Overview
In Susan Isaacs' most ambitious and dazzling novel to date, we are introduced to Lee White, a criminal defense lawyer practicing on Long Island. Into her life drifts Norman Torkelson, a career con man charged with strangling to death his latest mark. At first the case seems routine, the evidence overwhelming. Norman--manly, magnetic, and morally reprehensible--is a man who crisscrosses America working his cruel marriage scam: love 'em, liquidate their assets, leave 'em. Clearly, he murdered Bobette Frisch, his latest patsy. But just as Lee is resigning herself to the inevitable "Guilty " verdict, she begins to have doubts. What, after all, was Norman's motive? Why not do what he had done for the last twenty years: run, and leave behind a broke and broken-hearted victim? Lee starts to wonder if her client is not merely not guilty, but covering for the real killer--and, in doing so, performing the first selfless act of his life.
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- ISBN-13: 9781441717412
- ISBN-10: 1441717412
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date: January 2010
- Dimensions: 6.58 x 6.6 x 1.97 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.01 pounds
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