Immaculate Midnight: A Jane Lawless Mystery (Jane Lawless Mysteries) - Hardcover

Hart, Ellen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0312266766 ISBN 13: 9780312266769

Publisher: Minotaur Books, 2002

Synopsis

Ray Lawless, prominent defense attorney and father of Minneapolis restaurateur Jane Lawless, tries his biggest case yet defending an accused serial murderer and arsonist whom the media has dubbed "The Fireman." Ray's client is eventually convicted and sentenced to two consecutive life sentences, though he proclaims his innocence to the end, and a few days later, he kills himself in his cell.

But someone in The Fireman's life can't let go, and, blaming Ray for the man's death, plots a meticulous revenge. Both Jane and her brother Peter, who is already under terrible stress because of a troubled marriage, feel the heat of the avenger's plan.

But Jane is intimately familiar with danger, and she's never been one to shrink from a fight. With the help of her best friend Cordelia, Jane sets out to discover why this person is so determined to undo her family. When she begins to dig into The Fireman's life, the puzzle unravels, leading Jane to a final confrontation with someone bent on making the Lawlesses pay, perhaps with their lives.

Immaculate Midnight is a taught, dynamic installment in an award-winning series.

About this title

About the Author:

Ellen Hart, three-time Lambda Award winner and two-time Minnesota Book Award winner, is the author of nine previous Jane Lawless mysteries, including most recently The Merchant of Venus, which is also a finalist for both awards, and the Sophie Greenway mystery series. She lives in Minneapolis.

From Booklist:

Three cheers! Cordelia Thorne, one of the best sidekicks ever to grace the pages of mysteries, is more or less in trim again. If she hasn't nearly the acerbic bite and wit, not to mention the word count, that Jane Lawless series fans might want her to have, she's got her larger-than-life diva theatricality back, none too soon after the wishy-washy mouther of family homilies she was in The Merchant of Venus (2001). Meanwhile, Jane is still recovering from injuries and grieving the death of her dog and the end of her affair with Julia. She receives a strangely troubling image from a tarot pack, and soon after, a stash of drugs is found in her office. Then her father and troubled brother receive equally threatening tarot images at the same time that convicted serial killer Bobby Alto dies in prison. Could the drugs and tarot symbols signal the Altos' revenge against the Lawlesses for her father's performance as Bobby's defense attorney? Whitney Scott
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About this edition

• Publisher: Minotaur Books
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0312266766
• ISBN 13: 9780312266769
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 384