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The Missing Piece

By Kevin Egan
The Missing Piece by Kevin Egan digital book - Fable

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“A masterful story of murder, corruption, and sexual obsession, with the tension meter on high” from the author of Midnight and A Shattered Circle (Booklist).
 
For law clerk Linda Conover, who studied art in college, her boss’s new case is close to her heart. The ownership of an ancient Roman silver urn—part of a treasure valued at seventy million dollars—is being contested by the governments of Croatia and Hungary and the Earl of Leinster. But before opening arguments even begin, the trial is over. Two masked gunmen break into the courtroom and steal the urn, leaving a wounded court officer in their wake.
 
Three years later, the case is brought back to trial, and Linda, now a judge, finds herself presiding. The artifact is still missing and repercussions from the shooting remain, unleashing a deadly obsession that corrupts or kills everyone it touches. And now Linda is within its reach . . .
 
“A tense thriller that will keep you up until the wee hours.” —Suspense Magazine
 
“Brisk and suspenseful. John Grisham with a dash of men’s adventure and Dan Brown.” —Noir Journal
 

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About Kevin Egan

Kevin Egan is the author of eight novels and more than 40 short stories. His three legal thrillers—Midnight, The Missing Piece, and A Shattered Circle, each set in the New York County Courthouse—were inspired by his thirty years as a staff attorney in that iconic building. Egan's short stories regularly appear in leading mystery publications such as Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, Mystery Tribune, Mystery Magazine, and Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine. His five other novels include a science fiction/mystery mash-up, The Perseus Breed; a three-part golf mystery series written under the pen name Conor Daly; and a stand-alone golf mystery under a K.J. Egan byline. 

​Egan has taught fiction writing classes in the Community Education Program at Westchester Community College and legal writing courses in the Legal Studies Program at Berkeley College in Manhattan. For more information, visit www.kjeganfiction.com.

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