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Wild justice

Phillip Margolin

1975360 pagesabout 6–8 hours
1975
first published
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When the heads of two women are found in a cabin, adjacent to the site of a mass-grave of long-missing bodies outside Portland, Oregon, all signs point towards a surgeon with a history of violence and drug abuse. As the junior member of her father's law firm, young and ambitious lawyer Amanda Jaffe becomes closely involved with the case and its participants: the surgeon's beautiful wife; an overzealous detective; a brutal mobster, and a vituperative hospital administrator. When evidence amassed against the surgeon is overturned due to procedural misconduct, the surgeon disappears, seemingly confirming suspicions about his guilt. But then a second series of murders is discovered, revealing a pattern identical to the first. Is the surgeon back, carrying out his crimes incognito? Or is there a copy-cat killer? Amanda Jaffe's quest for the truth places her squarely in the middle of a story of murder and revenge of epic preportions, in a thriller whose pace and unexpected twists and turns will leave readers gasping for breath, and guessing till the very end.

How it feels

AtmosphereNoir

How it reads

Plot intensityEventful

When and where

ThemesJustice
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