The Jezebel Remedy

The Jezebel Remedy
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Publisher : Vintage
Total Pages : 402
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ISBN-10 : 9780804172905
ISBN-13 : 0804172900
Rating : 4/5 (05 Downloads)

Synopsis The Jezebel Remedy by : Martin Clark

A BOSTON GLOBE BEST MYSTERY OF THE YEAR Lisa and Joe Stone, married for twenty years and partners in their small Virginia law firm, handle routine, run-of-the-mill cases, including never-ending complaints from their cantankerous client Lettie VanSandt. When Lettie dies in a suspicious accident and unexpectedly leaves her entire estate to Joe, the Stones find themselves entangled in a corporate conspiracy that will require all their legal skills—not to mention some difficult ethical choices—for them to survive. Complicating matters, Lisa is desperately trying to shield Joe from a dreadful secret, a mistake that she would give anything to erase. With a cast of perfectly drawn imperfect characters, an intricate tour of the legal system, and a remarkably entertaining plot alongside a no-holds-barred portrait of a marriage, The Jezebel Remedy is a legal drama in a class of its own.

The Substitution Order

The Substitution Order
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Publisher : Vintage
Total Pages : 352
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780525656333
ISBN-13 : 0525656332
Rating : 4/5 (33 Downloads)

Synopsis The Substitution Order by : Martin Clark

A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE Kevin Moore, once a high-flying Virginia attorney, hits rock bottom after a tumultuous summer leaves him disbarred and separated from his wife. Short on cash and looking for work, he lands in the middle of nowhere with a job at SUBstitution, the world’s saddest sandwich shop. His closest confidants: a rambunctious rescue puppy and the twenty-year-old computer whiz manning the restaurant counter beside him. Kevin’s determined to set his life right again, but the troubles keep coming, including a visit from a mysterious stranger who wanders into the shop armed with a threatening “invitation” to join a multimillion-dollar scam. Before long, Kevin will need every bit of his legal savvy just to stay out of prison. In The Substitution Order, Martin Clark—hailed by Entertainment Weekly as “hands down our best legal-thriller writer”—takes readers on a remarkable tour of the law’s tricks and hidden trapdoors and delivers a wildly entertaining novel that will keep you guessing and rooting for its tenacious hero until the very last page.

The Many Aspects of Mobile Home Living

The Many Aspects of Mobile Home Living
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Publisher : Vintage
Total Pages : 354
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ISBN-10 : 9780375707094
ISBN-13 : 0375707093
Rating : 4/5 (94 Downloads)

Synopsis The Many Aspects of Mobile Home Living by : Martin Clark

In this masterful debut, Martin Clark proves to be the heir apparent of great Southern raconteurs and the envy of more seasoned novelists as he takes us on a frantic tour of the modern south. Hung over, beaten by the unforgiving sun, bitter at his estranged wife, and dreading the day’s docket of petty criminal cases, Judge Evers Wheeling is in need of something on the morning he's accosted by Ruth Esther English. Ruth Esther's strange story certainly is something, and Judge Wheeling finds himself in uncharted territory. Reluctantly agreeing to help Ruth Esther retrieve some stolen money, he recruits his pot-addled brother and a band of merry hangers-on for the big adventure. Raucous road trips, infidelity, suspected killers, winning Lotto tickets, drunken philosophical rants, and at least one naked woman tied to a road sign ensue in The Many Aspects of Mobile Home Living, one part legal thriller, one part murder mystery, and all parts all wild.

The Legal Limit

The Legal Limit
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Publisher : Vintage
Total Pages : 418
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ISBN-10 : 9780307388667
ISBN-13 : 0307388662
Rating : 4/5 (67 Downloads)

Synopsis The Legal Limit by : Martin Clark

Gates Hunt is a compulsive felon, serving a stiff penitentiary sentence for selling cocaine. His brother, Mason, however, has escaped their bitter, impoverished upbringing to become the commonwealth's attorney for their rural hometown in Virginia, where he enjoys a contented life with his wife and spitfire daughter. But Mason's idyll is abruptly pierced by a wicked tragedy, and soon afterward trouble finds him again when he is forced to confront a brutal secret he and his brother had both sworn to take with them to the grave, a secret that threatens everyone and everything he holds dear. Intricately plotted and relentlessly entertaining, The Legal Limit is an exploration of the judicial system's roughest edges, as well as a gripping story of murder, family, and the difficult divide that sometimes separates genuine justice from the law.

Plain Heathen Mischief

Plain Heathen Mischief
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Publisher : Vintage
Total Pages : 418
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ISBN-10 : 9780307427274
ISBN-13 : 0307427277
Rating : 4/5 (74 Downloads)

Synopsis Plain Heathen Mischief by : Martin Clark

Of The Many Aspects of Mobile Home Living, Martin Clark’s first novel, the New York Times Book Review wrote, “Like Nick Hornby in High Fidelity and Thomas McGuane in Nothing But Blue Skies, Clark has produced an oddly stirring portrait of a man in existential disarray.” Which–noted Malcolm Jones in Newsweek–“made me laugh so hard I fell off the sofa.” Plain Heathen Mischief ups the existential ante, as Joel King, a defrocked Baptist minister, finds life even more bedeviling once he’s served six months for a career-ending crime he might not even have committed. Now his incommunicado wife wants a divorce, the teenage vixen of his disgrace is suing him for a cool $5 million, a fresh start in Montana offers no hope for ex-cons of any religious persuasion, and the refuge provided by his sister turns as nasty as his parole officer. Talk about a crisis of faith. On the upside, a solicitous member of Joel’s former congregation invites him into a scam that could yield some desperately needed cash, and soon the down-on-his-luck preacher is involved with a flock of charming con men, crooked lawyers, and conniving youth. In a feat of bravura storytelling, Martin Clark ranges from the cross to the double cross, from Virginia to Las Vegas, from jail cells to trout streams, as he follows his Job-like hero through dubious choices and high-dollar insurance hustles to a redemption that no reader could possibly predict. Wildly imaginative, at times comic, at times profoundly sobering, and even more audacious than his wonderfully idiosyncratic debut, Plain Heathen Mischief is a spiritual revelation of the first order.

The Substitution Order

The Substitution Order
Author :
Publisher : Vintage
Total Pages : 354
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780525566564
ISBN-13 : 0525566562
Rating : 4/5 (64 Downloads)

Synopsis The Substitution Order by : Martin Clark

A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE Kevin Moore, once a high-flying Virginia attorney, hits rock bottom after a tumultuous summer leaves him disbarred and separated from his wife. Short on cash and looking for work, he lands in the middle of nowhere with a job at SUBstitution, the world’s saddest sandwich shop. His closest confidants: a rambunctious rescue puppy and the twenty-year-old computer whiz manning the restaurant counter beside him. Kevin’s determined to set his life right again, but the troubles keep coming, including a visit from a mysterious stranger who wanders into the shop armed with a threatening “invitation” to join a multimillion-dollar scam. Before long, Kevin will need every bit of his legal savvy just to stay out of prison. In The Substitution Order, Martin Clark—hailed by Entertainment Weekly as “hands down our best legal-thriller writer”—takes readers on a remarkable tour of the law’s tricks and hidden trapdoors and delivers a wildly entertaining novel that will keep you guessing and rooting for its tenacious hero until the very last page.

Acts of Omission

Acts of Omission
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Publisher : Post Hill Press
Total Pages : 482
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781642932621
ISBN-13 : 1642932620
Rating : 4/5 (21 Downloads)

Synopsis Acts of Omission by : James S. Bostwick

Down on his luck after a string of lost cases and a recent divorce, personal injury lawyer Matt Taylor hopes his next trial will be an easy win. But when he meets a devastatingly injured young man desperate for help, Matt finds himself embroiled in an impossible lawsuit against Salvatore Conte, a powerful lawyer with sinister connections. Despite all warnings, Matt courageously pulls out all the stops to uncover the truth and right a horrific legal wrong. What follows is an epic multi-million-dollar battle of wills, intrigue, and outright violence that could cost Matt everything he cares about—his career, his family, his heart….and his life. “This is more than a good read; it is a masterpiece of courtroom drama, life of a trial lawyer, intrigue, intricate relationships, love, and one man’s perseverance for justice. Bostwick nailed it!” —William Whitehurst, Past President of The International Academy of Trial Lawyers, The Texas Trial Lawyers and the Texas Bar Association

The Good Boy

The Good Boy
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Publisher : Minotaur Books
Total Pages : 368
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781250022431
ISBN-13 : 1250022436
Rating : 4/5 (31 Downloads)

Synopsis The Good Boy by : Theresa Schwegel

Edgar award winner Theresa Schwegel returns with The Good Boy, her most dramatic and emotional novel to date, a family epic that combines the hard-boiled grit of her acclaimed police thrillers with an intimate portrait of a young boy trying to follow his heart in an often heartless city. For Officer Pete Murphy, K9 duty is as much a punishment as a promotion. When a shaky arrest reignites a recent scandal and triggers a multimillion-dollar lawsuit, all eyes are on Pete as the department braces for another media firestorm. Meanwhile, Pete's eleven-year-old son Joel feels invisible. His parents hardly notice him—unless they're arguing about his "behavioral problems"—and his older sister, McKenna, has lately disappeared into the strange and frightening world of teenagerdom. About the only friend Joel has left is Butchie, his father's furry "partner." When Joel and Butchie follow McKenna to a neighborhood bully's party, illegal activity kicks the dog's police training into overdrive, and soon the duo are on the run, navigating the streets of Chicago as they try to stay one step ahead of the bad guys—bad guys who may have a very personal interest in getting some payback on Officer Pete Murphy.

Overcoming the Spirit of Jezebel

Overcoming the Spirit of Jezebel
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Publisher : CreateSpace
Total Pages : 214
Release :
ISBN-10 : 1515336905
ISBN-13 : 9781515336907
Rating : 4/5 (05 Downloads)

Synopsis Overcoming the Spirit of Jezebel by : Brondon T. Mathis

What is the spirit of Jezebel? Who was Jezebel and why is it important that we overcome her? What connection exists between this ancient biblical personality and the current moral crisis that this generation is experiencing in its emerging expression of perverted sexuality? The spirit of Jezebel is the spirit behind this expression of perverse sexuality in this generation. The spirit of Jezebel is the spirit behind gender confusion. The spirit of Jezebel is the spirit behind the LGBT and so-called gay marriage agenda. The spirit of Jezebel is what's behind the abortion and pornographic industry's multi-billion dollar industries. But God has a solution. God has a remedy for those that want to be free and overcome this spirit in this generation. This book will give you practical, spiritual and biblical ways to recognize, overcome and resist Jezebel in all of her forms. You will learn how to deal with her deceptive messages of tolerance, marriage equality and civil rights for gay and lesbian couples. But most of all you will learn how to overcome, once and for all, pornography, fornication, adultery, and Yes, homosexuality and Lesbianism as a believer in Christ.