Author: Kate Wilhelm
Publisher: Minotaur Books
ISBN: 1429993243
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
Barbara Holloway is a low-key attorney in Eugene, Oregon who left her father's high powered firm to handle small legal problems for local residents and ponder her own next move. But while trying to sort out her own future, two people, desperate for help, show up on her doorstep: former pro football player Martin Owens and his wife Binnie. Binnie, who is mute, met her husband when she snuck aboard his boat while it was docked in Haiti and smuggled herself into the U. S. Now Immigration is seeking to deport her back to Haiti, which would be a death sentence. Born to a woman from Belize who was kidnapped and enslaved by pirates, Binnie's only hope is to prove her and her mother's real identity. With only days to find the truth and protect Binnie, Holloway sets off for Belize. But what she knows is only the tip of the iceberg in what turns out to be one of her most complex, compelling and dangerous cases yet.
Heaven is High
Death Qualified
Author: Kate Wilhelm
Publisher: Fawcett
ISBN: 9780449221556
Category : Detective and mystery stories
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Combines suspense of murder mystery with the inventive terrors of science fiction.
Publisher: Fawcett
ISBN: 9780449221556
Category : Detective and mystery stories
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Combines suspense of murder mystery with the inventive terrors of science fiction.
No Defense
Author: Kate Wilhelm
Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books
ISBN: 9780312209537
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books
ISBN: 9780312209537
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
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.
The Unbidden Truth
Author: Kate Wilhelm
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 1460305779
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 423
Book Description
Oregon lawyer Barbara Holloway has a reputation for taking on the most difficult cases--and winning them. But even she can't begin to anticipate the bizarre twists waiting ahead. The large retainer offered by a client who asks for complete anonymity is not the only thing that intrigues Barbara Holloway. The defendant, Carol Fredricks, is a gifted young pianist charged with killing the manager of a piano bar. But Carol is as much of a mystery as the details of the murder for which she is accused. She can't remember anything about her life before the age of eight, and she has been having haunting nightmares about a woman she cannot identify. Before long Barbara becomes convinced that her client is not only innocent, but is being framed by an enemy who will stop at nothing to keep the past buried. And as she unravels the stunning trail of deception, hatred and a remarkable abiding love that holds the key to the mystery of Carol Fredricks, Barbara discovers that the unbidden truth may just damn them both.
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 1460305779
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 423
Book Description
Oregon lawyer Barbara Holloway has a reputation for taking on the most difficult cases--and winning them. But even she can't begin to anticipate the bizarre twists waiting ahead. The large retainer offered by a client who asks for complete anonymity is not the only thing that intrigues Barbara Holloway. The defendant, Carol Fredricks, is a gifted young pianist charged with killing the manager of a piano bar. But Carol is as much of a mystery as the details of the murder for which she is accused. She can't remember anything about her life before the age of eight, and she has been having haunting nightmares about a woman she cannot identify. Before long Barbara becomes convinced that her client is not only innocent, but is being framed by an enemy who will stop at nothing to keep the past buried. And as she unravels the stunning trail of deception, hatred and a remarkable abiding love that holds the key to the mystery of Carol Fredricks, Barbara discovers that the unbidden truth may just damn them both.
Desperate Measures
Author: Kate Wilhelm
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 031227663X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 395
Book Description
Attorney Barbara Holloway's latest case pits her against her most worthy foe yet--her father--when a friend of his is accused of murder.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 031227663X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 395
Book Description
Attorney Barbara Holloway's latest case pits her against her most worthy foe yet--her father--when a friend of his is accused of murder.
Where Late The Sweet Birds Sang
Author: Kate Wilhelm
Publisher: Orb Books
ISBN: 146683210X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Before becoming one of today's most intriguing and innovative mystery writers, Kate Wilhelm was a leading writer of science fiction, acclaimed for classics like The Infinity Box and The Clewiston Test. Now one of her most famous novels returns to print, the spellbinding story of an isolated post-holocaust community determined to preserve itself, through a perilous experiment in cloning. Sweeping, dramatic, rich with humanity, and rigorous in its science, Where Later the Sweet Birds Sang is widely regarded as a high point of both humanistic and "hard" SF, and won SF's Hugo Award and Locus Award on its first publication. It is as compelling today as it was then. Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang is the winner of the 1977 Hugo Award for Best Novel. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Publisher: Orb Books
ISBN: 146683210X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Before becoming one of today's most intriguing and innovative mystery writers, Kate Wilhelm was a leading writer of science fiction, acclaimed for classics like The Infinity Box and The Clewiston Test. Now one of her most famous novels returns to print, the spellbinding story of an isolated post-holocaust community determined to preserve itself, through a perilous experiment in cloning. Sweeping, dramatic, rich with humanity, and rigorous in its science, Where Later the Sweet Birds Sang is widely regarded as a high point of both humanistic and "hard" SF, and won SF's Hugo Award and Locus Award on its first publication. It is as compelling today as it was then. Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang is the winner of the 1977 Hugo Award for Best Novel. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Skeletons
Author: Kate Wilhelm
Publisher: Mira
ISBN: 9781551667492
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
While house-sitting her grandfather's Oregon home, Lee Donne is tormented by strange noises. Something is hidden in the house. Lee soon realizes the house holds dark secrets that go beyond her own family.
Publisher: Mira
ISBN: 9781551667492
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
While house-sitting her grandfather's Oregon home, Lee Donne is tormented by strange noises. Something is hidden in the house. Lee soon realizes the house holds dark secrets that go beyond her own family.
The Hostage Brain
Author: Bruce S. McEwen
Publisher: Rockefeller Univ. Press
ISBN: 9780874700565
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Publisher: Rockefeller Univ. Press
ISBN: 9780874700565
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Seven Kinds of Death
Author: Kate Wilhelm
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781622050321
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
In this spirited story of an artist's colony in Maryland, we encounter a murder like a work of art: both subtle and dominating, graceful and discreet. From each new angle it shows a different face. Was it, then, the sculptress who strangled the editor? One of her students? Or did some other artist fashion this masterpiece of murder?
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781622050321
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
In this spirited story of an artist's colony in Maryland, we encounter a murder like a work of art: both subtle and dominating, graceful and discreet. From each new angle it shows a different face. Was it, then, the sculptress who strangled the editor? One of her students? Or did some other artist fashion this masterpiece of murder?
Justice for Some
Author: Kate Wilhelm
Publisher: Fawcett
ISBN: 9780449222478
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
"First-rate...Accomplished...A welcome change from the expected." PUBLISHERS WEEKLY Judge Sarah Drexler is still trying to recover from her husband's death, when she is asked to run for Oregon State judge. She leaves for her father's California home to think about it, and reunite with her moody son and pregnant daughter. Then her father dies suddenly. A private detective is killed. And one of her own children is a murder suspect. Suddenly, everything she holds dear is at stake. She's desperatetly trapped between her unrelenting love for her familiy and her staunch loyalty to the law. Whose justice should she serve?
Publisher: Fawcett
ISBN: 9780449222478
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
"First-rate...Accomplished...A welcome change from the expected." PUBLISHERS WEEKLY Judge Sarah Drexler is still trying to recover from her husband's death, when she is asked to run for Oregon State judge. She leaves for her father's California home to think about it, and reunite with her moody son and pregnant daughter. Then her father dies suddenly. A private detective is killed. And one of her own children is a murder suspect. Suddenly, everything she holds dear is at stake. She's desperatetly trapped between her unrelenting love for her familiy and her staunch loyalty to the law. Whose justice should she serve?