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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