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Kate Logan #2
Moment of Truth
The Internet chat room was a place where anything could be said, any identity assumed. A place where someone known only as the Black Knight seduced, lured . . . then killed.
Attorney Kate Logan needs a high-profile case to jump-start her fledgling private D.C. practice. So when she's asked to represent the prime suspect in the Molly Buchanan murder, the opportunity seems too good to pass up.
Two years earlier, Todd Buchanan, son of a powerful Washington family, fled the country in a desperate attempt to avoid being arrested for his wife's murder. Now he wants to clear his name and he wants Kate to do it. But the case comes with a price for the victim is the sister of detective Mitch Calhoon, the new man in Kate's life. Now Kate is faced with a harrowing choice.
Convinced a miscarriage of justice has occurred, she accepts the case and enters the powerful corridors of the nation's capital, where secrets remain hidden at all costs even if it means murder. But time is running out and the moment of truth has arrived . . .
- GenresCrime
408 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 1, 2002
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May 2, 2024
Loved this story. Very tense and a complicated crime for Kate to solve to save her client.
May 11, 2024
A good story, poor editing
I enjoyed the story very much, about a struggling female criminal attorney in Washington DC handed the case of a lifetime: a millionaire on the run after being accused of murdering his wife. The book starts off with the murder, described in such a way as we are already fairly certain that the millionaire isn’t the murderer. The millionaire has established a new life in an out-of-the-way village on the border of France and Spain—but, really, the author should have known that both countries use euros and not francs, have done for years and years—and it’s his young fiancée who approaches the Washington attorney for help.
There are allusions in the book to a previous story involving the attorney and her detective boyfriend but so far I haven’t been able to find that book. Not that I think I would read it anyway, this book gave enough away about the storyline that it doesn’t interest me.
Still this book IS interesting, rather like a drawn-out Law & Order episode. The one annoying thing about it though is that, although it’s well written—the euro gaffe notwithstanding—there are several points in the story where the scene shifts from paragraph to paragraph with no proper segue. One moment the character is standing at the crime scene, having just discovered a dead body, and the next paragraph she is talking to the DA in his office. With no kind of scene switching; it’s the kind of thing you might see on a TV show, where the scene changes swiftly, but not in a book. On a TV show you can “see” the scene shift but there needs to be a bit of context in a book.
Anyway, if you like an easy crime thriller read, if you’re a Law & Order fan—no actual courtroom scenes so I’d say this is more like an SVU episode—you’d probably enjoy this. And I would actually give it 3.5 stars.
I enjoyed the story very much, about a struggling female criminal attorney in Washington DC handed the case of a lifetime: a millionaire on the run after being accused of murdering his wife. The book starts off with the murder, described in such a way as we are already fairly certain that the millionaire isn’t the murderer. The millionaire has established a new life in an out-of-the-way village on the border of France and Spain—but, really, the author should have known that both countries use euros and not francs, have done for years and years—and it’s his young fiancée who approaches the Washington attorney for help.
There are allusions in the book to a previous story involving the attorney and her detective boyfriend but so far I haven’t been able to find that book. Not that I think I would read it anyway, this book gave enough away about the storyline that it doesn’t interest me.
Still this book IS interesting, rather like a drawn-out Law & Order episode. The one annoying thing about it though is that, although it’s well written—the euro gaffe notwithstanding—there are several points in the story where the scene shifts from paragraph to paragraph with no proper segue. One moment the character is standing at the crime scene, having just discovered a dead body, and the next paragraph she is talking to the DA in his office. With no kind of scene switching; it’s the kind of thing you might see on a TV show, where the scene changes swiftly, but not in a book. On a TV show you can “see” the scene shift but there needs to be a bit of context in a book.
Anyway, if you like an easy crime thriller read, if you’re a Law & Order fan—no actual courtroom scenes so I’d say this is more like an SVU episode—you’d probably enjoy this. And I would actually give it 3.5 stars.
January 15, 2023
Lots of twists in this one. All logical. Not so many you need to take notes, if you're a good reader. #2 in a series, I didn't read # 1, but certainly would read more if I happened to come by them. The romance and the sex wasn't overbearing.
July 16, 2025
Heggan is a first-time read for me. I was surprised that I liked it so much! It looks like I must add another author to my list of favorites and get more of her writing. The plot twists catch one off guard. If you are a mystery lover like I am, you will enjoy this one.
October 3, 2024
Unfortunately this series ends at 2. It certainly had more in it. Great characters and storyline
March 11, 2015
Moment of Truth
This was an awesome book! The ending was a shocker, for sure! I loved every page and I couldn't put it down! Great read!!
This was an awesome book! The ending was a shocker, for sure! I loved every page and I couldn't put it down! Great read!!
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