Death Qualified
1991 • 448 pages

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First in the Barbara Holloway mystery series, Death Qualified masterfully combines mystery, science fiction, and a keen examination of legal ethics. Lucas Kendrick appears at his estranged wife’s home after a mysterious seven-year disappearance, and is instantly shot. Nell Kendrick, charged with his murder, calls Attorney Frank Holloway to defend her. But Frank cannot prepare her defense alone. He needs a lawyer who is “death qualified”—able to defend capital cases. He appeals to his daughter Barbara, who, out of disillusionment with a profession prizing politics over justice, abandoned her practice five years before. Reluctantly, Barbara is plunged into a case involving chaos theory, the mysterious death of a researcher, and a politically motivated and hostile prosecutor. To complicate matters, Barbara falls in love with a mathematician whose help she seeks in unraveling the case.


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10 primary books

#12 in Barbara Holloway

Barbara Holloway is a 10-book series with 10 released primary works first released in 1991 with contributions by Kate Wilhelm.

#1
Death Qualified
#3
Malice Prepense
#4
Defense for the Devil
#5
No Defense
#6
Desperate Measures
#7
Clear and Convincing Proof
#9
Sleight of Hand
#10
A Wrongful Death
#11
Cold Case
#13
By Stone, by Blade, by Fire

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