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...
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 watch...
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.
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 b...
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...
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...
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...
Easy to say- "Robin, you need to leave this alone. Just get back in your car and drive away."
Robin Starling traces a pistol that arrived in her mail to a recently murdered man who had been cheating on his wife. The police like the wife for the crime. The D.A. likes Robin as an accessory-after-the-fact. Robin, though she feels sympathy for the widow and her young son, likes running with her dog and hanging out with her teddy-bear boyfriend, but she is a young attorney in need of work. The case promises to be the case of her career right up to the moment when everything goes ballistic.
Robin Starling traces a pistol that arrived in her mail to a recently murdered man who had been cheating on his wife. The police like the wife for the...
You're a 32-year-old attorney. Five years ago, you had an affair with your boss's daughter. She was seventeen. Though you didn't go to prison, you work somewhere else now. Guilt-ridden, you've managed to put your life back together; then your old girlfriend, now a 23-year-old, dark-eyed beauty, shows up on your doorstep. She's got a gun and a wild tale about the penny-ante drug dealers who are after her. She needs sanctuary. Within days, she will need a lawyer to defend her on a murder charge, and her tales will have only gotten wilder. What will you do? If you're Alan Dougherty, you will...
You're a 32-year-old attorney. Five years ago, you had an affair with your boss's daughter. She was seventeen. Though you didn't go to prison, you wor...
