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| Welcome to the official website for mystery author, Randall Hicks. Randy is recognized as one of the nation's leading adoption attorneys and authors, completing more than 900 adoptions, handling some of the nation's most dramatic adoption cases and litigating as high as the U.S. Supreme Court. His book, Adopting in America ("Educational and empowering." - Publishers Weekly, "Empathetic and practical." - Booklist), has been featured on every TV network and has been the nation's "how to" adoption bestseller for twelve years.
But beneath that stuffed-shirt exterior lurks the heart of Randy's unique protagonist, adoption attorney Toby Dillon. Toby takes little in life seriously, except his tennis game. He's a graduate of UCLA. The only problem is his UCLA stands for Uncle Charlie's Law Academy. Maybe that explains why Toby's office is the former storage room of a country club's Pro Shop, which Toby barters for serving as the Assistant Tennis Pro. At least he owns a tie, even if it is a clip-on. In both his debut novel, The Baby Game, and his newest, Baby Crimes, Randy explores the adoption world like no one else, combining hang-by-your fingernails suspense, compassionate characters, wry humor, romance and a triple-twist ending. Guaranteed to leave you with a smile on your face.
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Accolades for The Baby Game:
•Winner, Gumshoe Award (Best Debut Novel)
•Finalist, Anthony Award (Best Debut Novel)
•Finalist, Barry Award (Best Debut Novel)
•Finalist, Macavity Award (Best Debut Novel)
•Independent Mystery Booksellers' Assoc's "Killer Book of the Month"
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"It's a web of intrigue, double-dealing and murder. . . The ride is fast, the resolution is satisfying and it's got one of the best 'first kiss' scenes I've ever read. Enjoy this tale. I did."
—T. Jefferson Parker (Edgar Award winning author of Laguna Heat, Storm Runners)
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Toby Dillon is hired by a wealthy and powerful couple being blackmailed over the illegal adoption of their daughter sixteen years ago. No one—not even their own daughter—knows the truth. . . except the birth mother. but Toby's search for her leads only to dead bodies, one of them almost his own, as he learns there may be more buried secrets than even his own clients know—secrets people are killing to keep. Read Chapter One
Publication date: 9-3-07 • trade paperback 6 X 9 • $13.95 • ISBN: 0-9794430-0-8 • 296 pages
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The debut Toby Dillon novel. Toby's two best childhood friends, Brogan and Rita, now filmdom's newest glamour couple, turn to him for help to adopt a baby. Although initially the adoption is the media's feel good story of the year and Toby basks in his temporary fame, things change quickly when the baby is kidnapped.
When the expected ransom demand never arrives and the police turn up nothing, Toby, Brogan and Rita are left to try to find answers on their own. Initially, they think the baby's birth mother is responsible, but suddenly she's missing too, and their other suspects start turning up dead. They soon learn there's more at stake than a kidnapping, and the answers may trace back to the childhood they shared—putting lives—and friendships, at risk. Read Chapter One
Publication date: August 2005 • hardcover 6 X 9 • $22.95 • ISBN 0-9631638-5-X • 254 pages
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