I like the author, enjoy his writing and sense of humor, so I knew I'd like most any book he wrote. As much as cyber security is a current threat, and there are many, many vulnerabilities, I thought Rosenfelt over did it in this book, and I had difficulty "playing along" with his premise. Nonetheless, taking the story for what it was, it was still and enjoyable novel. ( )

When the story begins the lawyer… Jamie Wagner is seriously thinking that maybe he should have listened to his father and chosen a different career…he’s clearly has had enough with his present law firm. To make matters worse he’s been assigned a pro-bono case that no one in their right mind would want. He is supposed to try to help a woman serving a life sentence for murdering her husband…to die. Why ever you ask? So she can give her heart to her dying daughter. Now meet John Novack …the detective who answered the call to the Harrison home the day of the murder. He has always had major doubts about her guilt so when asked he agrees to help but not to help her die but to get her out of prison. Time is getting short for the daughter and no one wants to help the woman die. Now we add another dilemma…someone is moving huge sums of money to people that don’t exist and taking down aircraft and other disasters if large sums are not transferred to given accounts. I think you can see what is quickly developing here. David Rosenfelt is a genius at presenting unique plots and edge of your seat situations… but he has really out done himself with this one. This is a genuinely unique and well told story. ( )

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Sheryl Harrison has served four years of a thirty-year murder sentence for killing her husband, who she claims abused her and her daughter Karen. Her daughter has a congenital heart defect and will die without a transplant, plus her rare blood type makes the chance of finding a matching donor remote. Sheryl wants to be that donor. Now attorney Jamie Wagner must reopen the murder case, prove Sheryl's innocence, and get her freed so that she can pursue her plan to take her own life.

Attorney Jamie Wagner doesn’t usually take things too seriously which made this an entertaining book. He made many amusing remarks throughout the book and does end up deciding to work hard to help Sheryl. This was part legal thriller and part police procedural. A decent story if not memorable. ( )

A top notch suspenseful thriller with enough plot twists to keep the pages turning. The ending took me by surprise. ( )

Four years ago, sitting next to her husband’s bloody body Sheryl Harrison confessed to his murder. It was an open and shut case as far as the police were concerned. Now Sheryl needs a lawyer to help her make amends. Enter Jamie Wagner … uninterested, unmotivated and definitely an underachiever at his corporate law offices. Sheryl’s was a mandatory pro bono case that landed on his desk. From the minute he met Sheryl he knew that the pieces did not quite fit. But now she was asking him to do the impossible. Throw in the police, the FBI, a computer genius/homegrown terrorist, an insurance scam, twists and turns galore and a terminally ill teenager and it all adds up to a page turner.

I have read David Rosenfelt books for years and love his Andy Carpenter character. When I first started reading this book I sighed with resolution and thought we were going rehash Andy in a younger, slightly less jaded form. I was a little upset because if you are going to give me Andy Carpenter give me the real thing. I couldn’t have been more mistaken. Although Jamie has some of Andy’s sarcasm and edginess he is very much his own character. It’s fun watching him “grow up” throughout this story. Kudos Mr. Rosenfelt. As much as I like Andy I hope there is more Jamie in the future too.
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