–uncover the scheme, which includes the assassination of Hollywood’s biggest stars, they fight back with nothing but their ingenuity, raw courage, and the fierce resolve of Georgia Ann Robinson, LAPD’s first Black female officer.
Levine—praised by The New York Times for his “realistic, gritty, and fun” novels—delivers a breathtaking thriller laced with humor and a larger-than-life cast, including Charles Lindbergh, Douglas Fairbanks, William Randolph Hearst, and Joseph Goebbels.
"This could be Levine's masterpiece." - Lee Goldberg, New York Times #1 Bestselling Author
ORDER FROM AMAZON HERE.
ORDER FROM BARNES & NOBLE HERE.
ORDER FROM BOOKSHOP HERE.
**********************************************;
Jake Lassiter tackles high school football and becomes the most hated man in Miami in EARLY GRAVE, Paul Levine's sizzling legal thriller.
"An extraordinary hero stars in a legal tale as believable as it is riveting." - Kirkus Reviews
"Levine scores with this complex and witty legal thriller. This winner works even for those new to the series." - Publishers Weekly (★starred review★)
When his godson suffers a catastrophic injury in a high school football game, lawyer Jake Lassiter sues to abolish the sport and becomes Public Enemy Number One. The former NFL linebacker also battles CTE, the fatal brain disease caused by repetitive head injuries. His personal life, too, hits a rocky patch. He's in couple's therapy with fiancée Dr. Melissa Gold and vows to live long enough to fix his relationship and achieve justice for his godson.
"Grounded in reality, EARLY GRAVE is a novel with heartfelt emotion, flashes of humor, and high-octane excitement." - Franco Harris, NFL Hall of Fame Running Back
STILL GOING STRONG:
CHEATER’S GAME is a stand-alone entry in the Jake Lassiter series.
"Clever, funny and seriously on point when it comes to the inequities of society and the justice system, CHEATER'S GAME is top-notch stuff from Paul Levine. His Jake Lassiter is my kind of lawyer!" - Michael Connelly
You may ORDER HERE.
ALSO AVAILABLE: BUM DEAL.
“Fascinating, fully developed characters and smart, well-paced dialogue keep the pages turning. Levine manipulates the expectations of the reader as skillfully as Jake manipulates the expectations of the jury” — Publishers Weekly (★starred review★)
"Drop everything...Read it now...BUM DEAL is fantastic." - Lee Child
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February 27, 2021
No wonder books are burned.
Almost illiterate
Sophomoric and poorly written. Characters are not as impressive as Miss Piggy or Kermit. If this author sold a million books, America is doomed.
Almost illiterate
Sophomoric and poorly written. Characters are not as impressive as Miss Piggy or Kermit. If this author sold a million books, America is doomed.
March 7, 2021
A Legal Eagle
Jake is a busy lawyer. He knows his stuff, but knocked around to many times as a football player. That’s how he meets the new love of his life. You need to read the series to know more.
Jake is a busy lawyer. He knows his stuff, but knocked around to many times as a football player. That’s how he meets the new love of his life. You need to read the series to know more.
April 15, 2024
BUM RAP
An entertaining book. One lawyer, found alone in a locked room with the corpse literally with a smoking gun and powder residue in his hand, in jail for murder, and two lawyers on the outside looking for the real murderer. That search takes us pretty much to the end of the book, and involves diamond smuggling, B-girls, the Russian Mafia, big bad men, some emotional angst. At the very end, the scene moves to the courtroom (this is promoted as a legal thriller), where the State and the FBI, caught in an embarrassing situation, drop the charges.
BUM LUCK
Not much law in this one, which is a smart howdedo on the evasion of justice and the use of dirty tricks to entrap two lawyers and indict them of offences just before one of them files papers for election, and before the other is arrested on charges of bribing a juror.
BUM DEAL
The OJ case recast with slight variations. Lord is defending an ex boyfriend, Solomon’s instincts warn him that something is off, while good old Jake is on the prosecuting side this time, with no body, no fingerprints, no sign that a murder was committed. When the big bucks talk, witnesses go missing, or on the stand, turn hostile. A good amount of medical information, romance and football, but not much courtroom action. And poetic justice at the end, what we love.
An entertaining book. One lawyer, found alone in a locked room with the corpse literally with a smoking gun and powder residue in his hand, in jail for murder, and two lawyers on the outside looking for the real murderer. That search takes us pretty much to the end of the book, and involves diamond smuggling, B-girls, the Russian Mafia, big bad men, some emotional angst. At the very end, the scene moves to the courtroom (this is promoted as a legal thriller), where the State and the FBI, caught in an embarrassing situation, drop the charges.
BUM LUCK
Not much law in this one, which is a smart howdedo on the evasion of justice and the use of dirty tricks to entrap two lawyers and indict them of offences just before one of them files papers for election, and before the other is arrested on charges of bribing a juror.
BUM DEAL
The OJ case recast with slight variations. Lord is defending an ex boyfriend, Solomon’s instincts warn him that something is off, while good old Jake is on the prosecuting side this time, with no body, no fingerprints, no sign that a murder was committed. When the big bucks talk, witnesses go missing, or on the stand, turn hostile. A good amount of medical information, romance and football, but not much courtroom action. And poetic justice at the end, what we love.
February 1, 2021
Very good legal stories with good characters and plot lines. All three books kept me reading at a rapid pace. Story endings did not disappoint. I enjoyed Paul Levine's writings enough that I want to read more of his books.
September 19, 2021
It grows on you
The series started slow. And kinda predictable. The third book in series picks up heat and even left me guessing where it was headed. If you enjoy Levine read the series.
The series started slow. And kinda predictable. The third book in series picks up heat and even left me guessing where it was headed. If you enjoy Levine read the series.
February 3, 2022
First time reader.
Great powerful characters and their stories are strong. The writing was outstanding and kept me intrigued from the beginning to the end. I can't wait to read more!
Great powerful characters and their stories are strong. The writing was outstanding and kept me intrigued from the beginning to the end. I can't wait to read more!
February 26, 2022
Miami law
This set was a good way to start following the book characters of Paul Levine and get a better idea of the twists he brings to the legal system. His references to football are great ties to the real world.
This set was a good way to start following the book characters of Paul Levine and get a better idea of the twists he brings to the legal system. His references to football are great ties to the real world.
January 13, 2023
Heat
If you like murder and mayhem, you'll love this trifecta book series. Lassiter, Solomon and Lord will definitely keep you coming back. Each story had excitement to the very last page. This is a good read and it definitely delivers. Miami Law is that heat!
If you like murder and mayhem, you'll love this trifecta book series. Lassiter, Solomon and Lord will definitely keep you coming back. Each story had excitement to the very last page. This is a good read and it definitely delivers. Miami Law is that heat!
September 19, 2023
3rd book in series
Enjoyed this book! Had a lot of unexpected suspense in it. I figured out the truth but had to read through to the end to find out for sure. I would read the series in order so you don’t miss anything.
Enjoyed this book! Had a lot of unexpected suspense in it. I figured out the truth but had to read through to the end to find out for sure. I would read the series in order so you don’t miss anything.
January 13, 2021
As a break in my usual reading, I will read a mystery every now and again. This triple grouping fit perfectly into my schedule.
February 16, 2021
I really enjoyed the series. And Lassiter had jokes. I read while exercising and the co members of gym would occasionally hear me laugh a loud.
April 25, 2021
Really loved these three books
I’m a new fan of Levine as a result of these three books. I am going to read more Lassiter!
I’m a new fan of Levine as a result of these three books. I am going to read more Lassiter!
July 30, 2021
Delight!
If you like the law with all its twists and turns then you will love this trio! It was such a delightful read.
If you like the law with all its twists and turns then you will love this trio! It was such a delightful read.
July 30, 2021
Great Read
Enjoyed the first three books, interesting characters, not a heavy read so it moves along. Found the details of living in Miami interesting.
Enjoyed the first three books, interesting characters, not a heavy read so it moves along. Found the details of living in Miami interesting.
July 31, 2021
My thoughts
I learned some things about concussion brain damage. I Like.. the characters. They were a good mix of personalities. Also liked the family interaction.
I learned some things about concussion brain damage. I Like.. the characters. They were a good mix of personalities. Also liked the family interaction.
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August 23, 2021Author has great sense of humor!
January 28, 2022
Hmmmm just have to read.
Loved all three stories; however the last ones twist was definitely twisted how's that for not giving the story away.
Loved all three stories; however the last ones twist was definitely twisted how's that for not giving the story away.
March 18, 2022
This was my first encounter with Jake Lassiter. I love the character -- he's real!
October 21, 2022
Interesting light reading. The three books are a little repetitive but have different storylines. I became tired of hearing about Jake's headaches, etc.
November 7, 2022
Good read
Really good 👍 story Relaxing intriguing and suspenseful Could not put it down Looking forward to the next story Thank you
Really good 👍 story Relaxing intriguing and suspenseful Could not put it down Looking forward to the next story Thank you
January 20, 2023
Great read. Loved the characters. Lots of suspense and humor. Looking forward to the other books in the series.
February 4, 2024
Read 12/11/2020.
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