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Book Review of False Pretenses

False Pretenses
False Pretenses
Author: Catherine Coulter
Genre: Romance
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
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Thanks to the testimony of a mysterious stranger, concert pianist Elizabeth Carleton is found not guilty of the ice pick murder of her elderly megamillionaire husband, Timothy. Subsequently, Elizabeth battles his greedy relatives while struggling to run Timothy's business ventures. Along the way she falls in love with a "real man." At tale's end, Elizabeth has a climactic confrontation with the mysterious stranger and, at the same time, solves her husband's murder.