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    A Wrongful Death

    By Kate Wilhelm

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    Who knew that being a Good Samaritan would lead Barbara Holloway to face her biggest challenge ever: being named prime suspect in a high-profile kidnapping?

    Barbara's peace at her retreat on the Oregon coast is shattered when a terrified young boy leads her to a cabin in the woods where his battered mother has clearly been left for dead. Barbara runs for help, but by the time she returns both mother and son are gone.

    The puzzle deepens when Barbara learns the boy she met is the grandson of a prominent family...and they have accused her of aiding his disappearance.

    With the help of her father, Frank, she delves into the mystery, only to realize the kidnapping is a ruse for a more sinister plan--one that pits the meaning of family against cold hard cash.

    Troubling obstacles thwart Barbara's every move--from the justice system that employs her to the false identities of those around her. Yet none will compare with the shocking murder scene that awaits her.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarlequin MIRA
    Release dateOct 15, 2012
    ISBN9781460305744
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    Kate Wilhelm

    Kate Wilhelm's first novel was a mystery, published in 1963. Over the span of her career, her writing has crossed over the genres of Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction, fantasy and magical realism; psychological suspense, mimetic, comic, and family sagas, a multimedia stage production, and radio plays. Her works have been adapted for television and movies in the United States, England, and Germany. Wilhelm's novels and stories have been translated to more than a dozen languages. She has contributed to Quark, Orbit, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Locus, Amazing Stories, Asimov's Science Fiction, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Fantastic, Omni, Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, Redbook, and Cosmopolitan. Wilhelm and her husband, Damon Knight (1922-2002), also provided invaluable assistance to numerous other writers over the years. Their teaching careers covered a span of several decades, and hundreds of students, many of whom are famous names in the field by their own rights today. They helped to establish the Clarion Writer's Workshop and the Milford Writer's Conference. They have been the guests of honor and panelists at numerous conventions around the world. Wilhelm continues to host monthly workshops, as well as teach at other events. She is an avid supporter of local libraries and participates in fundraisers when she is able to.

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    • 4/5
      I am a big fan of Kate Wilhelm, especially the Barbara Holloway series. I feel I "know" the key people in these books quite well. Thhe plot seemed a bit stretched but nonetheless the story was a good one. As always, I enjoyed listening to it.
    • 4/5
      Attorney Barbara Holloway needs to think; or to avoid thinking; or maybe she just needs to get away. In any case, she has been drifting from motel to motel for weeks when she rents a remote cabin as her next stop. Of course trouble manages to find her, just as it always has. She comes upon a frightened little boy who leads her to his semi-conscious mother, who lies beaten in the rain. Left to die, and in this wilderness the little boy would have died, too, had he not found help. When help arrives they are gone - but to where and why? I enjoyed reading this book, its a new author for me, I certainly will save this author's name for future reads.
    • 2/5
      Mystery regarding a woman, accused of abducting her son and hiding him from the husbands powerful family. Corporate secrets are stolen, another woman murdered in place of the heroine, big bucks at stake. Lots of interesting details to sort thro by Barbara Holloway and her father.
    • 4/5
      I have always enjoyed the Barbara Holloway series and one night, unable to sleep, I picked this on one of my listening devices, and started listening. The initial premise hooks you right away. Elizabeth Kurtz flees her nere-do-well ex-husband after she discover a file of documents that, we learn later but suspect from the beginning, has information that will damage her ex-husband’s father’s corporation. The father is on death’s door and her ex- is desperately trying to find a document that would assign him part of the corporation before his father dies and his mother can retrieve it. Or so we are lead to believe. Elizabeth’s ex-mother-in-law hates Elizabeth and her grandson Jason.

      Elizabeth flees with her son attempting to hide (why she hides in the father-in-law’s cabin in the woods seemed ill-advised or at the very least dumb.) Barbara, hiding from her own demons and a proposal from her boyfriend (another strange reaction,) is found by a frantic Jason on a deserted beach seeking help for his mother who has suffered what appears to be a beating. Elizabeth makes the woman as comfortable as possible, but when she and her cabin’s caretaker arrive back on the scene, both the boy and his mother are gone. Barbara returns home to discover she is suspected of complicity in the suspected kidnapping of Jason and killing of his mother. The plot thickens as Elizabeth and Barbara try to avoid the law and the killers and still maintain some important secrets. The denouement was reminiscent of the classic Rex Stout and Agatha Christie where the detective/lawyer gets the principles in a room and forces out the truth.

      Personally, I would have preferred more courtroom antics and less personal soul-searching by Barbara over Darren, her on-again-off-again boyfriend. Some of the antagonism with the police seemed forced and my eyes kept rolling back into my head as I remarked to myself, “come on, people, if you sat down and everyone explained what they knew,. . . Then again, I suppose there would have been no story. Still, an enjoyable audiobook.
    • 4/5
      Great ending!! For the most part, this book flowed well. The beginning wasn't as page-turning as the middle and end, but it had enough of the plot set up that when things began to happen to Barbara, you were running along with her. This is the second Wilhelm book that I've read and she definately has a new fan. Her plots are well thought out and twisted enough to make the reader use their heads while reading. I was forced to pay attention because I didn't want to miss one little detail that would probably make a big difference in upcoming scenes of the story. Since this is part of a series of books with main character Barbara Holloway, I'll definately be checking out the next one. Honestly though, I don't think that I'll back up and pick up others prior to A Wrongful Death. Cold Case is the follower to this one, and I've added it to my wish list!