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Murder One
Murder One
Murder One
Audiobook11 hours

Murder One

Written by Robert Dugoni

Narrated by Dan John Miller

Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars

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Finalist for the Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction:
New York Times bestselling author Robert Dugoni delivers another gripping legal thriller in his popular David Sloane series. The case? Defending the woman he loves against a charge of murder.

A year after the devastating murder of his wife, attorney David Sloane has returned to Seattle after three months in Mexico. At a black-tie dinner where he's been persuaded to give the keynote address, Sloane reconnects with Barclay Reid, opposing counsel in his most prominent case. Barclay is suffering from her own personal tragedy—the death of her teenage daughter from a drug overdose. In the aftermath, Barclay has begun an intense crusade against the Russian drug traffickers she holds responsible for her daughter's death, pursuing them with a righteousness that matches Sloane's own zeal for justice. Despite their adversarial past, Sloane is drawn to Barclay and for the first time since his wife died, he finds himself beginning to have romantic feelings again.

But when Barclay's crusade stalls and a Russian drug dealer turns up dead, she stands accused of murder, and Sloane is her chosen defender. Amid the swirling media frenzy, in his first criminal case, Sloane finds himself once again in harm's way, while mounting evidence suggests that Barclay is a woman with many secrets—and may not be quite as innocent as she seems.

With his signature fast-paced, page-turning action and exhilarating plot twists, Robert Dugoni once again proves why he's so often been named the heir to Grisham's literary throne.

LanguageEnglish
Release dateJun 7, 2011
ISBN9781611063783
Murder One
Author

Robert Dugoni

Robert Dugoni is the critically acclaimed New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Amazon bestselling author of the Tracy Crosswhite series, which has sold more than four million books worldwide. He is also the author of the bestselling David Sloane series; the Charles Jenkins series including The Eighth Sister, the stand-alone novels The 7th Canon, Damage Control, and The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell, for which he won an AudioFile Earphones Award for the narration; and the nonfiction exposé The Cyanide Canary, a Washington Post best book of the year. He is the recipient of the Nancy Pearl Book Award for fiction and the Friends of Mystery Spotted Owl award for best novel set in the Pacific Northwest. He is a two-time finalist for the International Thriller Award, the Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction, the Silver Falchion Award for mystery, and the Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award. His books are sold in more than twenty-five countries and have been translated into more than two dozen languages. Visit his website at www.robertdugoni.com.

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  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Main characters David Sloane and Barclay Reid have a chance meeting and a definite connection, but then the drug kingpin who sold the drugs that killed Reid's daughter ends up dead. Main suspect - Barclay Reid! Is Barclay an innocent grieving mother or a cold calculating killer? David puts his legal skills to work to prove her innocence. This legal thriller has many twists in the story and leaves the reader guessing until the end. Although I was sure that I had it all figured out, more twists left even me surprised. I enjoyed and cared about Sloane's character.This was my first Robert Dugoni book and I enjoyed it enough to order two of his previous books.Thank you to Simon &Schuster’s eGalley program for the e-copy of this book
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Brilliant like every Dugoni novel. A superior legal mind delivering always.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Good but predictable. I’ve seen this movie before. Only the facts have changed.
  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    Book was ok but the reader ruined it for me.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    This is another good mystery/suspense by Robert Dugoni. This legal thriller has many twists in the story and leaves the reader guessing until the end. Story dragged on in the first half.... I just wanted it to move on. second half was thrilling. I enjoyed it.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    I enjoyed MURDER ONE. Dugoni has a fluid writing style and a confident voice and shows them both in good measure. I was less impressed with the story though - a little too much coincidence and suspension of belief for me. Still, worth the effort. Recommended.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    David Sloane, who normally takes on civil cases, agrees to defend Barclay Reid when she is accused of murder despite a clear conflict of interest and the fact that he does not usually take on murder cases. Barclay Reid says she wants him in court for her as he is known never to lose a case.There's plenty of tension in this thriller as the court case proceeds, and just little inklings of what the truth might be. I found it also gave me a view of the American trial system, and the roles taken by prosecutor and defense, which differ quite markedly it seems from both British and Australian systems. The setting is Seattle. The "American-ness" of the novel obviously annoyed a previous borrower of this library book who had assiduously marked out differences in spelling and colloquial expression.Recommended.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Robert Dugoni's MURDER ONE involves David Sloane, a lawyer renowned for never losing a case,` and a woman he literally bumps into. The woman, Barclay Reid, is also a lawyer. Both she and Sloane are civil attorneys, but Reid insists that Sloane defend her when she is accused of murder. And, of course, he does, and he does a fine job at that.Sloane is a recurring character in a series. MURDER ONE is good but not great, unlike Dugoni's later book in this series, THE CONVICTION. That book was unputdownable. So MURDER ONE is a bit of a disappointment. Still, THE CONVICTION was such a great thriller, Dugoni is obviously moving in the right direction. Therefore, it stands to reason that his next book will be worth getting in line for.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    This is what I think of as a "lawyer procedural," just as detailed as a police procedural but without any action. That's not to say it was boring. It was a quick read, and moderately interesting but I was pretty sure how it was going to end about 2/3 of the way in. I just didn't buy the red herrings. And there was one very, very, very annoying tic in it. Most of the local stuff was just fine, quite accurate, but referring to "Puget Sound" as "the Puget Sound" was very irritating. No one calls it "the Puget Sound." It's either "Puget Sound" or "the Sound" so I don't know where this oddity came from but it made me pause every time I came upon it. Kind of makes me wonder if the author has lived here for more than six months.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    David Sloane is a highly successful lawyer who specializes in wrongful death civil cases. But when a fellow lawyer, the beautiful Barclay Reid, is arrested for killing a known drug dealer, he agrees to take her case despite having little experience in criminal defense.This is not the first book in this series but it's the first one I've read, thanks to a freebie offer from Kobo. It contains a pretty big spoiler to earlier books, but unlike Karin Slaughter's Grant County series, I wasn't bothered by being inadvertently spoiled because I don't have any urge to read the rest of the series. It's not that the book is bad, but in the world of legal thrillers there was nothing about it that stood out from the crowd and made it worth seeking out. The characters are nice enough, the plot was nice enough (although it owes a little too much to the Scott Turow classic Presumed Innocent), but none of it grabbed me.And in a minor peeve to end all minor peeves, what the heck is up with giving a female main character such an ambiguous name? I could never keep track whether her name was Barclay Reid or Reid Barclay, and I'm not sure the author could, either, because he referred to her as simply "Barclay" or simply "Reid" seemingly indiscriminately, sometimes even on the same page. That would not have been enough to turn me off the series, but it was an added irritation in a book that ultimately couldn't carry the extra weight.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Main characters David Sloane and Barclay Reid have a chance meeting and a definite connection, but then the drug kingpin who sold the drugs that killed Reid's daughter ends up dead. Main suspect - Barclay Reid! Is Barclay an innocent grieving mother or a cold calculating killer? David puts his legal skills to work to prove her innocence. This legal thriller has many twists in the story and leaves the reader guessing until the end. Although I was sure that I had it all figured out, more twists left even me surprised. I enjoyed and cared about Sloane's character.This was my first Robert Dugoni book and I enjoyed it enough to order two of his previous books.Thank you to Simon &Schuster’s eGalley program for the e-copy of this book