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Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN num: 9780451222763
ISBN number: 0451222768
Label: Signet
Manufacturer: Signet
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 528
Printing Date: January 02, 2008
Publishing house: Signet
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Carelessly confident that the cops will recognize his innocence when his wife is found murdered, Stuart Gorman tells them everything-and becomes not only the number-one suspect, but number-one with a bullet. He reluctantly hires lawyer Gina Roake. Back in the game after a personal loss of her own, Gina knows all too well that innocence is no guarantee of justice...
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While I'm a great fan of Lescroart's team of Dismas Hardy and Abe Glitsky, I've enjoyed some of his previous standalone novels featuring Amy Wu, Will Farrell, and Glitsky (without Hardy). I even like the Gina Roake character.
Usually Lescroart's books will keep me awake, turning the pages until 2 a.m., but this one...not so much. Like "The Hunt Club," I put this one down without finishing it. I really dislike Wyatt Hunt and the whole "Hunt Club" storyline. Hunt just doesn't have the likeability or depth that Lescroart gave to Hardy and Glitsky. Blearg.
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Lescroart has done it again - while the stable of characters have gotten older thay make for high definition suspense.
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This is an interesting crime novel. A man returns home and finds his wife's body. A relentless police inspector immediately assumes that the man is guilty party because, statistically, the spouse is the most likely suspect. He fabricates a case based on scenarios he creates using circumstantial evidence. This is aided by an ambitious assistant DA who hopes to make his bones with a high profile case, and is not beyond suborning a witness to win. Attorney Gina Roake takes his case and has to go beyond his defense to track down a real killer.
The novel gives you a good look at the legal system. What if you become a suspect of convenience? Could you prove where you were at a particular moment when a crime was committed? Have you ever said that you might want to kill someone? Suppose someone else does the deed - you have a motive, you have made comments, what is your alibi? The novel gives you a lot of food for thought. You might find out who your real friends are.
The novel did leave some loose threads at the end. You don't know what finally happened to the family across the street, or what became of the daughter's boyfriend. There is no indication how the assistant DA managed to extract himself from all this.
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John Lescroart is a fine writer, but he has produced a subpar effort here.
There is nothing about THE SUSPECT that I found remotely original or interesting. The characters are walking cliches, and the rather thin plot is something you've seen many times before in countless novels and TV programs. I would be willing to forgive this problem if the plot had some momentum to it. But in the end, it doesn't. This book is just plain flat and uninspiring.
THE SUSPECT isn't terrible, and is probably not that different from some of the old Ellery Queen or Perry Mason mysteries of the 1960s and 1970s. But in an age where there are far better books available (and far less reading time), my advice is not to waste your time on this one.
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(1) Gina Roarke defends Stuart Goremean who is acussed of killing his wife.
(2) Problem is Stuart Goreman tied the noose around himself by actually saying things to the inspector Devine Juhle which would actually hurt him. He inadvertently tells the inspector e all the things which would draw suspicion on himself being the murderer.
(3) Stuart Goreman has not had a happy marital relationship with this wife but he says he didn't want her killed either but thinking that he is innocent he makes a cardinal mistake of talking to the cops without an attorney and unwittingly says things to the effect that, he recently had an argument with his deceased wife, was weary of her and that his wife was wanting a divorce. All this and the fact that he does not have any person to support his alibi of innocence placing him away fromt the crime on the day of the crime. He does have a receipt from a gas station but the prosecution builds a case neverthless of showing how Stuart could still have committed the murder.
(3) In a trial by media situation Stuart suddenly realises that his initial naive statements to the police have actually made him into a prime suspect and Devine Juhle who appeared to Stuart in the beginning (when he unwittingly spilled his guts out) to be neutral actually ends up strongly suspecting Stuart Goreman of the murder and has agressively been building a case against him and has been piecing together a Motive to take the trial to a grand jury hearing. DA is convinced by Devine that they atleast have enough circumstancial evidence to push for a jury trial.
(4) Gina's job is to cut this before it goes to trial in the prelim hearing which decides whether there is enough to go on to go for a grand jury trial.
(5) Compounding matters worse for Stuart is a problematic neighbour, Bethany, the friend of Stuart's daughter who is convinced she saw Stuart's car park at Stuart residence during the time of the murder (the time that Stuart says as per his alibi that he was many miles away in his own outhouse shed). Bethany is ready to testify to this fact as a witness.
(6) To Compound this alreadt existing compounding situation is Stuart's daughter who is a manic depressive is on medication, and who goes and threatens her friend, Bethany to change her statement. This leads to a bigger mess for Gina's client who just went from possibly innocent to possibly guilty to downright guilty in the minds of the common people and media.
(7) Gina with the help of detective Wyatt Hunt piece together what happened on the night of the murder and who the killer is. Is the killer the client she is actually defending or is her client innocent as he claims ? If so then who is the actual killer ?
(8) A cracker of a court room drama and a great detective story. It's like Michael Conelly and John Grisham mashed up into a strong, and impulsive story which keeps chugging along. An ultra page turner.
regards, Vikram
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