Review by Booklist Review
Dugoni continues to deliver the legal-thriller goods with his latest David Sloane novel. Still reeling from the death of his wife in Bodily Harm (2010), Seattle attorney Sloane finds unexpected comfort in Barclay Reid, a female lawyer with whom he has sparred in court. Barclay's daughter died of a drug overdose years earlier, and, since then, she has made it a crusade to convict drug traffickers. One of the biggest, Filyp Vasiliev, gets off on a technicality. Soon, he's found murdered, and the evidence leads the police first to Sloane and then Reid. The thrills and surprises fly as Sloane tries to to prove Reid's innocence. Dugoni has often been described as a challenger to Turow and the other big names in the legal-thriller genre, but at this point, he's claimed his own position on the A-list. A must read for fans of courtroom drama, from Grisham to Turow to Erle Stanley Gardner.--Ayers, Jef. Copyright 2010 Booklist
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Review by Publisher's Weekly Review
At the start of Dugoni's fourth legal thriller, the best yet in the series (after Bodily Harm), featuring Seattle attorney David Sloane, he attends his first public event since his wife's murder a year earlier, a benefit to promote legal aid services, where he literally runs into attorney Barclay Reid, an adversary from a previous case. Reid is also in mourning-for her college age daughter, Carly, who died of a heroin overdose. Reid mounts a charm offensive to persuade Sloane to represent her in a wrongful death suit against the Russian gangster, Filyp Vasiliev, who was behind the heroin sale that killed Carly and who has just beaten federal criminal charges after a judge tossed out crucial evidence at a pretrial hearing. The shooting death of Vasiliev in his Seattle home derails the developing romance between Sloane and Reid as well as the civil case. While many will anticipate the ending twist, Dugoni conveys the legalese in digestible form. (June) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
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Review by Library Journal Review
Attorney David Sloane has found love again in the arms of a former rival. And he must tackle his first criminal case when she's accused of murdering a drug dealer. Few can deliver legal suspense as well as Dugoni, as this mix of Presumed Innocent meets Basic Instinct proves. (LJ 6/1/11) (c) Copyright 2011. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
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