Sworn to Defend
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Publisher Description
Two gut-wrenching cases draw Cass into mortal danger
In her many years as a defense attorney, Cass Jameson has represented every kind of client—male and female, good and evil, rich and poor. But rarely has she gotten the chance to work for the most unusual client of all: the innocent one. She comes to the second appellate court on behalf of one of these rare blameless victims, Keith Jernigan, to argue that corrupt police work convicted him of a robbery he did not commit. But when she learns that Keith is guilty of something far uglier, she realizes she has been fighting to keep an evil man on the streets—and putting his girlfriend in danger.
While she tries to keep Keith's girlfriend safe, Cass takes a divorce case on behalf of a brilliant photographer whose husband has been abusing her for years. The divorce turns bloody, and it will take every ounce of Cass's strength to keep these two situations from becoming twin tragedies.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In her latest adventure, Brooklyn criminal lawyer Cass Jameson (last seen in Troubled Waters, 1997) gains a reversal of the conviction of Keith Jernigan, a client she believes blameless, and then discovers that he may be responsible for a worse crime than the one for which he was convicted. In this complex page-turner, Cass is drawn unwillingly into a battle between her tenant, photographer Nellis Cartwright, and Nellis's ex-husband, Grant Eddington, a collector of Japanese art. Nellis wants to renegotiate the divorce settlement, accusing her lawyer, a friend of Cass's, of malpractice. Grant says Nellis stole some of his most valuable pieces. Cass receives anonymous threats, and someone hacks into her business computer. So, after Nellis is shot in Cass's office, Cass sensibly fears that she herself was the target. Meanwhile, Keith's friendship with the son of Cass's secretary lands the boy in jail. Suspicious of Keith, Cass and a friendly cop, Liam Gallagher, investigate her client's background, leading from the Crown Heights Hasidic community to a shabby artists' colony. In a terrifying climax, Cass is almost murdered by a surprising enemy and then is institutionalized in Bellevue. Her old friend Detective Leroy Button appears suddenly and, like a deux ex machina, clears up all problems in three pages, providing an abrupt and disconcerting end to this fast-paced novel.
