Bøger af Reita Pendry

Like politics, murder makes strange bedfellows. Federal prosecutor Laura Moss never thought she would need her long-time opponent Mercy Johnson, one of Washington's best criminal defense attorneys. But when she bludgeons her philandering husband to death, she sees Mercy not as an adversary but as a lifeline. Laura tells police she killed her husband because she thought he was an intruder who was sexually assaulting her daughter Anna. Anna tells police her mother killed her stepfather in a jealous rage because she knew he and Anna were lovers. Laura's freedom depends on Mercy proving Anna a liar. Mercy quickly learns that she will have a harder fight on her hands against her own client than against the government's prosecution machine. Their battle of wills convinces Mercy that Laura is willing to make the ultimate sacrifice, her freedom, to protect her child.

Sleepy LeBlanc falls asleep at the wrong times and in the wrong places. Thanks to a pricey lawyer who never heard of narcolepsy, he goes to prison for a crime he did not commit. When the guard on the prison work crew is murdered and the other prisoners escape, Sleepy is an easy target. The FBI agent investigating the murder believes Sleepy knows about the crime. The escaped prisoners are caught, and they set about to silence him. Sleepy is ensnared in the political ambitions of the FBI agent and the fears of the prison gang of a murder prosecution. His best friend in prison asks Mercy Johnson to help him. With Mercy on his side, Sleepy's disorder may be turned from a curse to a tool to gain his freedom.