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CONTROLLED RELEASE NOTES:

Mailing off as a donation to an OBCZ in need. Happy travels, book!

This book is being placed in a bookbox heading to a BC member that stocks an OBCZ.

arrived in a box of books for stocking my OBCZ. kind of wish this one had arrived about 6 months ago when i was traveling in AZ and NV as it would have certainly found it's way to either a wild release in a ghost town there or onto an OBCZ shelf in Phoenix where Firegirl has several.

WILD RELEASE NOTES:

onto the OBCZ shelves to restock

Caught this today at Soho Bagel when I went to have breakfast and re-stock the bookshelf. I love the book cover! It looks interesting.

Book #3 in the Chloe Newcombe series

Book Description:

Victim advocate or victim witness? Chloe Newcomb defines her job in the County Attorney's office as "helping victims of violent crimes through the criminal justice sytem in any way I can". Actually, there's much more to that than meets the eye. The description of "victim" stretches to include not only the muggee or even the murderee. In Chloe's past experience the people she is assigned to help "in whatever way that she can" includes those affected by a disaster, even an innocent bystander who has witnessed the event. And since she has moved to the small desert town of Dudley, Arizona, she learned very well that disasters aren't limited to the cities.

Chloe's current assignment is to notify the family of a local judge who has disappeared, and whose body is subsequently found at the ruins of a deserted hotel in a ghost town near Dudley. She finds the family to be a living illustration of the term dysfunctional. The widow seems to have been on the verge of collapse before her husband disappeared, and her live-in mother is an evil-tongued shrew who loses no opportunity to worsen the atmosphere. The couple's daughter, away at college, has cut off all communication with her family (something Chloe can hardly blame her for), and the pre-teen son is a bewildered, angry child. A victim advocate doesn't seem to be what this bereaved family needs. However, Chloe feels she can stretch the definition somewhat and see what she can do to solve the mystery of the judge's murder - not only who killed him and why, but why in such strange circumstances?

She has her own reasons as well - her friend Nate, a young journalist, has disappeared from Dudley after telling Chloe that he had uncovered some information about the judge that would "blow this town apart." Now she fears for his life. Meanwhile, Chloe is beginning to feel that she needs a victim advocate herself, because not only Nate, but her lover, Craig, has vanished.

This book is in the ABC (Already Been Crossed) Bookbox.

Removing from JennyC1230's ABC bookbox to be released elsewhere. I swapped out all the previously crossed available books that I had, then there were still a few books in the box that had started out in it from the beginning. One is traveling back home with the box at JennyC1230's request and she has said it will be okay to take the others out to either wild release or give to somebody else to read.

given to a relative to read