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Summary: Fast paced, interesting, and funny too!
Review: After starting this book, I was hard pressed to put it down. The plot and characters were both interesting, and it was fun trying to guess who the real killer was - although it turns out I was correct on my first guess. What was really good about this book, though, was that it had some really humorous moments in it that offset the serious parts very well. This was my first Bernhardt book, but I am looking forward to reading the rest of his books.
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Summary: Fast paced, interesting, and funny too!
Review: After starting this book, I was hard pressed to put it down. The plot and characters were both interesting, and it was fun trying to guess who the real killer was - although it turns out I was correct on my first guess. What was really good about this book, though, was that it had some really humorous moments in it that offset the serious parts very well. This was my first Bernhardt book, but I am looking forward to reading the rest of his books.
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Summary: Good work by a great author
Review: After the high visibility case where he represented the Tulsa mayor, criminal lawyer Ben Kincaid has quit the bar to practice his first love, playing music with a combo at Uncle Earl's Jazz Emporium. However, Ben's serene lifestyle is abruptly destroyed when the corpse of legendary singer Lily Campbell comes crashing down on him from the ceiling lights. All the circumstantial evidence points towards Earl as being the killer, especially since the body of Lily has been carved with a smile that parallels a murder Earl confessed he once did which ultimately led to him serving over twenty years in the pen. When Ben's enemy, police officer Prescott breaks Earl's constitutional rights, the former lawyer cannot sit back and watch his musical mentor be railroaded as he apparently was in the first case. He becomes Earl's lawyer and begins to dig into two murder mysteries, connected even though they are over two decades apart. However, Ben does not yet realize that he has placed himself and his legal team in extreme danger from an assailant who has a twisted interpretation of justice. EXTREME JUSTICE is an extremely exciting, fun to read legal thriller with a twist that adds pleasure to an already great reading experience. Ben is a top rate character whose problems and doubts make him seem very human. His legal dream team is Olympic gold medal winners, taking first prize as a continual support cast. William Bernhardt is a rarity within a sub-genre flooded with former attorneys: he is a lawyer who can actually write a spellbinding novel. Fans of legal thrillers who give his novels (see PRIMARY JUSTICE and PERFECT JUSTICE) a chance will return for more books by him because he is so good. Harriet Klausner
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Summary: Blues and murder just don't mix!
Review: Bernhardt enthralls from the first page of this delightful thriller. The characters envoke both sympathy and wrath. The references to classic blues music have you wanting to hear some of that sweet smoky sound. I was hooked from page one and couldn't put it down till I read the last surprise twist at the end.
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Summary: Bernhardt is the best!
Review: Bernhardt grabs the reader and leads them into a whirlwind chase! I love the surprises, twists, and turns. He is the best legal novelist in America today!
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Summary: EXTREME JUSTICE IS EXTREMELY GOOD!!!!!!!
Review: Have read them in order. This is number seven. This is one of the best ones in my openion. I liked it much better than "Naked Justice". Ben has decided to stop being an Attorney. He is going to play jazz piano and go on tour. Then, an old girlfriend of Earl Bonners turns up dead and Earl is the chief suspect. Earl is a friend of Ben's and the owner of the club where Ben plays. Kincaid decides he has to defend him and will take one more case. He again gets the help of Christina McCall, Jones and Loving. There is another killing and as they get closer to the killer he comes after Ben. Mike Morelli, a friend and policeman, trys to help but he is unable to. Can Ben pull it off without getting killed himself???? A very, very good ending. I thought I had it figured out and BAM I did not. Strange things happen during the last pages. I found myself trying to read faster and faster to see what was happening and how it would end. If you like a good mystery with a strange twist I think you will like this.
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Summary: A new one found
Review: I enjoy finding what I call a new Author. Finishing this book I knew I had a new one. I will go back now and read all in the series. His plotting is great and he actually follows a story line that you can follow. The "coma paragraphs" are really great. I highly recommend this book.
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Summary: Silliness Ruins This Story
Review: I wish I had thought to read my review of Mr. Bernhardt's previous novel, Naked Justice, before I bought this book. I could have saved myself the time it took to read Extreme Justice. As with Naked Justice, the plot is a good one but it is padded with so much silliness (the Christian nudist camp, for example) that it becomes just plain annoying. If Mr. Bernhardt would stop trying to be cute and stick to the serious side of his stories, his books would be greatly improved.
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Summary: Review of Extreme Justice
Review: Really liked this book. One of Mr. Bernhardt's best. I think this book really makes you stop and think about things before you judge them.
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Summary: Review of Extreme Justice
Review: Really liked this book. One of Mr. Bernhardt's best. I think this book really makes you stop and think about things before you judge them.
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