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Defense for the Devil

Kate Wilhelm

1999389 pagesabout 6–9 hours
1999
first published
  • 1999St. Martin's Press · 389 pages · ENGISBN 9780312198541
  • 2007Blackstone Audiobooks · ENGISBN 9780786167302
  • 2007Blackstone Audiobooks · ENGISBN 9780786170647
  • 2007Blackstone Audiobooks · ENGISBN 9780786146765
  • 2000Mira · 448 pages · ENGISBN 9781551666280

Attorney Barbara Holloway has taken on the sort of cases no one else wants - hopeless messes, all of them - and with the help of her father, Frank, she has pulled through each time. But even from the start, this new case is different. Mitch Arno always meant bad news for the coastal town of Folsum, Oregon. When they ran him out of town seventeen years ago, he left behind a wife with two daughters and a family that never wanted to see him again. When he returns, he brings trouble in the form of a lot of suspicious money. As Barbara attempts to counsel Mitch's wife about the money, a second form of trouble arrives: a corpse, Mitch's. And now Barbara is in a morass of conflicting interests, and the only way out could lead her straight into the arms of the devil.

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Plot intensityEventful

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ThemesJustice
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