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Also by William Lashner:

Four-Night Run, June 2016
Paperback / e-Book
Guaranteed Heroes, October 2015
e-Book
Blood And Bone, November 2009
Mass Market Paperback
Blood And Bone, February 2009
Hardcover
A Killer's Kiss, October 2008
Mass Market Paperback (reprint)
A Killer's Kiss, September 2007
Hardcover
Marked Man, June 2007
Mass Market Paperback
Marked Man, June 2006
Hardcover
Falls the Shadow, May 2006
Paperback (reprint)
Falls the Shadow, May 2005
Hardcover

FALLS THE SHADOW
By: William Lashner

William Morrow
May 2005
Featuring: Victor Carl
432 pages
ISBN: 0060721561
Hardcover
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Unlike the rest of you, I cheerfully admit to my own utter selfishness. I am self-made, self-absorbed, self-serving, self-referential, even self-deprecating, in a charming sort of way. In short, I am all the selfs except selfless. Yet every so often, I run across a force of nature that shakes my sublime self-centeredness to its very roots. Something that tears through the landscape like a tornado, leaving nothing but ruin and reexamination in its wake. Something like Bob. --Victor Carl

A beautiful young woman is dead, her husband convicted of the murder. In seeking a new trial for the husband, defense attorney Victor Carl must confront not only a determined prosecutor and a police detective who might have set up his client, but also a strange little busybody named Bob.

Bob has the aspiration, one could even say compulsion, to help those around him. And it usually works out well for all concerned, except when it ends in blood. But Victor doesn’t know that . . . yet.

Thanks to Bob, Victor is suddenly dressing better, dating a stunning woman, and both his economic prospects and his teeth are gleaming. It’s all good, until Victor finds a troubling connection between Bob and the murdered wife. Is Bob a kind of saint or is this obsessive Good Samaritan, in reality, a murderer?