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A Killing in the Valley (The Luke Garrison Series) Kindle Edition

by J. F. Freedman (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

4.2 83 ratings

Book 3 of 3: The Luke Garrison Series

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In this legal thriller from the New York Times–bestselling author of Against the Wind, breaking into a mansion for a laugh turns into a sobering crime.
Maria Estrada, a hard-partying girl with family ties to some of the toughest gangsters in California, had no idea an old mansion could be so beautiful. The boy who broke into it with her had a feeling she might be impressed. But by the time the night is over, Maria has been brutally killed, and the boy is nowhere to be found. It’s up to PI Kate Blanchard and Luke Garrison, a criminal lawyer, to decipher what happened in the grand old mansion. To bring Maria’s killer to justice, they must locate the elusive connection between the poverty where she was raised and the affluence of where she died.

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Set in Southern California, this legal thriller from Freedman (Against the Wind) opens with a brutal date rape and murder. After the victim's corpse is found on the grounds of the estate of Juanita McCoy, one of Santa Barbara's leading citizens, suspicion soon focuses on one of the few people to have access to the area, her hunky grandson, Steven McCoy. When Steven's prints are found on the murder weapon, he's charged, and the author's series characters, former DA Luke Garrison and single-mom PI Kate Blanchard, are enlisted in his defense. Readers expecting gripping courtroom scenes will feel cheated that the murder trial's highlights-the testimony of the accused and Garrison's summation-are disposed of in a few summary sentences.
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“Freedman keeps readers turning pages deep into the night.” —Entertainment Weekly “Mr. Freedman just keeps getting better and better.” —Larry Brown, author of Joe

Product details

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00COWLY66
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller (May 28, 2013)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ May 28, 2013
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 3043 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 498 pages

Best Sellers Rank: #746,552 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #1,690 in Legal Thrillers (Kindle Store)
- #18,445 in Women Sleuths (Kindle Store)
- #21,977 in Suspense (Kindle Store)

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J. F. Freedman
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J. F. Freedman grew up in Maryland outside Washington, D.C, and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with BA and MA degrees. He is a best-selling author of a dozen books that have been published in over twenty languages and sold over a million copies world-wide. Under his full name, Jerrold Freedman, he has written, directed, and/or produced dozens of movies for theaters and television, including Kansas City Bomber with Raquel Welch, Borderline with Charles Bronson, Native Son with Oprah Winfrey, Matt Dillon, Elizabeth McGovern, and Geraldine Page, along with the pilot for the original MacGyver television series, episodes of The X-Files, and many other shows. He has multiple Emmy nominations, has won a Writer's Guild of America award, and a television Edgar. As a young television producer, he hired an even younger Steven Spielberg for some of Spielberg's first directing assignments.
Mr. Freedman lives on the central California coast, the location for several of his novels.
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Eddie Russell

The only gripe is that I hate finishing the book

Reviewed in the United States on June 22, 2014

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A good percentage of the books I read are so poorly written that I have to keep making notes to follow the shoddily constructed plot, which only takes away from the story.
With Freedman - and I have read everyone one of his books - is the exact opposite. The story flows, you rarely have to page back to double check the facts or the characters.
The one and only gripe is that I hate finishing the book and I wish it would go on longer.

He is a terrific writer that I would to emulate.

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Excellent storytelling

Reviewed in the United States on May 23, 2023

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JF Freedman tells an excellent story, plenty of courtroom drama in the last third, well worth the time for the read

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Miguel Figueroa

Great book for summer.

Reviewed in the United States on June 29, 2018

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Wow. I really liked this book. J. Freedman writes like it is- it is not the typical mystery fairy tale ending- the one that at the end everybody live happy for ever-( I can't stand them-they are for kids). Great realistic ending.

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Joanna

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United States on September 17, 2016

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Really liked the book J F Freedman books really catch my attention.Never was much of a reader until I started reading his books.

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John Combs

I got a good read for a good price.