Dudley W. Buffa, Author . Warner $24.95 (432p) ISBN 978-0-446-52737-8
Inventing a perfectly odious victim and an obvious killer with the perfect alibi, Buffa cooks up a convoluted legal thriller littered with plot-twist land mines that explode when least expected. Toss in a poignant midlife romance and an innocent,...
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Dudley W. Buffa, Author . Warner $25.95 (448p) ISBN 978-0-446-52738-5
Like Buffa's other legal thrillers starring Portland, Ore., attorney Joseph Antonelli (The Judgment, etc.), this one has a first-class premise: a U.S. senator has been shot and killed in his car in San Francisco, and a young black man, wounded...
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Dudley W. Buffa, Author . Putnam $24.95 (388p) ISBN 978-0-399-15034-0
This uneven fifth novel in the Joseph Antonelli series (The Legacy, etc) has the colorful trial lawyer defending a legendary Hollywood director and studio mogul accused of murdering his movie star wife. Mary Margaret Flanders is killed just before...
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Dudley W. Buffa, Author . Putnam $24.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-399-15190-3
A U.S. vice president is accused of covering up a 38-year-old murder at the rousing start of Buffa's sixth courtroom thriller (after Star Witness
) featuring San Francisco trial lawyer Joseph Antonelli. Attending a Harvard Law School reunion,...
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Dudley W. Buffa, Author . Putnam $24.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-399-15281-8
In this intelligent, gripping legal thriller, the latest in Buffa's Edgar-nominated series to feature San Francisco DA Joseph Antonelli (The Defense
, etc.), Antonelli agrees to join his law partner and longtime friend, Albert Craven, on a...
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Dudley W. Buffa, Author Henry Holt & Company $20 (322p) ISBN 978-0-8050-5307-4
Belying its generic title, this debut novel is an ingenious, riveting legal thriller about an Oregon criminal attorney whose defense of a child rapist unleashes life-changing events. Prominent Portland attorney Joseph Antonelli is asked by his...
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Dudley W. Buffa, Author Henry Holt & Company $25 (256p) ISBN 978-0-8050-6107-9
Buffa's debut novel, The Defense, earned accolades for its multilayered plot, careful writing and philosophical musings about guilt and innocence. This sequel attempts to combine those same elements, with less satisfactory results. Once again,...
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