Legally Dead - by Edna Buchanan (Paperback)

About the Book

U.S. Marshal Michael Venturi of the Witness Protection Program is used to helping others create new identities. Now Venturi must call upon his former training as he becomes the one hunted by police, prosecutors, ruthless killers, and his own former federal colleagues.

Book Synopsis

Fresh from her triumphant Love Kills, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edna Buchanan launches a new series featuring former federal agent Michael Venuri, who quits the Witness Protection Program to become a freelance identity-change expert.

Michael Venuri is a former U.S. Marshal and special operative in the Marines whose wife and unborn child die in a fluke accident on the Staten Island Ferry. After learning of two missing children in rural Vermont, the same town where he previously relocated a protected hit man with perverse tendencies and a fondness for little girls, he escapes his guilt by fleeing to Miami. When he meets a NASA employee with a reputation tainted from being blamed for the death of two fellow astronauts, Venturi helps the man fake his death in order to give him a new life with a new identity. Pleased with the idea of using his Witness Protection Program skills to help someone get a fresh start, Venturi becomes a freelance identity-change expert, helping deserving individuals fake their deaths in order to start over. Each death is faked in a different unique, ingenious, and often spectacular manner. Venturi only requires that his clients not contact anyone from their previous life, including him...but soon something evil begins to stalk his clients.

About the Author

Edna Buchanan has covered more crimes than most cops. A Pulitzer Prize-winning Miami Herald police reporter and winner of the prestigious George Polk Career Award, she brings a dynamic and steamy Miami to vivid life in all of her novels. The author of seventeen books and numerous short stories, she lives in Miami, Florida, with one dog, too many cats, and Bunjamin, a small brown rabbit.