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The Unbidden Truth
The Unbidden Truth
The Unbidden Truth
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A stunning trail of deception, intrigue and suspense

A barbara holloway novel

When Louise Braniff discreetly hands Barbara Holloway a large retainer and asks for complete anonymity, the attorney is both intrigued and suspicious. The woman, a respected music professor, also spearheads a group that sponsors worthy causes. And the group wants Barbara to defend Carol Fredricks, a gifted young pianist who stands accused of murder. Barbara has heard Carol play, and that's enough to convince her to take the case. But now the questions are coming faster than the answers.

Carol's straightforward version of what happened the night piano bar manager Joe Wenzel was murdered clashes with the incriminating evidence against her. And how can Barbara explain the oddly incomplete picture she gets of the young woman herself? Carol has no memory of learning to play the piano, her recollections begin the day she woke up in hospital, aged eight, to learn that her parents were dead. And now she is having haunting nightmares about a woman named Carolyn Frye.

Soon Barbara is convinced that her client is not only innocent, but that she is being framed. However, proving the case and keeping her client safe will require every ounce of Barbara's notoriously fierce determination to get at the truth. And as she unravels the stunning trail of deception, hatred and remarkably deep and abiding love that holds the key to the mystery of Carol Fredricks, Barbara discovers that the unbidden truth may just damn them both.

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Release dateSep 1, 2011
ISBN9781742894393
The Unbidden Truth
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Kate Wilhelm

Kate Wilhelm's first novel was a mystery, published in 1963. Over the span of her career, her writing has crossed over the genres of Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction, fantasy and magical realism; psychological suspense, mimetic, comic, and family sagas, a multimedia stage production, and radio plays. Her works have been adapted for television and movies in the United States, England, and Germany. Wilhelm's novels and stories have been translated to more than a dozen languages. She has contributed to Quark, Orbit, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Locus, Amazing Stories, Asimov's Science Fiction, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Fantastic, Omni, Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, Redbook, and Cosmopolitan. Wilhelm and her husband, Damon Knight (1922-2002), also provided invaluable assistance to numerous other writers over the years. Their teaching careers covered a span of several decades, and hundreds of students, many of whom are famous names in the field by their own rights today. They helped to establish the Clarion Writer's Workshop and the Milford Writer's Conference. They have been the guests of honor and panelists at numerous conventions around the world. Wilhelm continues to host monthly workshops, as well as teach at other events. She is an avid supporter of local libraries and participates in fundraisers when she is able to.

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    I was very disappointed in Wilhelm's attempt. Lawyer Barbara is jumping all over the place trying to tie in her client's forgotten past with the current charges against her. Two other attorney's time is tied up "assisting" her, but Barbara is the prima donna, making all decisions, even controlling her client's life. She ties it all up at the end, but it was fairly tedious to get to that point.Then, of course, there is the usual attraction/repulsion/romance interest, which adds nothing to the story.
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    What if your only memories of your childhood were denied by your foster parents and your doctors? What if you roamed the country searching for something that you did not even know you were looking for? Now, what if you were accused of murder because you were the convenient stranger? And what if your being framed for murder was not random, but tied to the childhood memories that you had suppressed for decades?Barbara Holloway is a criminal defense lawyer in Eugene, Oregon, hired by a mysterious benefactor to defend an itinerant cocktail lounge pianist. Unfortunately for Barbara, she also discovers that this woman is being targeted by a powerful local construction family with more than a few secrets.

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