Author(s): STEVE MARTINI

SECONDHAND BOOKS | General Fiction

Attorney Paul Mandriani has ample reason to suspect he's representing a guilty man. Dr David Crone, a respected medical researcher and principal in mapping the human genome, is charged with the murder of a young colleague: twenty-six-year-old Kalista Jordan, an African-American research physician whose body washed up on a beach in San Diego Bay. Forensic evidence links her murder with material in Crone's garage. Crone certainly had motive: Kalista had accused him of sexual harassment, and there's a rumour she had been angling for his job.

When a key witness for the prosecution dies unexpectedly, leaving an incriminating note behind, it seems the case may be closed. But Mandriani won't be satisfied of his client's innocence till he's established just who did murder Kalista Jordan . . .

2001. A very good copy.