Böcker av Susan Patricia Baker

FINALIST for Writer's League of Texas Violet Crown Award"Baker has crafted a refreshingly straightforward whodunit. Multiple sleuths on parallel tracks, one breezy, one brassy, add spice." Kirkus Reviews (Kirkus Review 20050201)"...This entertaining legal thriller grips the reader..." I Love A Mystery Newsletter. Criminal defense attorney Sandra Salinsky is hired to defend the killer of plaintiffs' attorney Phillip Parker. Salinsky and her mother, Erma Townley, not only are law partners but often sparing partners. Since the decedent was Salinsky's mother's best friend, the case becomes more complicated than it first appears. Although the defendant claims she's innocent, Sandra soon learns that she had millions of reasons to kill Parker, and not all of them were about money. To make matters worse, Edgar Saul, the prosecutor from hell, is assigned to the case. Sandra and Erma put their heads together to try to figure out who really killed Parker, but it seems everyone has a different story of the events on the night of the murder. One thing is certain, someone stole the victim's watch and ring, which could turn a murder into a capital murder, a death penalty offense. Sandra has to find the real killer before her client is indicted and put to trial for capital murder. Before the case is over, Sandra risks everything to solve a crime that leads into the very pillars of Galveston society and puts herself in danger to capture a killer who will take no chances in making her the next victim.

If you stiff your attorney, you'd better flee. A Houston antiques dealer who owes her lawyer $60,000 is on the run, or, at the very least, a missing person. P.I. Mavis Davis, who's good at finding people, agrees to track the dealer down for a percentage, happy that for once the case she's hired on is not murder. The search takes Mavis into the world of antiques in Galveston, Houston, and small-town LaGrange, Texas. What Mavis discovers is much worse than the money-much, much worse. She finds a fresh corpse in coffin. Thinking the decedent's being located will lead to unearthing the money, the lawyer now wants Mavis to figure out who committed the murder. This means Mavis must, once more, help the police flush out the murderer. If she's found out, Mavis risks the cops arresting her, again, for tampering in an active police investigation, if not accusing her of the killing, since she's the one who found the dead body. Can Mavis resolve the crime, find the perp, and root out the money? Or will she find herself in jail, or worse, become the next dead body in a box? Click the BUY NOW button to find out! Or download the ebook/sign in to KU.

In the midst of a midlife crisis, lawyer Sandra Salinsky finds herself coerced into defending a ranch's Latina señora, who has been accused in the shooting death of one of the rancher's twin daughters. Set in a small town deep in the Texas Hill Country, this murder mystery encompasses a jury trial wherein the defense team battles not only what they and the rancher - who is the defendant's best friend - feel is an unwarranted murder charge, but also the prejudice towards Hispanic people in their anglo community. Before the case is decided, Sandra and her lawyer mother sidekick will witness the ugly underbelly of white privilege as it exists in 21st century America.

Fearing for her life, a young woman seeks a lawyer to get her divorced before her violent husband kills her. Dena, the lawyer, has plans of her own, to break free of the two controlling men in her life. Once the suit is filed, unbeknownst to either woman the client's husband targets both of them. The client has a police officer brother to protect her. Dena has no one. Unaware of the danger, Dena continues practicing law and taking care of her kids until she can put her plan in place. Then one day when Dena's husband is out of town, a man is lurking in her garage, waiting until she and the kids go to bed. Being a Texas girl, Dena has a gun. Will she be able to reach it before the stranger reaches her? This is one of Baker's three standalone suspense novels.Click the button above to get your copy of the paperback or download the ebook.