Shadow of Doubt - Softcover

Jacobs, Jonnie

3.8

323 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1575667975 ISBN 13: 9781575667973

Publisher: Kensington Pub Corp, 1997

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Returning to the hometown she abandoned after tragedy struck, Kali O'Brien refuses to believe that an old schoolmate is responsible for a recent murder and is shocked when the killer reveals a scandal that casts doubt on Kali. Reissue.

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Kali O'Brien thought she'd left Silver Creek far behind. Until her father's death brings her back to her Sierra hometown, where she has to cope with past tragedy and present-day murder. All the evidence in a bizarre homicide case points to an old high school friend, but Kali is convinced she's innocent.

Now, as a clever killer closes in and a hidden scandal is exposed, a shadow of doubt is case on everyone . . . including Kali herself.

From Kirkus Reviews:

Bay Area lawyer Kali O'Brien, back in her hometown of Silver Creek, Calif., to bury her father, finds skeletons (not his) leaping out of every closet. But, first, another death: Eddie Marrero, the high-school coach who, despite marriage and four daughters with Kali's old friend Jannine, isn't too occupied to make a brief pass at her and ask if he can consult her professionally the night before he gets shot with Jannine's own gun. The local police chief, an unimaginative soul--though he turns out to have unsuspected depths--can't be bothered looking any further than the widow, so Kali, agreeing to lend Jannine a hand, checks for witnesses to her alibi (none), hunts for the $10,000 Eddie must've had on hand in order to buy his sister Susie's share of the bar their late father had owned with his brother George (not a trace), and tries to implicate Uncle George in the murder (bingo). A missing babysitter will lead Kali to an extravagant series of adulterous revelations and a culprit as unsurprising as the new man waiting in the wings to win the heart she thinks she's left in San Francisco. Fans of Jacobs's two well-bred suburban California mysteries starring art consultant Kate Austen (Murder Among Friends, 1995, etc.) will be comforted to know that neither Kali nor Silver Creek is much of a stretch. -- Copyright �1996, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

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