A complicated legal thriller with many subplots and a huge cast of characters.
Disbarred, imprisoned, and later vindicated defense attorney Karen Wyatt returns to her life with a lot of money won in a suit against those who framed her. As she seeks to find out the names of the corrupt officials who put her in prison, she carries on with her caseload.
Her defendants aren’t always the best or smartest, so her work often involves meeting unsavory characters and, in one particularly nasty case, she also has to unravel a conspiracy that involves a truly vicious local gang.
I liked the main character, who has risen above her persecution and is trying to do the right thing with her clients. She’s got some good people on her side, but always trying to find out who made her life the hell it was. There’s a lot of names and some really grisly torture scenes and the bad guys are really horrible. The chapters were short and the story moved along at a nice clip. There were several long incidences where the story goes off on a tangent, ie, the explanation of hypnotism for one and the whole alien abduction scenario for another. I really hate books that feature nasty gangs and hideous people. Mainly the plot revolved around money, laundering, and scams.
I don’t think it’s unexpected to know that Karen gets her closure and it looks like life is going to be good for her again.
I was able to listen to the audio book while also following along in the e-book ARC, both provided by the publishers. The narrator, Therese Plummer, did an adequate job of voicing some of the characters but at times all the voices sounded too similar, especially the men. She had an appropriate amount of dramatic flair that helped create an immersive experience to enhance my enjoyment of the book.
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