Wild Justice
When a killing field is unearthed in the Oregon woods, it's linked to a  Portland surgeon whose increasingly aggressive behavior and explosive temper  have already drawn the attention of his colleagues. Neophyte attorney Amanda  Jaffe takes second chair to her father, a successful criminal lawyer retained by  Dr. Vincent Cardoni when he is charged with multiple counts of murder. The  victims have one thing in common: they are missing vital organs, which were  clearly harvested by an expert surgeon. In this explosive and fast-paced  suspense thriller, the forensic evidence against Cardoni is so convincing that  even after his acquittal on a technicality, the reader, like Amanda, is sure of  his guilt. And when a similar field of mutilated bodies turns up years later,  Cardoni is again the primary suspect. But Cardoni has disappeared, and this time  it's his former wife, Justine Castle, who's implicated in the new crimes, and  Amanda who's retained as the lead attorney in the case.The particulars of the killings are so similar to the first set of murders that  Amanda is convinced Cardoni is involved. When he is found to be working at the  same hospital where he was once a promising surgeon (this time as a custodian  and under an assumed name), she draws the logical conclusion. But when she finds  Cardoni's severed hand at the scene of the crimes, she is forced to rethink the  assumptions on which her defense of the doctor's ex-wife is based. Could  Justine, in fact, be the killer? Author Phillip Margolin's newest book moves at  an almost frantic pace. Bodies pile up, evidence mounts, and everything points  to Cardoni's guilt until the end, a stunner that surprises Amanda as well as the  reader. This chilling, deftly crafted novel will hold the reader's attention to  the last page.--Jane Adams--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.