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She was a lawyer with an unsympathetic client The first day of trial, the defendant bared his nicotine-stained teeth at the jury as it filed into the courtroom. His clothing, combined with his yellow teeth, oily hair, and prominent hooked nose, made him look like Lucifer's indigent second cousin. It soon became clear to everyone, including Robin Starling, his idealistic attorney, that he would have killed Bill Hill if he had felt like it. The only question was, had he felt like it back on that brisk March day?

She should have had that second fritter . . . But instead Robin Starling agrees to represent the D.A.'s sister in a murder trial. An orthopedic surgeon, prominent in local politics, has been found dead in her apartment. Now the D.A. wants help-from the attorney he just tried to get disbarred-and trust seems to be a commodity in short supply. Once again, attorney Robin Starling must risk her career to discover who is lying and who is not, to untangle the intersecting knots of pursuit, love, and betrayal-and to herself find true love while people all around her are engaged in . . . Sexual Misconduct

Robin Starling traces a pistol that arrived in her mail to a recently murdered man who had been cheating on his wife. The police like the wife for the crime. The D.A. likes Robin as an accessory-after-the-fact. Robin, though she feels sympathy for the widow and her young son, likes running with her dog and hanging out with her teddy-bear boyfriend, but she is a young attorney in need of work. The case promises to be the case of her career right up to the moment when everything goes ballistic.