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    Automaton

    By Alana Woods

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    A 126,000 word intrigue suspense legal thriller by Australian author Alana Woods, the Intrigue Queen of thriller fiction

    Set in Australia's atmospherically beautiful bush capital, Canberra. 

    Heaven help Elisabeth Sharman! She has a secret. A big one. One that could derail her life and career.  

    Her instructing solicitor, Robert Murphy, has a problem—Elisabeth. She's not playing by the legal rules in a murder trial in which the victim's wife has her own secrets.  

    Elisabeth knows her secret will become known. The wife wants to obliterate hers from existence.  

    The crime?:  a stabbing murder with a Bowie knife.

    The accused?:  a 19 year old amnesiac.

    His friends say he's guilty.  His lawyer, Elisabeth, is desperate to prove he isn't.

    And all the while the victim's sons are closing in like wolves, wanting revenge.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWoodsfortheTrees
    Release dateMay 11, 2019
    ISBN9780957976726
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    Automaton
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    Alana Woods

    Alana Woods is a storyteller who loves writing about the country closest to her heart; her home, Australia. Given she's an urbanite that means stories with Australia's capital cities front and centre. Her first published novel, AUTOMATON, a thriller set among the machinations of the Canberra legal scene, won the Fast Books Annual Prize for Best Australian Indie Fiction. Her second, IMBROGLIO, contemporary intrigue suspense, weaves in beautiful but sometimes-dangerous Sydney and it's world-famous harbour. And there are more in the pipeline. Want to contact Alana? You can do it through the Contacts page on her website: http://www.alanawoods.co

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      I started reading this one but had to put it down. It really wasn't my cup of tea, and the introduction of the characters just really annoyed me.