Green-Eyed Lady: A Mystery (A Jack MacTaggart Mystery)
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| Rating | : | 4.28 (787 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00CQY9E2I |
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| Number of Pages | : | 334 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-05-20 |
| Language | : | English |
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Murder and Political Mayhem in Southern California This book is another fun frolic with snarky SoCal lawyer JackMcTaggart. This one includes mystery, murder and political mayhem which is pretty timely for the crazy 2016 elections. It's especially fun for me since I used to live in Sierra Madre, and I know all the locations mentioned i. Great Read but I was left in the dust occasionally addicted to books Jack is a fun protagonist - partly because he is a cocky arrogant guy who does need to be taken down a notch - but then he redeems himself with lots of smarts. I enjoy a book that is set in a known place and so it takes you mentally into that location. It is a trick that Tony Hillerma. "Lots of twists" according to Anne. I hadn't read the first book, but didn't have a problem with the character set up after I understood there was a character switch between the first and second chapters. The book starts off with a man helping a woman, I initially thought this was MacTaggart too, but it was his client.
I’m a lawyer”—is always good company. Greaves’ second MacTaggart mystery (after Hush Money, 2012) is grounded in politics, but its madcap plot includes clues sent on an Etch A Sketch, a nighttime sting carried out at the famed Hollywood sign, and savvy use of the media. MacTaggart, in practice with Marta Suarez after the demise of his prestigious Pasadena firm, sets out after the painting, seen briefly in a campaign ad videotaped in a cabin owned by Burkett’s opponent, then gone again. Set up by a green-eyed woman, Burkett finds
Joseph Greaves.. He is an honors graduate of both the University of Southern California and Boston College Law School, and spent twenty-five years as a trial lawyer in Los Angeles. He lives in Colorado, where he also writes literary fiction as C. CHUCK GREAVES was born in Levittown, New York. Hush Money, his debut novel, won the SouthWest Writers International Writing Contest and was named a finalist for several national honors, including the Rocky Award from Left Coast Crime, the
"Take John D. As the resulting scandal threatens to tilt the election, the painting turns up in a most unexpected place and so does a dead body.Hired to defend Burkett and unravel the deepening mystery, Jack MacTaggart must traverse a minefield of ruthless politicians, felonious art dealers, swarming paparazzi, the amorous wife of Burkett's billionaire opponent, her mobbed-up brother, and a district attorney with an old score to settle.With the electoral clock ticking and the press following his every move, Jack's investigation leads him on a roller-coaster ride through the lofty heights and gritty depths of Los Angeles and Southern California, lending new meaning to the adage that all's fair in love and politics.. Senate candidate Warren Burkett has a history of marital infidelity. MacDonald's Travis McGee, Jonathan Kellerman's Alex Delaware, and the best of John Grisham's protagonists, shake and serve, and you'll have Jack MacTaggart." —Chelsea CainAward-winn