Suspicion of Guilt

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When a Palm Beach widow dies, the dispute over her will turns deadly in this breathlessly paced legal thriller from a New York Timesbestselling author (Publishers Weekly).

When wealthy Palm Beach dowager Althea Tillett dies under suspicious circumstances, it sparks a battle between those in line for an inheritanceincluding Gail Connors old law school classmate and former lover Patrick Norris. He thinks someone has tampered with his aunts willpreventing him from receiving millions he hoped to use for an urban renewal project.

Although discouraged from getting involved by her own law firm and her lover, Cuban-American attorney Anthony Quintana, Gail agrees to look into Altheas rapacious relatives. But she soon finds herself in the middle of a family feud thats about much more than money. Its about secrets, lies, forgery ... and murder.

Written by a former prosecutor, this provocative, breathless national bestseller will surprise you (The Plain Dealer).

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Barbara Parker was trained as a lawyer and worked as a prosecutor with the state attorneys office in Dade County, Florida, before moving into a private practice that specialized in real estate and family law. She earned a masters degree in creative writing in 1993, and her first legal thriller wasSuspicion of Innocence (1994), which was followed by another seven titles featuring her two lawyer protagonists, the sometime-lovers Gail Connor and Anthony Quintana. While writing the Suspicion series, she also producedCriminal Justice,Blood Relations,The Perfect Fake, andThe Dark of Day. Suspicion of Innocencewas a finalist for the Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America, and two of her titles,Suspicion of DeceitandSuspicion of Betrayal,wereNew York Timesbestsellers. Parker died in March 2009, at age sixty-two.