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Long Knives (2014)

by Charles Rosenberg(Favorite Author)

3.23 of 5 Votes: 5

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English

genre

Mystery & Thriller

publisher

Thomas & Mercer

review 1: This is the second book in Rosenberg’s Jenna James’ series. Ms. James is happily teaching a course in the legalities of maritime salvage in spite of not making the money she made as a lawyer for the firm of Marbury Marfan, or M&M as she calls it. In fact, she is firmly on the tenure track.One of her students, a handsome Italian named Primo Giordano, visits her office one morning wanting advice on a treasure map, purporting to give an exact location of a Spanish galleon that sank in 1641 with a load of valuables. When she steps out of the room to take a private phone call that turns out to be long and tedious, her troubles begin. She returns to her office to find Primo dead and the map nowhere to be found. The cause of death isn’t apparent, but he drank the coffee in ... moreher office and she didn’t have any. As the cause of his death narrows down to her coffee, she becomes the prime suspect in Primo’s death.The extremely detailed courtroom procedural alternates between her disintegrating love life with Aldous Hartleb and the relationships with the two former associates she calls upon to help her through this crisis. Even though James’s nickname in college was Steel Boots, she is in danger of falling apart and losing everything, including her chance at tenure.Reviewed by Kaye George, author of “Death in the Time of Ice”
review 2: Jenna James’s life has been smooth sailing since she left the high-powered law firm of Marbury Marfan. She’s happily ensconced as a professor at a prestigious law school, where she’s well liked by her students, coupled-up with a handsome colleague, and on track for tenure. But things take a shocking turn one morning when a student, Primo, comes to Jenna’s office seeking her advice about a treasure map he recently inherited. When Primo turns up dead and Jenna is suddenly the prime suspect in a murder investigation, everyone turns on her. Desperate for help, she calls on two old friends: Robert Tarza, her old law partner from Marbury Marfan, and Oscar Quesana, an odd-duck solo practitioner. The three race to save Jenna’s career—and perhaps her life—in this whip-smart thriller of treasure maps, murder, and law school politics.Read part of this and didn't finish. Takes place at UCLA. The killers are the ex-girlfriend and a woman in the law department who hated Jenna and wanted her penthouse apartment. They put something in the coffee. less

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