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Vampire Defense
by James D. Bell
4.8 stars - 28 reviews
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John Brooks is a brilliant young lawyer working hard, but not getting
much notice. Those who know him admire his work ethic and his
intellect. His friends believe that he needs one big case to show off
his talents. Defending Hal Boyd, known as the Butcher of Belhaven, on
arson and four murder charges, looks like that big case as the world
media, hungry to fill 24 hours a day of non-stop news coverage,
converges on Jackson, Mississippi.
Soon the Boyd case looks
like a career ender when Brooks announces his defense: “Not guilty by
reason of insanity. My client was so insane that he believed that the
person he intended to kill was a vampire.” The world media ridicules
the “Vampire Defense,” and Brooks and his defense team become the
laughing stock of the legal profession.
Ridicule becomes the
least of Brooks’ problems when he discovers that a satanic cult is
intent on exacting murderous revenge against Boyd and his defense team.
Kidnapping and multiple murders occur at a dizzy pace as the action
careens from the city to the swamp to the courtroom.
Romance
coupled with comic relief allows you to occasionally catch your breath,
until even that is stolen by a double climax with a verdict that shocks
the world, followed immediately by a dramatic final battle between good
and evil.
The Vampire Defense is so “bloody good” you can taste it.
One Reviewer Notes:
As a native Mississippian, I have experienced such colorful folks and stories, which form the fabric of the southern culture. I also know that the openness of the legal team to embrace such quirkiness is a testament to the renowned southern hospitality and open human spirit. This spirit is infused throughout the novel, which dances between reality and surrealism in a very believable Mississippi way. In a culture where people still talk to one another, pass the time together, stories do grow, sometimes bigger than life. In line with the best of southern novelists, Mr. Bell captures this transformative southernism, which borders on the insane, and uses it to defend his client, while he also defends the sanity of Mississippi itself. The legal defense of the client, who by his own telling, "murdered a vampire", gives some interesting details on legal proceedings and is the rational thread that holds the story together and makes it believable. It was a very good reading and I look forward to the next novel to come from Mr. Bell.
Margarita
About the Author
James D. Bell is a retired Judge who received the highest bar association approval ratings ever given to a Mississippi Circuit or County Judge. He is listed in Preeminent Lawyers and Outstanding Lawyers of America.
Judge Bell has been involved in some of the most significant cases in Mississippi and drew on actual experiences when he wrote Vampire Defense. He is devoted to his wife, Joanne. They live in Ridgeland, Mississippi and have four children.
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