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Small Town Conviction

Spencer Dunn Legal Thrillers, Book 3

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Small Town Conviction

By: Peter Kirkland, Mike Avery
Narrated by: Jeffrey Kafer
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A Legal Thriller filled with Gripping Courtroom Drama

One small town. One deadly weekend. Three shocking crimes…

A local business owner is shot and disappears under mysterious circumstances. Another man goes on a hit-and-run rampage. And a horrifying day care incident sends innocent children to the ER. At first glance, the events appear unrelated. But as he investigates, local attorney Spencer Dunn begins to think otherwise.

When Spencer digs beneath Autumn Harbor’s idyllic surface, he uncovers a dark thread weaving the cases together—a thread that leads straight to Jack Butcher, the flashy civic leader whose shiny public persona masks a rotten core. For years, Butcher has operated from the shadows, untouchable… and Spencer is determined to change that.

With pressure mounting and his own family under threat, Spencer races to connect the dots before his innocent clients are convicted. But the truth is more twisted than he ever imagined—and Butcher will do anything to keep it buried.

Now, with the impact of past and current cases coming to a head, Spencer must put more than his legal skill to work—or he may become the next casualty.

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I really enjoy books by this author and i like the way i can follow the arguments as you are really drawn in.

The narration really suited

great series

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I enjoyed this book when I read it but think I enjoyed it even more as an audio book. This author writes a number of series all involving lawyers but I think this series is my favourite of the bunch. I really like the characters and the new little family Spencer has built for himself over the course of the series and they have come a long way from the start, the family life is a nice interlude between the seriousness of the cases. As for the cases there is a lot going on in this book, with Spencer defending three cases in court. It doesn't take long for Spencer to realise that they are all connected and he has to work out how to help each client and more importantly prove there innocence. This might sound confusing and to the jury it probably was. Especially in the early stages of the trail but as the listener you are with Spencer as it comes together and rather than confusing, the way everything comes together, it's intriguing. Look forward to the next book.
Spencer as a defence lawyer is being kept busy with a man arrested on reckless driving charges and with a woman accused of killing her husband. Both are causing him problems the driver seems more nervous that the situation warrants and Spencer gets the feeling his client is hiding something. The murder charge is hampered by the fact that the wife isn't sad that he is gone and might have confessed while under the influence of sleeping pills. Can Spencer help his clients? It's only after his father in law is in a traffic accident and Spencer gets his case load that Spencer starts to see the big picture. A child carer is accused of endangering children under her care when they find a stash of drugs and a number end up in hospital. Could the drugs prove the connection to finding his clients innocent of the crimes they are accused of? Spencer believes so, especially as the evidence is point to a man he has wanted to put away for a long time.
I like the narrator. He is one of my favourites and I know I am going to definitely enjoy the story when he is involved.
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Nothing small about this series

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This is the 3rd book in this series and each one has been better than the last. This could be read as a standalone, but the storyline that continues to weave its way through each of the books is just as important as the main story.

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Another great instalment in this series

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This is the third book in the series and although reading the previous ones will give you a fuller backstory and better appreciation of relationships and motivations, I can see this could still work as a standalone. Spencer Dunn is a small town lawyer in New England. He has personal relationships to navigate as well as being the firm's main defence lawyer. He has to deal with: a hit and run; spousal murder and child endangerment cases. Each presents challenges and difficulties and it's pleasing to see how he uses the law, humanity and good PI work to resolve them all. The courtroom scenes are my favourite parts. There is physical, maybe even mortal, peril for our hero as an old, ruthless foe emerges as being involved. Because the federal agent friend and the "too convenient" serendipity of the cases being inter-related are essential to the tale and its resolution, I don't think it deserves the full five stars.

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Converging cases cause peril for lawyer.

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