Dark lady / Richard North Patterson.
By: Patterson, Richard North
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New York : Ballantine Books, ©2000Description: 427 pages ; 18 cm.Content type: text ISBN: 0345404785; 9780345404787.Subject(s): Public prosecutors -- Fiction | Women lawyers -- FictionDDC classification: /P27 Summary: Once the prosecutor was a young law student. Once the dead man was an honest lawyer. Now Stella Marz stares at the body of her former lover, hanging from a doorway in a gruesome tableau. For Stella Marz, the search for Jack Novak's killer leads into another bizarre homicide case, back through her own past and through the city where she was born and where now-a good Catholic girl turned career woman-she is in exile. Somewhere in this city an unholy alliance of big money, big plans, and dark secrets is fueling a great American revival. And somehow Stella Marz will bring the darkness into the light-no matter what it reveals, no matter who it destroys .
Once the prosecutor was a young law student. Once the dead man was an honest lawyer. Now Stella Marz stares at the body of her former lover, hanging from a doorway in a gruesome tableau. For Stella Marz, the search for Jack Novak's killer leads into another bizarre homicide case, back through her own past and through the city where she was born and where now-a good Catholic girl turned career woman-she is in exile. Somewhere in this city an unholy alliance of big money, big plans, and dark secrets is fueling a great American revival. And somehow Stella Marz will bring the darkness into the light-no matter what it reveals, no matter who it destroys .
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