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Riveting . . . a suspenseful tale, right up to the satisfying climax, wrote Publishers Weekly in praise of The Judge. "Legal thrillers don't get much better than this. "Kirkus Reviews hailed Undue Influence as "the courtroom novel of the year." Now Martini delivers Paul Madriani's most challenging case yet: one pitting a drug-addicted mother against her daughter's newly rich grandfather in a contentious custody case that leads to criminal accusations and ultimately murder. Having moved to San Diego to be closer to the woman in his life, Madriani takes on the case of Jonah Hale, an elderly man in terrible straits. As a result of their only child Jessica's longtime drug addiction, Jonah and his wife have been raising their eight-year-old granddaughter, Amanda. On the heels of Jonah's multimillion-dollar state lottery win, Jessica revives her interest in mothering. When Jonah won't deal—maternal rights for a mega-bucks payoff—Jessica plays dirty: she accuses the old man of having sexually abused her as a child and similarly abusing Amanda now. Enter Zo Suade—a flamboyant, feminist activist with a penchant for making the objects of custody battles and their mother/plaintiffs "disappear." True to form, a week after Zo takes on Jessica's case, mother and daughter vanish. When Zo's body turns up, Jonah becomes the prime suspect. And Madriani is the man who can prove his innocence. Filled with action in and out of court, rich in characters with motives obvious and subtle, The Attorney marks the much-anticipated return of Paul Madriani.

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        The tireless Paul Madriani, Martini's popular lawyer/sleuth (The Judge; Compelling Evidence), barely has a chance to hang a shingle in San Diego--where he has moved to be closer to his lover, child advocate Susan McKay--before he is sucked into another engrossing court battle. When Madriani takes on elderly Jonah Hale's case, it seems at first he is dealing with a simple kidnapping. Hale's granddaughter, eight-year-old Amanda, under Hale's custody, has been whisked away by Zolanda Suade, who runs Vanishing Victims, an organization that purports to rescue kids from abusive situations. Now Suade is falsely accusing Hale of molestation to justify returning the girl to her mother--Hale's drug-addled, ex-con daughter, Jessica, who's never shown any interest in raising her child. Suade apparently has an ulterior motive: keeping Amanda in hiding until she can extort a hefty ransom from Hale, who recently won $87 million in the state lottery. Before Madriani, with Susan's expert assistance, can get far in his investigations, Suade is found shot to death, and Hale, who had plenty of motive to kill him, is arrested. Madriani is increasingly overmatched by a dogged prosecutor. Worse, those assisting Madriani in Hale's defense keep getting murdered, and Madriani may be next in line. Except for the occasional cliche (bodies lined up "like cordwood," minds "like steel traps"), Martini's prose shows marked improvement. Crisp dialogue and tart observations about legal maneuvering distinguish his courtroom scenes, and the new setting, San Diego, is colorfully rendered. It's a shame that the otherwise cleverly conceived plot falters in the homestretch with a poorly concealed twist that most readers will see coming well ahead of time. Mystery Guild main selection, Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club selections.

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      • content: William Dufris provides a sparkling interpretation of this excellent mystery. Dufris has a melodious baritone, and he's also a master of pacing. When describing a sultry afternoon the hero spends with his ladylove lounging by a swimming pool, his voice takes on a tropical languor. But as the action heats up in the concluding chapters, he becomes breathless with excitement. Less successful, though, are some of his vocal choices. Several of his characters sound like bad imitations of celebrities: his prosecutor is painfully reminiscent of Jack Nicholson, and the accused's wife sounds like Jonathan Winters as Maudie Frickett. Overall, though, these are quibbles. Dufris gives this nail-biter a first-rate performance. G.M.N. (c) AudioFile 2001, Portland, Maine
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      • content: Paul Madriani, a hard hitting trial lawyer and his daughter have moved to San Diego and picked up a case from an old client, Jonah Hale, whose granddaughter was kidnapped by her drug-addict mother, Jessica and feminist Zolanda Suade. Following the trail of court and public documents and a multitude of leads, Madriani gets involved neck-deep in the Mexican drug trade, extortion and murder, made all the more exciting by Meloni's enthusiasm for mystery. Although he never loses the tension of the story, Meloni sometimes changes characters' accents in mid sentence. This lack of character continuity is particularly frustrating during the trial when Meloni gets swept up in the passion of the trial and the mystery's incredible conclusion. M.B.K. (c) AudioFile 2000, Portland, Maine
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