FREE: THE ALTERNATE by John Martel (1999, Hardcover)

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This 6 1/4" X 9 1/4" hardback book with jacket has 417 pages. Very good condition. ***In an opulent Pacific Heights mansion, the beautiful Lara Ashford, wife of a powerful ex-congressman, lies dead. From San Francisco and all over the country, cops and investigators, lawyers and politicians, are being drawn into the most controversial capital case to hit the Bay Area in years. They claim they're coming for justice, but for some of them, justice will be at the ultimate price.
The victim's husband stands accused of her murder and two ambitious lawyers step into the courtroom for the most challenging trial of their careers.
Defense attorney Barrett Dickson represents the accused—Elliot Ashford—whose alibi is as questionable as his past. For Dickson, the case represents an unwanted opportunity for redemption. Assistant D.A. Grace Harris, whose future as a candidate for District Attorney of San Francisco, rests on the success of her prosecution, finds that her case rests on a piece of evidence that has mysteriously vanished.
Driven by personal vendettas and plagued by controversy, the trial is soon spinning dangerously out of control, for behind the headlines, the politics, and the legal maneuvering; behind the lies, the evasions, and the stunning reversals, another player is in the game: one with a front-row seat, and a history of madness and murder . . .******