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Violent crimes
Record details
- ISBN: 9780062266552
- ISBN: 0062266551
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Physical Description:
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289 pages ; 24 cm - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York, New York : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2016]
- Copyright: ©2016.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Sequel to: Fugitive. |
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| Subject: | Jaffe, Amanda (Fictitious character) -- Fiction Women lawyers -- Fiction Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction Oregon -- Fiction |
| Genre: | Legal stories. Thrillers (Fiction) |
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Available copies
- 17 of 18 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Invermere Public Library.
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- 0 current holds with 18 total copies.
Other Formats and Editions
| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Invermere Public Library | FIC MAR (Text) | IPL051585 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
- Booklist Reviews : Booklist Reviews 2015 December #1
After a clear return to form in Woman with a Gun (2014), Margolin slips back again into the rut into which he had fallen. In this installment in the Amanda Jaffe series, the Portland, Oregon, attorney gets involved in a case that starts out complicated and only gets worse: a lawyer is killed, the senior partner at her firm comes under scrutiny for the way he conducts his business, the senior partner himself is murdered, and his son confesses to the crime. But is the son really guilty? The premise is interesting enough, but the writing lets us down, in terms of both style (the prose is downright clumsy in places, with wordy descriptions calling attention to their awkwardness) and substance (the characters are thin and rather familiar, as though they've been imported from other books). Margolin still has a following, but this volume feels tired and formulaic, and those aren't things that could have been said about his early novels. Buy sparingly, for the established readership only. Copyright 2014 Booklist Reviews. - Kirkus Reviews : Kirkus Reviews 2015 November #1
What the title promises is exactly what Margolin (Worthy Brown's Daughter, 2014, etc.) delivers: another torrent of violent crimes for Oregon defense attorney Amanda Jaffe. Christine Larson, of Masterson, Hamilton, Rickman, and Thomas, wants Amanda to defend Tom Beatty, a former Navy SEAL with PTSD who's working as a paralegal at the firm. Harold Roux, a bully who started a bar fight with Beatty, has sworn out a complaint from his hospital bed. Amanda gets the charge dismissed without breaking a sweat, unaware that the real trouble is just beginning. Someone murders Christine, plants her body in Beatty's place, and sends Detective Greg Nowicki, of Portland Narcotics, there on a trumped-up tip that Beatty's selling heroin. The cops pick up Beatty, but Amanda assures him she'll get bail for him, because she's certain Christine was killed by Dale Masterson, Mark Hamilton, or one of the other higher-ups in the firm whose falsified financial statements Christine had been looking i nto. Amanda, as good as her word, springs Beatty from police custody just in time for Masterson to get murdered. The presumption of Beatty's guilt would be overwhelming if only Dale's son, Brandon, hadn't been spotted running from the murder scene covered in blood. In fact, Brandon, an environmental activist bent on using his trial as a platform to broadcast his father's misdeeds to the world, is only too eager to confess to the murder, but Amanda doesn't believe him, and soon enough she's gotten herself hired as his attorney even though getting him off may involve implicating Beatty, who's also her client. This last problem may sound like a thorny ethical dilemma, but it's just as weightless as every other complication in this fleet, guileless, inch-deep yarn, a tale guaranteed to get you to bed in plenty of time and leave your dreams untroubled. Copyright Kirkus 2015 Kirkus/BPI Communications.All rights reserved. - Library Journal Reviews : LJ Reviews 2015 September #1
A lawyer who's gleamingly lined his coffers by representing oil and coal interests, Dale Masterson is found beaten to death, and ecowarrior son Brandon confesses. But the case falls apart, and defense lawyer Amanda Jaffe (popular with Margolin fans) considers who the real killer might be. With a 50,000-copy first printing.
[Page 78]. (c) Copyright 2015 Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted. - Publishers Weekly Reviews : PW Reviews 2015 December #2
In bestseller Margolin's subpar fifth Amanda Jaffe novel (after 2009's Fugitive), the Portland, Ore., DA decides to defend paralegal Tom Beatty, a veteran with PTSD, after he becomes the prime suspect in the murder of his boss, Christine Larson, whose battered body turned up in Beatty's bedroom. Then Dale Masterson, a senior partner at the prestigious law firm where Larson worked, is found dead in his home. This time, the assailant appears obvious: Masterson's 26-year-old son, Brandon, was seen running from his father's house, covered in blood. After Brandon's mother approaches Jaffe, she agrees to represent Brandon, an outspoken environmental activist who claims he killed his father to send a message to Big Oil. Unsettling connections between the Masterson and Larson murders put Jaffe in an ethical pickle as she tries to help both her clients without harming the other's case. Sympathetic characters compensate only in part for an overly complicated plot. Agents: Jean Naggar and Jennifer Weltz, Jean V. Naggar Literary Agency. (Feb.)
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