Due Diligence (Rachel Gold Mystery) - Softcover

Kahn, Michael A.

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9780451179708: Due Diligence (Rachel Gold Mystery)

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ISBN 10: 0451179706 ISBN 13: 9780451179708

Publisher: Onyx, 1996

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In the wake of two murders, including those of her newest client and a beloved friend, attorney Rachel Gold investigates a pharmaceutical company with ties to a presidential candidate

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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.”

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St. Louis attorney Rachel Gold is falling in love with Rabbi David Marcus. When a member of Marcus' synagogue, Bruce Rosenthal, cancels his appointment with Rachel and then turns up murdered, both Rachel and David assume the aborted appointment is somehow connected to the crime. Then Marcus is also murdered in what seems to be the work of an anti-Semitic hate group. Rachel, determined to solve both murders, discovers that Rosenthal was negotiating the merger of a small pharmaceutical firm with a larger conglomerate. The trail leads from there through the jungle of corporate law to the pharmaceutical firm's former owner, current Missouri senator and presidential hopeful Douglas Armstrong. The plotting is intricate, the dialogue witty, and Rachel's supporting cast, which includes a transsexual secretary named Jacki (formerly a steelworker named Jack), is memorable. Fine reading. Wes Lukowsky

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