Griffin Dowell, lawyer for the rich and powerful in Washington, D.C., has always looked the other way when it came to shady dealings. But when a client friend is murdered and Griffin's own life threatened, he reconsiders his position. Meanwhile, Avraham Hegel--a top stem cell researcher and political ally of the president's wife--has disappeared. All that remains is a mysterious note, a key to an airport locker, and a plastic doll. When his assistant discovers people will kill for what she now possesses, she must learn why before it's too late. A superbly-crafted thriller in the Grisham style, Body Politic is book one in the Griffin Dowell suspense mystery series.
Glyn J. Godwin can only be described as unique--spiritually, academically, and professionally. In his conversations, he often says that even at 63, he still doesn't know what he wants to be when he grows up. His resume supports his self-deprecatory description.
Glyn is bold in his Christian faith. That boldness came after years of devotion to secular intellectualism and atheism his long tenure in academia seeded within him. Glyn earned a bachelorette in biology from Southeastern Louisiana University, then a masters in microbiology. From there, he earned a Ph.D. in food microbiology and toxicology from LSU. Glyn's dissertation was published in the form of a scientific article in the Microbiology Section of the prestigious, refereed scientific journal, The Journal of Food Science. Before graduating LSU, Glyn took the Law School Aptitude Test, feeling he might want to return to law school. After graduating LSU with his doctorate, he joined the faculty of the University of Rhode Island as assistant professor. After a year in the northeast, he decided to return to Louisiana to attend LSU law school. He graduated LSU in 1980 and currently practices law in Slidell, Louisiana.
