Lou Mason Series by Joel Goldman

[Lou Mason 01.0] Motion to Kill

Don’t Miss Award Winning Author Joel Goldman’s Fast Paced Legal Thriller series. If you liked Michael Connelly’s Mickey Haller or John Lescroart’s Dismas Hardy, You’ll Love Lou Mason. A dead partner is bad for business even when he dies in his sleep. Richard Sullivan was at the top of his profession, a rainmaker in a powerful Kansas City law firm until his body washed up on the shores of a Missouri lake. Now the questions about his death and life are reverberating through a firm that had more secrets than anyone knew. For trial lawyer Lou Mason, that means navigating a maze of corruption, sex, organized crime and cold-blooded murder as he searches for the killer. When another partner turns up dead, his neck neatly snapped, Mason wonders whether it was the same killer. His life depends on the answer. As he gets closer to the truth, Mason discovers a connection between the two murders that runs deeper than he could have ever imagined. With a media firestorm surrounding him, he’s about to get the ultimate lesson that the most explosive crimes aren’t against the law. Lee Child recommends Motion to Kill Grab your copy today! **From Publishers Weekly Only a few months after Lou Mason joins the Kansas City law firm Sullivan & Christenson, the firm's rainmaker and senior partner, Richard Sullivan, turns up dead. At the same time, Lou learns that the attorney general suspects the firm and one of its top clients of fraudulent business dealings. As the newest partner and the one most removed from the scandal, Lou is asked by his old friend and partner, Scot Daniels, to ward off the feds, but he soon finds information that may incriminate Scot and another of the firm's partners. Meanwhile, Sheriff Kelly Holt, a "slap-on-the-cuffs dream come true" beauty who is curiously inept, suspects Mason of Sullivan's murder until someone tries to kill Mason. To prevent further attacks against his person, Mason hires his friend, PI Wilson Bluestone (Blues), to act as his bodyguard. With a hit man on Mason's tail and Blues and Holt providing backup, the action accelerates and the fight scenes multiply. First-time author Goldman does an admirable job of maintaining the novel's high tension, but his apparent contempt for his characters, and for corporate lawyers in general, will distance readers from his protagonists. Nevertheless, Goldman's secondary characters particularly Blues and a twisted hit man add flavor to this mediocre thriller, and a series of fierce action scenes carry the reader toward an electrifying denouement. Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc. Review When two of his partners are killed, corruption, sex and murder fill trial lawyer Lou Mason’s docket as he tracks the killer. Will Lou be the next victim? Find out in Motion to Kill. Electrifying. ---Publishers Weekly Lots of suspense and a dandy surprise ending. ---Romantic Times Legal mystery fans will be delighted. ---Nancy Pickard

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