Kate Wilhelm
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Barbara Holloway novels volume 10
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After finding a file with incriminating material, Elizabeth Kurtz takes her small son and flees her ex-husband and his mother. Although the wealthy family employs a detective agency to find her, she manages to elude them. When Elizabeth's housemate is accused of killing her attorney Barbara Holloway defends her. Barbara gradually realizes the importance of the secret papers and her life is now at risk as she takes on a killer.
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Barbara Holloway novels volume 9
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When Jay Wilkins accuses former criminal-turned-Vegas entertainer Wally Lederer of stealing a priceless artifact, attorney Barbara Holloway must prove Wally's innocence when Jay is murdered, a gamble that could destroy one life in an attempt to save another.
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Barbara Holloway novels volume 8
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When a well-bred client hands Barbara Holloway a large retainer and asks for complete anonymity, the Oregon attorney is both intrigued and suspicious. The woman, a respected music professor and member of a group that sponsors worthy causes involving women, wants Barbara to defend Carol Fredricks, a gifted young pianist who stands accused of murdering the manager of a piano bar. Not long ago Barbara heard Carol play, and that is enough to convince...
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Barbara Holloway novels volume 12
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Barbara Holloway is a low-key attorney in Eugene, Oregon, who left her father's high-powered firm to handle small legal problems for local residents and ponder her next move. But while trying to sort out her own future, two people, desperate for help, show up on her doorstep: former pro football player Martin Owens and his wife, Binnie. Binnie, who is mute, met her husband when she sneaked aboard his boat while it was docked in Haiti and smuggled...
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Barbara Holloway novels volume 7
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The Kelso-McIvey rehabilitation center is a place of hope and healing for both its patients and dedicated staff. For its directors, it's a lifelong dream that's about to be destroyed, if David McIvey has his way. A brilliant surgeon whose ego rivals his skill with a scalpel, McIvey now has controlling shares in what has always been a non-profit clinic. His plan is to close the clinic and replace it with a massive new surgery center, with himself at...
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Part memoir, part writing manual, Storyteller is an affectionate account of how the Clarion Writers' Workshop began, what Kate Wilhelm learned, and how she passed a love of the written word on to generations of writers. Includes writing exercises and advice. A Hugo and Locus award winner.
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Hiram Granville, a modern Leonardo, secured more than a thousand patents during his lifetime, often just ahead of others who had already been working the same ideas. His son John, an economics genius, never lost a cent in the stock market—or any other financial deal—and was investigated for insider trading on more than one occasion. Now Cat, a documentarian; her researcher, Mercy; and Cracker Jack, an electronics whiz, are doing a film about the...
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Private investigator Charlie Meiklejohn is called on to follow the trail of a suspected serial arsonist but finds himself teaming up with his quarry to face a much deeper problem: a malfunctioning alien space probe that has caused random outbreaks of madness and murder that occur in old, abandoned wooden buildings.
9) In Between
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Sam and Lori had only just met and now they are dead, the result of a car accident. Accident? No. Dead? Not exactly. In life, Sam was a successful playwright, Lori a secretary for Ben Carnahan, a scheming movie producer who wants Sam's new script and whose negligence on a movie set twenty years earlier killed Lori's father. Now Sam and Lori are ghosts out of sequence with the real world yet fully aware of their existence. As they work together to...
10) No Defense
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Lara and Vinny Jessup had a lovely May-December marriage—until the day Vinny was found dead. Initially, the sheriff in Loomis County thinks that Vinny died when his car rolled over on a bad curve on Lookout Mountain. But then he finds a gunshot wound. Was it suicide, or was it murder? With a large insurance policy as her motive, Lara could have staged the death…or so it appears to the sheriff. Barbara Holloway is a trial lawyer who tends to take...
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Constance Leidl and Charlie Meiklejohn are an unlikely pair of detectives. He is a former arson detective; she is a psychologist. Together, the husband-and-wife team has a knack for unraveling a mystery. “Seven Kinds of Death” is a famous sculpture, but the name takes on new meaning when bodies start turning up at the creator's art colony. A party launching the art tour of an old friend and the opening of her husband's condominiums turns tragic...
12) Malice Prepense
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Someone has murdered a congressman, and evidence points to Teddy Wendover. Though he's six-foot-two and twenty-eight years old, Teddy has the mental capacity of a child. Lawyer Barbara Holloway must find out if his capacity includes killing.
13) The Best Defense
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When the sister of “Baby Killer” Kennerman asks for help, attorney Barbara Holloway reluctantly looks into matters and finds that incompetent lawyers and a smear campaign from the local right-wing press are going to allow a killer to go free.
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In Kate Wilhelm's latest crime novel, a small Oregon town is rocked by a wheels-within-wheels case of art, fraud, and murder. Silver Bay, Oregon, a small coastal resort town of under a thousand residents, is home to three generations of women: Marnie, the long-widowed owner of a small gift shop; Van, her granddaughter who is about to graduate from medical school; and Stef, mercurial and difficult, a brilliant artist who refuses to sell her work. When...
15) Whisper Her Name
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Charlie didn't want to take this case—he hated cases involving crazy wills—but when one of the new clients mentioned that the Bainbridge men are cursed, he knew resistance was hopeless: Constance could not resist confronting a curse. In a quiet college town in New Jersey, five million dollars in cashier's checks lies hidden in a dead man's house, and whoever finds the checks gets to keep it all. Four family members have four weeks before the house...
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Travis Morgan's case seems open and shut: a plot to kill his estranged father, fundamentalist preacher Arlie Morgan, goes awry and his bullet slays an innocent bookkeeper. Two eyewitnesses seal Travis' fate. But despite damning evidence and an admitted hatred of his father, Travis staunchly maintains his innocence. Beseeched by his anguished mother, veteran defense attorney Barbara Holloway agrees to represent Travis. With the support of her father,...
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From 1966 to 1980, Damon Knight created the Orbit series of anthologies of science fiction, representing the finest writing in the genre. Nineteen of Kate Wilhelm's stories were included in this series of twenty-one volumes. Among these are "Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang," an exploration of infertility and cloning in the aftermath of global environmental collapse. It won the Locus, Jupiter, and Hugo Awards for Best Novel in 1977. "The Planners"...
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It started with a promise, a pact. It became a secret that no one must tell—that their parents were dead and gone, including the one they'd buried in the backyard. Now the McNair children are growing older, discovering love, college, and careers. But their lie haunts them. Their home holds them captive. Only the horrifying truth of their mother's death can set the children free. And only the truth can destroy them all.
19) Huysman's Pets
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Stanley Huysman, a Nobel Prize-winning scientist, had spent his later years on far-out experiments disregarded by the scientific community. It's only after his death that Drew Lancaster, hired to write the man's biography, discovers his visionary genius—as well as a sinister plot that involves a web of secrets.
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Trial lawyer Barbara Holloway has a reputation for taking on the toughest cases and winning them. But this time it looks as though she's up against an unbeatable opponent. The trial involves the murder of Gus Marchand, a hard-working, God-fearing man who was found dead on his kitchen floor. The locals cast their suspicions toward Alex Feldman, Marchand's hideously deformed neighbor, without any real evidence linking him to the crime. At the request...