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"The "master of heart-pounding suspense"--New York Times bestseller Phillip Margolin--returns with a new legal thriller starring Robin Lockwood. A young woman accuses a prominent local college athlete of rape. Convicted with the help of undisputable DNA evidence, the athlete swears his innocence and threatens both his lawyer and his accuser as he's sent to prison. Not long after, there's another rape and the DNA test shows that the same person committed both rapes--which is seemingly impossible since the man convicted of the first rape was in prison at the time of the second one. Now, the convicted athlete, joined by a new lawyer, is granted a new trial and bail. Shortly thereafter, his original lawyer disappears and his law partner is murdered. Robin Lockwood is a young lawyer with a prestigious small law firm and a former MMA fighter who helped pay for Yale Law School with her bouts. She is representing the victim of the first rape for her civil lawsuit against her rapist, who is now convinced the rapist is stalking her and trying to intimidate her. At the same time, another client is up on a murder charge--one that should be dismissed as self-defense--but the D.A. trying the case is determined to bring it to trial. Now she has to mastermind two impossible cases, trying to find the hidden truth that links the two of them. Phillip Margolin, the master of the legal thriller, returns in one of his twistiest, most compelling crime novels yet"--… (more)
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This book was great. It is well-written and the characters are just like real people. They can be good people and still make a mistake or two. They can be mostly bad people and still have
I have been missing legal thrillers for awhile now, and I am so glad that this author still writes them. I am always intrigues by his work. I'm hoping there are more books coming with Robin...…
This book was provided to me by NetGalley and I would like to thank them and the publisher.
Robin is a young partner in a small firm in Portland, Oregon handling criminal matters. A young woman, Randi Stark, employs Robin as her
A battle over evidence and clients ensues between the District Attorney and the various lawyers involved with the rapes. Meanwhile, there have been some recent murders that seem somehow connected.
As Robin closes in on the answers, her own life is in danger, and the tension builds for answers before more people die.
Evalution: I thought some of the “bad guys” were a little too evil, but what do I know? I lead a fairly sheltered life, whereas the author formerly worked as a lawyer specializing in criminal defense. At any rate, the premise is great and the story definitely keeps you turning the pages! There really isn’t much about legal procedure in this book; the emphases are on the mystery and thriller aspects.
Again I did not guess the “who”until almost the end of the book.
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However, why not reread something that was good the first time? Too bad about the ol' brain.