Lashner, William
Veritas (Victor Carl #2) by William Lashner
Veritas (Victor Carl #2) by William Lashner
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In William Lashner's superb new thriller, lawyer Victor Carl finds himself caught in the middle of a bizarre murder, running from warring crime families, and ensnared in the tangled history of one of Philadelphia's wealthiest and most secretive dynasties.
As readers of William Lashner's bestselling Hostile Witness will know, Victor Carl never quite made the big time. He longs for money and success with a yearning that keeps him awake at night, and he is prepared to go very close to the edge of legality to get them.
Now he has been hired to wrap things up after the suicide of heiress Jacqueline Shaw. He soon finds, however, that she did not commit suicide at all, but was murdered. Thrown into a web of deceit and danger by his discovery, Carl races against time to untangle the truth, a mission that will carry him from Philadelphia to the jungles of Belize and back again. The solution to the murder, Carl realises, lies in unravelling the true story of Shaw's wealthy family, a story that grows more and more gothic and grisly as he moves back along the family tree, until in a shocking twist to the plot, Victor finds the answer to the murder in a note written decades before it happened.
Add to the mix a crime war that Victor stumbles into, a mysterious new age cult, and a wildly eccentric cast of supporting characters, and you have the recipe for a hugely entertaining, white-knuckle ride of a thriller from one of the most exciting new writers in American ficiton.
