Laughing Heirs (A Robin Starling Courtroom Mystery)
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Laughing Heirs (A Robin Starling Courtroom Mystery)
Laughing Heirs is a humorous legal thriller that begins with a man peering through one of female attorney Robin Starling's front windows and a mad dash across an ice-slicked road. It continues with a dead man who might or might not have been murdered, boy problems, human blood that keeps showing up in the most unlikely places, and more boy problems. If that weren't enough, the district attorney seems to have a personal vendetta against Robin, who continues to poke around when more conventional lawyers would file their legal documents and await developments. As complications pile up in this instalment of the Robin Starling legal thriller series:
Her boyfriend Paul tells her— “Robin, you need to leave this alone. Just get back in your car and drive away.â€
A material witness tells police— “What I think is that you ought to take this young woman’s fingerprints, see where she’s been in that house and what she’s been touching."
The district attorney tells the judge— “You see what the testimony means, your honor. Ms. Starling is most probably an accessory after the fact to the crime of murder.â€
Robin herself tells police— “Let’s assume for the moment that I’m a reasonable person, and not some nut-job who goes around dribbling the blood of murder victims on every horizontal surface she comes across.â€
But talk is cheap, and Robin's actions continue to defy convention It’s not as easy as you might think for a woman who’s five-foot eleven and wearing a dress to wedge herself through a tiny window with a sill about four or four-and-a-half feet off the ground. Let’s just say I managed it and that I’m glad no one was watching.
Somehow Robin Starling always manages to do what she needs to do...or at least she always has until now...
One of the top legal thrillers on the market, Laughing Heirs is the fourth book in the series of courtroom thrillers that includes:
Trial by Ambush, Robin's first criminal case, a courtroom drama that has her defending the boyfriend she caught cheating on her with the murder victim on the very night of the murder,
Juggling Evidence, Robin's second foray onto the criminal docket, which puts her in the cross-hairs of a short, pompous district attorney named, incongruously, Mr. Biggs,
and
Dog Law, the third courtroom mystery in the series, which Robin survives with an assist from her new pup and her overweight boyfriend.
If you enjoy lawyer novels and a good clean mystery, you'll want to read all four of these engaging lawyer mysteries.