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"Wilhelm really knows students and knows how to teach them to
craft a professional story."--"The Oregonian"
Part memoir, part writing manual, "Storyteller" is an
affectionate account of how the Clarion Writers' Workshop began,
what Kate Wilhelm learned, and how she passed a love of the written
word on to generations of writers. Includes writing exercises and
advice. A Hugo and Locus award winner.
Mitch Arno always meant bad news for Folsum, Oregon. When they ran
him out of town seventeen years ago, he left behind a wife with two
daughters and a family that never wanted to see him again. When he
returns, he brings trouble in the form of a lot of suspicious
money. As Barbara attempts to counsel Mitch's wife about the money,
a second form of trouble arrives, Mitch's corpse.
Lara and Vinny Jessup had a lovely May-December marriage.
Initially, the sheriff in Loomis County thinks that Vinny died when
his car rolled over on a bad curve on Lookout Mountain. Then he
finds the gunshot wound. Was it suicide or was it murder? With a
large insurance policy as her motive, Lara could have staged the
death-or so it appears to the sheriff. Barbara finds herself drawn
to the Oregon desert to take on this case. To Barbara, it appears
there's no defense at all.
Travis Morgan's case seems open-and-shut: a plot to kill his
estranged father, fundamentalist preacher Arlie Morgan, goes awry
and his bullet slays an innocent bookkeeper. Two eyewitnesses seal
Travis' fate. But despite damning evidence, Travis staunchly
maintains his innocence. Beseeched by his anguished mother, veteran
defense attorney Barbara Holloway agrees to represent Travis. With
the support of her father attorney Frank Holloway and crack private
investigator Bailey, Barbara reveals a zealot, his ultra-rich
backers, and unimaginable atrocities. Travis' case proceeds to
trial, and Barbara finds herself pitted against a complacent legal
system and a judge eager to simply close the case and retire.
Knowing she must intervene decisively to avoid a conviction,
Barbara steps squarely into the path of danger. Risking her own
life, Barbara confronts the killer in order to save Travis' life.
Nell Kendrick's husband disappeared seven years earlier, abandoning
his young family. Nell hasn't seen him since, until the day Lucas
Kendricks arrives at the edge of her property and is shot and
killed. Accused of his murder, Nell turns to lawyer Frank Holloway
for help. But Frank knows he cannot win this case alone. He calls
upon his daughter, Barbara, who remains "death qualified," legally
able to defend clients who face the death penalty if convicted.
In Wilhelm's latest crime novel, a small Oregon town is rocked by a
wheels-within-wheels case of art, fraud, and murder.
The Sumner family can read the signs: the droughts and floods, the
blighted crops, the shortages, the rampant diseases and plagues,
and, above all, the increasing sterility all point to one thing.
Their isolated farm in the Appalachian Mountains gives them the
ideal place to survive the coming breakdown, and their wealth and
know-how gives them the means. Men and women must clone themselves
for humanity to survive. But what then?
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