Winter's Law - Paperback

by Stephen Penner (Author)

From the author of the top-rated David Brunelle Legal Thriller Series...Talon Winter was one of the most feared civil litigators in the Pacific Northwest-until she was wrongfully terminated by her high-priced law firm for refusing to follow an unethical order. Forced to reinvent herself, Talon recalls the one time she truly enjoyed being a lawyer-defending a fellow tribal member accused of murder-and decides to strike out on her own as a criminal defense attorney.She's also going to sue the pants off her old firm.But balancing her personal lawsuit with a fledgling law practice proves more difficult that Talon imagined. She has no choice but to take on the first client who walks in her door: Michael Jameson, a successful, forty-something, African American husband and father-who's just been charged with a 25-year-old cold case murder, a gang-related drug deal gone horribly wrong.The one question Talon needs answered is the one question Michael refuses to answer: Did he do it?Michael insists it doesn't matter. He's not the same person he was twenty-five years ago. He's built a new life in the intervening years, and nothing that happens now will bring the victim back. Instead, he poses a far more provocative question: Would the legal system reach back that far to take away everything built up by a successful White man?Talon must simultaneously battle her old law firm, a condescending prosecutor, reluctant witnesses, and even her own client to achieve that most elusive of goals: Justice.