Dead Wrong: A Novel of Suspense (Joanna Brady Mysteries)

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Juggling a family and a career is never easy—and it's becoming a real challenge for Sheriff Joanna Brady. Coping with the impending delivery of her second child as well as a staff shortage, the last things Joanna needs are two serious crimes.

First, the body of an unidentified man is found in the desert, all of his fingers savagely severed. Following the scant clues, Joanna learns that the victim was an ex-con who had served twenty years in prison after confessing to the murder of his pregnant wife. During his last days he was seen following and photographing a young woman.

Then one of Joanna's officers is brutally attacked and left for dead while on an unau-thorized stakeout. Because the officer is one of its own, the department throws its resources into finding her attacker.

But the murder haunts Joanna. Being a sher-iff is no longer an empty position she wants to hold—somehow it has become what she is. Her job is to avenge man's inhumanity toward man, and finding out who the victim was and why he is dead is what she has been summoned to do with her life. Strapping on a bulletproof vest, she'll risk everything to see that justice is done.

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Nothing much explained........2007-08-27

What happened? An innocent man is railroaded by an inept police department and an uncaring judge, our pregnant lady sheriff is totally lacking in backbone as she takes much guff from a deputy, her mother, her mother-in-law and her teenage daughter, there is way too much left hanging, less about the in laws and the dogs and more about how the bad guy managed to do all that he did or was it someone else?

Dead Wrong was Dead Right! Strong Female Character!!.......2007-08-23

I rate a book highly if when the book ends, I wish that it would continue. Dead Wrong left me with this feeling. It was very supportive to women being able to do anything even 8 3/4 month pregnant!! I enjoyed it very much.

Enjoyed.......2007-08-09

I really enjoy the Joanna Brady series and try to read them all. This one did not disappoint.

My first book by her and not my last.......2007-07-29

This is the first book PERIOD that I have read by J.A. Jance and I was not disappointed. I will definitely read some of her other novels. She seems to be a good writer who releases subtle social messages while telling a story. Many of the social messages I don't agree with and some I do...either way, it makes one ponder more than just the plot.

A pleasure to read my first novel in her series.......2007-07-19

I grabbed this one at the airport on a flight out and had it done by the time I landed. A fast read that was entertaining. I actually appreciated the side character of Joanna's husband. His quick wit kept a lightness to a book that covers many darker areas. From the possibly wrongly convicted, to hidden relationships, illegal dog fighting rings and long family history, it was a good mix.

Keep your eyes open or a chart to keep up with all the characters. She has many names being thrown around tying the story together and I flipped back a couple times to make sure I had them straight.

I look forward to picking up another one soon from this author no matter if it is in the series or not.

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Just a plain book
Good romantic suspense thriller
First read in the series and I am hooked!
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Good Series!

Dead Wrong
Mariah Stewart
Manufacturer: Ballantine Books
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ASIN: 0345463927
Release Date: 2004-06-01

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Three devious prisoners vow murderous revenge.
Now the first is free.

It was inescapably chilling, as if the murderer was methodically working his way down a page torn from the phone book. The three victims brutally killed in their own homes had one thing in common: they were all listed as M. Douglas. The fact that Mara Douglas is next on the list has her jumping at shadows, until FBI agent Aidan Shields shows up to make sure she doesn’t become the fourth victim.

Aidan has been out of commission since an undercover operation went bad more than a year ago. Back on the job, his razor-sharp instincts are returning. But it will take all of Aidan’s wits to stay one step ahead of the elusive killer who has engaged him in a deadly game—a game in which Mara’s life is the prize. A game only one can win . . .

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Just a plain book.......2007-09-08

Albeit the main story is very good it has some flaws:

1 How can a professional killer murder one person instead of the right one... three times? I'm just telling you the first chapter.

2 How can an FBI agent leave his/her weapon in the car when he/her is on duty?

3 How can the police just finish a stakeout because they thought they have the killer?

And I can keep on and on but maybe I'll spoil the book.

The love story:

There really is a love story? Or is just a one night stand straightening to every weekend?

Good romantic suspense thriller.......2007-04-29

Excellent premise - strangers on the train scenario - three prisoners - each a very different kind of `criminal' - awaiting an appointment in court, locked in a room together, strike up a conversation and things go horribly awry from there. What if they could kill three people and get away with it? Of course, to confuse the police each one would `do' someone else's list, so they couldn't connect the victims and the murderers. It's a clever premise and adds more dimension to the plot. Dead Wrong is the first in the "Dead" series of four books, the first three of which each cover one `murder list'.

The FBI and local police are stumped when women with the name M. Douglas start turning up brutally murdered, the apparent victims of a serial killer. What could be the motive? And when a connection between all the victims becomes apparent, the only possible suspect is sitting in prison with no means of hiring a killer. The FBI and police must, of course, work both sides of the case - the serial killer (and since when does a serial killer hire out as a contract killer?), and the victims. They are stumped trying to find the connection between the two until the very end. This is not hard core suspense thriller, but it's much more carefully developed than many romantic suspense thrillers. ...which brings me to the romance...

Child Advocate Mara Douglas (M. Douglas - get it?) isn't a terribly attractive heroine in the beginning - uptight, a bit obsessive. Even recognizing the tragedy she's already endured seven years ago, losing her daughter - I wasn't really drawn to her at first. Clearly Stewart is setting us up with two broken people. FBI agent Aidan Shields is still grieving the loss of his brother, Dylan, in an investigation gone bad the year before, and the loss of his job as he knew it. His injuries are severe enough that he knows he'll never pass the physical to return to work. He's spent the last year grieving, brooding, and drinking beer. In his own words, he's become pathetic. But, he can't resist the favor asked by Dylan's fiancée and Mara's sister, Annie, when it becomes apparent that Mara's life may be at risk.

Neither Mara nor Aidan is particularly happy to be stuck with the other initially, when Annie asks Aidan to keep an eye on Mara until the murderer is found. They warm to each other slowly, and more believably than in some stories. I like Stewart's books because of the relationships, and because the emphasis is on the suspense thriller, NOT on the romance. The murder investigations are not simply pretty scenery for a sizzling romance, with the police work awkwardly dropped between hot sex scenes in bed and all over the place. The romantic relationships are there, and she develops them well, but in proper perspective to the stories, which are well thought-out and plotted. Let's face it - if two people are going to meet, fall in love, and end up together in the course of 350-400 page book, WHILE THEY SOLVE A MAJOR CRIME - things are going to develop more quickly and less problematically than they do for most of us in the real world! Stewart's books juggle the romance with the suspense-thriller very nicely, in my opinion. They're a good read.

I recommend the "Dead" series, and "Dead Wrong" in particular. In fact, you could start with "Voices Carry" and "Until Dark", as some peripheral characters in "Dead Wrong" are introduced in those books. It's true that, for all the loose ends to be tied up, you'll want to read all four books, at least, in the series, but each book stands somewhat alone in terms of its own story. I found that once I read "Dead Wrong", I couldn't stop until I'd read them all (including the "Truth" series which shares some characters with the others), and gone back and gotten the other two as well.

First read in the series and I am hooked!.......2007-02-15

Intriguing premise - 3 convicts have chance meeting in a court house, play a game of "one-up-manship" and then trade hit lists. Well written with mega plot lines all twisted together. Well developed major characters full of strengths AND weaknesses that make them easy to relate to and like...except the bad guys - they are evil personified! And equally interesting minor characters that I suspect will become the focus of the other books in the series.

AMAZON SALES IN GENERAL.......2006-08-03

Have purched many items from AMAZON over many years. Always satisfactory.
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Good Series!.......2006-02-28

I enjoy this series of books. I'm looking forward to the next one in paperback!

Dead Wrong: A Death Row Lawyer Speaks Out Against Capital Punishment

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More Florida Post-Conviction History:
Substantial difference of opinion and experience with Michael Mello
For a good book from the prespective of death row:
More Florida CCR History:
Journalist Bill Cotterell's encounter with Ms. Holdman:

Dead Wrong: A Death Row Lawyer Speaks Out Against Capital Punishment
Michael A. Mello
Manufacturer: University of Wisconsin Press
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"A blistering, well-annotated critique. . . . both passionate and eloquent."-Publishers Weekly starred review

"Death-penalty supporters-and opponents, for that matter-who do not read this unique insider's account of capital punishment as a capricious and nearly broken-down system will lay themselves open to the charge that they don't know what they're talking about."-Kirkus Reviews

"Mello separates himself from others who have written about death row. He is visceral, not cerebral . . . One of the nation's most passionate post-conviction lawyers."-Colman McCarthy, The Nation

"Michael Mello is a poet, a storyteller, a wordsmith, and, thank God, a lawyer. Dead Wrong is an incisive, probing examination of life, death, and the law, at once wickedly funny, heart-wrenchingly human, and surgically precise. This is a book written in blood."-Mike Farrell, actor and president of California Death Penalty Focus

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More Florida Post-Conviction History:.......2004-07-12

From 1986 - 1992 I was employed as an investigator at the Office of Capital Collateral Representative (CCR) in Tallahassee, Florida, where Scharlette Holdman worked as the supervisor of the investigators from October 1985 - March 1988. Scharlette Holdman is cited in approving comments by Mello in at least two of his books.

I have known Scharlette since the mid-1970s death penalty debates at Florida State University, including the debate between Professor Richard L. Rubenstein (author of "After Auschwitz", "My Brother Paul", "The Cunning of History: Mass Death and the American Future", "The Age of Triage", "Religion and Eros", and other books) vs. Baptist Minister and Philosopher Will Campbell (the debate was circa 1977).

Her office, the Clearinghouse on Criminal Justice, was in the same wing of the Petroleum Building as my office at Common Cause in Florida (where I was a full-time volunteer during the day and worked at the Brown Derby Restaurant at night from 1981 - 1986).

The Petroleum Building was next to the State Capital, the Florida Supreme Court and the State Archives and Library. When it was torn down, the space and the space for the first CCR office became the Mary Brogan Art and Science Museum storm water retaining pond. The Petroleum Building was called by those of us who worked or volunteered there the "Forces of Good" (FOG) Building -- as opposed to FOE -- Forces of Evil, such as Associated Industries, the Chamber and other big business interests in Florida. The FOG building also included (not an exhaustive list) the Clean Water Action Project, the ACLU, NOW, Florida Legal Services, Migrant Farmworker's Organization (directed by Cliff Thaell, who has more recently been a Leon County Commissioner for about ten years or more), Mike Vasilinda's television news service.

About every two years at CCR there was a Marxist-Leninist-Stalinist-Maoist purge due to the pressures and dysfunctions of the work and the people. I survived two such purges. With the third, I was the first to go in the spring and summer of 1992.

When Scharlette had essentially declared war upon CCR in 1987 and thereafter, some of us decided to investigate her background given some things that we had heard. Low and behold, Scharlette's claim of a PhD in anthropology from the University of Hawaii and a Master's Degree from Memphis State (now University of Memphis) don't exist. A claimed undergraduate degree from Memphis State: I no longer recall if this was confirmed by the university.

We used Scharlette's Social Security number, her maiden name and her married name -- with all this information, both universities had no record of Scharlette having received any degrees from these institutions.

As I understand Scharlette, she needed the "degrees" to confer upon her "credentials" that she really never needed as she is indeed then and now a national expert on capital mitigation, litigation, etc. However Scharlette can be deceptive, as her lack of a PhD and Masters so demonstrates. Even today she claims to have the degrees as when she gives presentations regarding capital cases, she is identified as "Dr." A key word search of her name will bring up some of the presentations that she has made in the past several years with the title "Dr." preceding her name.

If she has received any honorary or other degrees since 1990, that would be new information for me. If anyone can assist in this matter, please contact me at paul_d_harvill@yahoo.com or my mailing address: P.O. Box 38458, Tallahassee, FL 32315-8458. Thank you.

Substantial difference of opinion and experience with Michael Mello.......2004-07-01

In Michael Mello's excellent book "Dead Wrong: A Death Row Lawyer Speaks Out Against Capital Punishment", Mr. Mello and I have a substantial difference of experience and opinion.

From page 195 of the hardcover version of the book: "On paper, neither Olive nor Holdman ran CCR; that title belonged to Larry Helm Spalding. With the warrants and the infighting on all fronts, it has suddenly become chic to ridicule Spalding.... I believe that Spalding did some good at CCR. But none of the good can ever come close to compensating for Spalding's fatal decision in the late 1980s, to fire Scharlette Holdman, knowing that Mark Olive would be forced to resign in protest."

Having worked as an investigator at CCR during this very time period whereas Mr. Mello was in Vermont teaching at a law school in late 1987 and early 1988, in my considered opinion, Ms. Holdman was out of control, e.g. she was then an abusive alcoholic; at work she threw a typewriter at a door; she refused to come to work as a form of protest ("strikes" or similar actions by state employees in Florida are prohibited by the Florida Constitution); tampered with evidence; and misrepresented her academic record.

Mr. Spalding was willing to even pay her salary since Ms. Holdman is indeed an asset nevertheless and have her work in New York with Dick Burr -- however even Dick Burr with the Legal Defense Fund knew enough about the dark side of Ms. Holdman that he didn't want her working in the same space as himself.

Mr. Spalding had no choice but to terminate Scharlette Holdman. She gave him no other choice. She had committed numerous dismissable offenses over the years at CCR.

Ms. Holdman made her situation a national battle by bringing in all the "big guns" in the anti-death penalty community across the country to pressure Mr. Spalding into either allowing Ms. Holdman to continue as she was conducting herself and to pressure Mr. Spalding to resign or otherwise be forced out of office.

And Mr. Olive, whom I admire as one of the best litigators in America for death sentenced persons, was playing the same hard-ball tactics as Ms. Holdman -- thus his threat to resign should Ms. Holdman be terminated from employment. Mr. Olive chose to resign in an attempt to cripple the agency. However her termination and his resignation did just the opposite.

Mr. Spalding did the right thing given the totality of the circumstances. In fact, the office functioned better with more effective representation. It is highly ironic that Mr. Mello does not mention even one time the name of Mr. Olive's successor as Chief Litigator, Billy Horatio Nolas, who is just as competent and effective as Mr. Olive. In fact, Mr. Nolas and his legal and investigative team had more successes with stays of execution, winning new sentencing hearings, winning new trials, etc.

For a good book from the prespective of death row:.......2004-05-22

For a good book from the prespective of death row: "A Checkered Past" by William Van Poyck, on death row in Florida. The book is available via amazon.com.

More Florida CCR History:.......2004-04-10

Both David Von Drehle and Michael Mello's books are excellent and very well describe what life is like for those on death row and those representing death sentenced persons, particularly at the old CCR [Office of Capital Collateral Representative]. However there is more:

After Mark E. Olive voluntarily resigned from CCR about March 1988, Billy H. Nolas became the next Chief Litigator. It is extremely odd that neither Mello nor Von Drehle even mention Nolas nor the next Chief Litigator Martin or Marty J. McClain. For important reasons they should have.

Billy H. Nolas is an excellent litigator like Olive. Nolas was the Chief Litigator for the last two years of the Gov. Martinez "regime", which was the most difficult time in CCR history [during my employment there] with Martinez signing death warrants as if he was at a Republican Party event signing autographs.

Nolas resigned at the end of 1990, after Martinez had been defeated by former U.S. Senator Lawton Chiles and former U.S. House of Representatives member Buddy MacKay.

Nolas was completely drained from the years he endured and litigated while at CCR, due to the huge case load and the internecine warfare within the agency. McClain and his faction within CCR did their best to cause Nolas to leave -- eventually they were successful -- and THAT is when clients' cases began to suffer.

Martin J. McClain is an excellent litigator, however his strategic decisions in various cases are questionable. When Mello writes on page 245 of the hardcover version of "Dead Wrong" regarding CCR, "Look beneath the surface of CCR's 'success rates', however, and you'll find an artifice typical of hack public defender officers. CCR has in the past farmed out the hardest cases to outside lawyers (by finding that it has a 'conflict of interest')". The period of time that Mello is referring to is when Martin McClain was the Chief Litigator and Michael Minerva was the executive director of CCR.

As the premier example of McClain alleging a "conflict of interest" [and I can only assume with the consent of the director of CCR at the time, Michael Minerva] is the client Jerry Layne Rogers, Sr. -- a wrongfully convicted and innocent man -- Mr. Rogers' case in 1992 consisted of at least 80 boxes of documents, from court files, prosecutor and law enforcement files, trial and evidentiary hearing transcripts, etc. Mr. Rogers' case was the largest and most complicated that CCR has ever represented.

The second largest and most complicated was that of Mr. Gerald Stano, whose lead attorney during most of the development of his case was Mark Olive.

McClain simply didn't want to have such a complicated case as a CCR case, so McClain, in my considered insider opinion as Mr. Roger's only investigator from 1989 until my involuntary departure in 1992, alleged in a misrepresentation to the Florida Supreme Court (FSC) that he had a "conflict of interest" with Mr. Rogers -- while Mr. Rogers's case was pending at the FSC.

As a result, Mr. Rogers had no counsel for an extended period of time until the Washington, D.C. law firm Covington and Burling became his pro bono counsel in 1995. The result was an unanimous FSC 26 page opinion ordering a new trial due primarily to prosecutorial misconduct, in particular Brady v. Maryland violations.

To read the opinion, go to the Florida Supreme Court website, to recent opinions, to the year 2001, scroll down to February 15, 2001.

During the summer of 2002, Mr. Rogers was re-convicted, however the jury recommended and Mr. Rogers received a life sentence. Thus for a second time Mr. Rogers has been wrongfully convicted.

Another wrongfully convicted Florida death row inmate, who is now a free man, Juan Melendez, testified about his neighbor on death row, Mr. Rogers. Mr. Rogers taught him how to speak, read and write in English as well as assisting him in coping skills while on death row.

In 2004, the Florida 5th District Court of Appeal denied relief. The FSC declined to accept jurisdiction and thus denied the petition for review.

Mr. Rogers' case is pending Federal review.

Journalist Bill Cotterell's encounter with Ms. Holdman:.......2004-03-24

Bill Cotterell has been a journalist with UPI and more recently for a good number of years at the Tallahassee Democrat covering primarily state government news in Florida. His email address is bcotterell@tallahassee.com for verification of this account and a more accurate recounting.

He has recounted to me several times about the time in one case that Ms. Holdman said something to the effect that the murdered youth would just have to miss her high school prom --- said in a scarcastic and offensive tone -- meaning minimizing the impact that the murder had upon the murdered youth herself.

Michael Mello's "Dead Wrong" quote from page 195 (hardcover version): "There were some days (and nights) when CCR was the best public defender office in the world." I agree -- "some" being the operative word here.

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Polls indicate that 75 percent of Americans favor the death penalty--but they also show that minds change when individuals are confronted with the facts. This book was written to offer those facts-and to change those minds. The United States is alone among Western democracies in its support for capital punishment, which was only briefly abolished throughout this country between 1972 and 1976. Today, 38 states have some form of capital punishment. Yet studies show that the death penalty is not a deterrent to crime, that racial disparities in the implementation of capital punishment are rampant, and that all kinds of procedural errors, incompetent defense lawyers, and mistaken eyewitness identifications lead to an alarming number of wrongful convictions. Attitudes toward the death penalty have changed dramatically throughout the course of history, evolving from times when public executions were occasions of solemn and pious ritual to those when it was an excuse for raucous entertainment, and finally to the modern era of private, bureaucratized, mechanized, and sanitized executions conducted out of sight and out of mind. Conforming thus to modern sensibilities, state-sanctioned killing is somehow more acceptable to us than public hangings, because we can imagine that the inmate's death is relatively painless, and not in violation of the Eighth Amendment's prohibition against "cruel and unusual" punishment. This may or may not be true; Stack presents compelling arguments to the contrary. What is certain is that Dead Wrong demonstrates beyond a doubt that death row is itself a form of psychological torture and of slow, painful dehumanization.

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Riddled with twists and hidden motivations

Dead Wrong
William X. Kienzle
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ASIN: 0345377664
Release Date: 1994-07-31

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"Kienzle surely ranks among the top talents working today." Detroit Free Press
From the bestselling author of "Body Count," another Father Koesler mystery.
Three decades ago young Agnes Ventimiglia fell wildly in love with a gentle, handsome young man. Finally, the exhilarating night came when Agnes just knew he would pop the question. Agnes was wrong . . . dead wrong.
Now, Father Koesler is stalking a thirty-year-old murder mystery, following a trail of long-repressed anger and explosive vengeance. Each step brings him closer to a desperate killer -- a killer who will go to any lengths to stop him from uncovering the truth, including killing again. Because to a murderer, two dead wrongs can make it all right . . .

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Riddled with twists and hidden motivations.......2002-06-08

William X. Kienzle is one of the most talented and popular authors working in the mystery genre today. Dead Wrong: A Father Koesler Mystery is a classic Kienzle tale and centers on Father Robert Koesler's investigation into the 30-year-old murder of a young woman awaiting a marriage proposal. Scandal between family, business, and the Church loom in this dark tale, riddled with twists and hidden motivations.

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A good read
fine police procedural romance

Dead Wrong (Harlequin Signature Select)
Janice Kay Johnson
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ASIN: 0373836902

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A chilling blast from the past . . .

Six years ago prosecutor Will Patton's girlfriend stormed out on him. That night she was brutally raped and murdered. The violent act knocked Will's world out from under him, alienating him from his family, who Will believed were responsible. Wrapped up in his own guilt and anger, Will developed a powerful thirst for justice . . . and was determined that no criminal would ever walk free again.

Now he's returned to his hometown, but he is greeted by a gruesome discovery -- another body and an all too familiar calling card. And once again the victim is romantically linked with Will. In order to track down his serial killer, Will teams up with rookie detective Trina Giallombardo -- only to realize that if he falls for her, she'll be next . . .

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A good read.......2006-07-08

Dead Wrong probably wouldn't win any accolades - but then, a romance book has to be seriously good to get recognition - but it's a pretty good book. One of the better ones I've read recently. It's not amazing, but I enjoyed it. There's a nice combo of romance and suspense, good characters, and a nice background that the story builds upon. I think Johnson has written 4 or 5 books previously based on the Patton family. I haven't read them, but unlike some books, I wasn't left feeling left out. She covers the history fairly well, enough that you understand the past, but not dwelling on it.

Serial killer plots are fairly typical, but they never seem to get boring. Dead Wrong has a nice plot. It's doesn't have lots of twists and turns - which is good and bad - but Johnson keeps you into the story by keeping you guessing on who the bad guy might be. You're pretty sure it's one guy, but there's enough of a possibility that it's someone else that you're not sure.

The building of the relationship could have been a little better. There's definite chemistry between Trina and Will, but there wasn't much time for them to build an emotional connection where you felt them falling in love fit. It seemed rather quick. But not so much that it was unreasonable.

All in all, a good read. I don't have many major complaints...only that Johnson had this odd tendency to occasionally write sentences that were just really awkwardly worded. It was odd and distracting at times.

Rating: 3.5 / 5

fine police procedural romance .......2006-02-16

Following the brutal rape and homicide of his girlfriend Gillian and the conviction of her killer Ricky Mendoza, Will Patton returns home hoping to heal. However, another murder with the same MO of being strangled by a jockstrap and the cup pulled over the face as the Gillian case occurs. The police assume it is copy cat even as more homicides happen. The deceased Amy Owen and Gilliam share something in common with Gilliam. It is a connection to a beleaguered Will; he dated both.

Police Detectives Meg Patton and her partner Trina Giallombardo lead the investigation, but both know they should be excused as they have ties to Will. Meg is his mother while Trina is half in love with him having never overcome her high school crush. As they follow clues, the two female cops try to keep Will safe even as he rejects their protection; instead he begins his own inquiries.

The sequel to PATTON'S DAUGHTERS: PATTON'S DAUGHTER: RENEE\PATTON'S DAUGHTER: MEG is a fine police procedural romance with the emphasis on the investigation including its impact on the relationships between the three prime players. The inquiries cause a strain between mother and son and slow down the budding romance between the partner and the son. Though why Meg remained on the case with her obvious conflict of interest seems off kilter, fans will appreciate this strong suspense thriller.

Harriet Klausner

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Crow Creek, Montana.....Alex is back
Some of the best books in the world!
Twin Witches Rock
Best Book In The Series!
Best Book EVER!!

Dead Wrong (T*Witches) (T*Witches)
R. Reisfeld , and H. B. Gilmour
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Alex and Cam return to Alex's hometown in Montana to settle some scores. Numero Uno: Someone is trying to block Alex from being adopted by Cam's family. Could it be Alex's deadbeat stepdad? Numero Dos:Alex's bud Evan is being blamed for a school death threat. When stepdad turns up Six Feet Under, the girls must power up for another battle with the forces of evil.

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Crow Creek, Montana.....Alex is back.......2004-11-30

In this book, Alex and Cam go to Alex's hometown to tell Alex's dad to back off and that she doesn't want him in her life. Well, it turns out thier Uncle Thnatos has something in store for them.......and it is six feet under. Also, something is going on with Evan. What is it?

Some of the best books in the world!.......2002-12-04

I read Harry Potter first and those are my favorite books, but when i started reading T*Witches, I was really surprised! They were as good as Harry Potter! Now i am reading the third and im almost done. I hope H.B. Gilmour and Randi Reisfield never stop writing these books because I love them!

Twin Witches Rock.......2002-11-25

twitches is the best set of books i have ever read!!! They are very good and you just keep right along. it skips around but only when right!!! it rocks!!! buy this and you wont be sorry!

Best Book In The Series!.......2002-08-08

This WAS THE BEST BOOK IN THE SERIES!!! I am so glad we got to see Alex's hometown again and all her friends! Alex wanted to go to Montana after an urgent email from Lucinda telling Alex Evan has been arested. As it turns out, Evan is now in the wrong crowd, a group of skanky gangsters and put a death note in the principals locker. Alex also wants to have a nice talk with her dad...
This was the Best Book Ever! Cam was really selfish and rude not wanting to go but she did anyway. :p

Best Book EVER!!.......2002-08-01

I have read all 5 and this one (& #3) is by far the best book I have ever read! It has a mystery to it, also.

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Dead Wrong

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Dead Wrong (Linford Mystery)
Cath Staincliffe
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Dead Wrong: A Memoir
Carol Anderson
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ASIN: 059509029X

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This memoir tells the story of my brief marriage to a commercial fisherman. I quit my job as an attorney and joined him in his endeavors as a commercial albacore and salmon fisherman. The story involves the intricacies of commercial fishing on the Pacific Ocean and just how fragile a business it is. One mistake can sink the boat and that is precisely what happened to us a short six months after our marriage. We had no insurance and lost everything in a freak storm. That stroke of fate proved determinative of the rest of the relationship. Several newspaper articles covered the tragedy. The book mentions the numerous pelagic avian and mammalian species we viewed and photographed while on the ocean and there’s a naturalists pleasure in it. It is also a story of struggle and survival to make ends meet in a deeply difficult industry. The Captain of the Brandy Lee, our beloved boat, was a world-class storyteller, con artist, and wife beater. It is a tale of profound happiness and grief.

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