Sleight of hand : a novel of suspense
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- ISBN: 9780062069917 (hc.)
- ISBN: 9780062069931 (pbk.)
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Physical Description:
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312 p. ; 24 cm. - Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : Harper, c2013.
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Subject: | Women private investigators -- Fiction Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction |
Genre: | Suspense fiction. |
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Summary:
Charles Benedict -- charismatic criminal defense lawyer, amateur illusionist, and professional hit man -- has performed his greatest sleight of hand yet: framing a millionaire for the murder of his much younger wife.When Horace Blair married Carrie, the prosecutor in his DUI trial, he made her sign a prenuptial agreement guaranteeing her twenty million dollars if she remained faithful for the first ten years of marriage. Just one week before their tenth anniversary, Carrie disappears, and Horace is charged with her murder. Desperate to clear his name, the millionaire hires D.C.’s most ruthless defense lawyer -- Charles Benedict.P.I. Dana Cutler is in the Pacific Northwest on the trail of a stolen relic dating from the Ottoman Empire. Hitting a dead end sends her back to Virginia perplexed and disappointed -- and straight into the case of Horace and Carrie Blair.Now Dana must conjure a few tricks of her own to expose Benedict’s plot, before he can work his deadly magic on her...