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As St. Louis attorney Rachel Gold knows firsthand, the grueling hours and demands of Big Law take their toll on young lawyers. Some turn to drugs, some quit the profession, and occasionally one quits altogether. According to the medical examiner, Sari Bashir quit altogether that Thursday night when she fell to her death from the eighth floor of the downtown garage where she parked her car.
The police ruled her death a suicide. Stanley Plotkin, however, rules it a homicide. Stanley is the weird mail-room clerk at Sari's law firm, but he is also a genius. Among his obsessions is the Facial Action Coding System (FACS), a massive compilation that correlates hundreds of facial muscle actions with specific emotions and mental states. For someone like Stanley, whose Asperger's syndrome renders him incapable of intuiting emotions from facial expressions, his mastery of FACS has caused him to conclude that Sari did not kill herself.
Rachel was close with Sari, who worked for her during law school. She also knows Stanley—and his quirkiness and genius—because their mothers are friends. Thus when Stanley announces his conclusion to Rachel as she drives him home from Sari's memorial service, she can't simply dismiss it. And when Sari's father pleads with Rachel to review the police file on his daughter's suicide, she reluctantly starts down a path that will lead into the heart of a dark criminal enterprise in which Sari was simply collateral damage.
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“Michael Kahn is a wordsmith with some great turns ofphrase, humorous descriptions, and catchy dialogue, a lawyer who knows the ins and outs of the law and the skinny on how it’s done.”
— Steve Martini, New York Times bestselling author
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“Engaging…Ample humor and skillful dialogue—about legal, financial, and scientific matters—are a plus, as is the expertly evoked St. Louis locale.”
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“Rachel’s fans will enjoy her latest case, which highlights the consequences of greed as well as the abilities of the disabled.”
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About Michael A. Kahn
Michael A. Kahn, a graduate of Amherst College
and Harvard Law School, is a trial lawyer and award-winning author. He wrote
his first novel on a challenge from his wife Margi, who got tired of listening
to the same answer whenever she asked him about a book he was reading. “Not
bad,” he would say, “but I could write a better book than that.” “Then write
one,” she finally said, “or please shut up.” So he shut up, and then he wrote
one. He has written short stories, several Rachel Gold novels, and another
novel, The Mourning Sexton, under the
pen name Michael Baron. In addition to his work as a lawyer, he is an adjunct
professor of law at Washington University in Saint Louis. Married to his high
school sweetheart, he is the father of five and the grandfather of, so far, four.
About Hillary Huber
Elisa Medhus, MD, is an accomplished physician who has practiced internal medicine for more than thirty years. She is also the award-winning author of Raising Children Who Think for Themselves, Raising Everyday Heroes, and Hearing Is Believing.