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Promises
Town
A Texas Mystery
"A wonderful mix of characters highlights this memorable mystery" -- Mystery Scene Magazine
"A perfect read for any mystery buff"
-- HTexas Magazine
Hot Summer Books May 2005
"Talk about women who have it all until it
almost kills them... chiseled out of the Texas landscape, politics,
and Virginia Rodriguez's sometimes bitchy, but mostly likeable,
character" -- Midwest Book Review
"Delicious feast of romance, intrigue and murder... The
story is masterfully told from a point-counterpoint perspective,
interweaving the prosecution and defense point of view as Cobb takes the
readers through a criminal investigation, into the courtroom, and then
on to the unexpected ending" -- Roger Paulding Reviews
"Don't start an LB Cobb mystery if there are any demands on the next few hours of your time. From the opening page, you are hooked and delighted to hang onto the hook" -- Review of Texas Books
"Promises Town had me hooked on the first page and I was sad to reach the last page... Even the most minor characters are written in such a way that I felt as if I knew them" -- Kay Martinez, Murder Express
"Humorous, believable characters, and more bite than a Texas rattlesnake" -- Chris Rogers, author of Bitch Factor, Rage Factor, and Chill Factor
"A gem of a story! Master story-teller L.B. Cobb weaves a no-holds-barred legal thriller" -- Mary V. Welk, author and winner of the 2002 Readers' Choice Award for Best Mystery Series
"Another witty, perplexing mystery from L.B. Cobb. Multi-faceted characters, biting humor and emotional discoveries pack the pages from beginning to end" -- Tracy Farnsworth, Mysterious Corner, The Romance Readers Connection
"I don't know that I have ever read anything that handled interracial relationships as openly, sensitively, and with such a sense of acceptance" -- Charlene Keller, Texas Authors
LB Cobb grew up in Tennessee, practiced
geology before practicing law, and now lives in Houston, Texas. (More...)
ON THE BACK COVER: A federal prosecutor, the nemesis of Washington elite, is murdered in a posh Bayou City Texas hotel room. His wife is found with the gun at the scene and her motive is obvious -- he did her wrong and she caught him in the act. The wife is arrested quickly. Perhaps too quickly, Assistant DA Virginia Rodriguez soon realizes, but she finds a dismissal isn't that simple. Powerful people want a conviction and more than Virginia's career is on the line -- calculating killers have added her name to their list. Virginia is smart and sassy, and she can hold her own against Leo Zachmann, the high-profile defense attorney who has taken up the wife's cause, but can she deliver Texas justice in a case where the truth is more elusive than the evidence?
Promises Town delivers a rich blend of memorable characters, a fascinating view of the two-sided search for truth in criminal cases, an intriguing mystery, wry humor, and Virginia Rodriguez, a woman who has it all -- a killer of a job, a child and a dog to feed, a house to keep, promises to remember, and no Prince Charming in view.
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If not on their shelf, ask your local bookstore or library to order it for you from national book wholesaler Baker & Taylor. Promises Town is available in Library Hardcover (ISBN 0970622449, 228 pages, 6x9-inches, acid-free paper, $25US) and Tradepaper Softcover (ISBN 0970622457, 228 pages, 6x9-inches, acid-free paper, $15US). It is also available through libraries who subscribe to the NetLibrary e-book collection.
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