Methods of Execution: A Novel - Hardcover

Huebner, Fredrick D.

 
9780671867249: Methods of Execution: A Novel

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While appealing the death sentence of a serial killer, Seattle lawyer Matthew Riordan uncovers a world of murder, blackmail, and aberrant sexuality that reaches into the highest political levels of the city. 25,000 first printing.

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-edged, absorbing story with shocking twists."
--The Sunday Oregonian
Robert Polhaus abuses women for his own sexual gratification. That violent history helps convict him of murdering two prostitutes, putting him on death row as a serial killer.
"A thought-provoking story expertly written and fused with the twists and turns of an imaginative suspense/thriller."
--Mystery News
Seattle lawyer Matthew Riordan hoped to leave law forever, but returns when his ex-girlfriend, attorney Elizabeth Kleinfeldt, shares her startling conviction that Polhaus was unjustly convicted. Now Riordan is appealing the sentence of the ice-hearted criminal.
"Nail-gnawing suspense...Startling and wholly unpredictable events erupt regularly."
--Lexington Herald-Leader
To find answers, Riordan sinks fast into the shadowy scene of sex for sale and cold-blooded corruption--to discover a murderer whose methods are even more chilling than those of Riordan's cli

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ISBN 10:  1451667167 ISBN 13:  9781451667165
Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 2011
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