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by Baine Kerr

ISBN: 0515136085
Author: Baine Kerr
Publisher: Jove Books (June 2003)
Category: Thrillers & Suspense
Subcategory: Unfathomable
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REAL HEROINES! By Thriftbooks. com User, May 14, 2002. Baine Kerr is back, at last. and his incredible circle of powerful, indomitable female characters. Even wounded, even dying, they defy fate. In less capable hands, they would just be female superheroes. Kerr goes the extra mile.

Baine Kerr’s Wrongful Death is a sophisticated, multilayered story, one . Baine Kerr makes believers of us all as he moves his hero, a railroad lawyer named Elliot Stone, home to Boulder, Colo

Baine Kerr’s Wrongful Death is a sophisticated, multilayered story, one in which none of the answers are easy, none of the issues clear-cut. Baine Kerr makes believers of us all as he moves his hero, a railroad lawyer named Elliot Stone, home to Boulder, Colo. after two years of working with the War Crimes Tribunal in the Hague.

ISBN 10: 0515135747 ISBN 13: 9780515135749.

2002) A novel by Baine Kerr. the wrongful death of a comatose woman. As attorney Elliot Stone starts piecing together a three-part Chinese puzzle, one question echoes through it all: How can the good do evil? Genre: Mystery. June 2003 : USA Mass Market Paperback.

Densely woven legal thriller explores the human-scale motives for Balkan genocide through a painstaking analogy to a home-front civil suit for wrongful death. Densely woven legal thriller explores the human-scale motives for Balkan genocide through a painstaking analogy to a home-front civil suit for wrongful death. Two years ago, former railroad attorney Elliot Stone served as conservator for Dale Stillwell, a brakeman crippled in a switching-yard accident.

His legs ached, but each time he adjusted, it caused a stabbing jab in his back. By his count, the two doofusses in the truck had stopped at nine drugstores, backtracking as far south as Auburn. By his count, the two doofusses in the truck had stopped at nine drugstores, backtracking as far south as Auburn as ready to just pull them over and tell Cassidy to go home, like a misbehaving dog, but then the white Chevy jumped back on Highway 18 in the direction of Maple Valley. Thank God, Jenkins said, relieved. They eventually wound their way back to Valley Painting. The brown truck was still not there. Kroeger’s son unleashed the dog, but rather than open the tailgate to ease her.

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Wrongful death is a claim against a person who can be held liable for a death. The claim is brought in a civil action, usually by close relatives, as enumerated by statute. Any fatality caused by the wrongful acts of another may result in a wrongful death claim. Wrongful death claims are often based upon death resulting from negligence, for example following a motor vehicle accident caused by another driver, a dangerous roadway or defective vehicle, or medical malpractice.

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Sat

Kerr's first novel was so good that I waited, quite impatiently, for this one.
Some who read the first novel may be taken aback by the change in approach and pace. This novel is far more complex than the first; it will indeed take some settling in. But once you are hooked, and it doesn't take long, this intricately told story won't let you go.
Many lawyers who write novels can tell a story, but can't write well. Kerr writes beautifully, and he tells a multilayered and ambitious story very well. While in his first novel the primary antagonist was (to my tastes) too little developed, in this novel that character is explored fully. And the four primary female roles are wonderful, each of them complex and interesting and compelling in a different way.
The novel builds up, carefully, to a series of court scenes which are the most dramatic and tense of any I've read for a long while. I've thought about this novel constantly since I finished it.
Bravo. I'm already waiting for the next one.

Vishura

Recently few books have held my attention. The characters tend to seem shallow and cookie-cutter. I started "Wrongful Death" expecting it to follow this pattern, but I was pulled into it immediately. Others have described the plot; I just want to say that if you enjoy fully filled-out charcters and a plot out of the ordinary, try this one. I can't understand why Kerr is not more well-known.

Dondallon

Very intriguing and enjoyable.

INvait

Obviously, I am in minority about this book. With more than little arrogance, another Western writer spends some time in the Balkans and becomes an expert on all things, that most of us who lived there significant portion of our lives, can't completely understand.
The horrors of the civil war in Bosnia can't be erased or undone,many people's lives were destroyed. But I find it offensive that far too many mentions of plum brandy and roasted meat on a spit, seem to be the only thing that this author does right. And when he starts his frantic cheering of the another war crime that nobody got persecuted for, bombing of Yugoslavia, I almost gave up. Can you stop evil by commiting another evil? Throwing cluster bombs in city centers, destroyimg passenger trains in motion , nursing homes and hospitals, poisoning the land with uranium depleted missiles and many other attrocities, was just another war crime. And to end this, I was a vehement opponent of Slobodan Milosevic and the wars in Yugoslavia. When I realised that nothing else can't be done and when my life was in danger i immigrated to the USA in 1991.
Mr. Kerr burdened his book with million refferences to Bosnian conflict and it got drowned in the quagmire of details.

Abywis

This story of mass murder in the Balkans, perhaps replicated in Boulder, Colorado, demands the reader's consideration of issues of legal/medical/polital/ethical concerns. The story almost swerves over the fog-line and into to the ditch on a couple of occasions, but Kerr steers it back on track. Characterization is built subtly, but Kerr's signposts (references to varied ethnicity, contemporary events, logos on tee shirts, technology) suggest the character development as the story progresses. A good tale, well told.
Of more significance to this lawyer of 30 years' trial experience, is Kerr's steadfast adherence to the technical aspects of his tale. Too many books by lawyers fall into a slipshod depiction of legal processes, creating a false notion of how the legal system actually operates, thinking, I suppose, that it somehow advances the drama of the story. Kerr is meticulous in using the law as it is, not as he might fashion it to advance the drama of his tale. For instance, it is apparent that he had to deal with issues of conflicts of interest. He didn't duck those issues; he planted waivers of conflict by the concerned parties into the narrative that justify his protagonist's actions. The courtroom scenes (examinations, objections, sidebars, arguments, rulings) ring true. He even references the appropriate rules. He shows a true trial lawyers perception when he explains to his client that when the court consistently rules against them on discretionary matters, it's a good sign. The judge thinks they're going to win, and doesn't want to provide the other side with any issues for appeal.
This is a lawyer's book that the non-lawyer can enjoy, and that the lawyer-reader can read, and say: "finally, a lawyer gets it right."

Querlaca

Normally I don't read many books in this genre, although I enjoy the legal chess moves, both in and out of court. The last two I recall finishing were John Grisham's 'The Firm' and Scott Turow's 'Pleading Guilty'. Usually I just wait for the movie to come out.
Kerr's specialty is, to be exact, the medical legal thriller. As a medical malpractice lawyer, as well as a former war crimes journalist in The Hague and a supervisor of the first democratic municiple elections in the Serb Republic of Bosnia(Former Yugoslavia), he brings considerable knowledge and experience to his writing.
His style of writing sometimes gets entangled in legal and medical lingo. This is forgivable because of the completity of the subject at hand. I wonder with the current conflict in the Middle East, that the Geneva Convention, first convened in 1949, is more relevant then ever.