"A dazzling thriller about a young woman whose fabulously wealthy mother might be the victim of an elaborate con or might be losing her mind – and the daughter can't tell where the truth lies.
Julie's mother Kate is a force of nature – a glamorous woman of seventy, a self-made real estate developer, a grande dame in Florida society, and a power broker in Florida politics. It wasn't easy for Julie to grow up in the shadow of such a dynamo, but she loves her mother, and she and her husband Eric are thrilled when Kate marries her long-lost high school sweetheart, a salt-of-the-earth man named Charlie.
But their storybook romance ends abruptly. On their wedding night, Kate calls the police in hysterics to report that Charlie just confessed to a notorious unsolved crime from decades before.
Charlie says she imagined it. Eric says that Kate has dementia. And the FBI says that Charlie couldn't possibly have committed that crime.
Julie doesn't know what to believe. Is her brilliant mother losing her mind? Or is sweet, lovable Charlie gaslighting Kate to gain control of her fortune?
As Julie tries to navigate through this maze of paranoia and mind games, cracks start to develop in her own marriage as it seems that Eric is keeping secrets . . ."
"Brillant, weiblich, rasant:
Mit dem packenden Psychothriller 'Die Anwältin' liefert Autorin und Juristin Bonnie Kistler authentische Hochspannung um eine erfolgreiche, knallharte Verteidigerin, die diesen einen Fall besser verloren hätte …
»Ein explosiver Page-Turner!« Publishers Weekly
Kelly McCann ist brillant, knallhart und liebt es zu gewinnen. Sie ist die perfekte Anwältin. Ihr Spezialgebiet: die Verteidigung von Männern, denen Sexualverbrechen vorgeworfen werden - fälschlicherweise, so stets ihr Plädoyer. Bis sie, unmittelbar nach seinem Freispruch, die grauenvolle Wahrheit über einen ihrer Mandanten aus erster Hand erfahren muss. Darüber sprechen kann sie mit niemandem. Nicht, ohne alles zu verlieren. Aber ihren Peiniger deshalb ungestraft davonkommen zu lassen, ist für Kelly keine Option. Stattdessen verbündet sie sich mit seinen anderen Opfern und gemeinsam schmieden sie einen Plan. Und auf diesem steht nur eines: Rache! Doch irgendjemand, so scheint es, hat es auf die Frauen abgesehen …"
""A masterfully written saga of family drama in the vein of Celeste Ng, Liane Moriarty, and Sally Hepworth" (Book Reporter) about a blended family in crisis after a drunk driving accident leaves one parent's daughter dead—and the other's son charged with manslaughter.
Divorce lawyer Leigh Huyett knows all too well that most second marriages are doomed to fail. Yet five years in, she and Pete Conley couldn't be happier with their blended family.
But one rainy Friday night, on the way back from celebrating their anniversary, Peter and Leigh receive horrific news. Peter's son Kip, a high school senior, has crashed his truck and been arrested for drunk driving. And Leigh's fourteen-year-old daughter, Chrissy, was with him.
Twelve hours later, Chrissy is dead and Kip is charged with manslaughter.
Reeling with grief, Leigh nonetheless does her best to rally behind Peter and Kip. That is, until Kip changes his story and claims that he wasn't driving after all—Chrissy was, and he swears there is a witness.
As they hurtle toward Kip's trial date, husband and wife are torn between loyalty to their children and to each other, while the mystery of what really happened that night looms large."
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