{"id":5478,"date":"2023-08-02T21:00:09","date_gmt":"2023-08-02T21:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maderatribustg.wpenginepowered.com\/?p=5478"},"modified":"2026-05-13T18:20:01","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T18:20:01","slug":"book-talk-margolin-the-third-victim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/book-talk-margolin-the-third-victim\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Talk: Margolin, \u2018The Third Victim\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"5478\" class=\"elementor elementor-5478\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7b78cae2 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"7b78cae2\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-71ed0f17 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"71ed0f17\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Phillip Margolin has been a best-selling author for 45 years, since the publication of \u201cHeartstone\u201d in 1978. Five years ago, he started a new series, and it is terrific. \u201cThe Third Victim\u201d (2018, 324 pages in paperback format) introduces defense attorney Robin Lockwood.<\/p><p>Robin helped to pay her tuition through college and law school by successfully pursuing a \u201cside\u201d career as a mixed-martial-arts (MMA) fighter. As she walked toward the octagon fighting arena, her fans sang the old \u201cRockin\u2019 Robin\u201d song. She became ranked 9th in the nation in her weight class (5\u20198\u201d and 130 pounds). She quit the ring after she\u2019d been knocked out by a much larger fighter and experienced a few days of head trauma.<\/p><p>The Third Victim begins with Caleb White driving his pickup along a dark rural highway in Oregon when a woman stumbles into the road. She pleads, \u201cHelp me!\u201d Caleb phones his cousin Harry, a detective with the Sheriff\u2019s Department, as he drives the woman, Meredith Fenner, to the hospital. She\u2019s been beaten, tortured, and starved, but she\u2019ll survive.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phillip Margolin has been a best-selling author for 45 years, since the publication of \u201cHeartstone\u201d in 1978. Five years ago, he started a new series, and it is terrific. \u201cThe Third Victim\u201d (2018, 324 pages in paperback format) introduces defense attorney Robin Lockwood. Robin helped to pay her tuition through college and law school by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_theme","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_angie_page":false,"page_builder":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[43],"class_list":["post-5478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion","tag-law"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}