This series involves courtroom battles. The protagonist is a lawyer who has a sense of humor that frequently gets him in trouble in the courtroom. This first in the series has Andy Carpenter working a challenging, apparently open and shut case against his client. Andy's always a champion of clients he feels are innocent and combined with the fact our hero is a dog lover, make this a great series.
Aaron Gunner made a lousy private detective. After a year's carnage in Vietnam and a quick exit from the police academy, private work was the only avenue he saw to be a hero. But the seediness, tedium, and lack of real power crushed his hopes and he quit the job after inadvertently setting a pregnant woman up for a violent death. But after a savage racial murder, it may be time to come out of retirement. This first in the series is set in Los Angeles and won the Shamus Award for Best First Private Eye Novel.
Veronica Speedwell is intrigued by science and is independent in her lifestyle, uncommon in London in the late 1880’s. Her aunt passes away and she is making plans for her own future but is the victim of an attempted abduction. The person who saves her seems to have information about the reason for the attempted abduction. But instead, Ms. Speedwell finds herself solving a murder to help answer even more questions.
Set in Bombay in the 1920’s Perveen Mistry becomes one of the first women lawyers in India when she joins her father’s law firm. Though women are not allowed to argue cases in court, she finds herself suspicious of the circumstances of a death resulting in settling a will for three widows. An interesting glimpse of India in the 1920’s and women’s rights along with an intriguing mystery to solve.
The first series of the Dublin Murder Squad, each of these series are from the perspective of a different member of the squad. Our protagonist is called upon to investigate the brutal murder of a child. He finds himself back in the very woods he explored as a child, and where two of his friends disappeared and were never found. Should he have recused himself from the case? Will this new case help to solve the long-ago mystery?
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