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Defending Innocence : A Legal Thriller filled with Gripping Courtroom Drama (Small Town Lawyer Book 1)

door Peter Kirkland

Reeksen: Small Town Lawyer (1)

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As I love legal thrillers an author's name I don't recognize is as interesting to investigate as a favorite author in the genre to automatically add the next book in the series. After reading Peter Kirkland's debut novel, he is now an automatic add to my tbr list.

Leland Munroe had worked as a prosecutor in Charleston, South Carolina for 16 years. That is the past. Before his wife died. Before he resigned his position instead of being fired. Leland's still an attorney but now he's working for Roy Hearst, former mentor from law school in the small town of Basking Rock. Now Leland is a single father trying not to burden his son Noah with the angst he feels every time he opens the mail and views his son's medical bills. Their relationship has changed. Noah had his whole life in front of him securing a baseball scholarship to USC in Columbia. That is the past. Before he was in the car with his mother and the accident that killed her. Now physical therapy and community college are his routine. Little did Leland realize his relationship with Noah would become even more complicated when his son's friend Jackson is arrested for murder. How can Leland say no when his high school sweetheart Mazie and mother to Jackson asks him to be her son's lawyer?

There are so many novels about widowed mothers starting over trying to push through their grief and do their best for their child(ren). The twist of a widower raising a teenage son was realistic and believable. The drama in this legal thriller is intense. The courtroom exchanges are gripping and riveting. The investigation, the small town politics, the opposing sides of the courtroom at each step from arraignment, bail hearing, pre-trial motions, to trial were so authentic it came as no surprise to read the author grew up in South Carolina and worked as an attorney prior to writing full-time.

The one annoyance in this novel was as Leland started a sentence off with, "I got..." I vacillated as to whether a prosecutor that had lived in Charleston for 16 years would flip back to using language that suddenly on his return to his hometown. But as others in town speak that way including his mentor and current boss I'm trying to give the benefit of doubt that it may be realistic but simply grating like the screech of fingernails on chalkboard to me.

I'm looking forward to the release of Book 2 on May 26, 2022. ( )
  FerneMysteryReader | May 11, 2022 |
I just finished my copy of Defending Innocence by Peter Kirkland and for a first time author it was a pretty good book. The book did keep me interested although it really pickup up the last third of the book. About a lawyer helping a teenager charged with murder of his father. Some points about lawyer and client were a bit hard for me to understand but it all worked out in the end. I will give this book a 4 star rating since it was a little slow the first part of the book. I will look forward to another read by this author and recommend this to all who like legal thrillers. Thanks Net Galley and Relay Publishing for a copy of this book. ( )
  tamarack804 | May 23, 2021 |
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