New Book Review coming for 2022. The book is a legal mystery about a burned-out veteran of the public defender’s office that is trapped into representing a mobster who committed a brutal crime but also has a powerful secret. Guardians of Justice By Patrick Ridddle Book Synopsis More than one kind of justice for a burned-out Public Defender In 1972 everything was changing. The country had been torn apart by the Vietnam War, the Civil Rights Movement, and the beginning of the sexual and drug revolution. The pill and abortion were here to stay. All of this with a back-drop of general distrust for all authority by the under thirty generation, known as the Baby Boomers. On a sunny, late fall day in the heart of the Central Valley of California, a want-to-be mobster brutally rapes and murders a Kindergarten teacher, who happens to be the niece of the most politically powerful man in the San Joaquin Valley in California. The case appears to be open and shut. But this guy has a secret. A secret that he won’t tell, that he is sure will walk him out the back of the Courtroom, and all he wants is his Public Defender to get him to a jury trial as soon as possible. Burned out Public Defender Michael Hunter, who is the best trial lawyer in the Valley, and the de facto leader of a group of misfit Public Defenders known as the “third floor rats”, is trapped into representing the killer. In the end, what the killer knows will ruin Hunter’s career, and horribly threaten some very important people who just want this thing to go away. Hunter and the rest of the third-floor rats probably couldn’t make it anywhere else but here because they can only do one thing. They WIN. Author’s Bio Patrick Riddle has been a practicing trial attorney for over forty years, beginning his legal career at the Public Defender’s Office in the 1970’s. After that, his career was dictated by others. He has remained in San Joaquin County all these years and is still active in his legal practice. #Fiction #crimefiction #mobsters #edgeofseattreading #edgeofseat #reading #debutbook #legalmystery #mystery #reads2022 #readsalot #readstagram #readers #reader #readinglist #bookreviewcomingsoon #bookstoread https://www.instagram.com/p/CYZixlZrXLt/?utm_medium=tumblr
