The Disappearance - J.F. Freedman Description The Disappearance - J.F. Freedman Product Details     * Hardcover: 416 pages     * Publisher: Dutton Adult (October 1, 1998)     * Language: English     * ISBN-10: 0525944257     * ISBN-13: 978-0525944256     * Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.4 x 1.1 inches     * Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds condition: near fine Description: You'll need free time until you're finished, because you won't want to put it down! This is a great read, a courtroom drama and murder mystery that keeps you guessing until the final scenes unfold. The backbone of the book is the wonderfully drawn characters, especially Luke and Riva. Luke is the one-time prosecutor defending the man everyone thinks is guilty. His motivations are complex and finely drawn by an author with a gift for emotional details, the kind that make a character stand up off the page and come alive. The roller-coaster ride plot takes you behind the thin veneer of a rich Santa Barbara family, into the dark corners and locked closets of their lives...the places they want no one to see. Their beautiful, innocent 14-year old daughter has been murdered. But how innocent was she? Freedman earns high marks as a mystery maestro, a true craftsman of the genre. If you like the well-drawn characters of Richard North Patterson and the courtroom pyrotechnics of early John Grisham, you've gotta read The Disappearance! shipping: I will combine shipping for multiple items. if you are waiting for an auction to end please notify me for combined shipping. How books are graded AS NEW CONDITION: A book as bright and fresh as the day it was published. The Dust Jacket is without tears and in the same as-new condition. It looks unread and unused. NEAR FINE CONDITION: No defects, but yet not quite as new. The book is nearly flawless and shows only slight signs of age. Book will look clean, crisp and very nearly new. The Dust Jacket if present, will have only very minor wear, hardly notable and no writing to Dust Jacket or Book. VERY GOOD CONDITION: A bright, clean, tight copy that shows signs of being read. May have minor defects noted, such as edge wear, signature or book plate of the previous owner, slight chipping or tears to the dust jacket. Minor highlighting or underlining. May be minus Dust Jacket with defects noted. GOOD CONDITION: No text pages are missing, but the book shows signs of wear and aging. May lack endpapers, half-title pages or lots of highlighting or underlining or notations. Could just be the Dust Jacket has done its job and is worn, chipped or lots of edge wear or soils or stains. Defects will be noted.