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A trial consultant in Tucson, Arizona, Calla Gentry devotes her time and energy to victims in civil cases rather than criminal trials. The rape and near murder of her sister, Amaryllis, has done much more than affect Calla’s career; she hides behind locked doors and jumps at shadows, a veritable victim by proxy after Amaryllis is left in a coma following a failed suicide attempt. When Calla is assigned against her will to the trial of Raymond Cates, a wealthy landowner’s son accused of rape and first-degree murder, she cannot help but note the parallels between the crime he stands accused of and her sister’s assault. Determined to uncover the truth, Calla begins an investigation of Cates and the events of that fateful night. But things are seldom what they seem–and Calla’s investigation leads her to buried lies and a new world of violent rage.

Title: Forcing Amaryllis
Author: Louise Ure, a 1976 graduate of Thunderbird School of Global Management in Glendale, Arizona, lives in San Francisco with her husband.
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing (May 1, 2006)
Description: Paperback, 320 pages
Price: $30
ISBN: 978-0446615020
Information: www.louiseure.com/tree1.php

Roadside assistance operator Jessie Dancing knows what it’s like to take a life and she’s trying to put that memory behind her. But when the call comes in from real estate tycoon Darren Markson and she thinks she hears him being killed while she’s on the phone with him, she knows that the world of violence and death are never very far away. Jessie travels from Phoenix to her hometown of Tucson to let Markson’s wife hear that last communication from her husband. But according to Emily, he’s very much alive …

Title: Liars Anonymous
Author: Louise Ure, a 1976 graduate of Thunderbird School of Global Management in Glendale, Ariz., lives in San Francisco with her husband.
Excerpt: I got away with murder once, but it doesn’t look like that’s going to happen again. Damn. This time I didn’t do it. Well, not all of it anyway.
Price: $17.13
Publisher: St. Martin’s Minotaur (April 14, 2009)
Description: Hardcover, 288 pages
ISBN: 978-0312375867
Information: www.louiseure.com

Louise Ure received the Shamus Award for her first novel, “Forcing Amaryllis.” Her new book, “The Fault Tree,” is set in Arizona and tells the story of Cadence Moran, a blind woman thrown into a desperate race against a killer.

Title: The Fault Tree
Author: Louise Ure, a 1976 graduate of Thunderbird School of Global Management in Glendale, Ariz., lives in San Francisco with her husband.
Excerpt: “At the end, there was so much blame to spread around that we could all have taken a few shovelfuls home and rolled around in it like pigs in stink. But that’s not the way it goes with most of us. Most of us like to think that blame belongs on somebody else’s doorstep. And I’m no different.”
Price: $24.95 hardcover
ISBN: 978-0312375850
Publisher: St. Martin’s Press (January 2008)
Information: www.louiseure.com/tree1.php