Betrayal
A Robin Lockwood Novel
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وصف الناشر
In Phillip Margolin's Betrayal, attorney Robin Lockwood finds herself defending her old nemesis in a multiple murder case with too many suspects, where success might cost her own life.
Robin Lockwood is now a prominent defense attorney in Portland, Oregon but a decade ago, she was a ranked and rising MMA fighter. Her career came to a quick end when she was knocked out and concussed in the first round by Mandy Kerrigan, a much more talented fighter.
Now the situation couldn't be more different, with Kerrigan on her last legs, her career nearly over, arrested for the quadruple murder of the entire Finch family...and Kerrigan's only possible friend is the attorney she beat so many years ago.
For Robin, it's no simple case: Margaret Finch was a lawyer working for vicious Russian mobsters, and was in the cross-hairs of both the mobsters and the widower of a woman a client killed; her husband Nathan Finch was deeply in debt to a bookie who threatened his life; her son Ryan was the one who sold Kerrigan illegal performance enhancing drugs and was beaten severely by her when Kerrigan failed her drug test. To complicate matters further, the DA that Robin is facing is the man she's just started dating, the first person she's begun seeing seriously after her husband was killed.
In a case where the stakes are high and the truth is elusive, where each new fact twists the case in a new direction, there is seemingly no way to win or direction to turn that will leave Robin Lockwood unscathed.
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In Margolin's magnetic seventh mystery featuring the MMA fighter turned Portland, Ore., criminal defense attorney (after 2022's Murder at Black Oaks), Robin takes on the case of a former rival charged with murdering a family of four. When fading MMA star Mandy Kerrigan calls Robin after she's arrested for the brutal killings of the Finch family, she feels duty-bound to help—Mandy's sound defeat of Robin in an MMA match years earlier led her to pursue the legal education that launched her career. Though Mandy maintains her innocence, witnesses saw her banging on the door of the Finch family home after beating up the Finch's oldest son, Ryan, at a bar when the performance-enhancing drugs he sold her showed up on a drug test. As Robin's team prepares their case, they learn that Ryan's lawyer mother, Margaret, was representing Russian mobsters accused of orchestrating an insurance fraud scam complete with staged accidents and sketchy doctors. By pulling that thread, Robin is convinced she'll find answers about the Finches' enemies that divert blame from Mandy. Robin's sharp intellect and steadfast integrity make her easy to root for, and Margolin keeps the suspense at a steady simmer. Series fans and newcomers alike will be sucked in.
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Not his best, worst in series
Phillip Margolin should be ashamed of himself for writing this subpar pile of nonsense. He’s got to be phoning in his book deal with this publisher. The Lockwood series has been absolutely terrible, and this is the worst book in the series. Buyer beware, this is a blatant cash grab.