Kevin Egan
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A judge's wife struggles under the deadly weight of secrets both past and present in "Egan's excellent third legal thriller . . . his best to date" (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
Ever since a fall from a stepladder, Judge Lonergan hasn't been the same. The accident triggered traumatic dementia-a condition that his wife and secretary, Barbara, is desperate to keep hidden from the public. With the help of the judge's law clerk, she seems...
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The mysterious disappearance of a piece of the Salvus Treasure--a collection of ancient Roman silver worth seventy million dollars--brings a halt to the legal arguments over the Treasure's ownership in Lower Manhattan's New York County Courthouse. Will the missing silver urn be recovered before more lives are lost?
4) Midnight
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When a Manhattan judge quietly dies in his chambers on New Year's Eve, two financially strapped and secret-keeping employees resolve to conceal the death until after midnight so that they can retain their jobs for another year.