Barbara Holloway is a trial lawyer who tends to take on difficult cases. One involved a woman accused of killing her own child, another involved a mentally disabled 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.
Lara Jessup is accused of killing her husband or of covering up his suicide. Barbara Holloway, an extraordinary trial lawyer and her father, Frank Holloway, an even sharper lawyer, come up against the local land baron. Marguerite Gavin takes the listener through Barbara Holloway's intricate task of sifting through facts, rumor, innuendo, and the tangled web of the past. Gavin's steady narration slowly gains connection, momentum, and character as she fleshes out each person and event. Wilhelm's twisted tale, never quite gets going toward the anticipated conclusion, even to the very last word. As the lawyers uncover more information, the tension grows as the listener learns the underlying causes for murder, cover-up, and power in the Oregon desert country. M.B.K. (c) AudioFile 2001, Portland, Maine
About the Author
Kate Wilhelm is the author of more than three dozen books. Her fiction has been translated into many languages and has received numerous awards. She and her husband, Damon Knight, helped found the Science Fiction Writers of America and the Clarion Writers Workshop. They live in Eugene, Oregon.
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