This “legal thriller”
from 2022 by established author Scott Turow supplies courtroom, bedroom, and investigative
action in roughly equal doses. It is told from the viewpoint of Clarice “Pinky”
Granum, who is an investigator for a lawyer named Rik Dudek. Dudek has been
hired to defend Lucia Gomez a high flying long-time successful police chief who
has been accused of soliciting sex in exchange for promotions.
Pinky has had a checkered career and is now a tattooed
bisexual who is still looking to find the right lover and the right fit into today’s
society. When a mysterious man, who has just moved into her apartment building,
attracts her, she finds her work for lawyer Rik now merging with her obsession.
The guy, who has now become her lover, turns out to be a security expert in the
employ of the Ritz--a former cop and old enemy of the Chief.
The Ritz is the head of an extensive criminal network that
runs to real estate fraud, sex, and drug peddling in the city. The police
chief’s trial is barely underway when one of the trial witnesses is murdered,
possibly by the Ritz. Pinky and her guy are now center stage and each positioned
to either help solve the case or crash and burn.
Most of the characters in this book, even the supposed good
people, are just too sleazy for me. I
simply could not like Pinky or the Chief. Rik Dudek, the lawyer, never rises to
the fore and the arch villain, the Ritz, was so shadowy that he never came alive
in my mind either.
Definitely not Turow’s best work.
I give it a 2.5
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