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After giving up a promising, though demanding route to a political career, cool, ambitious Kathleen Talbotthe "Ice Queen" of the public prosecutor's officeaccepts a judgeship in its place. Her powerful father is so infuriated by her choice that he suffers a series of massive strokes, and it's Kathleen's awful duty to decide whether he should be taken off life-support systems. Assigned to a mercy killing case by a spiteful superior, she is tormented by her personal ethical dilemma and is made the target of several unbalanced individuals, both inside and outside the court. A judge himself, Coughlin (The Twelve Apostles is on firm ground when he details the backbiting politics of the judicial system. But self-conscious dialogue and a clutch of cardboard characters combine to ruin a potentially provocative plot.
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
A decent legal/suspense read . . .,
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This review is from: Her Honor (Hardcover)
This is the first of Mr. Coughlin's that I've read. He has constructed a fairly simple suspense/romance story of a beautiful but ice-cold D.A. who, through a set of reasonably believable circumstances, suddenly finds herself on the bench as well as in personal and professional crisis. His characters are fairly two-dimensional even though he has tried very hard to give them all some texture. Hard to explain. Coughlin's story line, though, moves right along and there is enough tension and interest for the reader to stay with the book in order to see how it all turns out. I learned a little law in the course of reading it, and observed the unseemly political side of judicial work as well. It's worth a shot.
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