Kate Wilhelm

A gripping, poignant, and masterful courtroom novel, The Best Defense is a major work from one of America's most popular writers....

Five years ago Barbara Holloway gave up practicing law, disillusioned with a profession that put politics before justice....

Barbara Holloway has a reputation for taking on the toughest cases - and winning them.

Elizabeth Kurtz has taken her small son and fled her ex-husband and his mother after finding a file of explosive material incriminating the family....

Controversial author and scholar David Etheridge is not the kind of company an aspiring politician wants to keep....

When the first warm breeze of Doomsday came wafting over the Shenandoah Valley, the Sumners were ready....

Travis Morgan’s case seems open and shut: A plot to kill his estranged father, fundamentalist preacher Arlie Morgan, goes awry and his bullet slays an innocent bookkeeper....

In a small town, everyone knows everyone else's business. But in Brindle, Oregon, there's a secret nobody wants to see....

Barbara Holloway is a low-key attorney in Eugene, Oregon, who left her father’s high-powered firm to handle small legal problems for local residents and ponder her next move.....

Barbara Holloway is a trial lawyer who tends to take on difficult cases...

Malice Prepense is the most complicated and most engrossing case yet for lawyer Barbara Holloway....

Mitch Arno always meant bad news for the coastal town of Folsum. When he returns to town after 17 years, he brings trouble in the form of a lot of suspicious money....

What would happen to the precarious balance of power if scientists could extend life for centuries? If one power bloc had biological protection against radiation and the other did not? Whose thumb would press the button first? When Lyle Taney took leave from her teaching job to live high in the...

In Kate Wilhelm’s latest crime novel, a small Oregon town is rocked by a wheels-within-wheels case of art, fraud, and murder....

It started with a promise, a pact. It became a secret that no one must tell - that their parents were dead and gone, including the one they'd buried in the backyard....

Constance Leidl and Charlie Meiklejohn are an unlikely pair of detectives. He is a former arson detective; she is a psychologist....

When a seemingly simple case turns complicated, respected attorney Barbara Holloway must rethink her game plan....

When David McIvey is murdered outside the clinic's doors, lawyer Barbara Holloway must use her razor-sharp instincts and take-no-prisoners attitude....

When Louise Braniff hands Barbara Holloway a large retainer and asks for complete anonymity, the Oregon attorney is both intrigued and suspicious....

Chaos has descended on the Valducci family. Gina Valducci's grandmother and mentor, the founder of the family's thriving nursery business, has died....