Render Up the Body

by Marianne Wesson

Book Overview

Torn between her role as a women's advocate and her opposition to the death penalty, ex-sex crime prosecutor Cinda Hayes finds her life turned nearly upside down when she represents death-row inmate... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0747257698
• ISBN13: 9780747257691
• Release Date: February 1998
• Publisher: Feature
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 7.0" x 4.4"

Customer Reviews

THIS AUTHOR IS ONE TO BOOKMARK!!

I found this book on a friend's bookshelf and hijacked it while looking for something new to read. I was THRILLED from the moment I began reading and kept right on going to the end. In fact, I was SO impressed that I e-mailed the author to congratulate her on a job well done - I've never done that before. Cinda Hayes becomes a new character full of personality and connected to friends covering all spectrums of life. Ms. Wesson's ability to bring these people to life during the course of the book astounded me. When I closed this one, I began searching for her next novel which I read just as quickly.Her third in the series is due out in February, 2002 and I will be sitting on GO when the bookstore opens. This author is someone who will be around for a long, long time.

great legal book

I got this book for my birthday from my husband after I asked for a legal mystery that takes place somewhere other than New York or in the South. I was thrilled to read about a wonderful and unique setting. The information about the inner workings of the legal system were wonderful and all the sub-plots fit in nicely. After reading the beginning I thought how could an attorney defend this scum but wanted desperately for him to win his habeus corpus after getting to know him. I cried uncontrolably at the outcome.

The law and Boulder portrayed in true colors.

Ms. Wesson, in her depiction of DA Groesbeck, adroitly captured what many of us believe Boulder's real life DA to be...and that's not complimentary (read the book about JonBenet Ramsey, and you'll get the idea). The story carried me along, and the ending was unexpected yet believable. I enjoyed the foray into criminal law, learned a lot, and hope we haven't seen the last of Cinda Hayes. A terrific first novel.

WOW!!! THE ENDING TOTALLLLLY BLEW ME AWAY!!!

i LOVED this book!!!! the characters are real, fully fleshed out....story is terrific...quite different than the run of the mill plot...but the ending...i sure didn't see that one coming and i consider myself quite the sophisticate in reading...!!! all the minutiae about climbing and boulder and the court system was completely fascinating to me....i hope that marianne (mimi?) will definitely quit her day job and write faster so we can see more of her work....!!! i just cannot believe that this was a first novel....why isn't it on top of the charts???? why isn't it getting any press????? she certainly weaves a far better tale than cornwell any day.... i reallllly hope that cinda, tory, linda, sam and lincoln will be back in future books...they're great!!! if i had any complaint about this book at all it would be that i wish the chapters were a bit shorter....you know, when you're sitting up in bed reading and you say to yourself.....'just one more chapter'? well, these chapters were way too long to say that but that's only a quirk of mine....another big quirk of mine is the fact that a lot of the big time authors now start numbering their pages with the title page rather than page 1 where chapter 1 begins as marianne does properly....she gives you your money's worth and more....excellent first book and i look forward to many years of reading more and more of her books....just don't let us wait too long for the next one....please?????

Amazing and engaging first novel

I predict this amazing first novel will be a best seller. It engaged me so that I stayed up half the night to keep reading. Wonderful characterizations, involved and engaging plot with surprise ending. A real treat!