When Leon Walker calls the husband-and-wife legal team of Mike Daley and Rosie Fernandez, this is not good news. Walker was the man who ruined their marriage years ago. When Mike defended Walker against murder charges arising out of a stickup-gone-bad, Rosie fought about it with Mike so much that it drove a wedge between them. Now, Walker has returned, and he’s got a new murder pinned to his back.
A Silicon Valley venture capitalist has been found dead in a dumpster on San Francisco’s Skid Row. Walker swears he didn’t do it, and prevails on Mike to represent him. Dogged investigation, courtroom nimbleness, and a healthy dose of luck have helped Mike before, but time is running out, both on his client…and his marriage.
Great legal thriller First Sentence: Judge Elizabeth McDaniel is glaring at me over the top of her reading glasses.Â
Rosie and Michael are becoming old friends. This is the fourth book in series from author Sheldon Siegel about whimsical “couple” Rosie Fernandez and Mike Daley. The plot is tight, involves the Siegel signature homicide, and characters from Mike and Rosie’s past. The courtroom scenes are well-paced and the plot ticks off like clockwork. Small surprises crop up throughout the book, and Siegel’s mechanism of writing in the Mike Daley first person is, as usual, the joy of the novel.Â
They just keep getting better! Mike and Rosie are back in top form, defending a dying man against seemingly insurmountable odds. We get some back story on Mike and Rosie’s relationship as well-this is the same man who’s case, 10 years before, ruined their marriage. This case is personal as well as professional, bringing to the story a depth and introspection somewhat lacking in Siegel’s previous wonderful titlesÂ