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    <![CDATA[Alex Sedaka is surprised when the governor of California offers clemency to his client, who is due to be put to death by lethal injection in 15 hours - all the more so because it was the victim's mother who persuaded the governor to <em>make</em> the offer.  But he is even <em>more</em> surprised when his client turns the offer down.<br/><br/>This marks the beginning of an exciting high-octane, race against time to find out the truth in a thriller full of twists and turns with a Zinger at the end and then a final sting in the tail just when you think it's all over.]]>
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    <![CDATA[Policeman Neil Douglas is horrified to discover that the rapist he thought he was attacking was in fact trying to save the victim. And attractive radio talk-show hostess Beth Porter seems determined to crucify him for his error. But both are in danger when they start to get close to the killer.]]>
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    <![CDATA[A gifted teenager dies in what appears to be a mugging in London's West End. Fabian Digby, a millionaire entrepreneur disappears from his Canary Wharf office.<br/><br/>But when the boy's Rolex watch is found near the billionaire's body, two people seek a connection and discover it in Gold.<br/>One is Emmett Freeman, a lawyer who has been asked to work for the Digby family. The other is Karen Rousson a police detective. They soon realize that &quot;Gold&quot; the mysteriously addictive new perfume from one of Digby's companies is somehow connected with both deaths.<br/><br/>But both Karen and Freeman are hampered in their efforts by police corruption at the highest level.]]>
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    <![CDATA[A Fool for a Client]]>
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    <![CDATA[The Pinnacle of Sean Murphy's career as a &quot;revolutionary&quot; was the blowing up of a doctor and a three-year-old child in a busy shopping mall. But when he fled to New York and thwarted attempts to extradite him, he set in motion a chain of events that not even he could have anticipated.<br/><br/>Now Murphy is dead, and a 23-year-old American medical student is on trial for murdering him in a case that has become a cause celebre in the USA: the People of the State of New York versus Justine Levy. Against the judge's advice, Justine insists on conducting her own defence, proceeding to alienate jurors and refusing to vo-operate with Rick Parker, the young, inexperienced black lawyer appointed to act as standby counsel.<br/><br/>In a case that polarizes public opinion, some see Murphy's death as the execution of a terrorist while others see it as the murder of a freedom fighter. But was Justine a vigilante who acted as the avenging angel for society? Or was her motive more personal? As cracks begin to appear in the prosecution's case another question arises: did Justine, in fact, kill him at all.<br/><br/>In any case, whether innocent or guilty, Justine's fate might well lie not in the hands of the jury but in those of a ruthless gunman who has come to kill her.<br/><br/>“The author has come up with the most ingenious method of committing murder that I’ve come across in a long time”<br/>The Sunday Telegraph<br/><br/>“A solid workmanlike piece of entertainment for Grisham fans with withdrawal symptoms.”<br/>Crime Time]]>
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    <![CDATA[&quot;I am writing to inform you that you have been sentenced to death for a breach of your solemn promise...&quot;<br/>Twelve people received the letter - and now they have started to die...<br/>They are the twelve jurors who convicted Paul Keller of raping and murdering his own daughter - and now Keller has died. Crazed with grief and anger, his technologically brilliant brother Daniel is seeking revenge on the people who did not believe what Daniel knows to be true: that Paul Keller could not be guilty of the crime.<br/><br/>But when Daniel is about to kill a young female juror, he finds that revenge has gone sour. Does she deserve to die? Or was she the victim of jury room bullying?<br/><br/>Finally he must face the fact that it was not the jury that caused his brother's death, but rather the real murderer. And the that murderer has still not been caught...]]>
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