Disillusioned sex-crimes prosecutor Cinda Hayes abandons the D.A.'s office to run a rape crisis center, only to be torn between her roles as a women's advocate and death-penalty opponent as she is drawn into the case of a death-row inmate convicted of the rape and murder of his girlfriend. A first novel. $85,000 ad/promo.

Render Up the Body

Literature & Fiction

WESSON, Marianne

United States

Harpercollins

Disillusioned sex-crimes prosecutor Cinda Hayes abandons the D.A.'s office to run a rape crisis center, only to be torn between her roles as a women's advocate and death penalty opponent as she is drawn into the case of a death-row inmate convicted of the rape and murder of his girlfriend

Render Up the Body: A Novel of Suspense

Contemporary

In her national bestseller Render Up the Body, former federal prosecutor Marianne Wesson delivered an "intense legal drama" (Sara Paretsky). Now, Wesson's unforgettable heroine, Colorado attorney Cinda Hayes, is the heart and soul of a thrilling and authentic new novel -- a page-turner that ranks with the best suspense fiction of Scott Turow and Linda Fairstein. 
 The cry for help first comes over the telephone: a scared young woman with a small voice calls a radio talk show hosted by Cinda Hayes, with searching legal questions about "intimate torts." When Cinda meets Mariah McKay in person, she encounters a troubled, delicate twenty-year-old with a shocking accusation: her father, a respected university professor and candidate for Colorado state senate, traumatized her as a child. Mariah retains only jagged pieces of her horrific memories, but with the clock ticking on the statute of limitations, Cinda cannot afford to wait. She must pursue the case with the evidence at hand. 
 Mariah has fled her privileged upbringing and retreated into the plains east of Boulder, where she has taken refuge among a band of people with their own political agenda -- a militia group. Her chief protector is Pike Sayers, a magnetic, mysterious man who is the community's judge of the "common law." As Cinda investigates Mariah's painful and secretive history, Sayers might be Cinda's greatest ally -- or her worst opposition. And as she deciphers the fragments of evidence, she plunges herself into danger. Someone wants to keep the past wrapped tightly in darkness, and will stop at nothing to ensure that Cinda comes up empty-handed. Under terrible pressure and mounting threats, Cinda will fight relentlessly for a desperate young woman's chance at redemption. 
 Cinda Hayes touches the heart and the mind in A Suggestion of Death, a taut, provocative thriller that resonates well beyond its gripping legal suspense.

A Suggestion of Death -0671035592

Atria

Attorney Cinda Hayes' new client has accused her father--a prominent university professor--of terrible things, and now she has taken refuge in a Colorado militia encampment.

A Suggestion of Death

Genre Fiction

Pocket Star

Feature

Pocket_Books

Cinda Hayes abandons the D.A.'s office to run a rape crisis center, only to be torn between her roles as a women's advocate and death penalty opponent as she is drawn into the case of a death-row inmate convicted of the rape and murder of his girlfriend

Thorndike Pr

"This is an extraordinary and ground-breaking book, a wonderfully creative mix of fact and theory, imagination and drama. Anyone with an interest in law, history, or, for that matter, great storytelling will fall in love with A Death at Crooked Creek. The startling origin of the complex 'intention exception' to the hearsay evidence rule becomes canvas on which a grand and marvelously detailed tale is told. This is modern narrative at its best: a marriage of spectacular writing and hard, documented truth presented by a brilliant author who doubles as a gifted and fastidious legal scholar and historian." —Andrew Popper, American University One winter night in 1879, at a lonely Kansas campsite near Crooked Creek, a man was shot to death. The dead man’s traveling companion identified him as John Hillmon, a cowboy from Lawrence who had been attempting to carve out a life on the blustery prairie. The case might have been soon forgotten and the apparent widow, Sallie Hillmon, left to mourn—except for the $25,000 life insurance policies Hillmon had taken out shortly before his departure. The insurance companies refused to pay on the policies, claiming that the dead man was not John Hillmon, and Sallie was forced to take them to court in a case that would reach the Supreme Court twice. The companies’ case rested on a crucial piece of evidence: a faded love letter written by a disappeared cigarmaker, declaring his intent to travel westward with a “man named Hillmon.” In A Death at Crooked Creek, Marianne Wesson re-examines the long-neglected evidence in the case of the Kansas cowboy and his wife, recreating the court scenes that led to a significant Supreme Court ruling on the admissibility of hearsay evidence. Wesson employs modern forensic methods to examine the body of the dead man, attempting to determine his true identity and finally put this fascinating mystery to rest. This engaging and vividly imagined work combines the drama, intrigue, and emotion of excellent storytelling with cutting-edge forensic investigation techniques and legal theory. Wesson’s superbly imagined A Death at Crooked Creek will have general readers, history buffs, and legal scholars alike wondering whether history, and the Justices, may have misunderstood altogether the events at that bleak winter campsite.

A Death at Crooked Creek: The Case of the Cowboy, the Cigarmaker, and the Love Letter

History

Americas

NYU Press

Boulder attorney Lucinda Hayes pulls the gruesome page from the fax machine, not suspecting it will draw her into the repugnant realm of pornographic film and pit her against the giants of the mainstream film industry. Her reluctant agreement to represent Peggy Grayling, mother of a slain child, requires her to reach out to her law partner Tory Meadows and private investigator Linc Tolkien, but troubles her long-distance love affair with New York lawyer Sam Holt. As the case unfolds Cinda must call upon all her legal talent and argue for a new understanding of the law of free speech; it also forces her to revisit her past and face its ghosts. Equal parts courtroom drama, intellectual journey, and character study, Chilling Effect is Marianne Wesson’s most provocative Lucinda Hayes mystery to date.

Chilling Effect

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Univ Pr of Colorado

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Render Up the Body

Render Up the Body: A Novel of Suspense

A Suggestion of Death -0671035592

A Suggestion of Death

A Suggestion of Death

Render Up the Body

A Suggestion of Death

Render Up the Body

A Death at Crooked Creek: The Case of the Cowboy, the Cigarmaker, and the Love Letter

Chilling Effect