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If you want to be a successful lawyer, what you need are cases you can win and clients who can pay their bills. When Latrice Bledsoe shows up in Gideon Page's office, she begs him to take her husband's case - he's been accused of murder - and neither his alibi nor the family checkbook will stand up to close examination. Despite a potential loser of a case and despite the popular wisdom that says you can't go home again, this murder in Bear Creek, Arkansas, the little town where Gideon was born, forces him to ignore all the old rules and take the job. He isn't taking this one for love or money - he's taking it because it offers him the chance to finally get his revenge on the man who years ago destroyed the Page family business and his mother's life. But as Gideon prepares for trial, he discovers that not only is his current case more complicated and treacherous than he imagined, but his past is also different from what he remembered. Faced with two mysteries to solve, Gideon finds his hopes of both victory and revenge beginning to fade even as he begins to fall in love with the girl - now a woman - whom he left behind in Bear Creek almost a lifetime ago.
Amazon.com Review
The best thing about Grif Stockley's mysteries featuring Gideon Page, an Arkansas social worker turned lawyer, is their no-nonsense attitude toward the business of being a lawyer. There are few big deals, no car chases, and a minimum of courtroom theatrics--just ordinary people trying to survive life's nasty menu. Blind Judgement has Page commuting from Little Rock to his hometown of Bear Creek in the Arkansas Delta to defend an African American accused of killing his Chinese American employer, presumably on the orders of a wealthy white man named Paul Taylor. Page has reason to hope the worst for Taylor: they had been boyhood friends until the Taylor family cheated Page's mother out of her property. But nothing turns out as expected, which adds to the pleasure and believability. Other Page-turners available in paperback: Expert Testimony, Illegal Motion, Probable Cause, and Religous Conviction.
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