After a lonely spell - with only her work as a victims advocate to keep her busy - Chloe Newcombe meets Terry Barnett. He tells her that he needs to confide in someone, but when Chloe finds out he's married she decides to forget all about him. But when she goes out on assignment she wishes she had listened for Terry has been murdered. Finding herself marked as a possible suspect and her involvement with Terry affecting her work, Chloe is told to take a vacation. With her job and reputation in danger she plunges into finding ...
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After a lonely spell - with only her work as a victims advocate to keep her busy - Chloe Newcombe meets Terry Barnett. He tells her that he needs to confide in someone, but when Chloe finds out he's married she decides to forget all about him. But when she goes out on assignment she wishes she had listened for Terry has been murdered. Finding herself marked as a possible suspect and her involvement with Terry affecting her work, Chloe is told to take a vacation. With her job and reputation in danger she plunges into finding the real killer, starting with Terry's widow, his estranged brother and an intriguing phantom from Terry's past whom he mentioned just before his murder. Chloe must disentangle a story of obsession and betrayal if she is to prove her innocence.
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Fine in Fine jacket. Book 1st Edition, November 2004, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. Publishers sheet laid in. At the start of Thornton's fourth intricate puzzle to feature Chloe Newcombe, the Cochise County, Arizona victim's advocate is assigned to assist artist Heather Stephens after Heather's husband, carpenter Terry Barnett, is found dead in his burning barn. The problem is, Chloe hired Terry to make a bookcase for her and in the process was attracted to him. During dinner across the border in Mexico, Terry told her he was married, and she refused to see him again. Chloe's concern for Heather, when it becomes clear that Terry was shot first, drives her to try to unravel some highly tangled relationships in search of the killer. Did his wife tire of his infidelities? Was there a dissatisfied client? What of his estranged brother in Ohio? Terry went back there for a time to care for his dying mother and contacted a childhood friend. Herself a victim's advocate, Thornton writes what she knows. She takes great care in describing this community whose members are bound together in spite of their need for independence..."--PW.
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