Book Rec of the Day 2/3/2007

IF YOU LIKE JOHN GRISHAM,
YOU’LL LOVE...

A young woman is robbed and murdered. A Harlem hood is charged. It seems to be an open-and-shut case. But public defender Arch Gold senses there might be more to the story, so he does a little investigating of his own and discovers layers of corruption in the highest reaches of New York’s financial community. It’s a formula, yes. But few writers of courtroom dramas bring Heilbrun’s sharp characterizations and nuances to it. Offer of Proof is filled with “blood-boiling excitement” (The New York Times Book Review). If you can’t wait for the next Grisham, don’t. Read this.

OFFER OF PROOF, by Robert Heilbrun (HarperTorch, 2004)