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Type of bind: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN num: 9781551668727
ISBN number: 1551668726
Label: Mira
Manufacturer: Mira
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 448
Printing Date: April 01, 2002
Publishing house: Mira
Sale Popularity Level: 129612
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Five years ago Barbara Holloway gave up practicing law, disillusioned with a profession that put politics before justice. Then she receives a phone call, with a simple message: 'I need you.'
Nell Kendrick's husband disappeared seven years earlier, abandoning his young family. Nell hasn't seen him since -- until the day Lucas Kendricks arrives at the edge of her property and is shot, instantly killed.
Accused of his murder, Nell turns to lawyer Frank Holloway for help. But Frank knows he cannot win this case alone. He calls upon his daughter, Barbara, who remains 'death qualified' -- legally able to defend clients who face the death penalty if convicted.
Barbara is determined to stay distanced from the case, but the more she learns, the more questions she finds herself asking. Is Nell innocent, as Frank attests? Where has Lucas Kendricks been for the past seven years? Despite her vow, Barbara finds herself drawn to the case . . . and reclaims the search for truth that very first led her to the law.
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This is a tantalizing book! I loved the sci-fi angle and am surprised that some thought what the scientists were doing was never explained. It seems very clear to me what was going on and it's all fascinating. You use your mind and your imagination.
Wilhelm brings her sci-fi experience from "Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang" to the mystery genre and does it very well!
I'm looking forward to reading the subsequent book in her "Barbara Holloway" series.
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This book started with such great promise. I can still recall the opening chapters and the hope I felt for Wilhem's 'death qualified'. Unusual for most mysteries, Wilhelm opens her story with two pre-cursors. She takes the voice very first of a husband who slowly wakes from a drugged fog he has been in for close to a decade, then she takes the voice of that mans wife. These very first sixty or so pages were very well crafted and intrueging enough to leave me ready for a small masterpiece. At very first Wilhelm's story does not disapoint. However, as the pages start to turn, you begin to realize that this entire book is just one huge mess.
I could have lived with this being a mystery/courtroom drama, but Wilhelm goes well beyond that. Her courtroom scenes are nothing great. When you read something remarkable like Tom Wolfe or the best of Turow, you are sucked into the unfolding scene and it reads as crisply as any genre. Here, the story is slow, not much new occurs, and in the end your scratching your head. When the courtroom scenes end however, you are left with several chapters, so you know more will occur. But just what does transpire is such hogwash that you loose all respect for the book. The scifi stuff is not only silly, but unexplained as to what it might pertain, why the seeming bad guys are bad and why the heck this is here at all.
Lastly, the end is one of the worst I have ever read. This book goes from a great start to just plain awful. I cant stress enough how mad you will be come the last few pages. Not only could you have preticted this sort of very easily, but it reaks. This story reaks of ineptitude. Stay away from Death Qualified or you might find yourself not reading another book for a good while due to the bad taste it leaves in your mouth.
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This is one of those mysteries that stays with you, that you think about even when you're not reading it, that you start thinking about when you wake up in the morning. And those are SO rare!!
It's complicated, thoughtful, and the characters are well-drawn; detailed enough that you can differentiate them and remember them, even days later. This book was so well written, when I finished it, I ordered the only Kindle book available by the author in the series.
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I recently read Wilhelm's The Deepest Water, finding it flat and predictable. It was with great pleasure, therefore, that I found myself engrossed from the opening sentence of Death Qualified, in which the heavily sedated and confusing world of Lucas Kendricks is revealed. Page by page, the suspense builds until, about a third of the way through, the murder comes almost as a relief. From that point forward, the plot becomes ever more complex, as characters and circumstances, emotions and evidence, puzzles and solutions, emerge and rebound. Although I was able to identify the murderer fairly early, basing my guess upon information contained within a single sentence, the motive and methods were much more difficult to discern. Some scenes could have been eliminated (the pursuit through the woods, for instance, and one of the romantic affairs), and several loose ends were left dangling (just exactly did Doc's wife know?), but such flaws are minor enough to ignore when balanced against the novel's considerable assets. The excitement comes to an abrupt end in the final chapter, which is subtly chilling.
Intelligent and satisfying.
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After reading this book (certainly not a story), I am now disappointed qualified. This book was difficult to follow, went all over the place and had the worst ending I've ever endured.
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