The biggest case of his life comes to him when a young reporter Jennifer is found dead in her home. Jennifer had just uncovered the biggest scope in her life. The grand jury is about to indict several cops and high officials. Mick had just spoken to Jennifer several hours before she was murdered because she wanted Mick to represent her in court. Soon after Jennifer's death, Mick also gets another call from one of his college roommates, David Hanson, a businessman, who has been accused of killing Jennifer because the police caught David running out of Jennifer's back door. David claims he is innocent, although he went to her house she was already lying dead on the basement floor.

Mick agrees to take the case, however David is leaving too much out of his story. He won't tell Mick where he was before Jennifer was killed, or who he was with. David and his wife Marcie go to a lot of trouble to keep everything a huge secret so Mick knows something is going on. In the meantime, his brother Tommy is in a very foul mood as his wife is moving away from him. Just what is going on? Every time that Mick things he has it figured out, something new comes in to play. Is everything somehow connected to this murder?

Wow, Mr. Myers, you sure had me going on this one. Talk about a mystery because I never saw the end of this one coming. I was amazed at how everything tied in at the end. It's easy to see you were a trial lawyer before you became an author. And you skillfully show how family does mean everything to people. The strain between Tommy and Mick finally gets settled when they realize they both have suffered in more ways than one.

You also kept my mind going through this whole book as I read, even though I tried to put it down a couple of times, but couldn't. I needed to find out who the real killer was so A CRIMINAL DEFENSE is my kind of book. I just couldn't put it down, until I figured it out and because I never would have guessed the ending, I love it.

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