Higher Authority

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: Very Good
Publisher: Penquin
Publisher Place: New York
Publisher Year: 1994
Edition: First Edition

Description: 452 pages. Book and Jacket are both in Very good condition throughout.

Publishers Description: The sudden death of Utahs Senator Orrin Hatch propels his successor, Lester Horner, first into Hatchs Senate seat and then on to become the first Mormon associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. Carried along with Horner is Blythe Oaks, an ambitious and intelligent woman who is also Horners favorite law clerk and fellow Mormon. But Blythes reputation - and, by extension, Lester Horners - is threatened when a female former employee accuses her of sexual harassment and career sabotage.In Higher Authority White shifts his focus from Dr. Alan Gregory, the hero of Privileged Information and the national bestseller Private Practices, to Alans fiance, Lauren Crowder. The pool-shooting deputy D.A.s life is already complicated enough as she picks her way through her relationship with Alan at the same time she is fighting her quiet and dignified battle with multiple sclerosis. But since Blythes accuser happens to be Laurens kid sister, aspiring stand-up comic Teresa Crowder, Lauren plunges into the case. And she gets immediate help from an old law school buddy, Robin Torr, whose practice is in Salt Lake City.When, suddenly, Blythe Oaks is savagely murdered in Washington D.C., the lengths to which someone will go to protect secrets that might prove embarrassing to higher authorities in the church are starkly revealed. And as Crowder and Torr probe more and more deeply into these secrets, with timely help from Alan Gregory and his old friend Detective Sam Purdy of the Boulder, Colorado police, Whites tough but determined women find the body count growing and themselves placed in jeopardy by a remorseless killer.

ISBN: 9780670850402