title: A Poisoned Mind: A Trish Maguire Mystery (Trish Maguire Mysteries)
author: Natasha Cooper
description: Shortly after she has taken silk (meaning being appointed a Queens Counsel, or senior barrister, thus becoming more costly for her clients), Trish Maguire takes over a case from an injured associate at the eleventh hour. Representing Clean World Waste Management, whose exploding chemical tanks killed the man charged with monitoring them, she must trounce the feisty grieving widow, whose sole support comes from a fringe environmental group with a leader who arouses suspicion. The principled Trish, suspecting sabotage, soon veers from the course prescribed by both client and colleagues and follows her intuition and the money. At the same time, she is beset with domestic crises centering on the delinquent friend of her 14-year-old adopted half brother, David, a situation that allows exploration of social problems caused by severely dysfunctional families. The ninth in the Trish Maguire series, this is an accomplished and suspenseful tale with an unexpected final twist, its greatest pleasure coming from the evolution of the primary characters and their relationships. --Michele Leber
zlib_text: Forgotten Daughter
  Jennie Lucas
  
  Chapter One
  She’d been warned about Stefano Cortez.
  As Annabelle Wolfe climbed out of her vintage 4x4, she surveyed the
  sprawling white hacienda with a feeling of dread. She’d been warned
  constantly over the past few months: Stefano Cortez could not be trusted.
  Be careful, Miss Wolfe. You won’t be able to resist him. No woman can.
  Guard your heart, miss. The broken hearts he’s scattered are as infinite as
  stars.
  I have nothing to worry about, Annabelle told herself fiercely. Stefano Cortez
  might be the equestrian world’s most famous playboy, but he would have
  no effect on her. She wouldn’t let those stupid warnings make her lose her
  nerve!
  But her body still trembled, and she knew it wasn’t just from all the coffee
  she’d gulped down on the long, dusty drive from Portugal to northern Spain.
  Slamming her truck door with a bang, Annabelle stretched her stiff limbs,
  trying to shake off her nervous fear. It didn’t work. Warnings about Stefano
  Cortez’s charm 