Rating: 
Summary: Thrilling ride!
Review: Linda Miller peoples her novels with vividly appealing and passionate characters whose lives we care about even after their stories have been told. 'Don't Look Now' is perhaps her best to date. Claire Westbrook is a troubled attorney who has clawed her way out of a difficult and underprivileged childhood to become a competent attorney. She has acheived her dream and now wonders if she has sold her soul in the process. After her grandmother has died and her sister was murdered Claire is left to raise her thirteen year old neice Emma alone and with an enormous financial obligation to her boss, Harvey Kredd. She has spent the last five years helping Kredd get aquitals for his scummy clients. Ned Lench, the beneficiary of her most recent aquital, while on a drunken binge rammed his car into another vehicle killing himself and three others including two young kids and making Claire's controversial aquital infamous in the process. Kredd wants Claire to shoulder the blame when newspeople inundate their offices. Now Kredd has been murdered and Claire is either a prime suspect or the killer's next victim. Her ex boyfriend Tony Sonterra,a cop whose rightful bust Claire had undermined when she got her controversial aquital, is in charge of the murder investigation. He doesn't know wether to accuse Claire or to love her but he is surely going to protect her if only she'd allow him to. Solving the case is a whole lot harder than he expected given the immediate list of possible suspects but Sonterra's not giving up because he must find a killer before the killer gets to Claire. In addition to her other problems Claire learns that Emma's father is being paroled from prison and wants custody of Emma. Claire believes James Arren murdered his wife (Claire's sister and Emma's mother) and she vows never to let him get his hands on Emma. She may reluctantly have to turn to Tony to help convict Arren and protect Emma. You've got to love these characters and you've got to be impressed by the sheer number of twists and turns this story takes as it speeds to its tantalizing climax. Enjoy it, I sure did!
Rating:
Summary: Thrilling ride!
Review: Linda Miller peoples her novels with vividly appealing and passionate characters whose lives we care about even after their stories have been told. 'Don't Look Now' is perhaps her best to date. Claire Westbrook is a troubled attorney who has clawed her way out of a difficult and underprivileged childhood to become a competent attorney. She has acheived her dream and now wonders if she has sold her soul in the process. After her grandmother has died and her sister was murdered Claire is left to raise her thirteen year old neice Emma alone and with an enormous financial obligation to her boss, Harvey Kredd. She has spent the last five years helping Kredd get aquitals for his scummy clients. Ned Lench, the beneficiary of her most recent aquital, while on a drunken binge rammed his car into another vehicle killing himself and three others including two young kids and making Claire's controversial aquital infamous in the process. Kredd wants Claire to shoulder the blame when newspeople inundate their offices. Now Kredd has been murdered and Claire is either a prime suspect or the killer's next victim. Her ex boyfriend Tony Sonterra,a cop whose rightful bust Claire had undermined when she got her controversial aquital, is in charge of the murder investigation. He doesn't know wether to accuse Claire or to love her but he is surely going to protect her if only she'd allow him to. Solving the case is a whole lot harder than he expected given the immediate list of possible suspects but Sonterra's not giving up because he must find a killer before the killer gets to Claire. In addition to her other problems Claire learns that Emma's father is being paroled from prison and wants custody of Emma. Claire believes James Arren murdered his wife (Claire's sister and Emma's mother) and she vows never to let him get his hands on Emma. She may reluctantly have to turn to Tony to help convict Arren and protect Emma. You've got to love these characters and you've got to be impressed by the sheer number of twists and turns this story takes as it speeds to its tantalizing climax. Enjoy it, I sure did!
| 
