Suspicion of Betrayal (The Suspicion Series) - Softcover

Parker, Barbara

Softcover

ISBN 10: 149763914X ISBN 13: 9781497639140

Publisher: Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller, 2014

Synopsis

Attorney Gail Connors must look to her past to discover who is threatening her family this “gripping . . . riveting thriller” (Publishers Weekly).

Gail Connor thinks she has achieved all her life goals with a successful career, a perfect home, and an ideal man, until an anonymous and menacing phone call, obscene letters, and threats to her eleven-year-old daughter endanger the very foundations of her life and begin to reveal the secrets of her past.

Suspicion of Betrayal is the 4th book in the Suspicion series, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.

About this title

About the Author:

Barbara Parker was trained as a lawyer and worked as a prosecutor with the state attorney’s office in Dade County, Florida, before moving into a private practice that specialized in real estate and family law. Parker earned a master’s degree in creative writing in 1993. Her first legal thriller was Suspicion of Innocence, published in 1994, which was followed by another seven titles in the series featuring her two lawyer protagonists, and sometime lovers Gail Connor and Anthony Quintana. While writing the series, she also produced Criminal Justice, Blood Relations, The Perfect Fake, and The Dark of Day. Suspicion of Innocence was a finalist for the Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America. Two of her titles, Suspicion of Deceit and Suspicion of Betrayal were New York Times bestsellers. Barbara Parker died in March 2009, at age sixty-two.

From Kirkus Reviews:

How can you tell that Miami lawyer Gail Connor is being lied to again? Because her ears are open, as they are to no avail throughout this fourth round of her legal-cum-domestic travails. At first Gail thinks the metallic-sounding voice threatening her over the phone must belong to Payton Cunningham, the neighborhood kid she chased out of her yard after he kissed her daughter Karen, 11. But would a teenager really identify himself as Death, send her doctored photographs threatening Karen and herself, as well as roses offering condolences for Karen's (nonexistent) death accompanied by a card signed by Gail's murdered sister Renee, or decapitate Karen's pet kitten? No kid could have such an animus, Gail decides. But if the perp isn't Payton, who is? The field of apparently innocuous men surrounding Gailmen who suddenly reveal potentially murderous depths beneath their smiling surfacesis worthy of Mary Higgins Clark. There's Wendell Sweet, the oilman husband who's doing his best to divorce Gail's earthy client without leaving her a cent. There's Simon Yancey, the disgruntled victim of a mortgage foreclosure Gail handled years back. There's Charlie Jenkins, the contractor who magically turned up one day to work on restoring the house Gail's purchased with her fianc, well-connected Cuban attorney Anthony Quintana (Suspicion of Deceit, 1998). There's Hector Mesa, the sinister friend and courier to the Pedrosas, Anthony's wealthy family. And for good measure, there's Anthony himself, looking awfully hot-headed now that there's pressure on his bride-to-be, and Dave Metzger, Gail's ex, who's bobbed up from his Caribbean sojourn to sue Gail for custody of Karen. All right, the real culprit isn't worth a second shudder. Until the disappointing denouement, though, Parker piles on the menace with all the smooth efficiency of the storied Pedrosas. (Author tour) -- Copyright ©1999, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

About this edition

• Publisher: Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 149763914X
• ISBN 13: 9781497639140
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320