title: Legally Dead: A Novel
author:  Edna Buchanan 
description: In this explosive first in a new suspense series from Edgar-finalist Buchanan, Michael Venturi, a deputy U.S. marshal involved in running the Federal Witness Protection Program, realizes a mobster he's in charge of, Gino Salvi, has been sexually assaulting and killing young girls in Flemington, N.H., where Salvi is hiding out. Fired by the Feds after Salvi takes part in an armored car robbery, Venturi and an old dog he's adopted head for Florida, where he and some trusted allies set upa private agency for staging fake deaths and fashioning new identities. While some of Venturi's clients appear to need a good lawyer rather than a faked death and new identity, Buchanan constructs some ingeniously clever scenarios for rendering these people legally dead. An expert at ratcheting up suspense and creating believable, flawed characters, Buchanan (<i>Love Kills</i> andeight other Britt Montero novels) gets thisnew series off to a powerhouse start. <i>(Aug.)</i> <br />Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
zlib_text: Nobody Lives Forever
  
  Edna Buchanan
  
  Copyright
  
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  Copyright © 1990 by Edna Buchanan  
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  thereof in any form whatsoever.
  
  This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are
  the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any
  resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or locales is entirely
  coincidental.
  
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  First Diversion Books edition April 2014  
  ISBN: 978-1-62681-243-7
  
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  Miami, It’s Murder  
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  Contents Under Pressure  
  Act Of Betrayal  
  Margin of Error
  
  _**Non-Fiction**_  
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