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Also by Kate Wilhelm:

Cold Case (Barbara Holloway Novels), August 2009
Mass Market Paperback
Cold Case, August 2008
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A Wrongful Death, July 2008
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A Wrongful Death, September 2007
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Sleight Of Hand, August 2007
Mass Market Paperback
Sleight of Hand, September 2006
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The Price of Silence, August 2006
Paperback
Unbidden Truth, October 2005
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The Price of Silence, October 2005
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Storyteller, August 2005
Trade Size
Clear and Convincing Proof, August 2004
Paperback (reprint)
Skeletons, July 2003
Paperback (reprint)
Desperate Measures, June 2002
Paperback (reprint)
Death Qualified, April 2002
Paperback (reprint)
Deepest Water, August 2001
Paperback (reprint)
No Defense, January 2001
Paperback (reprint)
Defense for the Devil, January 2000
Paperback (reprint)

No Defense
Kate Wilhelm

Barbara Holloway Series, #5
MIRA
January 2001
Featuring: Lara and Vinny Jessup; Barbara Holloway
448 pages
ISBN: 1551667851
Paperback (reprint)
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Mystery Legal | Fiction

Barbara Holloway's a trial lawyer who tends to take on difficult cases. One involved a woman accused of killing her own child, another involved a mentally handicapped man, and her last one found her entangled in such a mess that it's a wonder she lived through it at all. But in every previous case she has had some fragment with which she could build an argument. This time out, it seems there's no defense at all.

Lara and Vinny Jessup had a lovely May-December marriage. It renewed his lease on life after a battle with cancer, and it rescued her from a bad first marriage.

Initially, the sheriff out in Loomis County thinks that Vinny died when his car rolled over on a bad curve on Lookout Mountain. Then he finds the gunshot wound. Was it suicide or was it murder? With a large insurance policy as her motive, Lara could have staged the death—-or so it appears to the sheriff.

Barbara Holloway finds herself drawn to the Oregon desert to take on this case, accompanied by her associates: her colleague Shelley with her Barbie-doll looks, the inimitable detective Bailey Novell, and her father Frank (who's soon to be a published writer!).

But the case itself is as dead as the desert. Is there any defense at all?

Compelling and distinctive, this drama demonstrates anew why Kate Wilhelm is considered a master of the form.

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