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<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=90 BGCOLOR="#CC3333" TEXT="#080000" background="04c01573.jpg"> <div> <FONT SIZE="6" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Alliance" ><I><B>"A Love that Kills"</B></I></FONT><B>    </B><B> |     </B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="AllianceCondensed" ><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="A Love that Kills"><B>H</B></A><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="A Love that Kills"><B>ome</B></A></FONT></div> <div> <B>About the Book</B>   |   <A HREF="id17.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="About the Author">About the Author</A>   |   <A HREF="id19.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Read a Chapter">Read a Chapter</A>   |   <A HREF="id20.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="What theyre saying . . .">What they're saying . . .</A>   |   <A HREF="buy_a_love_that_kills.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Buy A Love that Kills">Buy "A Love that Kills"</A></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=210 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <IMG SRC="069c31c0.jpg" border=0 width="195" height="284" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <A HREF="buy_a_love_that_kills.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Buy A Love that Kills"><B><U>Time to buy the book?</U></B></A></div> <div> <A HREF="buy_a_love_that_kills.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Buy A Love that Kills"><B><U>Click here.</U></B></A></div> </td> <td valign="top" height=390 width="100%" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <I><B>About the Book</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <B>It starts on a Tuesday . . .  </B></div> <div> <B>. . . another beautiful, clear morning. On this day, everybody in the city of Stanhope, Rhode Island, population 35,000, loves General Dwight D. Eisenhower even though he is still three years away from the U.S. presidency. Joe McCarthy is a national hero, and traditional values of family life and patriotism are the hallmark of the townspeople.</B></div> <div> And so it begins. In this idyllic 1950s environment there is suddenly something wrong, very wrong. An otherwise delightful young girl has shot her policeman father to death with his own pistol as he lay in a hospital bed, mortally ill with incurable cancer and destined to die soon anyway.</div> <div> Attorney David Davidorff, celebrated both locally and regionally as an outstanding criminal attorney, accepts the case of Cindy Patton even though he has grave doubts about not only the very nature of the case but also about whether even his renowned courtroom skills can elicit a favorable jury verdict when the facts are so indisputable.</div> <div> <I><B>A Love that Kills</B></I> follows every aspect of the trial and the enormous implications of the hitherto unprecedented defense that Davidorff decides to employ: <I><B>innocence by reason of temporary insanity</B></I><B>.</B></div> <div> Based on an actual case, the author, retired attorney Robert Petrucelli, has plumbed the depths of both the law itself and the inevitable emotions that surround a capital case in which such a defense is being presented <I>for the very first time</I>. </div> <div> Reconstructing events from newspapers, trial transcripts and other sources, Petrucelli digs deeply into the minds and hearts of his characters, creates a tension at least equal to the reality of the actual events, and brings the novel to a surprising (and, for the reader, satisfying) conclusion, but not until he spends time observing the conflicts in the jury room, the impacts of the case and the basis of the defense on the family, friends and neighbors of the defendant, and even provides reflection from the judge, both from the bench and in private.</div> <div> <A HREF="id17.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="About the Author"><B><U>Want to know more about the author? Click here.</U></B></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id19.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Read a Chapter"><B><U>Want to read a chapter? Click here.</U></B></A></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>