Juggling Evidence (A Robin Starling Courtroom Mystery)

Attorney in Motion

A homicide detective I knew came in the front door and stopped in the archway to the living room.

   “Robin Starling,” he said, sounding surprised.

   I looked up. “Hi, Jordan.”

   “Not a good sign,” he said. “Murder cases becoming your specialty?”

   “Let’s hope not.” It was, I reflected, the second murder scene at which he’d found me.

   My client said, “This wasn’t murder, though. It was suicide, wasn’t it?”

   “Doubtful,” Jordan said.

   “Why do you say that?” I asked.

   The corner of Jordan’s mouth lifted. “It’s what I always say.”

   “So you don’t have any specific reasons for thinking it wasn’t suicide?”

   “That’s not what I said.” He came into the living room and sat in a large square chair, pushing the ottoman out of the way with his foot. “Where is Melissa Butler? I’d like to talk to her.”

   They all looked at me. “She’s driving around in my car,” I said lamely.

   “Just driving around, or is she going somewhere?”

   “I don’t know.”

   “Look,” Jordan said. “This woman saw the murderer. You can’t just bury her.”

   “I didn’t bury her.”

   “But you sent her off in your car.”

   “No, I didn’t.”

   He shifted in the chair. “You see, the problem is I know you, Robin. You do whatever the hell you want, and you depend on constant motion to stay out of trouble.”

Robin Starling displays both the reckless initiative of Stephanie Plum and the legal acumen of Perry Mason, and even her friends know it. When Robin's efforts to acquit her clients begin to involve her roommate, Brooke Marshall, Brooke asks, “This isn’t going to get me in trouble, is it?”

   “I hope not.”

   “Great.”

   “If I get you in, I’ll get you out again.”

   She gave me a look.

   “Are you okay with that?”

   “You’re giving me a recipe for getting arrested. Of course I’m not okay with it.”

Okay or not, Robin can be persuasive. Before long, everyone she knows is involved in juggling evidence. Robin Starling claims it’s an occupational hazard, but the district attorney thinks it’s a violation of the Rules of Professional Conduct—and this time, he thinks he can prove it…

Juggling Evidence, a clean, PG-13 style mystery, is Book 2 in the Robin Starling legal thriller series. The tone is light, and the action builds to one of the most dramatic courtroom finishes you'll ever read.

The other courtroom mysteries in the series are:

• Trial by Ambush, Robin's first criminal case, a courtroom mystery that has her defending the boyfriend she caught cheating on her with the murder victim on the very night of the murder.


• Dog Law, the third lawyer thriller in the series, which Robin survives with an assist from her new pup and her overweight boyfriend.


• Laughing Heirs, book 4 in the series of lawyer mysteries, in which the line between accidental death and first-degree murder is razor thin.

The lawyer novels are some of the top legal thrillers on the market, fun, engaging, and relentlessly readable, written by a former trial lawyer whose love of courtroom thrillers led him into the legal profession in the first place.