Here’s the set-up for Rebecca Forster’s Keeping Counsel, just $2.99 on Kindle:
New Mexico attorney Tara Linley has always believed in the power and fairness of the law. All that changes when she takes on her best friend’s lover as a client. It is only after she reluctantly agrees to represent him that Tara discovers the real reason Bill Hamilton has sought her out – and the shocking crime he has committed.
Tara wants to warn her friend that her life might be in danger, but is bound by attorney-client privilege. Caught in a web of escalating circumstances that threatens not only her professional reputation but her life, Tara soon finds herself at the mercy of her dangerously unstable client…a man who is growing more dangerous every day.
From the reviewers:
Page-turning legal thriller with a true moral center. As an attorney, I’ve read a lot of legal thrillers, and R.A.Forster’s KEEPING COUNSEL ranks with the best. This story moves. From the outset, we are pulled into the moral dilemma faced by Tara Linley, the lawyer who meets her best friend’s new lover only to find herself ensnared by this charming man into defending him against criminal prosecution for a horrifying murder. Surely her best friend’s safety is more important than some technical vow [lawyer-client privilege] she took when she was sworn in as a lawyer. But how can she live with herself if she doesn’t honor the system she has sworn to uphold? – nwmd85
Intense legal thriller. My husband recommended this book and I couldn’t put it down. This is a well paced legal thriller with a villian who stayed with me long after I stopped reading. Throughout the book I couldn’t figure out if he was crazy or just evil, but either way he was really creepy. – Carole
Tense, psychological/legal thriller. If the prologue doesn’t suck you in, you shouldn’t be reading this genre. This is an incredible psychological/legal thriller that kept me anxiously turning pages late into the night. The title refers to the attorney-client privilege of secrecy and the charming, yet deadly protagonist in Keeping Counsel knows how to use it – Bruce R. Raterink
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Now, I am a USA Today best selling author with more than 20 books to my name – and if you ask me where all those words came from I’d be hard pressed to tell you. All I know is that I wake up with a story in my head and go to bed the same way.
My specialty is legal thrillers and The Witness Series, featuring my beach-rat, volleyball playing attorney Josie Bates and her teenage ward Hannah, have really captured readers’ imaginations. But I also like to stretch the thirller genre a bit. Before Her Eyes, for instance, has a fantasy overlay on a murder mystery that I really found intriguing. Wilde’s Gamble is a romantic suspense.
I teach at UCLA Writers Program and work with The Young Writers Conference, a program that helps motivate middle school children to explore the power of words. I think I am particularly drawn to kids and writing because both my sons have always had a passion for it. Eric is a playwright and Alex is in film.
When I’m not writing I’m traveling, on a tennis court, working a sewing machine or reading. Thank you so much for taking a look at my author page. You can find out more about me, my travels and my work-in-progress at www.rebeccaforster.com
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