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Angel of Mercy (Shannon Saga, Book 3)

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I've found this whole saga interesting. This book kept me on the edge of my seat. The whole lawyer backdrop of the book was really neat, because I normally don't hear about law.

Kit has vowed to never take a case a less she knows for sure they're innocent, but with her new case she isn't so sure. Her new case is one of her old rivals who comes to her when he is accused of murder, he insists that she is the only one that can represent him. The evidence is stacked against her client though. Will she go against what she has vowed to never do and keep the case? Will the forces of the city's high power stack against her and the city itself?

Kit also struggles with the love she still has for Ted Fox. She wonders where he is and what has happened to him. Also her aunt has had enough of Kit being a scandal to her and barely talks to her. Kit worries about her aunt because she goes to someone to read her palm and gives him tons of money for an institute. Will her aunt ever come to believe in Christ? Will Kit ever see Ted again?

This was a great book with an interesting plot and, of course, characters. It includes more of the same that you have come to expect from Peterson and Bell. It blends law and history into an intriguing story that will capture your attention from the beginning.

A friend loaned me this book and I really liked it.The only thing is that I read this one first and it's third in the series BUT I liked it enough that I will go back and read numbers 1 & 2. Really worth your time.

This was book three in the series. You cannot go wrong with JS Bell, he is an exclellent writer and you can learn so much about law and history and have fun doing it. With T. Peteresons help, he weaves romance into this great story. FYI the saga continues with Bell on his own doing three more books on Kit Shannon after this, must reads!

I read this trilogy because I loved James Scott Bell's "Breach of Promise." I finished all three books mainly because I wanted something clean to read, but I was very disappointed. The legal angles are intriguing, but as the books went on it became harder and harder to take Kit Shannon seriously. Can Peterson really expect us to believe that a person could come out of nowhere to singlehandedly transform the LA legal scene, take on William Randolph Hearst, have tea with the President, and debate the Bible with Clarence Darrow?! That's just too much for me to buy, and I'm sorry to say I cannot recommend this series. People who want to read legal dramas that are both clean AND artistic will need to look elsewhere.

I personally couldn't finish this book, but that was only because I found that I couldn't identify at all with the female lawyer.
If you enjoy courtroom dramas and are interested in law, this would be the series for you. I enjoy Tracie Peterson's books, but not this one.
"Angel of Mercy" is about a female lawyer who is determined to defend only those she believes are innocent, and when a man comes to her that she's not convinced is innocent, she's not quite sure what to do. When she starts probing for information she starts to wonder if maybe he is after all innocent.
That's as far as I got, as I said this book just couldn't capture my attention, maybe it will yours.