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Loading... Pennies on a Dead Woman's Eyes (1992)by Marcia Muller
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Not one of her best, but still a solid story. I found some of the characters to be very flat and unrealistic, though. ( ) Now that convicted killer Lis Benedict is out of prison after 36 years, her daughter Judy wants her mother's case re-opened. McCone investigates, and learns much about the social and political attitudes at the time of the killing. While Sharon brings hidden details to light the connection to the murder is tenuous until a mock trial is conducted. Emotions and fears of the participants free the truth but at a high cost. no reviews | add a review
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HTML: It looked like a lost cause. Convicted of a brutal society murder in 1956, Lis Benedict had served a long sentence and just been released from jail. Then in a last desperate attempt to clear the Benedict name, her daughter Judy convinces All Souls Legal Cooperative to take her mother's case before the Historical Tribunal. Sharon McCone loves a challenge but has little affection for the cold and unlikable Lis. Then, suddenly, the woman in question is dead, a vicious threat is scrawled in red paint across the front of Sharon's house, and San Francisco's #1 P.I. is following a fresh trail of death that leads back to a wild debutante, a prestigious think tank, and the power of politics of the '50s ... all in search of a killer who has engineered a fatal cover-up and built a brilliant career on murder. .No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999LC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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