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Out of the Office and On the Move
I slowed as a man in a security uniform came out, but he only stretched his back and swung his arms and watched me as I rolled past.

I was in, and the most disturbing thing so far was that the song "Secret Agent Man" kept playing in my head. This just wasn't the kind of thing lawyers did, not any of the ones I knew. For one thing, it was hard to see how I was going to bill anyone 300 dollars an hour for it. Unfortunately, things were about to get a lot more disturbing...

"Trial by Ambush," the first of the Robin Starling legal thrillers, is a...

Robin Starling, Lady Lawyer
"What did Carly say about me?" I asked.
"That you were new here and really, really nice, but she understood you'd been fired from your last job for being-" She dropped her voice to a conspiratorial whisper. "-something of a loose cannon." The drop in volume was a habit of speech Carly had when she was delivering the goods on someone.
"And after those introductions, Chloe chose me over Dave. Interesting. Disconcerting, even." "She said her daughter would be more comfortable with a lady lawyer." I shook my head. Lady lawyer was a phrase I'd be happy to...

The one eyewitness to the murder was last seen fleeing the scene in Robin Starling's car. She left her keys lying on the coffee table, but nobody believes it because Robin Starling, a 5'11" thirty-year-old attorney, is representing the accused.

Starling is a cross between Stephanie Plum and Perry Mason: She does whatever the heck she wants and relies on constant motion to keep her out of trouble. The tone is light, and the action builds to a crescendo.

Easy to say-
"Robin, you need to leave this alone. Just get back in your car and drive away."

Easy to say-
"What I think is that you ought to take this young woman's fingerprints, see where she's been in that house and what she's been touching."

Easy to say-
"You see what the testimony means, your honor. Ms. Starling is most probably an accessory after the fact to the crime of murder."

Easy to say-
"Let's assume for the moment that I'm a reasonable person, and not some nut-job who goes around dribbling the blood of murder victims on every horizontal surface she...