The Anthony and Macavity Award-winning author of Death in Little Tokyo (1996) and The Toyotomi Blades (1997) moves back in time with his third mystery, a quietly reflective historical puzzler set in early-17th-century Japan. Matsuyama Kaze is a ronin?an unaffiliated, wandering samurai?whose personal
Death At the Crossroads
โ Scribed by P.J. Donison
- Book ID
- 115247944
- Publisher
- PublishDrive
- Year
- 2024
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 322 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781778038730
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โฆ Synopsis
When hotshot litigator Aaron Anders' wife, Suzanne, goes looking for a divorce attorney, every lawyer in town turns her down. Except one.
What was Camelia Belmont thinking?
Desperate to make partner, Camelia takes Suzanne's case, despite Aaron's notorious scorched earth tactics. But when another high profile client kills himself, and her chances of making partner fizzle, Camelia barely manages to hold her anxiety and the vodka bottle at bay. To complicate matters, Suzanne's health is failing, and all she wants is to die divorced. But the Paradise Valley socialite's life gets complicated when sexy senior associate Kaitlyn Fischer is killed on her way to a midnight tryst ... in Suzanne's car.
Was Suzanne's car used as a murder weapon? And was Suzanne the real target? Camelia's boss, criminal defense attorney Byron McCaffrey, doesn't want any part of it, but when she discovers a link to a product liability case Anders won on...
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