Shoot the Lawyer Twice
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- $22.99
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- $22.99
Publisher Description
"Bowen's powers of invention are so florid and his satirical touch so bright, most readers won't care who gets carted off to jail."—Kirkus Reviews
When a frat boy finds himself on trial in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, for piracy on the high seas, Lawyer Rep Pennyworth suspects he's being used as an unwitting accomplice in a cheap publicity stunt. Meanwhile Rep's professor wife Melissa gets caught in the middle of a verbal firefight between two colleagues that soon escalates into burglary, theft, jury-tampering, forgery—and murder.
Melissa wants to protect a naïve undergraduate who might be implicated. But when one of the other suspects makes Melissa a cast-iron alibi, her search for the truth leads through a maze of gray lies—including her own.
What with an investigative reporter who's still having flashbacks to 1968, a fellow professor whose acute political correctness masks ruthless academic ambition, an engineer whose father's heart attack may have been either suicide or murder, and a brace of cunning lawyers out for blood, Rep and Melissa must combine their talents to stay off the casualty list....
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Milwaukee lawyer Rep Pennyworth and his English professor wife, Melissa, latter-day incarnations of Nick and Nora Charles, deal with an assortment of unrelated concerns in Bowen's engaging fourth mystery (after 2006's Putting Lipstick on a Pig). Some of these are legal, such as a would-be rapist's trial for piracy; some ethical, such as a brooding young Catholic co-ed who may be concealing evidence in another case; and some as apparently frivolous as excessive political correctness in the classroom or the marketing of topical thriller novels. The murder of a greedy professor who dabbled in borderline extortion, however, forces the couple to take a more serious look at the cast of obsessive, eccentric characters inside and outside the academy who are bound and determined to get what they want no matter who else gets hurt. Bowen's characters are amusing even when exasperating, and his leads are especially pleasant people to spend time with.
