Firm Ambitions (Rachel Gold Mystery) - Softcover

Kahn, Michael A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0451179617 ISBN 13: 9780451179616

Publisher: Onyx, 1995

Synopsis

When the sexy, conman owner of a popular St. Louis exercise studio dies suddenly of an overdose of cyanide-laced vitamins, attorney Rachel Gold investigates, only to find herself the target of a ruthless killer. Reprint.

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About the Author

Michael A. Kahn is the award-winning author of several novels, praised by Publishers Weekly for their “intelligent, breezy dialogue and clever plotting.” A graduate of Amherst College and Harvard Law School, Mr. Kahn began his literary career writing free-lance feature articles for Chicago Magazine while teaching fifth grade in the Chicago public schools. Now a trial attorney in St. Louis, he wrote his first novel on a dare from his wife, who got sick of hearing him announce, each time he finished a paperback thriller that he’d purchased at an airport newsstand, “I could write a better book than this.” “Then write one,” she finally said, “or please shut up.”

From Kirkus Reviews

In what she vows will be her last divorce case, feisty St. Louis attorney Rachel Gold (Death Benefits, 1992) agrees to represent her sister Ann's friend, Eileen Landau, against her rutting developer husband, Tommy. But it's one divorce too many for Rachel. Eileen admits she's been carrying on herself with Andros, the dishy instructor whose aerobics clients at Firm Ambitions wiggle their bottoms for nobody but him; Rachel visits Firm Ambitions and has to fight off Andros's sales pitch for private sessions; and minutes after one last high-impact workout with Eileen, Andros pops some poisoned vitamins--after which the police arrest not Eileen, not Tommy, but Ann, another tearful victim of Andros's wiles, who'd written him a seriously nasty letter after she'd found he was 22-timing her. A cache of indiscreet photos of Andros's clientele makes Rachel realize that winning Ann's acquittal won't be enough; the only way to keep the lid on a scandal damaging to both Eileen and Ann will be to prevent the case from ever coming to trial. How? By enlisting her mother and her raffish sidekick, Benny Goldberg, to penetrate the ingenious scam Andros was really running on all those socialite twits. Like baseball's ever-deserving Cardinals, Rachel would be a lot better known if she played in a major media market. Her latest case--starting with sex, drugs, and gambling, and then getting really dirty--is a beaut. (Author tour) -- Copyright ©1994, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

Edition details

• Publisher: Onyx
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0451179617
• ISBN 13: 9780451179616
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 320