{"product_id":"9781250117502","title":"The Third Victim","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Margolin continues his return to the exceptional form of his early novels with this gripping, tightly plotted, and smoothly written legal thriller... A winner from a veteran genre author.\" —\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe “master of heart-pounding suspense” returns with a brand new series—\u003c\/i\u003eThe Third Victim\u003ci\u003e is \u003c\/i\u003eNew York Times\u003ci\u003e bestseller Phillip Margolin at his very best.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA woman stumbles onto a dark road in rural Oregon—tortured, battered, and bound. She tells a horrific story about being kidnapped, then tortured, until she finally managed to escape. She was the lucky one—two other women, with similar burns and bruises, were found dead.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe surviving victim identifies the house where she was held captive and the owner, Alex Mason—a prominent local attorney—is arrested. Although he loudly insists upon his innocence, his wife’s statements about his sexual sadism and the physical evidence found at the scene, his summer home, is damning. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRegina Barrister is a legendary criminal defense attorney, known as “The Sorceress” for her courtroom victories. But she’s got a secret, one that threatens her skill, her reputation, and, most of all, her clients. And she’s agreed to take on the seemingly impossible task of defending Alex Mason.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRobin Lockwood, a young lawyer and former MMA fighter, has just left a clerkship at the Oregon Supreme Court to work for Regina Barrister. The Alex Mason trial is her first big one, a likely death penalty case, and she’s second chair to Regina. Increasingly, she’s worried her boss’s behavior and the details in the case against their client don’t quite add up.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"St. Martin's Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47024316481776,"sku":"9781250117502","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781250117502_p0.jpg?v=1763703156","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781250117502","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}