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Capitol Offense

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Insane with grief, Professor Dennis Thomas blames Detective Christopher Sentz for the death of his wife and wants to kill him. In fact, Thomas shares his revenge plans with Ben Kincaid. Then someone fires seven bullets into the police officer. Against all advice and going on instinct, Kincaid decides to represent the troubled professor, who faces a charge of capital murder. Meanwhile, Kincaid’s personal private detective, Loving, starts prying loose pieces of a shocking secret. Working in the shadows of the law, Loving risks his life to construct an entirely new narrative about Detective Sentz, Joslyn Thomas, and madness in another guise: the kind that every citizen should fear and no one will recognize—until it is too late.
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    • Publisher's Weekly

      August 17, 2009
      Ben Kincaid is back in Tulsa, Okla., after finishing a term as an appointed U.S. senator at the start of Bernhardt's solid 17th thriller to feature the humane, principled lawyer (after Capitol Conspiracy
      ). Dr. Joslyn Thomas spends seven days trapped in the wreckage of her car after a terrible accident before dying. During this period, her frantic professor husband, Dennis, tries to persuade police detective Chris Sentz to open a missing person case, but, inexplicably, Sentz resists until Joslyn is dead. Later, Dennis goes to a hotel where Sentz is conducting an undercover sting operation and shoots—or maybe doesn't shoot—the detective. Ben has a political campaign to plan, but since he's always a soft touch for impossible legal cases, he's easily talked into defending Dennis against a murder charge. Series fans will be happy with the legal and romantic byplay, but those who expect a complete resolution to the case will be disappointed.

    • Booklist

      September 15, 2009
      Bernhardt follows up the excellent Nemesis: The Final Case of Eliot Ness (2009) with another fair-to-middling Ben Kincaid thriller. Back in Oklahoma, still learning the senatorial ropes, Ben becomes involved in the case of a man accused of killing a police officer, and agrees to take a turn as defense attorney. He has his hands full with this one: not only is his opponent a manipulative district attorney and a sharp prosecutor, but Bens client has what you might call a strong motive: he holds the cop responsible for the death of his wife. Naturallyreaders familiar with the Kincaid series will have seen this comingBen uncovers a nasty conspiracy that threatens to ruin his own career, not to mention his life. Bernhardt worked the bugs out of his formula years ago, which is both good and bad: good, if you like comfortable, familiar thrillers; bad, if you like to be surprised by a story that veers off in an unexpected direction. The dots are connected efficiently here, but perhaps Bernhardt needs to find better, fresher stories to tell.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2009, American Library Association.)

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