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Zusatztext "Margolin's eleventh may be his best! with everything a thriller should have." Informationen zum Autor Phillip Margolin has written nineteen novels, many of them New York Times bestsellers, including his latest novels Woman with a Gun, Worthy Brown’s Daughter, Sleight of Hand , and the Washington trilogy. Each displays a unique, compelling insider’s view of criminal behavior, which comes from his long background as a criminal defense attorney who has handled thirty murder cases. Winner of the Distinguished Northwest Writer Award, he lives in Portland, Oregon. Klappentext On a summer night in Portland, Oregon, violence erupts at a Little League game -- and attorney Ami Vergano watches in horror as the quiet, gentle artist she recently befriended does the unexpected and unthinkable . . . In a cheap motel room in Washington, D.C., Vanessa Kohler -- ex-mental patient, supermarket tabloid reporter, and estranged daughter of a powerful general running for president -- views a news broadcast of the bizarre incident and believes she's found the only witness to a deadly conspiracy. Caught between a possible madwoman and a confessed mass murderer, between reality and delusion, Ami races to unearth the terrible truth about dark events that may or may never have happened twenty years earlier in a secluded cabin on Lost Lake. Zusammenfassung On a summer night in Portland, Oregon, violence erupts at a Little League game -- and attorney Ami Vergano watches in horror as the quiet, gentle artist she recently befriended does the unexpected and unthinkable . . . In a cheap motel room in Washington, D.C., Vanessa Kohler -- ex-mental patient, supermarket tabloid reporter, and estranged daughter of a powerful general running for president -- views a news broadcast of the bizarre incident and believes she's found the only witness to a deadly conspiracy. Caught between a possible madwoman and a confessed mass murderer, between reality and delusion, Ami races to unearth the terrible truth about dark events that may or may never have happened twenty years earlier in a secluded cabin on Lost Lake. ...
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"Phillip Margolin [is] one of those rare authors who can create a genuinely surprising ending." - Lisa Scottoline, author of Killer Smile
"Sleeping Beauty will keep you awake all night. Phillip Margolin has done it again!" - Harlan Coben, author of No Second Chance
"Lively ... the pacing is brisk, the plot cinematic." - Janet Maslin in the New York Times
"Frighteningly plausible...a page turner." - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
"Delivers the goods, with plenty of action, suspense, and danger." - Booklist
"A powerhouse thriller...a relentless gripper ... [that] never loses its fiendish hold on the reader's attention." - Seattle Post-Intelligencer
"The suspense [is] high ... surprises keep coming ... a labyrinthine plot built on twists and surprises." - Publishers Weekly
"Margolin's eleventh may be his best, with everything a thriller should have." - Kirkus Reviews
