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Pursuit of Justice

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It is unbelievable to me that anyone could actually praise this book. As a lawyer, I found it totally without credibility in any respect. The characters are amateurishly drawn. This book gives new meaning to the word "cliche."

PURSUIT OF JUSTICE opens with attorney Rebecca Morland's husband Ryan mysteriously disappearing from aboard a yacht. Investigating the mystery, our heroine tries to reconstruct the final days of Ryan's life. What she discovers is both riveting and engaging from start to finish. Author Mimi Latt takes the legal thriller genre to new highs in PURSUIT OF JUSTICE. Add this book to your shopping cart, you won't be disappointed.

Rebecca Moreland, a senior staff attorney at a local legal clinic, is happily married to Ryan Moreland, a partner in the prestigious law firm of Taylor, Denison, and Evans. They are desperately in love and hoping for a baby. Their future seems even more secure when Brandon Taylor announces his candidacy for the senate and promises to bring his protégé with him to DC when he wins. On the night of a fund raiser at a yacht, Ryan disappears.

Two days later, Ryan's body washes ashore. The officials want to declare his death as a suicide because the partners claim that it was soon to be public knowledge that he embezzled company funds. Rebecca knew her spouse would never have killed himself even if he had committed a criminal action which she doubts he did. She thinks he was murdered and intends to prove it even if it means going up against the most powerful people in the state.

PURSUIT OF JUSTICE is a very forceful and believable modern day rendition of David (actually Davidette) vs Goliath. The female protagonist is a heroine who is unafraid to battle with foes who could easily crush her if she was not so resourceful and intrepid. Although there is a lot of action and compelling sub-plots, the heart of this mesmerizing tale lies in the character of Rebecca who never loses faith that her beloved spouse never killed himself, let alone committed a criminal action. Mimi Lott, author of the best selling POWERS OF ATTORNEY, shows that she is a real force in the legal thriller sub-genre.

Harriet Klausner

===Review Contains Spoilers===

Pursuit of Justice is a legal thriller about a bright young lawyer, whose husband's unexpected suicide seems more like foul play. Rebecca's attempts to discover the truth nearly gets her killed as several unsavory characters seem to want her dead. This novel held a lot of promise and the writing style was engaging, but the author relied too much on stereotypes to make this storyline enjoyable.

For instance the heroine is: beautiful, young, altruistic, loves children, is a democrat, and works for a struggling law firm which takes hard luck cases. Nothing wrong with any of that except it makes the character almost a bit too perfect. She has almost no depth or flaws.

Her nemesis is a rich successful older woman, who dates younger men, has plastic surgery, streaks her hair blonde, wears designer clothing and cares about her career. All of which are authorial shorthand for= evil.

There is also an evil republican conspiracy afoot involving several powerful rich people.

I did enjoy this novel. But I felt the clichés made the book kind of difficult to take seriously. I actually really liked the villains Catherine and Brandon better to some extent than I liked Rebecca who at times I found a bit pushy.

Overall, I'd recommend this for a light fun, beach read or something to download and listen to on the Ipod. Although, be warned, the writing comes off as a bit dated and might offend you if you can't deal with some of the tropes employed here.

While the plot weaves back and forth, the author shows little or no depth of knowledge about any of the plot points and hence the plot situations seem contrived rather than naturally occuring. I actually quit reading this book about 2/3 of the way through. The characters were single-dimensional and I just didn't care about any of them.

Both characters and plot were collections of cliches and banalities; on the basis of this book alone, I would avoid anything written by this author.

I read the other reviews written about this book from other readers and I am dumbfounded!! I cannot believe that one reader thought that the plot was paper-thin. Not true. This book is a real page turner!! Ms. Latt's characters are full bodied and interesting. I truly felt heartache for Rebecca and wanted to choke Catherine and her flipant, snotty and witchy attitude toward Rebecca. In my opinion Rebecca should have flung her off the boat it definately would have been justifiable homicide not to mention an act of kindness on the part of humanity. As with all Ms. Latt's books, I could not put this one down!!! I cannot say enough about Ms. Latt's writing skills and brillant stories.

As a woman lawyer and avid novel reader, I was intrigued to hear author Mimi Latt speak to a group of us about her transition from litigator to 'best-selling author.' I purchased a copy of her book, Pursuit of Justice, even though I don't typically read mysteries and legal fiction. I was sorely disappointed by the standardized plot, wafer-thin characters, and trite observances. Shouldn't there be a more artistic (or just interesting) way to say "Rebecca felt like she was on an emotional roller coaster"?

Halfway through this murder mystery, I was still yawningly unconcerned about who killed Ryan Morland or why. I knew so little about him, I had no reason to care. And his grieving widow, Rebecca, who's supposed to be an attorney herself, makes all the most obvious and stupid mistakes, only because without them, the plot couldn't hold together.

I suspect Ms. Latt can do much better than this simplistic, unenergetic tale. I hope she'll try.

Whoowee! It's been a while since I've read a book written so badly in so many ways. The writing style is just one cliche linked to another, as an earlier person noted in their very entertaining review. Then, there's the stupidity of Rebecca, the main character. For example, she's interrogating a weaselly lawyer who worked with her husband and catches him in a lie. She was then "stunned" that he was lying to her. She continues to be "stunned" when she gets threatening phone calls, when other people lie to her, when her house is robbed - even though she's digging around the seamy world of politics and throwing around the phrase "my husband was murdered." What does she expect? Read this pathetic mess for a laugh and nothing else.

The book copy seems to have been spell-checked. That's about the best thing I can say for it, and it's the only thing keeping it from getting one star.

The characters are 2-dimensional and boring. I'd say they're predictable, but they continued to surprise me with their actions--only because they were so unbelievably stupid.

Forget about the plot. You can't possibly guess the ending simply because Mimi Latt refuses to give you salient clues to the true killer's Why or How until she tells you all about it in the best of Scooby-Do endings. Characters walk into the most implausible situations blindly, and the so-called action sequences--all two of them--last for all of a paragraph or two. Wa-hoo. What suspense.

If you like murder mysteries, steer clear of this dog and find something with a bit more, well, mystery.

I usually stop reading poorly written books, but this one had so many cliches I read the whole book, underlining as many gems as I could find. Characters storm out of rooms and tremble with rage, chills run down spines; eyes flutter, plead for understanding, and flicker impatiently; a chin is "stubbornly high"; foreheads are rubbed thoughtfully and hands flutter to various body parts. In the dialog department, characters retort, chuckle, persist gently, say angrily, say with a smirk, muse, sound genuinely contrite, try to sound nonchalant, say curtly and (this is one of my favorites) retort stiffly. In the area of medicine, hearts are constantly racing or hammering, stomachs drop, breathing starts and stops with dramatic regularity. This book gets one star as a serious mystery and about 4 stars as a laugh a minute parady