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Sarah Woolson
Minotaur Books
July 2005
On Sale: July 1, 2005
288 pages
ISBN: 0312328575
EAN: 9780312328573
Hardcover
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Historical | Mystery Woman Sleuth
Though her own San Francisco law firm barely tolerates
her, gutsy young attorney Sarah Woolson flouts proper
feminine behavior in this nineteenth-century answer to
Legally Blonde. While her mother begs her to settle down,
her chauvinistic boss tries to come up with ever more
spiteful ways to pressure his only female associate into
quitting. Naturally, Sarah digs in her heels and vows to
retain her position at any cost. Besides, she has no
intention of straying too far from the action. When the wife of wealthy society entrepreneur Leonard
Godfrey drops dead of an apparent heart attack at a
charity dinner for the new Women and Children's Hospital,
Sarah's curiosity gets the better of her. But no one will
believe in her theory that Caroline Godfrey's death was
not natural - until several more people affiliated with
the hospital die of inexplicable causes. Meanwhile, when a pregnant widow whose husband has died in
a sweatshop fire asks for Sarah's help in finding the
owner so that she can sue for recompense, our feisty
heroine insists on taking the case against her boss's
orders. With the help of her colleague Robert Campbell and
an eager young hansom cabdriver named Eddie, Sarah goes on
a manhunt for Killy Doyle, the menacing head of the
factory underworld. But she can't ignore the mysterious
deaths at the Women and Children's Hospital - especially
when the hospital's Chinese chef is arrested for the
murders and the Chinese community's most powerful Tong
Lord asks her to defend him. Faced with her first criminal trial, Sarah stops at
nothing to determine the killer's identity. But in trying
to exonerate her client, she places her own life in
danger. Will Sarah figure out who the murderer is, or will
she be the final victim?
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