To Speak for the Dead

Name: To Speak for the Dead
Brand: Brilliance Audio
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4.57 (7 reviews)
Author: Paul Levine
ISBN: 9781536682304

Author: Paul Levine

Series: Jake Lassiter Legal Thrillers #1

Narrator: Luke Daniels

Unabridged: 10 hr 7 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Published: 03/21/2017

Categories: Fiction, Legal

Synopsis

A doctor in love with his patient's wife...
A fatal mistake during surgery...
Accident? Malpractice? Or murder?Defending a surgeon in a malpractice case, Jake Lassiter begins to suspect that his client is innocent of negligence...but guilty of murder. Add a sexy widow, a deadly drug, and a grave robbery to the stew, and you have Miami's trial of the century."Move over Scott Turow. To Speak for the Dead is courtroom drama at its very best." - Larry King, USA Today

About Paul Levine

The author of nineteen novels, Paul Levine won the John D. MacDonald fiction award and was nominated for the Edgar, Macavity, International Thriller, Shamus, and James Thurber prizes. A former trial lawyer, he also wrote more than twenty episodes of the CBS military drama JAG and co-created the Supreme Court drama First Monday starring James Garner and Joe Mantegna. The critically acclaimed international bestseller To Speak for the Dead was his first novel and introduced readers to linebacker-turned-lawyer Jake Lassiter. He is also the author of the Solomon vs. Lord series featuring bickering law partners Steve Solomon and Victoria Lord. Levine has also written several stand-alone thrillers, including Illegal, Ballistic, Impact, and Paydirt. A graduate of Penn State University and the University of Miami Law School, he lives in Miami.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Maureen

A pretty good start for the first in this series. For book number 1 - published in 1990 and from what I see , the series is still going strong. The MC is Jake Lassiter- an ex-second string line backer and now a lawyer in the Miami, Florida area. He is a fun character and I absolutely loved him from......more

Goodreads review by Lisa

Was a decent book with pretty good suspense but I had a hard time with mainly the love interest of the main character. The book didn't link these two well enough to make them as much of a pair as the storyline tries to imply. The ending really left me hanging and not in a good way. When I realized t......more

Goodreads review by Dani

I'm always looking for good series to read, since I can read much faster than my favorite authors can write, even as a collective group. :D Don't remember how I found out about this one, but I enjoyed the first novel. It's set in S. Florida, where I grew up, and I always enjoy books more when I can......more