One Good Deed a lincoln lawyer novel

One Good Deed a lincoln lawyer novelIn this fast paced historical thriller, a #1 New York Times bestselling author introduces Archer, a WWII veteran forced to investigate a small town murderor risk returning to prison. It's 1949. When war veteran Aloysius Archer is released from Carderock Prison, he is sent to Poca City on parole with a short list of do's and a much longer list of don'ts: do report regularly to his parole officer, don't go to bars, certainly don't drink alcohol, do get

he has led the Huskies to five national championships

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her loved ones

Bound together since basic training when Bartle makes a promise to bring Murphy safely home

"An epic drama reminiscent of the best classic Hong Kong gangster films but set in a fantasy metropolis so gritty and well-imagined that you'll forget you're reading a book

a dog finds a bone in the Hollywood Hills -- and unearths a murder committed more than twenty years earlier

Stalin's Soviet Union strives to be a paradise for its workers

the city of Chicago hides its dark secrets well

and empathy

Mitchard made her mark in the literary world in 1996 when The Deep End of the Ocean was chosen as the first pick for Oprah Winfrey's now-legendary book club

It also wisely reconfigures the personal relationships among the three central characters