Lines of Defense - Hardcover

Siegel, Barry

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1587243504 ISBN 13: 9781587243509

Publisher: Wheeler Pub Inc, 2002

Synopsis

Investigating a house fire that claimed the lives of a local retiree and a young girl, Douglas Bard, a sheriff's department detective, puts his job on the line as he searches for the cause of the deaths.

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s been a detective with the sheriff’s department in La Graciosa, California, long enough to know the score. Now that an influx of upscale chain stores and luxury housing has turned sleepy Chumash County into a boom town, the last thing anyone wants is crime casting a shadow over the prosperity. But Bard also knows he’s not the kind of man who can write off a double fatality as a tragic accident—especially when all his instincts tell him it was murder.

When a devastating housefire claims the lives of a kindly local retiree and his eleven-year-old piano student, District Attorney Angela Stark wastes no time declaring the blaze a mishap. But the verdict just doesn’t sit right with Bard. Inconclusive but troubling clues—marks on the dead girl’s neck, a strange bootprint on a kicked-in door—are enough to make the veteran detective buck the party line and fight to keep the case open. It’s a stand that puts the renegade Bard at odds yet again with

About the Author

Barry Siegel is the author of four previous books: Actual Innocence, The Perfect Witness, Shades of Gray: Ordinary People in Extraordinary Circumstances, and A Death in White Bear Lake, which was nominated for an Edgar Award in the Best Fact Crime category. He is a Pulitzer Prize–winning national correspondent for the Los Angeles Times.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Wheeler Pub Inc
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1587243504
• ISBN 13: 9781587243509
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 509