If it bleeds, it leads – and Gina Davenport’s death led the local news that day.
News cameraman, Ted Phillips, captured the plunge of therapist and best selling author, Gina Davenport, from an eighth story window – live – on what had begun as a slow news day. The shattered glass fell like rain. The camera rolled. And Davenport lay mangled on the concrete as a dark pool of blood spread out from her head.
Was it suicide, or cold-blooded murder?
Attorney Lou Mason had no doubt it was murder. Suicides jump out of open windows. Murderers break the glass. He couldn’t keep his mind off Gina Davenport’s murder. How could he? When an enigmatic young woman turns herself in, claiming she murdered Davenport, Mason takes the case. But something about her story just doesn’t add up. Trying to crack the case, Mason dives deep into a black market underworld – one that runs on drugs and dirty money where truth comes at the highest possible price – life.
3rd in this Solid Series Dr. Gina, the famous radio psychologist, gets tossed through a plate glass window and pancakes on the pavement eight stories below in full view of television cameras. Lou Mason draws the case of a young, troubled client of the doctor.Â
solid legal thriller In Kansas City, TV news reporters catch nationally syndicated popular psychiatrist Dr. Gina Davenport falling from her eighth floor office to her death. Her local radio station manager Arthur Hackett and his wife Carol hire lawyer Lou Mason to defend their troubled twenty-one year old daughter Jordan, who confesses that she pushed the doctor out the window.Â
Worth a Try I received a complimentary copy of this book in exchange for my review. Attorney Lou Mason is caught in a tangle of deception as he attempts to defend a troubled young woman (Jordan Hackett) accused of double murder. Multiple suspects are found and none fit just right except Jordan. I agree with what another reviewer said about this book, “I had a hard time keeping all the characters straight as Goldman introduced them at a rapid-fire pace, resulting in many character sketches but few fully…