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Defending Innocence

A Legal Thriller Filled with Gripping Courtroom Drama (Small Town Lawyer, Book 1)

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Defending Innocence

By: Peter Kirkland
Narrated by: J J Hosenfeld
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Summary

An innocent client harbors dark secrets....

Defense Attorney Leland Monroe lost it all: his big-city job, his reputation, and, worst of all, his loving wife. Now he’s back in his hometown to hit restart and repair the relationship with his troubled son. But the past is always present in a small town.

Leland returns to find his high school sweetheart hasn’t had the easiest of lives - especially now that her son faces a death sentence for murdering his father. Yet what appears to be an open-and-shut case is anything but. As Leland digs deeper to uncover a truth even his client is determined to keep buried, a tangled web of corruption weaves its way throughout his once tranquil hometown.

Leland soon realizes it’s not just his innocent young client’s life that’s at stake - powerful forces surface to threaten the precious few loved ones he has left.

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plot debelopes at a good pace, likeable main characters, really enjoyed it. Nice narration. if you.like a Nate Shepherd nook try this too.

so much more than just a legal drama

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The lawyer is getting his life back after a having a horrible time with his wife dying
Life is hard when he takes on this case and the case is not what it seems.

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Almost a great start to a new series. A previously successful prosecution attorney in Charleston had loster everything when his wife died in an accident and his only son, Noah, was left seriously injured with enormous medical bills. Leland moved back to his home town, nearly penniless, and was struggling to build a new business, when a friend of Noah's is accused of the murder of his father and the boy's mother begs Leland to take on the case.
Narration of this book by JJ Hosenfeld was good, his first person recounting felt authentic, protagonists were given individual voices and the whole was well paced, calm and definitely added to the enjoyment of the story even to helping with the development of the characters. The book moves at a steady pace, the who-dun-it? aspect intriguing at first, but the ending was disappointing and felt rushed, out of place. It made the entire novel feel less than believable as a result: a pity because although bizarre, until the final chapters it had felt plausible.The

I enjoy courtroom dramas and this was enjoyable despite previous reservations noted above, and the small actual court room time in the book. Recommended for anyone else who finds pleasure in this genre and I look forward to book two.

Compassion ... was strictly circumscribed.

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nothing in the story but I worry about the dog getting injured. it was read very well. the voice easy to listen to

Great characterd

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I did enjoy the narration of J J Hosenfeld.

Leland Monroe, a previous top prosecuting attorney in Charleston now having to return to the small sleepy southern town where he was born. He now trying to making a living by working with a old attorney friend and struggling with such reduced finances.

When a friend of his son is charged with murder Leland becomes his defence attorney , With the help of an investigator, Munroe embarks on a quest to find some evidence to free his client.

I enjoyed listening . Recommend


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