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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, one a divorcee -- in a pair of nasty zombie lawsuits, the outcome of each of which hinges upon a clause in a dead man's document.Rachel's client Cyndi Mulligan is the young trophy widow of the late Bert Mulligan, a billionaire entrepreneur whose last will and testament left his estate to Cyndi's daughter.