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Cargando... First Kill All the Lawyers (1988)por Sarah Shankman
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InscrÃbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Entertaining, lightweight mystery with numerous cliches: female reporter returns to her hometown after disatsrous marriage, encounters old flame who did her wrong, sticks her nose in when a lawyer turns up dead. The Southern nouveau riche like to drink, have affairs, get facelifts, practive shady economics, and it gets one of them killed. Sam (antha) gets herself into trouble by investigating. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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HTML:A crime reporter returns to her Southern roots and digs up dirt on a friend's murder in this mystery series debut: "Right on target . . . A rollicking good read" (Lawrence Block, award-winning author). Back in Atlanta after years on the Left Coast, crime reporter Samantha Adams finds that the more things change, the more they stay the same. Beau, the boy who broke her heart eons ago, is now a medical examinerâ??and just as handsome as ever. The pace is still slow, the tea is still sweet, and backwoods sheriffs still rule with a strong hand and steady aim. But when lawyer and family friend Forrest Ridley turns up dead, Sam has a hard time accepting the sheriff's ruling that it was just an accident. Around here, good manners and a healthy fear of gossip prevent people from speaking freely, especially about extramarital "slippin'." But when Sam and Beau team up to uncover the truth about Ridley's death, they encounter more than the ordinary Southern reticence. Following a trail of adultery, dirty money, and murder, they soon find themselves in a killer's crosshai No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Crime reporter Samantha ‘Sam’ Adams is back in her hometown of Atlanta after living in California for 20 years. Her Uncle George is a retired lawyer slowly losing his sight and Sam moves back in. It’s as if she’s never left. When a family friend and fellow lawyer disappears and then turns up dead, Sam can’t help but question the accidental death he is labeled with by the suspiciously crooked Sheriff. Sam smells a story, two stories actually. One about Forrest Ridley the ‘accidental’ death victim and the other about crooked good ol’ boy Sheriffs in the South. Can Sam get to the bottom of these stories or will she end up at the bottom of a lake?
A satisfactory mystery with enough twists and turns to keep one guessing this story has great characters and humor, plus a possible rekindling of a long ago romance. I’m not very forgiving so Beau, no matter how handsome and hot he is, would get the cold shoulder from me indefinitely. But Sam seems to be thawing and I find that disappointing. If he’s going to come back into her life I wish she’d make him suffer for longer than one book. But then, that’s just me. Overall though I found the portrayal of the South funny and fairly accurate. At least from what I’ve seen and heard as a Yankee (from OH) who has moved to NC. I may not be living in the Deep South, but close enough. *winks* ( )