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Publisher:
Bethany House |
Release
Date: 2004 |
ISBN:
0-7642-2647-9 |
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Genre:
Historical fiction |
Reviewed:
2004 |
Reviewer:
Nancy Arant Williams |
Reviewer
Notes: Reviewer, Nancy Arant Williams is the author
of over 100 published articles, essays, poems and short stories,
including several which have won awards. Her inspirational romance
novels are: "Coming Home to Mercy Street," "In
the Company of Angels," "In The Shadow of the Cherubim." |
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A Certain Truth
The Trials
of Kit Shannon
By James Scott Bell
A rare breed of
woman in 1907, gifted trial attorney Kit Shannon Fox finds herself
relaxing, honeymooning on a cruiseship, until a frantic rap on her
door turns life, as she knows it, upside down.
A murder has taken place on board the ship, and
the wife of the victim wants Kit to represent her, when accused
of her husband's murder.
But as Kit interviews potential witnesses, things don't add up,
and she ends up with more questions than answers.
As the trial heats up, Kit is forced even further
into an unwelcome limelight, having won case after notorious case,
all of which have made headlines in newspapers all across the country.
Not to mention the fact that her husband, Theodore Fox is also in
the news, leading the pack in the breakneck race to perfect the
first single engine aircraft.
As if things aren't complicated enough already,
toss in a pious busybody, who has little use for what she perceives
as Kit's rebellious abandonment of hearth and home, even threatening
to lambast her in her newspaper column. After a word from this meddling
so and so, even Ted, always Kit's biggest supporter, isn't sure
he wants her exposed to the ongoing horrors of trial law.
With a long list of excellent titles to his credit,
James Scott Bell has done it again, this time weaving a complicated
tale, full of wonderul characters and surprising twists that will
keep you enthralled till the very end. Can't wait to see what he
does for an encore...
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