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Heavens May Fall, Allan Eskens

Cop/Lawyer intersection story. Cop is wrongly accused of planting evidence by lawyer. Cop hates lawyer, though lawyer insists he didn't know his document was a forgery. Fast forward. Cop's wife Jenny is killed in a hit and run. Lawyers wife Jennavieve is murdered. Cop thinks lawyer did it and sets out to prove his guilt. Is he blinding himself out of a desire for revenge
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The Heavens May Fall
Twist. Our cop gets in the mail a letter stating that his wife was not killed in a hit and run, but was murdered. A key accompanies the letter--to a storage box somewhere? The lawyer claims he was at a conference in Chicago when is wife was killed. But was he? Or did he get in a car, drive to Minneapolis, kill his wife, and then return to the conference. Lawyer is hated by his dead wife's (rich) sister.

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