PUBLISHED BY OCEANVIEW PUBLISHING ON THE 5th JULY 2022
Lawyer Dutch Francis faces an impossible situation—search for your missing wife or defend your high-profile client
Dutch Francis is a defence attorney in the case of a judge accused of killing his wife. Just as the trial is about to begin, Ginnie Turner, Dutch’s wife and TV news broadcaster goes missing.
Under extreme duress, Dutch tries to extricate himself as the judge’s attorney—or at least postpone the trial. The judge insists that the trial proceeds without delay and that Dutch remain his attorney.
Exhausted by the murder trial, Dutch confronts an ineffectual police department, suspicious that he is involved in his wife’s disappearance. He takes matters into his own hands as he struggles to balance both responsibilities—the trial and finding his wife—pushing him to the brink of losing everything he holds dear.
At first Dutch suspects that Ginnie was kidnapped in retaliation for her recent stories about sex scandals. But after receiving bits of her in the mail—fingernails, hair—he realises the kidnapper’s intent may be to punish him.
Stephen M. Murphy is a former trial lawyer and is the author of the Dutch Francis thriller series. A Boston native, he is a graduate of the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts, and the University of San Francisco School of Law. He served as a law clerk to the justices of the New Hampshire Superior Court. While in New Hampshire, he worked on a murder trial that inspired his first Dutch Francis novel, Alibi, which was followed by About Power, and now, Abiding Conviction. He currently lives in the San Francisco area.
My review is that this book is brilliant, could not put it down. You have here something a bit different but also the way it is written keeps you guessing until the end. You have the added tension supplied by the fact his wife could die, will he find her in time? The answers are kept until the end so you cannot work it out any quicker than Dutch, love that name. Good job Dutch is friends with the police or I could see him being locked up plus it helps to have a PI as a friend. Well written and great characters, I want to read more of this type of book, I love a good who did it.
