Bøker av Amanda DuBois

Camille Delaney returns with another investigation--and this time it's personal.Shackled to her bed against the pleas of the medical staff, Charli Zhao gives birth to a beautiful daughter she names Willow. Charli had been transported to the hospital from prison, where she is serving time for a crime she didn't commit. Within hours of the birth, the unthinkable happens: the newborn is abducted, leaving Charli devastated and wondering if she'll ever find her child, even after she gets free.Attorney Camille Delaney isn't used to the inside of women's prisons--she works in courtrooms. But when a local legal aid group recruits her to help with a case on the inside, she feels drawn to these women's stories. They are often so similar--a lifetime of trauma culminating in the heartbreaking and often permanent loss of custody of their children, even after they've served their time and gotten clean.When Camille meets Charli, it's been years since Willow was abducted, and the case has gone cold. But there's something about Charli's story--and Charli herself--that Camille can't refuse. With the help of her trusted friend and private investigator Trish Seaholm, Camille begins a dogged pursuit to find Charli's daughter and bring the man who framed Charli to justice. As Camille's quest for the truth takes her team from Seattle to the San Juan Islands to the mountains of Olympic National Park, she must reckon with a system that routinely dismisses the rights of convicted mothers--and has their children pay the price.

In book two of the Camille Delaney Mystery series, a mother turns to Camille for help investigating a top Seattle doctor after tragedy strikes the delivery room. Seattle attorney Camille Delaney is cash-strapped and struggling to balance the demands of her new solo legal practice with raising her three daughters. But when an emergency C-section goes wrong and a baby dies in the delivery room, the mother, Helene Anderson, shows up at Camille's office asking for help. Facing the challenge of a legal system where child-loss verdicts are limited by the dollar value placed on a child's life, Camille considers a quick settlement for the family. But Helene insists: her child's life had value, and Camille needs to prove it in court. Camille agrees to take the case to trial. The defendants are Dr. Jessica Kensington, one of Seattle's top doctors and beloved volunteer and society hostess, and her medical practice partner, her father, the glad-handing, high-profile Dr. Kip Davenport. Dr. Kensington is respected in the community and stellar on the stand. But Camille and her friend PI Trish Seaholm begin to uncover what happened in the delivery room-and what lies behind Dr. Kensington's seemingly flawless facade. Unstable behavior at work, flagrant breaches of care, and clues about a dark family past that lead to a high-security psychiatric facility are just some of what they unearth about Dr. Kensington. But pieces of the picture are missing: how could the doctor treat Helene and her baby so irresponsibly?  As the case builds toward trial, and as she grapples with the deep inequities of the justice system, will Camille be able to uncover the evidence she needs to convince a jury of Dr. Kensington's guilt? And can she offer some semblance of peace to a grieving mother?

What starts as a simple investigation into a friend¿s surgery gone wrong unravels something much darker¿a trail of unexplained deaths at the hands of two unscrupulous surgeons.