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Bill Grose

    Sleeping Beauty
    Rules of Evidence
    • Sleeping Beauty

      • 630pages
      • 23 heures de lecture

      Anne Garnett was a brilliant Los Angeles divorce lawyer -- tough, smart and untouchable. The vulnerable girl who had run away from her wealthy, influential family was hidden now behind the glossy facade of her high-powered career. Only the death of Anne's beloved grandfather could bring her back to the town he had built -- Tamarack, the Colorado playground of the rich and famous. Once there she would be drawn again into the tangled passions and fortunes of those who had betrayed her so long ago... Embraced by a sister's love, challenged by a man who offers her everything she could want, Anne is confronted once more by Senator Vincent Chatham, the charismatic man who still waits to destroy her. But Anne is no longer a frightened girl. She is a proud, beautiful woman who must release the paralyzing pain of the past and discover her power to win...in a battle for family empire, honor, and the richest treasure of all...a deep, abiding love.

      Sleeping Beauty1992
    • Rules of Evidence

      • 340pages
      • 12 heures de lecture

      Raymond Boudro, San Antonio's best black criminal lawyer, has publicly branded white police detective Mike Stennett a racist. But now Boudro has accepted Stennett as a client, with one warning: The truth or I ruin you. Stennett is accused of beating a black drifter to death; an eyewitness claims to have seen the whole thing. With his own hard-won reputation at stake, and a client even other cops distrust, Boudro is driven by a gut feeling for justice. Even Stennett, he believes, would not stubbornly insist he is innocent against such odds unless something in this perplexing case were not what it seemed to be.Combing through the evidence, working his network of childhood buddies, informers, and dealers on San Antonio's east side, Boudro unearths a witness who can probably determine the outcome of the trial. But he still has nagging doubts about his client's character and his plea. As the curtain rises on the courtroom drama, the stage is set for a double and deadly duel--not simply Prosecution v. Defense, but a community's volatile emotions v. the raw and shattering truth.

      Rules of Evidence1992
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