Alibi
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4.7 • 3 Ratings
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- $11.99
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
Jessica Nagoshi is in her third year of economics at Deane University. The beautiful and intelligent coed is being groomed, along with her brother, to take control of her father’s multimillion-dollar empire. But her promising future is cut down when she’s brutally murdered in the greenhouse of her father’s vast estate.
David Cavanaugh, Boston’s most sought after defense attorney, is unwittingly forced into this high-society murder case when his young protégé James Matheson, a final-year law student at Deane, is accused of the crime. But David soon realizes that the odds are already against him. Unspoken conspiracies, corporate secrets, and betrayals lead David down a road where every ally is an enemy in disguise—and into a world where privilege means anyone can get away with murder.
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Australian author Bauer's third David Cavanaugh thriller (after 2008's Gospel) follows the hotshot Boston criminal defense attorney as he defends James Matheson, a young law student accused of murdering Jessica Nagoshi, the daughter of corporate powerhouse John Nagoshi. With the help of Sara Davis, his girlfriend and co-counsel, Cavanaugh goes head-to-head with ADA Roger Katz, who aims to further his own career by putting Matheson away. The well-plotted legal thrill ride is marred by two-dimensional characters and a complete lack of emotion. Poorly constructed and sometimes purple prose ("the solitude of dawn... when, somehow satisfied with their allocated allotment, the shadows gave way to a rising sun and the ever-promising possibilities of what lay ahead") turns a would-be page turner into a slog. Fans of Bauer's previous books ought to give this one a chance, but John Grisham she ain't.
