Perfect Alibi (Mike Daley/Rosie Fernandez Legal Thriller) - Softcover

Siegel, Sheldon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 098826546X ISBN 13: 9780988265462

Publisher: Sheldon M. Siegel Inc., 2010

Synopsis

For Mike Daley and Rosie Fernandez former spouses and current law partners the stakes have never been higher. In the seventh installment of this bestselling, critically acclaimed series, the duo learn that their sixteen-year-old daughter's boyfriend has been arrested on suspicion of murdering his father, a Superior Court judge. Bobby Fairchild, however, claims to have found his father's body upon returning home from a date with Grace. The police, who found Bobby at the scene of the crime holding the murder weapon, contend that his parents acrimonious divorce sent the boy over the edge. With their daughter as Bobby's only alibi, Mike and Rosie take the case and uncover a sex scandal that takes them down San Francisco's darkest alleys and into the homes of the city's most prominent citizens.

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About the Author

Sheldon Siegel, a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley s Boalt Hall School of Law, has been a practicing attorney in San Francisco for more than twenty-five years. Siegel lives in Marin County with his wife, Linda, and twin sons, Alan and Stephen. He is currently working on the eighth novel in his critically acclaimed series of Mike Daley mysteries.

From Publishers Weekly

In Siegel's so-so seventh mystery featuring San Francisco defense counsel Mike Daley (after 2008's Judgment Day), Daley and his ex-wife and legal partner, Rosie Fernandez, are weighing a return to the Public Defender's Office when they get immersed in a murder case that's all too personal. Their 16-year-old daughter Grace's boyfriend, Bobby Fairchild, is arrested for the bludgeoning murder of his father, a judge. The police case appears to be open and shut: Fairchild was found, literally red-handed, holding the bloody hammer used in the crime. Daley and Fernandez believe his protestations of innocence, based on his alibi--Grace herself. Under orders from Fairchild's mother, the lawyers scramble to identify the real killer in the few days they have before the preliminary hearing. Even lay readers will spot errors in courtroom procedures. Lackluster prose ("Murder cases are hard enough without a stressed-out teenager and a four-year-old in your office") doesn't help. (Sept.)
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Edition details

• Publisher: Sheldon M. Siegel Inc.
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 098826546X
• ISBN 13: 9780988265462
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 350