...Until Proven Innocent - Peter Sharp Legal Mystery #5

By Gene Grossman
Published by Magic Lamp Press
$9.99 Rating: Not yet rated.
Published: Oct. 13, 2009
Words: 74,044 (approximate)
Language: English
ISBN: 9781882629510


Short description

Attorney Peter Sharp's new client dislikes any person of color, and is then arrested with a smoking gun, standing over the body of a dead black man he had recently been arguing with... and the D.A. has proved that the defendant's gun is the murder weapon. Will Suzi comes to the rescue this time? The final courtroom scene is a stunner, complete with a dog stealing the show in the courtroom.

Extended description

This book won the Dan Poynter 2011 First-place GOLD Global eBook Award in the Fiction/Mystery category.

An L.A.P.D. detective named Tony is attorney Peter Sharp's dock neighbor, and aside from being a racist cop on suspension while several incidents of alleged police brutality he's been accused of are being investigated, he seems like pretty nice guy.

Like other boat owners on the dock, Peter avoids eye contact with Tony... whose only friend in the marina appears to be Peter's 12-year old legal ward Suzi, an adorable Chinese computer genius.

She spends time on Tony's boat and enjoys his version of baby-sitting, which entails teaching her the fine art of re-loading the shells for his huge 50-caliber Smith & Wesson revolver, a $1,400 piece of hand-held artillery that's the most powerful production handgun in the world and would undoubtedly make even Dirty Harry think twice about going up against it.

Suzi isn't allowed to handle this 15-inch long monster that weighs almost 7 pounds.. (Read more)


Tags

murder, mystery, law, legal thriller, grisham, ballistics, tool mark identification

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