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Barbara Parker worked as a prosecutor in the Dade County State Attorney’s office and in private practice before completing a Master’s Degree in creative writing. She is the author of a legal series featuring Gail Connor, a Miami corporate attorney. Her first book, Suspicion of Innocence was nominated for an Edgar Award for Best First Novel. She is also the author of several non-series books, including Blood Relations, Criminal Justice and The Perfect Fake. Barbara died in early 2009.
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| The Dark of Day |
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Miami defense attorney C.J. Dunn defends Rcik Slater, formerly Army Speical Forces, now a driver for an influential U.S. congressman. Slater is under suspicion when a model named Alana Martin vanishes from a glitzy party on South Beach. Runaways and underage pornographers provide complications when the disappearance turns to homicide.
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| The Perfect Fake |
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The forgery of a rare 500 year old antique map sparks a chase from Miami to London.
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Eighth in the Gail Connor and Anthony Quintana Series:
Suspicion of Rage |
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Miami lawyers Gail Connor and Anthony Quintana have recently been married. The night before they leave on a trip to Havana, the CIA contacts Anthony with a message for his brother-in-law, General Ramiro Vega: Defect or he could be killed.
Anthony's loyalties are divided between his pro-Revolution family and Jose Leiva and Yolanda Cabrera, his dissident friends. No one is aware that Yolanda's 21-year old son belongs to an underground group plotting the assassination of a top Cuban general.
Violent deaths, secret terrorist threats and a love from the past threaten to tear Gail and Anthony apart.
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Seventh in the Gail Connor series:
Suspicion of Madness |
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An idyllic trip to the Florida Keys turns into a nightmare of terror and death for attorneys Anthony Quintana and Gail Connor, when a former client of Anthony's is suspected of a local murder. A tropical storm allows no passage off the island and no escape from a wily criminal bent onplunging them into a world of deepening madness.
Dutton 2003 1st edition, 1st printing. Signed by the author. |
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Sixth in the Gail Connor series:
Suspicion of Vengeance |
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Twelve years ago in a Florida town, a young wife and mother was murdered. A local troublemaker was arrested, tried, found guilty, and sentenced to death. Now, new evidence has come to light and attorney Gail Connor agrees to take the case, against the wishes of her fiance, Anthony Quintana.
Dutton 2001 1st Ed. Signed by the Author |
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Fifth in the Gail Connor series:
Suspicion of Malice |
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A brutal murder takes place in the shadows of an exclusive party on the Miami waterfront. The victim is the heir to a yacht-building family fortune. Bobby Gonzales, a talented dancer with the Miami Ballet, is the prime suspect, as well as Gail Connor’s newest client. Through a series of circumstances, Gail finds herself joining forces with her ex-fiancé, Anthony Quintana, and must decide if she should reveal a shocking secret -–something she should have confessed months ago that will change both of their lives forever.
Dutton 2000 1st edition, 1st printing. Signed by the author. |
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Fourth in the Gail Connor series:
Suspicion of Betrayal |
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The road has gotten tougher and a lot more personal for Miami attorney Gail Connor. Having recently become engaged to top criminal lawyer Anthony Quintana, she is trying to juggle the demands of her hectic private and professional lives. But everything Gail holds most precious is threatened when someone begins stalking her.
As an invisible noose tightens, and Gail’s ten year old daughter becomes the ultimate bargaining point, the true target of the avenging killer becomes clear.
Dutton 1999 1st edition, 1st printing. Signed by the author. |
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Third in the Gail Connor series:
Suspicion of Deceit |
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Anthony Quintana, the fiancée of attorney Gail Connor, is questioned in the deaths of several people with connections to Cuba, but when Connor investigates, more questions are raised regarding his loyalties and mysterious past.
Dutton 1998 1st edition, 1st printing. Signed by the Author. |
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Second in the Gail Connor series:
Suspicion of Guilt |
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Gail Connor has taken on the biggest case of her career, a case that will mean millions of dollars for her firm, and a partnership if she wins. But what begins as a suspected forgery, turns out to mask a brutal murder. Suddenly Gail is caught in a web of conspiracy and violence.
Dutton 1995 1st edition, 1st printing. Signed by the Author. |
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First in the Gail Connor series:
Suspicion of Innocence |
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Nominated for an Edgar Award for Best First Novel. Gail Connor, a smart and successful young attorney, is on the verge of a partnership in a major law firm in the "new" Miami. But her success at work is overshadowed when her sister is found murdered, and Gail is the prime suspect.
Dutton 1994 1st edition, 1st printing. F/F in mylar dustjacket. Signed by the Author. |
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| Suspicion of Rage |
| by Joanne Sinchuk |
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In the seven books of the Suspicion series by Barbara Parker, Gail Connor and Anthony Quintana have been through hell and high water in a relationship that has blown from the hottest of hot to the coldest of cold. But nothing is like this current adventure in Suspicion of Rage.
Gail and Anthony are now married, and preparing for their honeymoon. They plan to travel illegally, to Cuba to attend some family and political matters for Anthony’s family. Anthony wants to show Gail his homeland, and attend his niece’s fifteenth birthday party. The niece just happens to be the daughter of one of the top generals in Cuba. Going along with them will be Gail’s daughter, Anthony’s son and daughter, and Gail’s mother. But before they leave the US, Anthony gets a visit from a congressman and a CIA Agent, who want him to deliver a message to his brother-in-law. This sets off an inter-connected series of events that just keeps building and building, until Barbara delivers her top-notch finale. It really is an impressive story.
Barbara Parker does an excellent job of bringing the reader right into the core of Cuban life. Of course she mentions the scenery and atmosphere, just as other authors have done who are writing about Cuba. But it’s her attention to the details of Cuban life that really bring it alive for the reader. Like the fact that even though they were staying in a home that was by Cuban standards a mansion, there was no toilet seat in the bathroom. Anthony explained that there was a shortage and most Cuban toilets had no seats.
Central in the plot are two dissident writers, Jose Leiva and Yolanda Cabrera, characters who were based on real life people Barbara met in Cuba, who were running a free library out of their home for the Cuban people. Barbara raised money and donated books to this library, and as of this writing, the government had confiscated the books and jailed the caretakers. Makes you appreciate this country all the more. This is probably Barbara’s best work yet. Dutton 2005 1st Ed 1st Printing, Signed 24.95
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| Posted 17-02-2005 |
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