Trial by Fire (1996)

by Nancy Taylor Rosenberg

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A legal drama featuring two women district attorneys turned enemies. One is Dallas DA Stella Cataloni who has an incredible 100 per cent success rate, but is still haunted by the one case she never cracked, an arson fire 15 years earlier that killed her parents. Stella succeeds in persuading her friend, Houston DA Holly Openheimer, to re-open the investigation. The next Stella knows, she is arrested for the murder of her parents. Not only that, Holly is using her knowledge of Stella's personal secrets to obtain a conviction.… (more)

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I really can’t give an honest rating to this book because I couldn’t bring myself to read past the 12th chapter. This “heroine”...and I use the term loosely...needed a lesson in manners...or perhaps a good hard wallop up the side her head. She flew into screaming, cursing tantrums about everything. Actually, all of the characters, up to chapter 12 were angry and spiteful, even in neutral situations. Needless to say, it got very, very annoying. I think of the thousands of books that I have read this one might have been the worse *If by some chance you are a glutton for punishment and feel that you simply must visit with this book.... please, please BORROW it from the library or fish it out the trash can where the last reader threw it...but don’t spend one red cent of your hard-earned money for it!!!! (

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1996

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A legal drama featuring two women district attorneys turned enemies. One is Dallas DA Stella Cataloni who has an incredible 100 per cent success rate, but is still haunted by the one case she never cracked, an arson fire 15 years earlier that killed her parents. Stella succeeds in persuading her friend, Houston DA Holly Openheimer, to re-open the investigation. The next Stella knows, she is arrested for the murder of her parents. Not only that, Holly is using her knowledge of Stella's personal secrets to obtain a conviction.

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District Attorney Stella Cataloni has an incredible 100 percent conviction rate, but there's one case she has been unable to solve: the arson fire that killed her own parents 15 years before. After she applies some pressure, the case is reopened and a rather unexpected suspect is indicted.

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