Millie's Lament: a Bert Spagnoli comic legal thriller (Bert Spagnoli Cases) (Volume 1)

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About Millie's Lament: a Bert Spagnoli comic legal thriller (Bert Spagnoli Cases) (Volume 1)

A LEGAL THRILLER WITH A COMIC TWIST/// AN IMPROBABLY EXPLOSIVE PLOT: After a taxi's rear bumper gets bumped, a beguiling young woman and two battling lawyers find themselves in a dangerous dance that hour by hour spins out of control:-- A powerful lawyer dares to play games with the local mob.-- A young mob lawyer knows guns but uses his brains instead.-- His pretentious Ivy League adversary has to lose his way to victory.-- The scorned young woman with an explosive secret retaliates against big-shot men — by giving them exactly what they want.-- Clumsy mob enforcers are hired to stop her.This is not your average fender bender intersection accident case!/// BRILLIANT CHARACTERS:-- A talented, wise-cracking mob son rising above his roots, but keeping his dangerous family close.-- Women with grit who defy their labels and stand their ground.-- Mighty men wrecked by their own arrogance.-- Hired thugs scared silly by their victims.-- A gun-toting retired librarian.-- A parish priest with the instincts of a rattlesnake. -- A proud old horse who munches an occasional finger with his apple slices./// WRITING AS SLICK AS OILED ICE:-- Time flies so fast it’s almost never mentioned.-- The humor is sharp, quick and constant.-- The plot is compact and the world familiar.-- It’s an almost unbelievable story - because you’ve never read a story like it.SYNOPSIS:-- Martin Reynolds, a negligent driver’s uber-confident lawyer, thinks he can make Millicent Simmons settle her insignificant fender bender accident case for peanuts, if he can frighten Millie and her inexperienced sidewalk lawyer at Millie's deposition.-- Without warning, Millie's insignificant fender bender case explodes in Martin Reynolds' face. Within seconds, he learns that Millie has been harboring a secret, and from that instant on it will be Martin’s impossible task to keep that secret from blowing up his world.-- Suddenly Martin’s job at the law firm is at risk; and possibly Martin’s career; and certainly his engagement to marry the vivacious daughter of his tyrannical boss.-- In a few hours Martin’s life will be in danger, as will Millie’s life; and her easy-going lawyer Bert Spagnoli's life will also be threatened by mob enforcers.-- Millie Simmons defiantly stands her ground as her secret transforms a routine fender bender case into a full-blown crisis.-- The most powerful lawyer in town is the primary victim of Millie’s secret, and he resolves to crush her by any means.-- But the family of Millie’s own lawyer — Bert Spagnoli — runs the local mob... and worlds collide.-- It’s the first big case of Bert Spagnoli’s legal career; his client is vulnerable and under attack; a tsunami wave of scandal is building; and Bert is matched against the city’s biggest law firm; but Bert surfs the crashing wave with legal skill, tactical imagination, street smarts — and a lot of smiles and chuckles.-- Time flies as smart young lawyers battle each other and then team up; clumsy out-of-town mobsters invade hometown mobster turf; a rogue thug tries to kill Millie and her parish priest; and cast-iron frying pans help solve life-altering problems./// It’s an unabashedly comic novel, but the usual elements of the mystery/thriller genres are present, re-purposed for humor as well as dread; and the legal elements are based on the author’s 40-year career as a litigation lawyer.You’ll want to go along for the ride.

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