Word: sister-in-law
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...three months after the June 1996 killing, police had no suspects in what they considered a burglary gone tragically awry. But Bosch had made a series of blunders that eventually led to her arrest. She had told her sister-in-law, Juliet Bosch, of her love for Tienie Wolmarans; she had given a gun to Juliet's husband after the murder and, three months later, she ordered a wedding dress. Juliet Bosch put the pieces together and turned the gun over to police, who linked it to 9-mm cartridges found at the murder scene. Wolmarans, who was investigated...
...Bush family get-togethers at Kennebunkport, Me., the introduction of a Dynasty sort of problem at the dinner table--let's say the sabotage of a family oil rig, in which the suspect is a nephew who might be gay, unless he's the one who raped his sister-in-law, the blackmailer--would result in the patriarch's confirming that family friends had already been called for an infusion of capital and then getting back to the conversation about Dallas' chances to make it to the next Super Bowl...
Also, in a cruel twist of fate, since Delaney-Smith's diagnosis last winter, both her sister and her sister-in-law have been diagnosed with breast cancer...
...down in the valley, the newly widowed Lusa Maluf Landowski--"My mom's parents were Palestinians, and my dad's were Jews from Poland"--struggles with the farm her husband has left her and tries to think of something profitable to grow besides tobacco. She complains to a sister-in-law, "We're sitting on some of the richest dirt on this planet, and I'm going to grow drugs instead of food?" And on farms nearby, Garnett Walker III, nearly 80, a widower for eight years, maintains a long-running battle with his neighbor Nannie Rawley, 75, over...
...down in the valley, the newly widowed Lusa Maluf Landowski - "My mom's parents were Palestinians, and my dad's were Jews from Poland" - struggles with the farm her husband has left her and tries to think of something profitable to grow besides tobacco. She complains to a sister-in-law, "We're sitting on some of the richest dirt on this planet, and I'm going to grow drugs instead of food?" And on farms nearby, Garnett Walker III, nearly 80, a widower for eight years, maintains a long-running battle with his neighbor Nannie Rawley, 75, over...