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The Unbidden Truth (Barbara Holloway Novels (Paperback))

The Unbidden Truth (Barbara Holloway Novels (Paperback))

by Kate Wilhelm

Oregon lawyer Babara Holloway has a reputation for taking on the most difficult cases -- and winning them. But even she can't begin to anticipate the bizarre twists waiting ahead. The large retainer offered by a client who asks for complete anonymity is not the only thing that intrigues Barbara Holloway. The defendant, Carol Fredricks, is a gifted young pianist charged with killing the manager of a piano... (more)

The Best Defense (Audiofy Digital Audiobook Chips)

The Best Defense (Audiofy Digital Audiobook Chips)

by Kate Wilhelm

"ENGROSSING...Wilhelm provides suspense and excitement while adeptly portraying Barbara <Holloway> as a wily and sympathetic heroine." --Publishers Weekly The neighborhood in Eugene, Oregon, is blue-collar; the cafe holds only three tables and four booths. But it's the only place attorney Barbara Holloway feels both productive and peaceful. Laptop computer on the table, coffee refilled regularly by the... (more)

The Deepest Water

by Kate Wilhelm

Considered "one of the masters of psychological fiction in America" ( San Francisco Chronicle ), Kate Wilhelm serves up an irresistably chilling puzzle that will keep readers captivated until the very end. When Jud Connors, a successful writer, is found murdered in his isolated cabin in the woods of Oregon, his daughter Abby's world starts to fall apart. Who wanted her father dead and why? More puzzling is... (more)

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The Path into Healing

by Sam Oliver

The Path into Healing is a model for healing through the feminine side of the soul. The purpose of this book is to outline a process whereby a person can understand and acquaint him or herself with an aspect of our awareness often neglected in our world today. Much of the emphasis in our world is on what a person can achieve without regard to how these achievements affect the world and the people living in these... (more)

Another Path into Healing

by Sam Oliver

This book is the masculine side of the soul portrayed in an image of a man looking inside a cave desiring to penetrate it, and discovering his inner self. Just like The Path into Healing, introducing the feminine side of healing, this book will uncover the other side of all our souls. It will be the masculine side. This journey into the masculine soul appears to do the opposite of the feminine spirit, but this is... (more)

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Smart House

by Kate Wilhelm

A Wrongful Death

by Kate Wilhelm

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? The peace and quiet of Barbara's retreat on the Oregon coast is shattered when a terrified young boy calls to her as she walks along a deserted beach. Frantically he leads her to a cabin deep in the woods where his mother lies senseless and battered --... (more)

The Price Of Silence

by Kate Wilhelm

Disappearances. Murder. The Price of Silence in a Small Town. In dire need of a job, Todd Fielding accepts the offer to work at The Brindle Times -- even if she has to move to the lackluster town of Brindle. As she settles into her new home, Todd is fully prepared to adapt to the boredom of small-town life, but her preconceptions of Brindle are completely shattered when a local girl disappears. Even more... (more)

Death Qualified (Barbara Holloway Novels (Paperback))

Death Qualified (Barbara Holloway Novels (Paperback))

by Kate Wilhelm

Five years ago Barbara Holloway gave up practicing law, disillusioned with a profession that put politics before justice. Then she receives a phone call, with a simple message: "I need you." Nell Kendrick's husband disappeared seven years earlier, abandoning his young family. Nell hasn't seen him since -- until the day Lucas Kendricks arrives at the edge of her property and is shot, instantly killed. ... (more)

Clear and Convincing Proof

by Kate Wilhelm

The Kelso-McIvey rehabilitation center, a place of hope and healing for both its patients and dedicated staff, is about to be destroyed. David McIvey plans to replace it with a massive new surgery center, with himself at the helm. When McIvey is murdered outside the clinic's doors, lawyer Barbara Holloway must use her razor-sharp instincts and take-no-prisoners attitude to defend the two members of the clinic... (more)

Malice Prepense

by Kate Wilhelm

Attorney Barbara Holloway defends a twenty-eight-year-old man with the mental capacity of a young child, who is accused of murdering one of Oregon's senators. By the author of Death Qualified. Tour.

Where Late The Sweet Birds Sang: A Novel

Where Late The Sweet Birds Sang: A Novel

by Kate Wilhelm

Before becoming one of today's most intriguing and innovative mystery writers, Kate Wilhelm was a leading writer of science fiction, acclaimed for classics like The Infinity Box and The Clewiston Test . Now one of her most famous novels returns to print, the spellbinding story of an isolated post-holocaust community determined to preserve itself, through a perilous experiment in cloning. Sweeping, dramatic,... (more)

Skeletons

by Kate Wilhelm

Lee Donne's family is gifted. Her mother has three doctorates, her father is an economics genius, and her grandfather is a world renowned Shakespearean scholar. Lee's own gift, if you could call it that, is an eidetic memory that seems to maintain a visual representation of everything she's ever seen. For the most part, this gift is useless; it certainly hasn't helped Lee in college, where she's just spent four... (more)

Seven Kinds of Death

by Kate Wilhelm

Former arson detective Charlie Meiklejohn and psychologist Constance Leidl team up to investigate sculptor Marion Olsen's artist's colony when bodies begin turning up there. Original.

The Dark Door

by Kate Wilhelm

Charlie and Constance must figure out who has been setting fire to abandoned hotels, restaurants, and schools around the country. Reprint. PW.

No Defense

by Kate Wilhelm

Barbara Holloway's a trial lawyer who tends to take on difficult cases. One involved a woman accused of killing her own child, another involved a mentally handicapped man, and her last one found her entangled in such a mess that it's a wonder she lived through it at all. But in every previous case she has had some fragment with which she could build an argument. This time out, it seems there's no defense at... (more)

Desperate Measures (Barbara Holloway Novels (Paperback))

Desperate Measures (Barbara Holloway Novels (Paperback))

by Kate Wilhelm

Barbara Holloway has a reputation for taking on the toughest cases . . . and winning them. But this time she's up against an unbeatable opponent -- her father, the lawyer who taught her all she knows. Gus Marchand, a hardworking, God-fearing farmer, is found dead on his kitchen floor, and suspicion soon falls on Alex Feldman, Marchand's hideously deformed neighbor. At the request of another attorney,... (more)

The Good Children

by Kate Wilhelm

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, 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... (more)

Justice for Some

by Kate Wilhelm

"First-rate...Accomplished...A welcome change from the expected." PUBLISHERS WEEKLY Judge Sarah Drexler is still trying to recover from her husband's death, when she is asked to run for Oregon State judge. She leaves for her father's California home to think about it, and reunite with her moody son and pregnant daughter. Then her father dies suddenly. A private detective is killed. And one of her own children is a... (more)

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