Download Mystery Writers of America Presents The Prosecution Rests: New Stories about Courtrooms, Criminals, and the Law AudioBook Free
Best-selling writer Linda Fairstein, who "makes legal issues more enjoyable than any high-speed chase" (The New York Times), reveals these thrilling experiences of lawyers under great pressure, scammers facing the needle, and heartbroken young families who expect justice and who sometimes take it into their own hands. In Wayne Grippando's "Death, Cheated", a lawyer defends his ex-girlfriend up against the investors who wager $1.5 million on her behalf death. In Barbara Parker's "A Clerk's Life", a disillusioned clerk at a corporate and business lawyer suspects the most detrimental of his acquaintances when one of the firm's employees is murdered. In Phyllis Cohen's "Designer Justice", an accused murderer considers he's lucked out when he lands a high-priced lawyer, and then learn that we now have worse fates than being found guilty. This collection - filled up with shocking twists, double-crosses, and edge-of-your-seat suspense - includes "The Secret Session", by Edward D. Hoch; "Designer Justice", by Phyllis Cohen; "Follow Up", by Jo Dereske; "By Hook or by Crook", by Charlie Drees; "The Letter", by Eileen Dunbaugh; "Spectral Evidence", by Kate Gallison; "Knife Fight", by Joel Goldman; "Death, Cheated", by Wayne Grippando; "My Brother's Keeper", by Daniel J. Hale; "The Flashlight Game", by Diana Hansen-Young; "Mom Is My Co-Counsel", by Paul Levine; "Quality of Mercy", by Leigh Lundin; "The Mother", by Michele Martinez; "Red Dog", by Anita Page; "A Clerk's Life", by Barbara Parker; "Time Will Tell", by Twist Phelan; "The Bad We Do", by John Walter Putre; "Night Court", by S. J. Rozan; "Hard Blows", by Morley Swingle; "Custom Sets", by Joseph Wallace; "Bang", by Angela Zeman; and "Going Under", by Linda Fairstein.
