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Several years have passed since we last saw Rachel Gold. The stunning and savvy attorney was then engaged to be married. Since, she has become a mother, then a much grieving widow, and now she is embroiled in a lost cause --the Frankenstein Case --where she represents a blue collar neighborhood fighting a powerful developer intent on bulldozing their homes to erect a swanky gated community. Who is pushing her here? Of course, her mother. Rachels strategy...
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"Dead hand" is the English translation of the Latin term "mortmain," which the law dictionary defines as "the influence of the past regarded as controlling the present." For Rachel Gold, a more accurate term would be "zombies." In particular, the wealthy zombies who seek to control the living--and especially their families--from the grave through legal documents prepared before they died. In The Dead Hand, Rachel represents two women--one a widow,...