Barbara Holloway Series, #5
MIRA
January 2001
Featuring: Lara and Vinny Jessup; Barbara Holloway
448 pages ISBN: 1551667851 Paperback (reprint) Add to Wish List
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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