Motive in Shadow Author:Lesley Egan Claire Elizabeth Manning, elderly and successful California business woman, has died, leaving a tiny percentage of her money - a suspiciously exact amount - to her belovedonly son. The remaining millions are bequeathed to an unknown and unusually difficult to locate third cousin in New Jersey. Lawyer Jesse Falkenstein is called in by the son to ... more »contest the will and finds himself drawn into a terrifying search for meaning and motive as he tries to piece together the dead woman's past. Fifty year old diaries and letters provide enigmatic clues, yet nothing more recent can be found to shed any light on the mystery. Evidence of blackmail is unearthed, then suspicious of former infidelities and before he knows what's happening Falkenstein has more information than can possibly be applicable. But when he is bruttaly beaten in his own driveway, Falkenstein knows he's on the right track, a track that will eventually lead him to a secret over half a century old....« less