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Old 02-16-2013, 03:24 PM   #78
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A surprising number of interesting free offerings on Amazon today. Most are repeat freebies, so you may already have them.

My personal pick:
Solomon vs. Lord by Paul Levine (free)
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B007RTS9VE
If Donald Westlake wrote comic legal procedurals instead of comic crime capers, it might end up something like this.... This is the first in the series, and books in the series have been nominated for Edgar, McCavity, and James Thurber awards.


"Steve Solomon is the sharpest lawyer ever to barely graduate from Key West School of Law. Victoria Lord is fresh from Yale, toiling for an ambitious D.A., before Solomon gets her fired. And Katrina Barksdale is a sexy former figure skater charged with killing her very wealthy, very kinky husband. With all three tangled in Miami's steamiest trial of the century, the case is sure to make sparks fly, headlines scream - and
opposites attract"


I haven't read the others here, but they looked interesting enough for me to pick them up on a previous go-round.

A Grave Breach, by James Macomber (free)
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0076S577U
"John Cann could never defend a war criminal – especially one he’s seen engaged in horrendous acts. But when Arthur Matsen, a trusted friend, mentor and colleague needs his help, Cann must make an impossible choice."

The Castro Game, by Todd Bucholz (free)
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0076PEM0Q
Mixed professional reviews, but amazon readers seem more favorable, or more forgiving of flaws.
"From Publishers Weekly
In Buchholz's awkward fiction debut, young boxer Luke Braden, the son of a Columbia literature professor, quits the ring after killing an opponent, but manages to begin a new career as a rising investment analyst for Paul Tremont, a megalomaniacal and seemingly omnipotent financial wizard. Braden finds his ethics sorely tested as he struggles to stay on Tremont's capricious good side, unaware that he's a pawn in a decades-long shadowy duel that originated in the Kennedy administration efforts to topple Castro in the 1960s."


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