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Deadly Defiance: (10 Stan Turner Mysteries)

Deadly Defiance: (10 Stan Turner Mysteries)


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In this 10th Stan Turner Mystery Jodie Marshall has worked her way up from secretary to attorney and in her first case Stan assigns her the lead in the investigation of the suspicious death of a worker in a local sweatshop. The family believes the owner, Icaro Melendez, ordered the worker's murder in retaliation for his complaint to the Department of Labor. Thrilled by the assignment Jodie boldly launches into an investigation and soon finds herself working undercover. While Stan and Jodie are busy with Melendez, Stan's partner, Paula Waters, takes on the defense of a young mother accused of stabbing her husband to death with an ice pick. Paula is ecstatic to get such a high profile case until she finds out her client is broke and this isn't the first time she's been accused of killing her husband with an ice pick.

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William Manchee is at it again with his tenth legal thriller, Deadly Defiance: A Stan Turner Mystery. No doubt, Manchee, who is a Texas attorney in real life, is quite familiar with the drama that can emanate from practicing law. In his latest yarn Manchee focuses on three different cases that his cast of attorneys must confront. And for those of you who are not familiar with Manchee's previous novels, his legal minds include Stan Turner, his partner, Paula Waters and their junior associate, Jodie Marshall. As the novel unfolds, Walters takes on a case involving a woman, Maureen Thompson whose husband left her high and dry with children to support. The IRS is after her husband and as they filed joint tax returns, the wife is on the hook for her husband's IRS debt to the tune of one hundred thousand dollars. However, this is not the only mess she is in, her husband has just been murdered and Thompson has been accused of killing him with an ice pick. Coincidentally, she lost her first husband in a similar manner, however, and although she was likewise accused of the crime, she escaped conviction. Nonetheless, she has been pinned with the name of "the ice pick murderer." The second case involves a Hispanic woman, Pandora Alvarez whose husband recently died at the age of fifty-three under very strange circumstances. Pandora believes he didn't die of natural causes but rather was murdered. He was in perfect health, he didn't drink, smoke or take drugs. The medical examiner ruled it was a drug overdose. As we are to learn, Alvarez worked for some very unsavory characters that were part of a drug cartel. Apparently, he recently reported his boss, Icaro Melendez to the Department of Labor alleging that his company, Alliance Fabrications had failed to pay overtime and employed underage children. Melendez didn't exactly welcome the accusations and threatened Alvarez for his disloyalty. In the third case, Turner is appointed by the court as attorney ad litem on a matter of probate. Herbert J. Wolf had died in a plane crash and was survived by his wife, Glenda, but supposedly without children. It seems that the decedent did not die immediately after the crash and while he was clinging to life in the hospital, he informed several nurses and the attending physician that he had a son Mitch. He wanted them to find Mitch and bring him to him, so he could meet him before he died. The problem, however, was that none of Wolf's family, which included his wife and siblings, never heard of Mitch. Nonetheless, Wolf's doctor felt obliged to inform the probate court of the possibility of an unknown heir. As a result, and as it is standard procedure to appoint an attorney ad litem for the unknown heirs of an estate during the probate process, Turner was given the task. Manchee is a very capable story teller and is able to effectively maintain our interest throughout with his crisp no-frills style devoid of complex legal jargon. In addition, with his strong and controlled writing, he carries his three plots along with just the right amount of believability concerning witnesses, clues, and evidence... Norm Goldman


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781929976874
  • Publisher: Top Publications, Ltd.
  • Publisher Imprint: Top Publications, Ltd.
  • Height: 216 mm
  • No of Pages: 376
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 25 mm
  • Width: 140 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1929976879
  • Publisher Date: 15 Nov 2018
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Series Title: 10 Stan Turner Mysteries
  • Weight: 662 gr


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