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Kate Lange #4

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What if the face of justice belongs to... the accused?

When Kate Lange is hired to defend an unconscious woman shot while committing a puzzling crime, she is stunned to discover that the gunman is none other than Parliament's own golden boy, Harry Owen.

What if the face of the victim belongs to...us all?

As Kate pieces together the case, the lines between guilty and innocent become blurred--while a devious cyber mastermind puts the finishing touches on an explosive plan.

338 pages, Kindle Edition

First published October 25, 2016

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Pamela Callow

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Pamela Callow, JD, MPA, is the bestselling author of the Kate Lange legal thriller series. With over one million readers, Pamela Callow’s critically-acclaimed series has been compared to works by Robin Cook, Tess Gerritsen and John Grisham. Her debut novel DAMAGED was a Levy Home Entertainment “Need to Read Pick�, with Top Ten Bestseller placement everywhere books were sold across North America. The series is currently under option for network television development.

A member of the Nova Scotia bar, Pamela Callow also holds a Master’s degree in Public Administration. Prior to making writing a career, she worked as a Strategic Services manager with an international consulting firm.

She would love to visit all the countries where the Kate Lange books are published, but in the meantime, she drinks copious amounts of coffee, daydreams, spoils her pug Peaches, and sings in a barbershop chorus.

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534 reviews
September 30, 2019
Q:What does Callow think a bright, strong young woman should do about her budding law career?
A: Quit the high powered, big name, high profile firm she worked for and excelled at to partner with an alcoholic, irresponsible, disgraced man because somehow this decision will get her more respect and enable her to help others more.

Q: Who does Callow blame for Kate's romantic idiocy?
A: The men. Even though Kate is the one stringing along three men, telling them no at every turn and can’t decide between them, it’s their fault for leaving her alone. They "leave Kate all alone" pg 287. Now I know why some men find some women incredibly difficult to understand, because THEY DON'T MAKE ANY SENSE.

Q: What does Callow see as a terrible, villainous exploit by a shadowy vague government?
A: Having access to your private information then having a data breach of this information. Oh wait. You mean PayPal, Facebook, Instagram, etc don't already track everything already? This isn't the reason why you get tailored advertisements and your search history never goes away?
No, Callow inanely believes that the government does this, not every company on the internet. The government already has your social, not much else is needed to destroy your life.

Q: What does Callow think is a honorable thing to do?
A: Releasing classified government documents randomly and telling tech savvy citizens that the big bad government is tracking you (as opposed to, like everyone else).

Q: Who is a hero in Callow's eyes?
A: Snowden. Yup out of everyone she could pick lets emulate the loser stuck hiding in Russia.

Q:Why does Callow think turning a thriller series into a poorly constructed moral message is a good idea?
A: A little too much vanity. In her own words "thrillers are the new morals of society". I surely hope not, the creepy murder rate would have to go up.

Who does Callow decide should be the villain?
No one! Lets have main characters represent both victims and just talk about how everybody is right in their own way and is an oh-so-special-victim.

All in all, please never write another book like this, its garbage and laziness all rolled up in one.
Profile Image for Darla C. James.
118 reviews1 follower
June 8, 2017
MIXED REACTIONS

I still really liked the main characters and they are so interesting, I raced through all four books mainly just to get to know them better. I still recommend the series for this reason. I also find the author's writing skill way above average. The plots in each book have been basically interesting and well-developed. This last book. Though, was almost boring to read. I'm tired of the wishy-washy approach to romance. This particular read left me feeling like a good story was written, it was too short, so a bunch of filler was thrown in. And, there are too many characters being developed too fully versus their contribution to the story...example, Cooper and his marital issues - too distracting.
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2,397 reviews78 followers
May 10, 2018
Kate is a lawyer with a large corporate firm in Halifax, NS. She is ready for a change so joins Eddie Bent in his one-man firm. Her first client is Leah, a young woman who broke into the home of the parents of Harry Owen, a member of Parliament. Owen's mother is dying and his father, as a result of getting shot years ago during a robbery, is in a wheelchair. Leah is shot and is critically injured.

It turns out that she and her boyfriend, Aiden, were attempting to gain information to doxx Harry and discredit him. Aiden bails on her in the house and leaves Leah to face the consequences. We learn that they are members of the "Forum" which is make up of hacktivists. Harry, in the meantime, hires Randall, who was recently one of the partners of the firm from which Kate had just resigned.

This is the fourth book I've read by this author and I found the story line interesting. I had to Google "doxx", though, as I didn't know what it meant (it's mentioned many times) ... it's not explained until about the middle of the book. I liked the writing style. It is written in third person perspective with the focus on wherever the action is. As a head's up, there is swearing and violence.

Harry has a secret that he doesn't want to get out, which I figured out pretty quickly and didn't think it was that big of a deal. When I was reading this book, I had Seamus O'Regan (a member of Parliament from Newfoundland) in my head as Harry. There has been an attraction between Kate and Randall since the first book and I don't know why they have fought it. It's to the point where Randall says they "lo-" each.

The author was raised and lives in Halifax (I was born and lived in Nova Scotia until I was in my twenties ... my sister lives in Halifax). I liked that the author set the story in Halifax and didn't make it look like it was Any Town, USA.

This is the fourth in the Kate Lange series (so far there are four and I've read them all). Though it works as a stand alone, I would suggest you read the others in order to get the back stories that are referenced in this book. I look forward to reading the others in the series.

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547 reviews4 followers
February 20, 2020
This book was a great addition to the series. I love the characters, especially Kate Lange. She has been through a great deal but has courage. Although she is scared of almost every decision she makes, she still keeps moving forward. Kate may not always make the best decision, especially in the romance department according to me anyway but she makes it work. I love these books for the stories and the cases, intrigue, etc. but I would like to see a bit more romance between Kate and one character in particular. The ending of the 4th book really left it up in the air, although I think it went the way I wanted. Fingers crossed. My only problem is the irregularity of the books. I know Pamela was injured and that was why it took so long for this book to come out, but her 5th book, Inflicted, was "hoped" to be out January 2018 and I can't find anything new about it as of April 2018. Just to be clear, I just wish she would keep us updated. It's now a year later and information.
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56 reviews5 followers
August 11, 2018
Book 4 of The Kate Lange Thriller Series does not disappoint.

Another great book, the Kate Lange Thriller Series has not disappointed.
Great storyline the characters are making choices and then forced to deal with the consequences. The law may be black and white but some actions definitely fall in the gray area that makes it impossible to determine if it's right or wrong. This book, like the three before it in this series, is hard to put down. I really enjoyed the whole series.
5 reviews
June 23, 2017
Good, Fast, Human Thriller

One book leads you to the next book in the series. From Kate Lange all the characters have complex minds, history and personalities. The action moves along easily and swiftly. I read all four books in the series during the past week and hope another book will be out soon.
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28 reviews1 follower
February 17, 2018
Justice a Crime?

This fourth in a hopefully expanding series asks questions about crimes with a conscious and criminal's intent. A thrilling novel that made me actually sweat as I tried to read faster! Pamela Callow has created complex characters in the lovely city of Halifax. Highly recommended.
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38 reviews
February 28, 2017
This series was excellent! This is the most recent one. I do hope the author continues with this series! Excellent stories with a well researched inside look at laws, hacking, history and so much more.
165 reviews
August 27, 2018
She deserves nothing less than 5 stars!!!!

I would recommend this series to anyone who loves Robin Cook, JD Robb, etc. Fantastic detective mysteries solved by Kate Lang her female heroine..loved this series!! Kept me up to finish the very last book....
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12 reviews
November 6, 2016
You can't put this book down! So fast-paced I felt like I was running while reading it. Explosive and intense writing. I love the Kate Lange series!
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AuthorÌý19 books102 followers
March 27, 2018
As always, Pamela Callow delivers an excellent read that is hard to put down.
2,227 reviews21 followers
June 10, 2017
In this fourth installment of the Kate Lange legal thriller series, Callow quickly grabs the reader’s attention with the opening scene. In the dead of night two intruders, a man and a woman, enter a private home in the south end of Halifax. The woman appears reluctant, but the man is insistent pushing her on to carry out their preconceived plan. When she falters, he pulls a knife and threatens her. The two are in the childhood home of Harry Owen, an up and coming MP and a bright light in an administration plagued with spending scandals, a sluggish economy and voter fatigue. Harry has come home to visit his parents Mel and Salma Owen. His father who is a paraplegic and his mother who is dying of cancer are both asleep in the next bedroom. Mel and Salma are the first to awake when they hear a disturbance downstairs. Mel quickly gets into his wheelchair grabs his gun and tells Salma to call the police. Harry now also awake, quickly heads downstairs as well. Gunshots are fired and the female intruder is injured, while the male intruder flees and escapes. When the police arrive the wounded woman is taken to hospital, seriously injured and in a coma. The police search the house but neither they nor the Owens have any idea what the intruders were up to as it appears nothing is missing. Suddenly Harry is accused of shooting an unarmed woman point blank with a prohibited weapon.

The female intruder is finally identified as Leah Roberts, but nothing seems to make sense. She is a woman with a sterling reputation who went through college on scholarships and now has a top job at KRYPTO-CYBER a technology firm. No one can figure out why she was in Harry’s home or what she was after. Nor do they know the identity of the other masked figure that got away.

As we rejoin Kate Lange after her last case, Nina Woods the managing partner of McGrath Woods has called her to a meeting. Nina explains that the firm once welcomed the attention Kate’s last two high profile cases brought them. But it has gone on too long and clients who want their business kept confidential no longer want the attention her name attracts. They are taking their business and their billable hours elsewhere and since profits are affected, the firm must take action. They have decided to reassign Kate to their Family Practice Division, an area of law that holds no interest for her. It is a demotion, plain and simple.

Kate had already been reconsidering her career, tired of focusing on defending large corporate interests and no longer interested in working for a firm whose feelings for her vacillate between love and hate. She wants to work in the Office of Public Prosecutions and has already discussed her aspirations with John Hillcrest the Chief Crown Prosecutor for the region. They are anxious to have her, but there are no openings and budget cuts are keeping the office tight. He advises her to get more criminal law experience. Working both sides of the law would be good preparation for the job and would give weight to her application when something becomes available.

Kate knows the professional direction she wants to go and resigns from McGrath Woods. Now on her own and without a job, she needs a place to work to get the criminal defense experience she needs but few options are available. Despite reservations from others, she teams up with Eddie Bent, a man she has worked with before. He is an alcoholic but also has a reputation as a good criminal lawyer. The two set up a partnership and Kate is ready for business. She will no longer have the beautiful office she had at McGrath Woods or the security of having a top notch firm behind her, but this move will help her achieve her new goal.

Meanwhile Leah Roberts lies fighting for her life in hospital. Her parents are in shock and cannot believe the crime for which she is accused. It simply does not fit with the girl they know as their daughter. They hire Kate as their lawyer and her preliminary investigation reinforces Leah’s sterling reputation, her actions the night of the crime completely inconsistent with her background and usual behavior.

Harry also needs legal advice to steer clear of this high profile catastrophe that may sink his political aspirations. He hires Randall Barret, a former managing partner of McGrath Woods and someone with whom Kate has a past. He was the man who tried to fire Kate three months after she first began working at the prestigious law firm but also the man who hired her when he was accused of killing his wife. They developed a very close relationship which was interrupted when Randall left for Manhattan to spend time with his family after his criminal investigation. He has only recently returned to Halifax and with recent events, the two are now facing each other defending opposite sides of the law.

As this story unfolds, readers are thrown into the complex world of technology with its cyber geeks, whistle blowers and hackers. We learn about the process of “doxing� and how hackers can be fueled by either good or bad intentions. Their goal may be simply to create general mayhem and chaos without doing great harm. But they may also hack for less well intentioned reasons: to fill the need for individual greed, to correct an imagined or perceived wrong or to carry out a murderous plot. Hackers are known as white hats or black hats, the white hats those who hack for the common good. The crime which began in the living room of the Owen home spreads out to a wider world to impact a greater number of people. As Kate investigates, the reader receives a primer on the cyber world and the internet, exploring the grey areas of whistle blowers and those who commit illegal acts for good reasons. The case highlights a number of issues including the fact the legal system has no way of dealing with white hats and the growing and almost imperceptible erosion of individual privacy and what it means for the future. These are issues which legislators should not only consider but sort out.

Once again this book can be read as a stand-alone, but reading this one in the order the series presents provides important background as Callow refers to previous cases, Kate’s past experience with her new partner Eddie and her relationship with Randall Barrett. It gives deeper meaning to the complex relationships and behavior of the key characters as well as providing a great context for the plot. My only criticism is the change in Harry as the story ended. It seemed a little too quick to be realistic, inserted only as a way to bring the story to its conclusion.

Like the previous three novels in the series this one is tightly plotted, has great suspense and interesting characters. It is a winner and I can hardly wait for the next one.

21 reviews2 followers
March 29, 2022
Staff Read #8-Kate Lange Series-Exploited
This was the 4th book in the Kate Lange series and my absolute favorite so far. I really enjoyed the plot of this one. I was so pleased to see Kate and Eddie teaming up and Kate's relationship with Randall progressing. For me, this story played out exactly like my favorite espionage movies, with an exciting and fast-paced ending. Ms. Callow did it again! Now sadly I have to wait until the next Kate Lange is published. Absolutely loved this one! 5 plus stars
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AuthorÌý2 books3 followers
March 2, 2019
The series seems to be over, yet I still feel like I could know more and experience more through Kate Lange.

This book deviated quite a bit from the previous three, which was refreshing! We still got a lot from the threads laced throughout the others, but the new take on the theme was refreshing and welcomed. I loved that Tr0lz was actually a young female, the villains were actually good and the polished MP had some dark plans of his own, once pushed.

Kate joining Eddie was a great move and I loved that she could finally exert her knowledge and strength with freedom to control the fate of her client.

Overall, loved the book & I was hung on every page as always.

I have so many questions though:

What happens at the Kenzie Sloane inquiry?
Ethan didn’t appear at all in this book - why?
At the end of book 3 Kate was seemingly over Randall, why the change?
Why did Eddie’s wife not come to visit? And why did it lead to his relapse?


I’m really, really hopeful that Callow brings out another book or two for this series. I am not ready for it to be over!
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
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108 reviews1 follower
April 6, 2018
The Kate Lange Thriller Series Book 4

After finishing the book I was in awe of the writer's mind and her art to forming such marvelous plots and characters.
Although I will have tho confess the author's first novel Blew me away.
Me Lange defending the victim who is also the villain was a nice twist.
all the discussions and plots of cyper crimes were so very much in line with what's happenings.
The conclusion was very heartwarming.
I have read all of this author's novels and none have disappointed me.
I am looking forward to the next episode in Ms Lange 's adventures.
Keep up the great work Pamela Callow.



53 reviews
December 23, 2016
This is the 4th book in the Kate Lange series and Kate as a character is more developed as are the others in the book. It is a very suspenseful thriller and I didn't want to put it down. I've read the previous three books and re-read them again before starting this one. Highly recommended, if you like thrillers.
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AuthorÌý6 books18 followers
March 20, 2017
Last night I couldn't put this down. Once again Pamela Callow will keep you reading until the very end. I do not want to write anything that may tell you the ending. People you must read this series. Amazing, Suspense, your heart will just go out for Kate Lange. Strong will Character that fights for the truth. Don't miss this series you will love it. I want more for sure.
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1,407 reviews35 followers
July 30, 2017
Another great fast paced visit with Kate Lange. I love her sense of justice, and her ability to get to the bottom of it.

I'm really hoping there will be more. Each book is unique in itself while we continue to get to know her.

My only hope is that she may find some peace in her personal life. So looking forward to more!
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1 review
January 10, 2018
Excellent book

If you just want to lose yourself in a story this is a great book to read. As a matter of fact the entire series was wonderful. I read all four books in less than a month and continue to want more. Hopefully there is another Late Lange book in the works because I need to know what happens between Randall and Kate.
10 reviews
May 11, 2017
Addresses so many issues

Really enjoyed this book. Finished it in no time at all. The characters from previous books have become more real, and some new characters have appeared to tell this brilliant story. Well done.
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86 reviews
May 17, 2017
I was pleasantly surprised with this fourth book! It did not follow the same pattern as the others and was not nearly as predictable. Lots of loose ends are wrapped up to create a lovely ending to a great series!
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41 reviews1 follower
October 4, 2017
Another good book

I loved this book from the beginning to the end because each page was filled with excitement, but once it was over I was ready to read the next story and book into Kate Lange's life! I can't wait for the next book! :-)
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107 reviews
October 21, 2018
Kate goes on the Defense.

I enjoyed this book, full of mystery, intrigue, thrills and suspense. If you like this kind of read I recommend Pamela Callow's entire 4-book Kate Lange series. Gave this book 5 stars. It just keeps you reading to find out what is happening next.
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101 reviews
December 31, 2018
A great read

I read a couple of books a week, mostly of this genre. I have read all four of this series and hope Pam writes some more. I read it in one sitting it was so good. I highly recommend to anyone that wants a truly good read.
Profile Image for Courtney.
37 reviews
November 13, 2019
Another great read

I've enjoyed all of the Kate Lange thrillers and this one was really great. Pamela Callow is a brilliant writer and all of her books are thoroughly researched. This one kept me in suspense I spent most of the book wondering what the hacktivists would do.
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512 reviews1 follower
December 31, 2021
I love the local Halifax settings in the Kate Lange thriller series. The story of exploiting a weakness, cybercrime and computer hacking for noble and profit making purposes surprised me when it became headed for Halifax Explosion 2.0.
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5 reviews1 follower
September 5, 2017
Finally in Randalls arms!

Loved all 4 Kate Lange books! Can't wait for the next one! Please hurry. Writing is excellent with a variety of characters.
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279 reviews3 followers
February 26, 2018
I would give this 3.5 stars if I could. It was not my favorite in the series but I liked it.
9 reviews
July 8, 2018
Excellent book

I loved all four books and can't w for the fifth one. Would love to know when the next release is. Gets my books from Amazon
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42 reviews
August 17, 2018
Exploited

Great thriller with lots of hackers. Kate gets the media attention, resolves her fears and begins to mellow to Randall.
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