Having never read any of Michael A Kahn's books before I didn't know what to expect but was very pleasantly surprised. The characters are well fleshed out and the story line flows. The premise of the book is that Hal Bernstein is arrested for kidnapping and murdering Cherry Pitt, the wife of millionaire ambulance chaser Leonard Pitt, a man Hal's brother Milton, a lawyer himself, is trying to have arrested for fraud and Milton takes it upon himself to defend his brother. There are plenty of twists and subplots in the story to keep it flowing and interesting. A really enjoyable light read that kept me interested and smiling to the last page.

This book is a quick, fun read about two brothers who went in very different directions. Milton is working as an attorney at a large law firm and usually flies under the radar until he is the lead attorney on a case against another lawyer accused of skimming money from insurance settlements meant to pay clients. Milton's brother Hal was a baseball prospect whose pitching career ended due to an accident and since then he has drifted in life. He is currently working as a lifeguard and has eyes for Cherry, the bombshell wife of the attorney in Milton's case. She turns his advanced onto him and Hal and Cherry start a torrid affair. It ends up with Cherry's murder and Hal being accused of kidnapping and murder.

The story isn't all that realistic nor is it a true mystery as I had it figured out early. However, that is not the intention of this story - it is meant to be fun to read, give the reader into the brothers and how they feel for each other and also to make the reader chuckle a couple times. Picking up this book with that in mind, it certainly delivers on all accounts. I loved the simple charm of Hal, the love of his brother shown by Milton and even too-good-to-be-true advances by Cherry made to a young man who was certainly thinking with only a certain part of his anatomy. Great book to read for a quick chuckle.