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Poisoned Pen Press
June 2014
On Sale: June 3, 2014
250 pages
ISBN: 1464202788
EAN: 9781464202780
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Mystery
As St. Louis attorney Rachel Gold knows firsthand, the
grueling hours and demands of Big Law take their toll on
young lawyers. Some turn to drugs, some quit the profession,
and occasionally one quits altogether. According to the
medical examiner, Sari Bashir quit for good on leaving work
one Thursday night. That's when she fell to her death from the eighth floor of
the downtown garage adjacent to her firm where she parked
her car. The police ruled her death a suicide. Stanley
Plotkin, however, rules it a homicide. Stanley is a genius.
He also has Asperger’s Syndrome which makes employing him
tricky. So Sari’s firm employed Stanley in the mail room.
Among his obsessions is the Facial Action Coding System
(FACS), a massive compilation that correlates hundreds of
facial muscle actions with specific emotions and mental states. For someone like Stanley, who can’t read people’s emotions
from their facial expressions, FACS is like a hearing aid
for the hearing impaired. And his mastery of FACS is so
complete he’s sure that Sari did not kill herself. Rachel
had been close with Sari, who worked for her during law
school. She also knows Stanley because their mothers are
friends. When he calls Sari’s death murder as Rachel drives
him home from Sari's memorial service, she listens. And when Sari's grieving father pleads with Rachel to review
the police file on his daughter's suicide, she reluctantly,
though with consummate skill and deploying unlikely
colleagues, starts an investigation that will lead into the
heart of a dark criminal enterprise rife with collateral
damage. Like Sari….
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