Sarah and Rory, a pair of overprivileged and overeducated entertainment lawyers, deny their hawt, sweet luuuv until they can't anymore. And then they solve a crime committed against people I could not work up enough spit to lob into their faces, still less piss on if they were on fire.

It makes it really hard to review a book when that's one's response.

The prose is prosaic, the story's not relatable because one doesn't relate to such dislikable souls. And there I was, flipping the Kindlepages...I needed to know why, not who, in this story. It was a satisfying why, so I felt my time was well-enough spent that I'm not after getting up a pitchfork parade to get Author Rosenberg. I was a lot less forgiving about The Trial and Execution of the Traitor George Washington, as you'll recall; but that was mostly pique at raised expectations being dashed. The fact is that Author Rosenberg's prose doesn't scintillate but it also doesn't obfuscate.

Easily the most effective use of his prose was the ruminations that Rory entertains as he's going through his legal maneuverings in the various trials he's involved in. Time in Rory's head is among my best memories of the read because he really thinks there in front of us. I am not a lawyer and am fascinated by the way that legal argument affects one's thought processes. It's a shoo-in, therefore, that the story will succeed for me on that level.

Sarah's "Impulse-control disorder" is where the wheels really come off for me. This person has a disorder that, in someone who was a Supreme Court Justice's clerk, would be *disastrous* and a disqualification from ever being considered for such a position. And how many Supreme Court Justices would hire such a person knowingly, as we're told Sarah was? Also, a private-investigator's license might also be unobtainable in California due to this diagnosis. If it isn't, I'm very worried.

So the read's not a hit, not a whiff, just a pleasant-enough way to spend a few wastable hours.

One of those stories where the author uses extensive real-world experience to ground the story-telling. Great for those who love lawyer action novels and Hollywood settings.

This was a good legal thriller about the entertainment industry. It was well written and the plot was clever.
Many thanks to Thomas & Mercer and to NetGalley for providing me with a galley in exchange for my honest opinion.

Really wanted to read, but book expired/never got the alert back in 2016 when it was assigned. Guess I have to shelve this one.

I thought this would be a legal thriller, but the writing just dragged and at parts so unrealistic. I was diappointed and struggled to finsih this book.

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2793325141

Thank-you to NetGalley, the publisher Thomas & Mercer and the author for providing a free ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review.

I'm giving this book 2.5 stars. It was billed as a mystery, but there wasn't much mystery. It was heavy on legal drama -- which if that is your thing you might like this book more than I did.

Rory Calburton is a new partner at the Harold Firm in Los Angeles. It is a law firm that specializes in entertainment litigation. Sarah Gold is Rory's associate whom Rory finds beautiful and distracting. In my opinion there was too many pages devoted to Rory and Sarah, and not enough meat of a mystery. This wasn't billed as a romance, or a legal drama, it was advertised to be a mystery. I would have preferred that it was more mysterious.

The writing is good, and the courtroom scenes and legal maneuvering seem true (based on the little I know about courtroom scenes and legal maneuvering). I just wish that the pace was a bit faster and some unnecessary banter was edited out to make the storyline move faster.