“Dead hand” is the English translation of the Latin term “mortmain,” which the law dictionary defines as “the influence of the past regarded as controlling the present.” For Rachel Gold, a more accurate term would be “zombies.” In particular, the wealthy zombies who seek to control the living―and especially their families―from the grave through legal documents prepared before they died.In The Dead Hand, Rachel represents two women―one a widow, one a divorcee―in a pair of nasty zombie lawsuits, the outcome of each of which hinges upon a clause in a dead man’s document.Rachel’s client Cyndi Mulligan is the young trophy widow of the late Bert Mulligan, a billionaire entrepreneur whose last will and testament left his estate to Cyndi’s daughter. The challenge comes from Bert’s angry first wife and her angrier only son. Their claim: Cyndi’s daughter―born eleven months after Bert’s death―cannot possibly be Bert’s child.Rachel’s other client is Marsha Knight, the ex-wife of the wealthy founder of a women’s lingerie manufacturer. She’s been sued by his widow, who seeks to invalidate Marsha’s divorce settlement and, in the process, impoverish her through invocation of the ancient and nearly inscrutable Rule against Perpetuities.As the trial date approaches in each lawsuit, the threats to Rachel and her two clients begin to escalate. Zombies, as Rachel discovers, are hard to kill, and so are their lawsuits.

Product Description: Savvy attorney Rachel Gold has represented a few celebrity clients in her career, but none anywhere close to Angela Green, the most famous abused housewife in America. She is surely the only former housewife to receive an award from the NAACP and an interview with Oprah while serving time for killing her husband...read more

Product Description: Rachel Gold blames it on her mother, Sarah, who convinced her to file what seemed like a simple age-discrimination case on behalf of Ruth Alpert, her mother’s best friend. Ruth had been fired just shy of her sixty-third birthday by Beckmann Engineering, a corporate powerhouse known in St...read more

Product Description: Gorgeous and gutsy attorney Rachel Gold is ready for war on behalf of Sally Wade, who arrives in her office bruised and beaten the morning after Neville McBride, her soon-to-be-ex-husband, broke into her house and savagely attacked her...read more

Product Description: The phone call Rachel Gold received from a nervous CPA almost seemed routine. Rosenthal wanted to meet with her to discuss something confidential about a corporate merger. Hardly an unusual request of a lawyer. But Rosenthal never made it to the meeting―and when his corpse is discovered, it was clear he had died under circumstances too bizarre to believe...read more

Product Description: After the death of her father, attorney Rachel Gold has returned to her hometown of St. Louis to spend more time with her mother. The savvy and beautiful Rachel, who made a name for herself in complex corporate litigation in Chicago, finds herself enmeshed in Landau v...read more

Determined to reap insurance benefits from her husband's sudden death, the wife of the late Stoddard Anderson hires Rachel Gold to find evidence to prove that Anderson's death was not a suicide

Product Description: Graham Anderson Marshall III of Abbott & Windsor was the archetype of the powerful senior partner at a major corporate law firm. But then came his bizarre death, the kinky details of which his firm tried to squelch. After his funeral, other curious details of his private life surfaced, the most troubling―and potentially embarrassing, at least for his former firm―is a codicil to his will establishing a large trust fund for the care and maintenance of a grave at a pet cemetery...read more

Product Description: The New York Times Sunday Magazine piece famously opened: “She has pouting lips and high round breasts. Thousands of men have dreamt of her. Hundreds have chased after her. Two have died in pursuit. Her name is Sirena, she weighs 193 pounds, and she vanished in 1959...read more

Product Description: As St. Louis attorney Rachel Gold knows firsthand, the grueling hours and demands of Big Law take their toll on young lawyers. Some turn to drugs, some quit the profession, and occasionally one quits altogether. According to the medical examiner, Sari Bashir quit for good on leaving work one Thursday night when she fell to her death from the eighth floor of the downtown garage adjacent to her firm...read more

Product Description: As St. Louis attorney Rachel Gold knows firsthand, the grueling hours and demands of Big Law take their toll on young lawyers. Some turn to drugs, some quit the profession, and occasionally one quits altogether. According to the medical examiner, Sari Bashir quit altogether that Thursday night when she fell to her death from the eighth floor of the downtown garage where she parked her car...read more

Product Description: [Library Edition Audiobook CD format in sturdy Vinyl case.] [Read by Hillary Huber] Several years have passed since we last saw Rachel Gold. The stunning and savvy attorney was then engaged to be married. Since that time she has become a mother and a much-grieving widow, and now she is embroiled in a lost cause -- the Frankenstein case -- representing a blue-collar neighborhood fighting a powerful developer intent on bulldozing their homes to erect a swanky gated community...read more

Several years have passed since we last saw Rachel Gold. The stunning and savvy attorney was then engaged to be married. Since, she’s become a mother, then a much-grieving widow, and now she is embroiled in a lost cause―the Frankenstein Case―where she represents a blue-collar neighborhood fighting a powerful developer intent on bulldozing their homes to erect a swanky gated community. Who’s pushing her here? Of course, her mother.Rachel’s strategy will be based on the wild card that is the judge on the case―a judge so wacky he’s known to the St Louis Bar as The Flinch Factor (think the spawn of Judge Judy and Pee Wee Herman).Plus Rachel gains another new client: Susannah, sister of Nick Moran, the heartthrob of every woman whose kitchen he remodeled. Nick has been murdered, found slumped on the front seat of his pickup along an isolated lane known to the vice squad as Gay Way, his pants unzipped, a coil of rubber tubing on the seat, an empty syringe on the floor. His female groupies are, to say the least, stunned. Gay? No way.Although Susannah seems the classic blindly adoring younger sister, a skeptical Rachel agrees to check it out. To her surprise, she turns up facts and witnesses suggesting that maybe, just maybe, Nick’s death was staged as an overdose during sex. Then things rapidly grow darker in what increasingly becomes a real Frankenstein of a case….Kahn, master of the plot twist, writes with warmth and humor but maintains an almost Old-Testament respect for justice. For fans of the Kellermans and Scott Turow, who says, “The Flinch Factor is another welcome addition to the wonderful Rachel Gold series, a clever engrossing legal thriller punctuated by sharp humor and many unexpected developments.”

Product Description: This pocket size booklet is a compilation of prescribed drugs and therapeutic regimens useful in the treatment of common oral diseases and conditions. The drugs are grouped according to their class of action or use for a specific condition...read more

Product Description: Presenting the history of the major constitutional issues that have come before the Supreme Court, this book covers everything from the founding of the country and the Al Gore-George W. Bush election crisis to the amusing and accessible format of editorial cartoons...read more

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St. Louis attorney Rachel Gold takes on the case of Angela Green, a former housewife serving time for the murder of her husband, representing her in a lawsuit to prevent proceeds from a lucrative book and movie deal from going to the victim's family, and begins to wonder if her client is really guilty of the crime for which she is serving time. 17,500 first printing.

Attorney Rachel Gold returns to tackle a case in which her witnesses keep disappearing as Professor Benny Goldberg and his law students and prosecutor Jonathan Wolf try to help Rachel get to the bottom of a decades-old construction scam. 25,000 first printing.

When attorney Rachel Gold investigates the murders of her prospective client, Bruce Rosenthal, and her boyfriend Marcus, once Rosenthal's rabbi, she uncovers intrigue in the local pharmaceutical industry, dark dealings that lead to a powerful senator with presidential aspirations. 50,000 first printing.

Defending her friend in the murder charge of a man with whom she had been having an affair, attorney Rachel Gold uncovers clues that indicate that the murdered man had been carrying on with many women, as well as someone very powerful and equally desperate. 10,000 first printing. Tour.

Determined to reap insurance benefits from her husband's sudden death, the wife of the late Stoddard Anderson hires Rachel Gold to find evidence to prove that Anderson's death was not a suicide. 10,000 first printing.

Rachael Gold, a lawyer, is hired to investigate a mysterious forty thousand dollar trust fund set up to maintain the grave of an unknown pet named Canaan