Monday, March 16, 2015

Monday With Kaye: "Long Knives" by Charles Rosenberg (Review by Kaye George)

As it is Monday, “Monday With Kaye” returns as she reviews Long Knives by Charles Rosenberg. Make sure you check the blog for her previous reviews after you read the review for today.

Long Knives by Charles Rosenberg


This is the second book in Rosenberg’s Jenna James series. Ms. James is happily teaching a course in the legalities of maritime salvage in spite of not making the money she made as a lawyer for the firm of Marbury Marfan, or M&M as she calls it. In fact, she is firmly on the tenure track.


One of her students, a handsome Italian named Primo Giordano, visits her office one morning wanting advice on a treasure map, purporting to give an exact location of a Spanish galleon that sank in 1641 with a load of valuables. When she steps out of the room to take a private phone call that turns out to be long and tedious, her troubles begin. She returns to her office to find Primo dead and the map nowhere to be found. The cause of death isn’t apparent, but he drank the coffee in her office and she didn’t have any. As the cause of his death narrows down to her coffee, she becomes the prime suspect in Primo’s death.

The extremely detailed courtroom procedural alternates between her disintegrating love life with Aldous Hartleb and the relationships with the two former associates she calls upon to help her through this crisis. Even though James’s nickname in college was Steel Boots, she is in danger of falling apart and losing everything, including her chance at tenure.



Reviewed by Kaye George, author of Death in the Time of Ice for Suspense Magazine
  

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