Böcker av J B Millhollin

Ann Jackson recently graduated from law school. Immediately after passing the exam, she found a job practicing law with an older, highly experienced attorney. Which, for her, was a dream come true. Now, if she could just silence the dreams-the nightmares she had experienced weekly since she was five years old-the night she watched through a thin space between the closet door frame and the door, as an unknown assailant murdered her mother. She had done all she could during the past twenty years to determine who had committed the crime that left her without a mother. But now, just as she believes she has found him, suddenly the tables are turned-he becomes the hunter, and she, the hunted. 

¿¿¿¿ Another riveting J.B. Millhollin book!When Hope Whitmore's four-year-old son becomes the subject of a custody battle, she quickly realizes she is in the fight of her life. Hope would accept nothing less than complete and total custody. She desperately needed an attorney to represent her interests in the looming battle. But more than that, she needed an attorney she could depend on to win. Nashville trial attorney David Brenden, came highly recommended and after meeting with him, he agreed to represent her interests. Unfortunately, along with his legal abilities, came a few personal problems of his own. His practice was becoming more than he could handle-it seemed lately everyone wanted to dissolve their marriage. David was also finishing up his own divorce, dealing with his mother's illness, and playing nursemaid to his brother, who never met a drug he didn't like.During all those many months of litigation that follow, David and Hope fall desperately in love. But as the litigation comes to an end, and after all she has endured, Hope concludes she must leave Nashville- and all the bad memories of her immediate past behind. She begs David to leave with her-to start a new life with her somewhere else. But how can he possibly leave all that he has ever known, including his family, and his livelihood, for her? Does he stay? Or is the intimate relationship they established through all those months of litigation, strong enough to pull David away from all that he has ever known, and remain by her side?

In 2006, a heinous, sexually motivated murder occurred in Nashville. The perpetrator was never apprehended, and the crime, like so many others, became just another cold case. Ten years later, a murder was committed, with details eerily similar to the crime committed in 2006. But this time, they apprehended the man all of the evidence indicated was guilty-Nashville Private Investigator Barrett Armstrong. He now sits behind bars charged with the horrific murder of his lover and awaiting trial.As Barrett's trial begins, confidence in his attorney dwindles with each witness. He knows his only hope for exoneration lies with his friend and fellow private investigator, Kris Thompson. While the trial moves forward, Kris begins to uncover undisclosed details concerning the case that continue to emulate the crime committed over a decade ago-details which even Barrett finds difficult to believe.Two separate and distinct stories emerge-Kris continues her investigation outside the courthouse, while inside the courtroom a battle rages as Barrett finds himself trying his own case, representing himself. He struggles as he attempts to weave his way through all the intricacies of trial procedure and somehow convince a jury to find him not guilty of a crime he never committed. As the trial concludes, both stories converge, resulting in an unforeseen, completely unpredictable conclusion.

Does your attorney have your best interest in mind? Is your attorney really doing all an attorney can do to ensure you aren’t convicted of a crime you never committed?Rosa Norway represented criminal defendants throughout middle Tennessee, and she used every trick in the book to ensure her clients were exonerated. But when Angelo Bonaventura retained her to represent him after he had been charged with murder, and she eventually concluded he was in fact guilty, suddenly her position became unclear. She had represented him many times as concerned other matters, but always concluded he was innocent. This time was different. The murder he committed hit close to home—the victim was a friend. She quickly became involved in a complicated mixture of legal and ethical issues, to which there seemed to be no clear-cut answer.Rosa had to decide whether to withdraw from further representation and perhaps see Angelo set free or continue to represent him while violating the canons of ethics, but ensuring a conviction—one path morally correct, but ethically incorrect, the other path morally incorrect, but ethically correct. How she arrives at a conclusion concerning the problem, and which path she ultimately followed, is completely unpredictable. What should she have done? What would you have done?More importantly, what would your attorney have done?