From jaywalkercases.com:
Criminal defense attorney Harrison J. Walker, known to all as “Jaywalker,” is about to be suspended from practice for “over-reaching” for his clients (and also for being caught on a courthouse stairway surveillance camera apparently receiving a heartfelt thank-you from one of them, a young woman just acquitted of prostitution).
He begs the disciplinary committee judges to let him finish up his pending cases, in which clients are relying upon him. They tell him he can keep 10 cases, but to “dispose of” them as quickly as possible. He manages to resolve 9 of them, but the last one–The Tenth Case–must go to trial.
It’s a murder case, in which Samara Moss Tannenbaum, a beautiful runaway from a trailer-trash background, is accused of stabbing to death her much older and extremely wealthy husband.
The evidence against her seems absolutely overwhelming, right down to the knife. Samara insists she’s innocent, but even Jaywalker has trouble believing her.
Review: Joseph Teller, with his debut novel, has drawn me in and I’ll be looking for future books from him.
Teller couldn’t better described many of today’s old(er) school attorneys.
The story surrounding his characters are detailed, authentic, and show the fragile human side so seldom seen in a Courtroom.
I was hooked from the first chapter and quickly read this book within a couple of days.
If you enjoy legal thrillers, you’ll definitely want to read The Tenth Case!
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