First Degree - Andy Carpenter Series #2

David Rosenfelt

Grand Central Publishing

2009

304 páginas

10h 8m

ISBN-13: 9780446555111

An unabashed animal lover, Andy Carpenter has established a fast reputation as that rare lawyer who saves both dogs and humans from Death Row. Lately, with his newfound fortune, he has given up his home in the fashionable suburbs and returned to the house in which he grew up in the asphalt heart of Paterson. These days his office is eerily quite, except for the scraping pen of his secretary, Edna, as she navigates across and down the New York Times crossword puzzle. Though his wallet isn't hurting, Andy's soul hungers for a case to sink his legal teeth into.

He's about to get his wish. And it'll be a first degree kick in the head.

It begins with the discovery of a once dirty, now decapitated cop. Then not one but three prime suspects emerge. The first is fingered by the police. The second walks unannounced into Andy's office to confess to the crime. But most uncannily of all, the third is none other than Laurie Collins, Andy's lead investigator...and the love of his life. Now to clear Laurie, Andy must spring a brilliant yet desperate courtroom trap -- before it snaps them both in its steely, lethal jaws.