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Kali O'Brien returns to her hometown of Silver Creek where her childhood friend Jannine is the prime suspect in the murder of her husband. Kali is convinced she's innocent until the evidence begins to mount. Secrets past and present confound Kali's investigation. This is the first in the Kali O'Brien series of legal mysteries.
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Imagine losing what you love most.
Don't say I didn't warn you...The woman gives her name as Betty. No last name. No phone number. Just a meeting place — a deserted, wooded park on the outskirts of Lake Tahoe. The retainer is a healthy one. The one condition — come alone. San Francisco attorney Kali O'Brien understands client confidentiality, but something about Betty's urgent request has her a little spooked. Whatever secrets the woman is hiding...
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When fifteen-year-old Caitlin Whittington becomes the second girl in Paradise Falls to disappear in five months, Grace Whittington uncovers information that appears to implicate her stepson Adam. Adam, scared by the distrust of those closest to him, is afraid to speak the truth, while Detective Rayna Godwin faces her own fears as she follows her suspicion that there is more to the disappearances than meets the eye.
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Kate Austen has always had a soft spot for people in trouble, but stopping to help stranded motorist Sheryl Ann Martin is a terrible mistake. With her dead husband in the trunk and her killer boyfriend at her side, Sheryl Ann is in trouble. And so is Kate — held hostage in a remote cabin by a couple who can't afford to let her live. Kate's only hope is a desperate run for freedom, but when she is rescued, her nightmare is just beginning.
6) Cold justice
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When her friend Anne is found strangled to death, Kali vows to find the killer, who is leaving the calling card of a recently-executed serial killer on the doorsteps of his next victims.
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San Francisco attorney Kali O'Brien knows that in the legal system, reality can be shaded but she doesn't like clients who lie to her. That's what she has in Grady Barrett, a wealthy computer magnate married to Kali's best friend, who is arraigned in the rape of Deirdre Nicholas. Grady's claim that the sex was consensual doesn't excuse the hurt he's caused his wife and his reputation, and puts Kali in a bind because she doesn't believe him. Especially...
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San Francisco attorney Kali O'Brien, struggling to establish a legal practice in her Sierra hometown, uncovers some dangerous secrets when she is asked to help defend a former classmate against charges that he murdered a local waitress and her child.
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Suspense simmers in the suburb of Walnut Hills as Kate tries to figure out who killed her recently divorced friend Mona Sterling. A bottle of expensive scotch and an empty vial of sleeping pills convince the police that her death is a suicide. But Kate has her doubts. With the help of mutual friend Sharon Covington, Kate contends with Mona's troubled teenage daughter and her surly boyfriend, Mona's ex-husband and his suspicious wife, and a mysterious...
10) The only suspect
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Doctor Sam Russell's wife is missing. The police don't believe his story — and Sam isn't so sure himself since he can remember nothing about the day she disappeared.
Detective Hannah Montgomery sees something in Sam and his young daughter that touches her own sense of loss. As she delves deeper, shocking secrets come to light making Hannah wonder whether she's protecting a wronged man or a cold-blooded killer.
11) The next victim
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San Francisco attorney Kali O'Brien tries to clear her dead brother's name after he becomes the lead suspect in a double homicide.
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As an unwitting accomplice to a murder committed by her boyfriend, Chloe Henderson never suspects that the wife of the victim will become entwined in ways neither of them could have imagined. And Joel Richards, an enthusiastic young journalist covering recent developments in an old murder has his own reasons for being interested in the victim and Chloe.
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With her unique blend of courtroom drama and feverish suspense, critically acclaimed author Jonnie Jacobs has won a legion of fans for her Kali O'Brien thrillers. Now the edgy San Francisco attorney is back to handle a simple adoption — and winds up defending her client for murder...
Straightforward and short term: that's precisely the kind of case Kali O'Brien needs at the moment. Yet the Harper adoption makes her uneasy from the start. Maybe...
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Abandoned by her husband who is traveling in Europe to "find himself," Kate Austen is left to make a life for herself and her five-year-old daughter. She is something of a misfit in her well to-do neighborhood, but when her socialite neighbor, Pepper Livingston, is murdered, and the handsome detective Michael Stone turns to Kate for information about the victim, Kate's life takes an unexpected turn.
15) Payback
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Wife and mother Marta Crawford is away on business when she meets the charming Todd Wilson and, much to her dismay, wakes up the next morning in his bed. Filled with remorse and regret, she tells Todd she's made a terrible mistake and flees, hoping to put her reckless behavior behind her. But Todd isn't willing to let go. He worms his way into all corners of her life, befriending her husband and business partner, and seducing her teenage daughter....
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In this novella addition to the Kali O'Brien legal mystery series, attorney Kali O'Brien takes on the case of a young widow accused of murdering her much older, and very wealthy, husband. As evidence mounts and other possible suspects are eliminated, Kali's doubts about her client's innocence grow. As if that weren't troubling enough, Kali is also grappling with her feelings for longtime boyfriend Detective Bryce Keating.