The author is a true artist, and he’s crafted another very good story. We meet the protagonist as a youth and then again as a lawyer specializing in finances. Two cases dominate the novel as women have been cheated out of their money. The plots in both are well designed, interesting, and entertaining. The characters fit their roles very well, and keep the story moving. Looking forward to the author’s next book already.

I am a huge Thomas Perry fan, and have been for longer than I care to remember. Perry writes old-school mysteries and thrillers, and I mean that in the very best sense of the phrase. I have to honestly say, however, that PRO BONO is a long way from his best.

The plot is convoluted and a little difficult to keep straight, and it occasionally seemed to come to false endings, only to lurch forward again. The cast of characters is enormous and, since all of them have very common names, it was sometimes difficult to keep them straight. I found myself more than once having to flip back several chapters to figure out who somebody was.

I'll read anything that Perry publishes, but PRO BONO was a modest disappointment to me.

I long ago gave up caring what any particular novel by Mr. Perry was about. I just dive right in and read whatever he writes in the expectation that I will love it or at least really really like it. He has several series and a bunch of stand alone novels. (Some of the stand alones have references showing they take place in the same realty as other stand alones.)
Pro Bono is a stand alone novel. If there are any references to characters from other novels I missed them in my eagerness to devour this book. Which I did in very nearly a single sitting, only taking a minimal amount of time from it to answer some work emails.
I hate giving spoilers when chatting about books and the general plot you can get from the cover copy.
What I think I can say is that at 31% in I said to my spouse "huh, the stories done but I am less than a third in. I wonder what he (Mr. Perry) is doing next?" I was not worried, just intrigued. This novel has a somewhat different structure than his others. Though, looking back, I can see elements of Pro Bono's structure in his Small Town.
If you have not read any Mr. Perry's novels before you won't go wrong starting with Pro Bono. Then you will have the joy of discovering his many others.

As someone in the legal field this was really fun to read. Very interesting, however Patterson has done at least 10x already so it didn't feel original.