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The Letter of the Law

The Letter of the Law

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Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Easy read and fast
Review: This is my 1st book by Mr. Green, and I do say he's really pretty good, up there with my favorite legal thriller author ie: Philip Margolin, John Grisham, Scott Turow. This was quite an easy book to read and couldn't put the book down. Keep it up and more power to Mr. Green.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Can Justice Be Served?
Review: This is my first Tim Green book and I was delighted. After putting off reading this book for months, I have to kick myself for not reading it sooner. The book is about a lawyer named Casey who is asked to represent her law professor. He is accused of killing a student by cutting her up and removing her gall bladder. Pretty disgusting.

The whole premise of the book is how Casey manages to get the professor acquitted to then find out that he may have done it. In order to free the professor, she had to attack the character of the dead girl's father on the stand. In freeing her professor, Casey is now stuck between a serial killer and the dead girls father's hatred.

What makes this book unique is that Casey is not that likable for heroine. She is shown as being very materialistic and doing whatever she can to win a case. However that all changes when she sets a killer free and she starts questioning where she went wrong.

Good book and Tim Green does a great job of laying out the plot.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: A decent plot was overwhelmed by poor writing
Review: This is the first book I have read by Tim Green. It will likely be the last. The dialogue was flat and the character development was haphazard. The underlying story is certainly compelling, but this book ended up more of a caricature of a thriller novel than an actual thriller. Furthermore, the author really has failed to do any research about some of the topics on which he writes. Calling a box with wires coming out of it that finds hidden files on your hard drive a "Norton Utility" is downright laughable. Honestly, I only finished this book to see how bad it could get, and remarkably, the last half of the book is much better than the first half...but still not worth spending the time to read.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: A decent plot was overwhelmed by poor writing
Review: This is the first book I have read by Tim Green. It will likely be the last. The dialogue was flat and the character development was haphazard. The underlying story is certainly compelling, but this book ended up more of a caricature of a thriller novel than an actual thriller. Furthermore, the author really has failed to do any research about some of the topics on which he writes. Calling a box with wires coming out of it that finds hidden files on your hard drive a "Norton Utility" is downright laughable. Honestly, I only finished this book to see how bad it could get, and remarkably, the last half of the book is much better than the first half...but still not worth spending the time to read.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: An enjoyable legal thriller
Review: This is the fourth title of Mr. Green's that I have read. I'm not a huge sports fan, but I really enjoy his books. This time around, no sports, and a female main character! A departure that wasn't too heavy or too light... I think it was just right.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Almost a thriller
Review: This was the first Tim Green book I have read. I was interested in something light but exciting and 'Letter of the Law' fit the bill. Neither weak character development, stilted writing, nor somewhat unbelievable plotting took away from my enjoyment of this light read. It didn't matter to me that the author knew nothing about law enforcement or law, it was an ok book to pass some time with. But 2/3rds of the way through the book the author's plot began to be so unbelievable, his characters so absurd that I began to laugh out loud and I skimmed through the remainder hoping that the plot wasn't going in the direction I feared it was heading towards. It did.
Additionally, If Mr. Green read's these comments, he should have someone explain to him how computers work. His lack of basic computer knowledge is embarrassing.
Still, this book was a fast and enjoyable read and shows that the author has a lot of potential for airport thrillers. I intend to buy his next book.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Solid, entertaining legal thriller
Review: Tim Green is a pretty amazing guy. He starting writing thrillers while still an active player in the NFL. Somewhere along the line he picked up a law degree, passed the bar on the first try, and established a business law practice. He now comments on football in USA Today and on NPR as well as announcing games for FOX (which he says is "like methadone for a heroin addict.") He also has four small children.

Somehow, in the middle of all of this he writes books. This is his first book without a hint of football and it worked pretty well for me. This is your basic vacation reading sort of a book. It has a well paced plot, is written competently and the chapters leave you wanting to read more. Green is a bit heavy handed with the forshadowing. Likewise, the is it Sales or Lipton ping-pong is overdone. (Makes you wonder how good a writer Green would be if he actually wrote full-time.)

The characters vary in quality. Most interesting for me were Sales, the murder victim's father and Bolinger, the Austin, Texas cop. Casey Jordan, the lawyer turned slueth, is harder to warm up to. As for Lipton, the law professor, he is right up there with Hannibal Lector.

Bottom-line: Not likely to win any awards but a good choice for those who like legal thrillers for their entertainment reading. It is a bit gorey for those with squeamish stomachs.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: green starts a new track
Review: Tim Green moves on to another type of fiction and leaves the NFL-based thrillers behind with The Letter of the Law, a serial killer thriller with a legal basis. The main character is a strong female attorney reminiscent of Madison McCall from his NFL fiction. The villain is quite different this time, and that makes for more interesting suspense. The twists and turns might not be totally unexpected, but it's entertaining fiction overall.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Great Ride!
Review: Unlike his previous novels that are set in the NFL arena, Tim Green takes you into the inter workings of the legal system. This book will keep you on the edge of your seat for the entire ride.

Eric Lipton a famous law professor is accused of a bizarre murder, the evidence is stacked against him. Enter Casey Jordan, his former student whose beauty is only surpassed by her brains. Lipton picks Casey to defend him knowing that she has the ability to create reasonable doubt in the minds of the twelve jurors selected to judge him. Casey takes the case thinking is will launch her into the national spotlight and give her the recognition she desires. She gets more than she bargined for, not only is she fighting for justice, she is fighting for her life.

The roller coaster ride begins and you are left trying to figure out who the guilty and innocent are. This is an non-stop thriller that is the best work from the author to date.

Loved the book, couldn't put it down.


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