The Dark of Day - Softcover

Perseus

3.68

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ISBN 10: 1593155182 ISBN 13: 9781593155186

Publisher: Vanguard Press, 2009

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C.J. Dunn is an expert at spinning her clients’ image in the media. She’s the perfect lawyer to deflect police interest in Rick Slater, head of security for Bob Shelby, a U.S. Congressman from Miami. Slater was seen at a South Beach party with the recently vanished Alana Martin, and in election season, any hint of scandal could doom the Congressman’s chances. C.J. has reasons not to like Slater’s boss, but, if she succeeds, friends of the Congressman have assured her they can arrange a spot for her as a legal commentator on a national media outlet. For a woman living alone, with few close friends, a celebrity life has its appeal.

But as the media close in, hounding everyone connected to the case, C.J. finds connections she had never anticipated. When Alana Martin is found dead and C.J.’s investigator implicates Rick Slater, C.J. is slammed between the media and the need to defend a client she no longer trusts. Then he delivers a bombshell: C.J.’s daughter, Traci Willis, the child she gave up for adoption seventeen years ago, was a friend of Alana Martin’s. Traci has information that could save Rick Slater, but at the same time could reveal a devastating secret that would put C.J.’s career, and even her life, on the line.

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About the Author:

Barbara Parker is a former prosecutor with the state attorney’s office in Dade County, Florida. She is the author of twelve suspense novels, includingThe Dark of Day and Suspicion of Innocence, which was a finalist for the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best First Novel by an American author. She lives in South Florida, where she enjoys going to the beach and spending time with her pug, Max.

www.barbaraparker.com
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Miami’s hard-partying culture is the backdrop for Parker’s latest, a stand-alone featuring CJ Dunn, defense lawyer to the rich and famous. CJ knows a a lot about partying, having done her share with boyfriend Billy Medina, who throws some of the classiest galas in town. When pretty Alana Martin disappears from one of them, Rick Slater, bodyguard-driver of a local politician, is tagged as the last to see her, and CJ, with a possible CNN gig to entice her, agrees to manage the fallout. Slater claims he is innocent, but as curious CJ investigates, she finds herself not only becoming more skeptical of her client but also recalling her own youthful mistakes. Parker’s earlier novels, especially her Gail Connor series, have earned kudos, but this one is less successful. The multiple story threads mostly come together by the close, but not without some stretching, and the prose this time sometimes verges close to clich�. That said, Parker has her fans, and female lawyers are a hot commodity in the genre at the moment. --Stephanie Zvirin

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