Suffering Fools

Zack Wilson and Terry Tallach Mystery #2

by Ed Gaffney

Attorneys Zack Wilson and Terry Tallach–friends, partners, and complete opposites–have perfected the recipe for legal disaster. Begin with a fool for a client–a man who can’t even testify convincingly to his own name, much less to an alibi. Add a couple of determined private investigators and a brave, beautiful police detective whose work only confirms that your client is impossible to defend. Then go to trial.

Welcome to the real world of criminal law, where the truth is out there–maybe.

304 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 2006

About the author

Ed Gaffney took ten years of work as a criminal lawyer, added an overactive imagination, and came up with a new career as a novelist. This has led to an unexpected number of requests from his softball teammates to appear with Terry and Zack in future books. Ed lives west of Boston with his wife, New York Times bestselling author Suzanne Brockmann, their two children, and their anxious, but ever-loyal dogs, Sugar and Spice.

Series:
* Zack Wilson and Terry Tallach Mystery

Reviews

[Xenos · Rating 4 out of 5]

Twisty, turny, gripping story. Once again, Ed Gaffney weaves and jumps and makes your head spin before everything gels in a coherent, exciting conclusion to a baffling case. Though I wish we'd learn more about Attorneys Zack Wilson and Terry Tallach (the main characters in this book and his previous book "Premeditated Murder"), Gaffney seems to be more focused on writing procedurals than exploring the characters. (Perhaps Gaffney's wife - the brilliant Suzanne Brockmann - could write a novel which delves into Zack's and Terry's personal lives.) Nonetheless, I've enjoyed both books immensely and look forward to his third novel "Diary of a Serial Killer".

[Stacy · Rating 3 out of 5]

I liked it, but there were a lot of story lines going on at the same time that took place at different times. In one chapter you could be reading an long ago written email, a future trial transcript, present time and two months ago. It seemed unnecessarily confusing. The mystery and the writing were good enough that I really didn’t really need to wait until the middle of the book to get a handle on who was who. Even with that complaint the book kept me turning the pages as fast as I could. I’ll have to read the the first book about these attorneys.

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[Jmrathbone · Rating 3 out of 5]

SUFFERING FOOLS jumped around in a way that I usually find too distracting to allow me to enjoy a novel. In this case, however, I found myself liking this book. It was entertaining and kind of funny. I read this one because I had read and liked his later book DIARY OF A SERIAL KILLER. One of the reviews listed in praise of Gaffney’s first book was written by “New York Times Bestselling Author Suzanne Bockmann”. I found that quote amusing, since the quote didn’t mention that Ms. Bockmann is also Ed Gaffney’s wife.

[Patsy · Rating 2 out of 5]

2 pro Bono attorneys take on a difficult case - that seems like an easy conviction for the prosecution - until the people who set up the defendant commit a series of blunders that turn the tide.