Death Qualified by Kate Wilhelm
Five years ago, Barbara Holloway gave up practicing law, disillusioned with a profession that put politics before justice. Then she receives a phone call, with a simple message: I need you.Nell Kendrick's husband disappeared seven years earlier, abandoning his young family. Nell hasn't seen him since until the day he arrives at the edge of her property and is shot, instantly killed. Accused of his murder, Nell turns to lawyer Frank Holloway for help. Frank knows he cannot win the case alone, and calls upon his daughter, Barbara.
Barbara is determined to stay distanced from the case, but the more she learns, the more questions she finds herself asking. Is Nell innocent, as Frank attests? Where has Lucas Kendricks been for the past seven years? Despite her vow, Barbara finds herself drawn to the case and reclaims the search for truth that first led her to the law.
Kate Wilhelm (1928-2018)Working name of the US writer Katie Gertrude Meridith Wilhelm Knight, born in Ohio in 1928. She started publishing SF in 1956 with 'The Pint-Sized Genie' for Fantastic, and continued for some time with relatively straightforward genre stories; it was not until the late 1960s that she began to release the mature stories which have made her reputation as one of the 20th century's finest SF writers. She was married to noted author and critic Damon Knight and together they have had a profound influence beyond their writing, through the Milford Science Fiction Writers' Conference and its offshoot, in which she was directly involved, the Clarion Science Fiction Writers' Workshop. She won the Hugo Award for Best Novel with Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang, and has won the Nebula Award three times. Kate Wilhelm died in 2018, aged 89.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781551668727 |
| ISBN 10 | 1551668726 |
| Title | Death Qualified |
| Author | Kate Wilhelm |
| Series | Barbara Holloway Novels |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Mira Books |
| Year published | 2002-03-25 |
| Number of pages | 448 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for Oregon Book Awards (Fiction) 1992 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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