While checking oil wells on a ranch, a farmer sees suspicious activities taking place in an open field near his own farm. Using photographic binoculars, he takes pictures of men examining bales of hay with a Geiger counter. Later, when he attempts to bring this information to Jon’s law office, his truck is rammed so hard from behind that it fails to negotiate a sharp curve. The truck careens into a deep ditch, flips onto its side, and erupts into flames. The man dies.
What happens to Jon’s law partner convicted of murder? Does the shooting in any way tie in with the drug trade in the town? What had the farmer seen with his binoculars that warranted horrible murder to silence him? Jon and his wife Sandy work together to uncover just how cleverly is Justice Perverted in Richmond, Texas.
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e of this book is clever. It is not easy to guess the ending before it is tied together in the last few pages and the epilogue. Although the book is a tale taking place in modern times, it might remind the reader of a novel written many years ago when characters spoke in much longer, wordier, sometimes convoluted sentences. The following might serve as an example.
“I always thought that the system knew something more than I did, like he could have been charged on several other charges, but they just stuck it to him on the one they could make to save the county money or something.”
The characters in the story are developed enough to make them seem genuine. Jon’s wife Sandy starts out as an apprehensive neophyte in her new town, yet she grows into a self-confident detective spouse who works beside her husband solving the story’s mystery. At the beginning, Jon admits a fearful reluctance to take on any criminal cases. Yet, by defending his partner in Court, Jon proves himself adept at criminal law.
For a reader hunting an interesting storyline, Justice Perverted is such a tale.
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