Santa Fe Dead

by Stuart Woods Narrated by Michael Kramer

Overview

Our favorite legal eagle lands in New Mexico.

Attorney Ed Eagle thinks he's safe from his black widow ex-wife, who is now in police custody. But when she escapes, she spins a new web that just might trap him-and everyone he loves.

Editorial Reviews

In Sante Fe Rules, streetwise Native American criminal attorney Ed Eagle helped a client clear himself of suspicion in a brutal New Mexico murder. In Sante Fe Dead, he must deal with a problem much closer to home: His wife once tried to kill him, and now she's escaped from police custody.

Publishers Weekly

Bestseller Woods's third thriller to feature prominent New Mexican attorney Ed Eagle (after Short Strawand Santa Fe Rules) opens with a bang, but soon devolves into a fairly predictable cat-and-mouse game. Ed and his girlfriend, actress Susannah Wilde, are watching the Los Angeles trial on Court TV of his villainous ex-wife, Barbara, who stands accused of arranging for his murder, when a reporter announces that Barbara has escaped from custody just before the not guilty verdict. Soon, suitably disguised and under an alias, Barbara contrives to meet a recent widower, Palo Alto billionaire Walter Keeler, at a luxury spa and has him proposing marriage and making a new will in her favor. Meanwhile, her hatred for her ex unquenched, Barbara schemes to have Ed and Susannah killed. Bodies, innocent and otherwise, pile up, but there's little suspense about the outcome, and an improbable coincidence involving the billionaire may strike some as a plot weakness. Author tour. (Apr.)

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Product Details

BN ID:	2940169093667
Publisher:	Penguin Random House
Publication date:	04/22/2008
Series:	Ed Eagle Series , #3
Edition description:	Unabridged

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