Published: June 26, 2010
Words: 6,851 (approximate)
Language: English
ISBN: 9781452378640

Short description

Pita Cardenas has taken the case of her life. The only attorney in small Rio Gordo, she has decided to fight the biggest railroad company in the state to get compensation for the widow of a man who may have raced a train. He’s guilty—or is he? A Shamus Award nominee by this bestselling writer.

Extended description

Pita Cardenas has taken the case of her life. The only attorney in small Rio Gordo, she has decided to fight the biggest railroad company in the state to get compensation for the widow of a man who may have raced a train. He’s guilty—or is he? A Shamus Award nominee by this bestselling writer.

Kristine Kathryn Rusch’s short mystery fiction has won the Ellery Queen Readers’ Choice Award twice, and has been nominated for the Edgar, Shamus, and Anthony Awards. Her mystery novels appear under the names Kris Nelscott and Kris Rusch.

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fiction, mystery, train, short story, legal, story, trains, mystery story, kristine kathryn rusch, wmg publishing, train story, train short story, award nominee, shamus award, legal short story

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Review by: Robert Elmers on June 27, 2010 :
The story was decent, but awful short.
(reviewed the day of purchase)

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