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Title: Pursuit of Justice
Author: Mimi Latt
Narrator: Laural Merlington
Format: Unabridged
Length: 12 hrs and 18 mins
Language: English
Release date: 03-19-10
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 15 votes
Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense
Publisher's Summary:
Rebecca Morland had a rosy future. She and her husband, Ryan, were making plans to start a family; he was a partner at a prestigious LA law firm; and her own work, at a city legal clinic, was very satisfying. Then one night at a party, on a yacht owned by a wealthy and politically ambitious businessman, Ryan vanishes. And Rebecca's life is turned irrevocably upside down.
Ryan's colleagues say he had seemed depressed, that he had been drinking the night he disappeared. Funds have been embezzled from the firm, and a suicide note is found. The police are all too happy to close the case.
Rebecca sets out to find out what really happened to her husband, but uncovers things that both surprise and terrify her. And she soon realizes that the same forces that took Ryan's life are intent on silencing her was well.
Members Reviews:
Predictable, cliched characterization
===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.
Exceptional-not to be missed
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.
