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For twenty-five years, multimillionaire businessman Ron Raven played the loving husband and father--to two very different households. But when Ron disappears, his deception is revealed. Faced with the ultimate betrayal, both families are left questioning who can be trusted... and who remains SUSPECT.
Cynical attorney Liam Raven hid his father's bigamy... until it was too late. Ironically, Liam specializes in divorce cases. But when Chloe Hamilton is charged with murdering her husband, a popular Denver mayor, he makes an exception.
Liam's relationship to Chloe quickly surpasses client and attorney. Her former husband had many secrets--including a connection to Ron Raven's other family. And aquitting Chloe means uncovering a string of lies and treachery that leads back to Liam's father.
- Sales Rank: #647915 in eBooks
- Published on: 2012-10-15
- Released on: 2012-10-15
- Format: Kindle eBook
Review
"Cresswell's Unit One trilogy is fast-paced and fun." -- Romantic Times BOOKreviews on Final Justice
About the Author
A contributor to a number of Harlequin series including Intrigue, Romance, Presents, and Temptation, Jasmine Cresswell was one of the first authors acquired by MIRA. She is known for her compelling women-in-jeopardy stories. Her novels have received strong review attention and her third MIRA title SECRET SINS, was nominated for a RITA award by RWA. DEAD RINGER was published in May 2003.
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Denver, Colorado, Monday, August 7
Liam Raven looked at the woman sleeping in the bed next to him and tried to remember her name. He vaguely recalled that she enjoyed snowboarding. He knew for certain that she was studying to be a nurse. Her name, however, escaped him.
He stared at the light filtering through the broken slats of the miniblinds and wondered how it came about that at thirty-five years of age—pushing thirty-six—he hadn't found a better way to spend his nights than sleeping with a woman he never planned to see again and whose name he couldn't remember.
His cell phone rang—his work number—saving him from delving too deeply into the murky depths of his psyche. He was grateful for the interruption. Self-analysis was guaranteed to give him nightmares but work, thank God, usually proved a reliable anesthetic.
He eased out of bed, flipping open his phone. Out of deference to the still-sleeping No-Name, he waited until he was in the living room before he responded. "This is Liam Raven."
"Thank God I reached you. This is Chloe Hamilton." The woman on the other end of the phone drew in an audible gulp of air but her voice still didn't steady. "Do you remember me? I came to see you a few months ago. I asked for your help in filing for a divorce—"
"I remember you well, Mrs. Hamilton." Even among Liam's client roster of rich and famous Coloradans, it would be hard to forget a woman who'd won medals in four Olympic skiing events and was married to the mayor of Denver. Not to mention the fact that Chloe Hamilton had the sort of lithe, athletic body guaranteed to provoke a major case of lust in any straight guy still breathing.
"We discussed ways to keep the proceedings confidential until the decree was granted," Liam said, letting Chloe know that he genuinely recalled their past dealings. "In the end, though, you decided to stay with your husband for the sake of your daughter. How can I help you, Mrs. Hamilton?"
"Jason's dead," she blurted out, her voice catching on a suppressed sob. "He's been…murdered."
The mayor of Denver had been murdered? Holy shit! Liam smothered the exclamation. "I'm very sorry to hear of your loss—"
"I was the person who found him. I came downstairs and he was lying on the floor in our basement media room. There was blood everywhere. All over the wall. All over the floor. God, it was terrible." Chloe's explanation erupted in short, staccato bursts and it sounded to Liam as if her teeth were chattering. "There was so much blood." Chloe's voice faded to a whisper. "My God, there was so much blood."
Liam spoke swiftly. "Have you notified the police? Called a doctor?" A doctor might be able to help Chloe, even if there was nothing to be done for her husband.
"The police think I killed him." The words tumbled out, harsh with fear. "I'm sure they're going to arrest me. I need a lawyer right away. I can't let them take me to jail, even for a couple of nights. Sophie's just lost…she's just lost her father. She can't lose me, too. She simply can't."
Sophie must be the name of Chloe's daughter. Liam had never seen the child and couldn't remember how old she was. A preschooler, he thought. Maybe three or four? He spoke quickly. "Are the police with you now?"
"Just a couple of uniformed officers guarding the crime scene and holding the reporters at bay. They've already taken away—" She broke off and started again. "They've already taken away Jason's body."
"Whatever you do, Mrs. Hamilton, don't say anything to the cops. Nothing, do you hear me? If they ask your name, you're obligated to identify yourself, but that's it. It doesn't matter how innocuous the police questions seem, don't answer them. In a murder case, the spouse and immediate family of the victim are often considered suspects. Unless you have a rock solid alibi—"
"I was here all night," Chloe said. "It must have happened…Jason must have been killed while I was sleeping."
She'd been sleeping—unless she'd killed him, Liam reflected cynically, but he kept any trace of skepticism out of his voice. "In the circumstances, you should assume you're currently the prime suspect, Mrs. Hamilton. It's nothing personal on the part of the authorities. Just routine police procedure in the early stages of an investigation."
"Their suspicions seem a lot more than routine to me." Yeah, well, most likely because the evidence pointed straight to her, Liam thought. However, that was beside the point. Guilty or innocent, his advice to Chloe Hamilton would remain the same: get a competent criminal lawyer and say nothing.
He spoke briskly. "In view of the fact that we're talking about the murder of a very prominent citizen, the police department will almost certainly send one or more of their senior detectives to question you some time soon. Whatever these detectives ask—even if it's something as simple as the date or the time of day—tell them you need to consult with your lawyer before responding. Got that?"
"Yes, I understand. But I guess it's too late for that piece of advice. I already answered a ton of questions about what happened last night."
Liam shook his head, groaning inwardly. He was constantly amazed at the way even sophisticated and well educated people failed to take advantage of their right to remain silent in the wake of a crime. He attempted to reassure her anyway. Right now it wouldn't help to add to Chloe's stress level by telling her she'd screwed up, big time.
"There's probably no real harm done." For her daughter's sake, he hoped that wasn't a complete lie. If you really wanted to mess up a kid, he couldn't think of a much better way than having one parent murder the other. Growing up with your mom in prison wasn't exactly calculated to make for a picture-perfect childhood, either.
"Make sure you don't answer any more questions until you have legal counsel right there with you, okay?"
"Okay. I understand."
"Do you have a pencil and paper?"
"I must have, I guess." Her voice trailed off and he could visualize her staring vaguely around the room, still too much in shock to register her surroundings with any degree of clarity. He was surprised at how sharp his mental images of Chloe were. Apparently she'd made even more of an impression on him four months ago than he'd realized.
"There must be a pencil somewhere," she muttered.
"You definitely need to find something to write with. I'll hold while you look."
It was a full minute before Chloe picked up the phone again. "Thank you for waiting, Mr. Raven. I'm sorry. I'm not usually this disorganized. I have a pen now."
"Write down this phone number and office address. It's for a friend of mine, Bill Schuller. Bill is an outstanding criminal defense attorney and you need to call him before the police question you again."
"But I don't want Bill Schuller to be my lawyer!" Chloe protested. "I want you to represent me. That's why I called. Mr. Raven, please, you have to help me."
"I am helping you. Trust me on this. Bill Schuller is the best criminal trial lawyer in Denver—"
"No, you're the best. Everyone says so. You won an acquittal for Sherri Norquist when the experts all predicted you were going to lose."
Liam's stomach knotted at the mention of Sherri's name, and he was immediately angry with himself for reacting to a case—and a woman—that were now more than three years in his past. He'd been a complete idiot over Sherri Norquist. He'd allowed himself to be manipulated into falling in love with a murdering bitch. But hey, shit happens. It was time to move on. God knew, Sherri certainly had, and seemingly without the smallest trace of guilt or regret.
He spoke crisply, skilled by now at keeping a barrier between his outward demeanor and what he was really feeling. "I appreciate the compliment, Mrs. Hamilton, but it's undeserved. The bottom line is that I just happened to make a big splash with a couple of my early cases. I haven't practiced as a criminal defense attorney in several years. These days, I deal only with divorce cases." Which not only kept him away from an unsavory assortment of accused murderers, drug dealers and armed robbers, but provided him with the added pleasure of saying a mental fuck you to his bigamist father every time he took on a new case or signed off on a completed one. Liam understood that many worse things could happen to a kid than discovering his father had two wives, and two separate families. And he hadn't even been a kid, really, when he learned the truth about his father's second family. Still, his disdain for his father ran deep; even the fact that Ron Raven had recently been murdered hadn't put an end to his anger.
He brought his attention back to Chloe. "You need to call Bill Schuller, before the police come back to question you again, Mrs. Hamilton. And keep in mind that the cops aren't joking around when they warn you that anything and everything you say can be used as evidence against you. Here's Bill's office phone number. Call him right now, before you do anything else. It's important." He reeled off the number, repeated his condolences on Jason Hamilton's death and hung up before Chloe could protest any further.
Just as he finished the conversation with Chloe, No-Name came out of the bedroom, wrapped in a towel. She looked sleepy-eyed, cute and appallingly young. Jesus, what had he been thinking last night? Or not thinking, more like it, Liam reflected grimly.
"Oh, you're still here," she said, smiling in relief. "I was afraid you'd left already."
"No, I'm still here, but only just. I was answering the phone and didn't want to disturb you." He returned her smile with all the warmth he could muster. No-Name couldn't be much more than twenty-one, which would make her almost fifteen years his junior. There was still an appealing hint of hopeful innocence in her expression and he felt a sharp twinge of remorse for having exploited her naiveté. He had years of experience in developing pickup lines that worked, and she'd fallen for them all. True, he'd met her in a LoDo bar notorious as Casual Sex Centra...
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
Better the Second Time Around
By Rosa
Suspect was much better than Missing.The story starts with Chloe Hamilton who's charge with killing her husband Jason Hamilton. Chloe wants Liam Raven to defend her against the murder charge. Liam is of course apprehensive than is until he finds out he fathered Sophie Hamilton their daughter.There's a lot of twists and turns and just when you have things figured out. The rug is pulled from underneath. if you were disappointed by Missing you will find redemption in Suspect. I hope we will find out what happens to Avery Fairfax in Payback.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Not her best
By Jorge Frid
Albeit this book has almost nothing to do with the first one. The few things it has are the gist of this story. This book is awfully better than the first one but is not the best JC's work. I'll read the next of the series but without reading it I think that this series is a notch down by the standard of this writer.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
exciting romantic suspense thriller
By A Customer
Being a divorce lawyer Liam Raven is skeptical when it comes to relationships. However, his affluent father's bigamy stuns even cynical Liam who had believed he heard everything from couples. Apparently his dad Ron had a household here in Wyoming and one in Atlanta for twenty-five years with kids in both cities. While his families, the Ravens and the Fairfaxes, are in the media fish bowl, Ron is MISSING.
Liam is elated to have a client Chloe Hamilton to distract him from his family issues as he has no idea how to help his distraught mom or his sister although the latter seems to have found a distraction in of all people a Fairfax. Chloe expects to be charged with first degree murder of her spouse, Denver Mayor Jason Hamilton. However, the case ties back to his family as the victim was a business crony of Ron's partner and apparent the other brother-in-law Paul Fairfax. As Liam fights his attraction to his client, he obsesses with proving her innocence by seeking the real culprit.
Although lawyers acting like investigators especially on a capital case seem a stretch, readers will enjoy the exciting romantic suspense thriller SUSPECT, the second Ravens and Fairfaxes tale. The story line is action-packed and fast-paced as Liam and Chloe fall in love while he does field work to uncover the killer's identity. As these type of cases are emotionally draining on lawyers without falling in love and take up enormous amounts of time (except in Texas), romantic suspense fans will appreciate the strong tale due to the fine lead characters, but also know his actions seem implausible. Still this is a fun thriller and PAYBACK is coming.
Harriet Klausner
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