Prime Witness/Paul Madriani #2

￰ﾟﾓﾚ Prime Witness/Paul Madriani #2
Author: Steve Martini
Publication Date: 1993 (First edition); This Headline Feature edition circa 1994
Publisher: Headline Feature (Headline Book Publishing), London
Format: Mass market paperback (175 x 110 mm / 6.9 x 4.3 inches approx.)
ISBN: 0-7472-4164-3 / 978-0-7472-4164-5
Pages: Approximately 432 pages
Condition: Fair. Well-read copy showing moderate wear with cover creasing, edge wear, spine stress, and page tanning/browning commensurate with reading and age

￰ﾟﾔﾍ Synopsis
The riveting second legal thriller featuring defense attorney Paul Madriani from New York Times bestselling author Steve Martini. Over just five days, the rural college town of Davenport, California, is rocked by six brutal murders. Three couples￢ﾀﾔstudents staked to the ground with tent pegs driven through their hearts on the banks of Putah Creek. Then two more bodies: Abbott Scofield, distinguished university professor, and his former wife Karen. The police arrest Andre Iganovich, a Russian immigrant college security guard. When Paul Madriani is tagged as special prosecutor, he must find the Putah Creek Killer￢ﾀﾔand quickly. But things spin out of control. The physical evidence linking Iganovich to the first four student killings is irrefutable, yet something is clearly different with the last two Scofield murders￢ﾀﾔdifferent rope, tent pegs not sharpened to points, much older victims. Madriani slowly realizes there's a copycat killer still at large. Worse, he confronts Adrian Chambers￢ﾀﾔa defense attorney with checkered past and deep-seated vendetta against Paul￢ﾀﾔrepresenting Iganovich. Battling Judge Armando Acosta, incompetent junior prosecutor Roland Overroy, and anonymous threats to his family, Madriani fights for conviction of one killer while identifying another during the trial itself.

￰ﾟﾒﾬ Reviews
The ugly marketplace of justice... scrutinized with a riveting, you-are-there immediacy. ￢ﾀﾓ Publishers Weekly
Lean, speedy and packing a wallop of a plot twist at the end. ￢ﾀﾓ Critical consensus; Prime is indeed the word for this involving read. ￢ﾀﾓ Publishers Weekly; 3.99/5 stars (over 12,000 Goodreads ratings)

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Condition: Fair