“I was sitting at the end of the bar sipping single-malt Scotch when I spotted the tall blond woman with the large green eyes and the small gray gun.”
The next thing Jake Lassiter knows, the woman pumps three bullets into the man on the next barstool. Lassiter, the linebacker-turned-lawyer, has a new client. She’s a stunning South Beach model; the dead man is her wealthy father; and the murder case is a slam dunk for the prosecution. Or is it?
“Lassiter is smart, tough, funny, and very human…one of the most entertaining series characters in contemporary crime fiction.” – Booklist
Brawn & Brains That’s what you find in the Lassiter novels by Paul Levine. The protagonist is a former mediocre pro linebacker who also considers himself a mediocre lawyer. He’s wrong.Â
Jake Lassiter Strikes Again Jake Lassiter: former Penn State Football and NFL player, washed out due to a knee injury, became a low-rent lawyer in Miami. Meeting a friend in a bar as requested, Jake sees a beautiful model murder her father. Of course, she’s arrested, and Jake’s friend, who’s her agent, hires him to defend her. The story twists around a shady half-brother and accountant, groundwater in Florida and child abuse. Jake’s granny and friend, Doc, help him puzzle out the rest of the story, and his nephew adds…
Jake Lassiter does it once again. One of the advantages of being both an avid reader and being quite computer literate is that I became aware a year ago of some websites on which they promoted books by listing some which were being given away free, but only for a day or two. So, by paying close attention and using the Kindle reading software (also free) from Amazon, I built a library of considerable size and discovered that I had new favorite authors.Â