The Indictment

Dan Sheridan #1

by Barry Reed

A beautiful young woman's corpse is found along a highway. There's not a mark on her and an autopsy can't determine the cause of death. Rumor says her boyfriend, a prominent surgeon, will be charged with murder...unless Dan Sheridan can stop the indictment.

Once a cop, now a hard-nosed defense attorney, Sheridan knows he's up against one of the most hostile and ambitious prosecutors in Boston. He also knows that someone has been tapping his phones. What he doesn't know is that his new secretary, a woman he's falling hard for, is an undercover FBI agent.

Suddenly, Sheridan finds himself a pawn in a lethal game of power politics and revenge. With both his reputation and his client's vindication on the line, he'll fight betrayal with the one thing he has left on his side...justice.

With keen insight and detail, Barry Reed depicts the seamy underside of an urban legal system in what is unquestionably his finest legal thriller yet. Full of twists and turns right up to the very end, The Indictment is a tale that crackles with electricity, and is impossible to put down.

Genres: Fiction, Mystery

436 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published September 20, 1994

About the author

Graduate of Holy Cross and Boston College Law School.

Boston attorney who was a recipient of the Clarence Darrow Award for trial excellence, was a past president of the Massachusetts Trial Lawyers Association, a former governor of the Massachusetts Academy of Trial Lawyers and a co-founder of the American Society of Law and Medicine.

Reviews

[Gerry Durisin · Rating 2 out of 5]

By the author of The Verdict, a police/courtroom procedural novel about the grand jury investigation of a murder. The victim, a wealthy female art dealer, may also be a drug dealer, or a gun runner, or the secret girlfriend of the DA who wants to be Senator, or all of the above. A prominent physician is being framed for her murder -- or is he really guilty? Poorly plotted, with too many confusing twists and insinuations that never really get answered.

[Hazel Hanford · Rating 1 out of 5]

Omg it took me weeks to finish this awful book. I almost DNF but I persisted!

It was very slow, plodding, with too much descriptions, even at the end. The author was still introducing new characters & meticulously describing them - at the end! Who cares?! Just confirm to us who done it!

I do not recommend this book.

[Rachel Day · Rating 5 out of 5]

Twists and turns abound in this suspense-filled novel!! If you enjoy a convoluted story, you're going to love this one!!

[Bob Box · Rating 3 out of 5]

Read in 1995. With keen insight and detail this novel depicts the seamy underside of an urban legal system.

[Cws]

M Ree

[Loraine · Rating 3 out of 5]

Well written, good pace, kept me reading.

[Toesnorth's mom]

good