Review: Bum Rap by Paul Levine

A Mysterious Review of Bum Rap by Paul Levine. A Jake Lassiter/Solomon & Lord Legal Thriller.

Review summary: This is a fast moving and thoroughly entertaining cross-over legal thriller featuring characters from both of the author's series. With plenty of action and close calls coupled with some unexpected twists and turns in a complex, if also well-structured plot, it is a novel you won't want to put down until the defense rests. (Click here for text of full review.)

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Bum Rap
Paul Levine
A Jake Lassiter/Solomon & Lord Legal Thriller
Thomas & Mercer (July 2015)

Publisher synopsis: NFL linebacker-turned-lawyer Jake Lassiter has had it with shifty clients, dirty prosecutors, and a legal system out of whack. It's enough to make a man want to leave Miami and never look back — until he gets a call from Victoria Lord, the better half of hot local legal team Solomon & Lord. Her partner in life and law has been arrested for murder. What's worse: the only person who can clear him has fled the city. Now it's up to Jake and Victoria to track down the witness — a stunning "Bar girl" — before she's roped in by the feds … or eliminated by the Russian mob.

Jake knows that if he doesn't get to the witness first, his client's case is lost. Luckily, he's got some good advice from his college football coach: "Buckle your chin strap and hit somebody." And sometimes, the only way to win a tough case is to do just that.