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Title: Face Value

Subtitle: A Rachel Gold Mystery

Author: Michael A. Kahn

Narrator: Hillary Huber

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-03-14

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 6 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Publisher's Summary:

As St. Louis attorney Rachel Gold knows firsthand, the grueling hours and demands of Big Law take their toll on young lawyers. Someturn to drugs, some quit the profession, and occasionally one quits altogether. According to the medical examiner, Sari Bashir quit altogether that Thursday night when she fell to her death from the eighth floor of the downtown garage where she parked her car.

The police ruled her death a suicide. Stanley Plotkin, however, rules it a homicide. Stanley is the weird mail-room clerk at Sari's lawfirm, but he is also a genius. Among his obsessions is the Facial Action CodingSystem (FACS), a massive compilation that correlates hundreds of facial muscleactions with specific emotions and mental states. For someone like Stanley, whose Asperger's syndrome renders him incapable of intuiting emotions fromfacial expressions, his mastery of FACS has caused him to conclude that Saridid not kill herself.

Rachel was close with Sari, who worked for her during lawschool. She also knows Stanley - and his quirkiness and genius - because their mothers are friends. Thus when Stanley announces his conclusion to Rachel ass he drives him home from Sari's memorial service, she can't simply dismiss it. And when Sari's father pleads with Rachel to review the police file on his daughter's suicide, she reluctantly starts down a path that will lead into the heart of a dark criminal enterprise in which Sari was simply collateral damage.

Members Reviews:

Kahn Does It Again

Every book by Michael Kahn reminds me of a great date-- fresh, exciting, surprising, not wanting it to end. Why he isn't rich and famous escapes me. FACE VALUE is his ninth book, and it's another page turner. Rachel Goldberg stumbling on a suicide that isn't a suicide, compiling a list of potential suspects, finding pecadillos in each of them, and then pricking the biggest balloon in the bunch. The good characters always win out, but not before they seem flummoxed and making wrong turns that turn out right. Kahn, a leading member of the Bar in St. Louis, shows his substantive knowledge of the law with a light touch; he shows his knowledge of St. Louis with a great sense of setting, and he twists his plot with drama and comedy-- all to the benefit of a very grateful reader.

A friend returns

I have been reading this author for many years. He is so clear i in drawing his characters, making them and believable. Even though had read this book before I really loved being reconnected with them.

Rachel needs to recover her sense of humor. In ...

Rachel needs to recover her sense of humor. In a previous Rachel Gold book, Rachel's description of In Re Bottles and Cans, a tangled up anti-trust lawsuit had me laughing out loud. Face Value lacks that biting humor and Rachel is less pleasant, having evolved into a tough cookie. While Rachel's old friend Benny and her law partner Jackie appear in Face Value, they seem merely to have been trotted out and have lost the freshness these characters once had. That having been said, I am still an avid fan of Rachel Gold and couldn't put Face Value down.

Michael Kahn did it again!

He crates believable characters, his plotting is brilliant and one more time Rachel is terrific.